On the day shortstop Stephen Drew returned to the Arizona Diamondbacks’ lineup Wednesday after missing nearly a year, the D-Backs lost their second straight game to the Atlanta Braves. Wednesday’s 6-4 loss dropped the D-Backs back to .500 on the season (37-37), as Drew went 1-for-4 in his 2012 debut…
Glendale police announced yesterday that the search for the body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley in the Butterfield Landfill came to an end.Rick St. John, assistant chief of police, said investigators know she’s in the landfill somewhere, which has 691 acres full of garbage in total, but she wasn’t in the…
Barack Hussein Obama, how you dare deprive Mexico of its young, educated people? These illegal aliens in the United States are the only hope for Mexico and you want to keep them here in the United States. They could start businesses, create jobs, and improve the standard of living for…
Millions spent in legal fees. Hundreds of millions (at least) lost in revenue from convention and hotel booking cancellations due to boycotts. The immeasurable cost of being branded a state led by bigots, much less the assured infamy when judged by history. Weigh all these outcomes together and, on the…
Some Valley merchants differ on the word’s seemingly evolving definition. Long before the word “artisan” was trampled to death by marketing mumbo jumbo, cities like Portland, San Francisco, and Boston were homes to thriving CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture), farmers markets, and independent shops and eateries selling locally sourced food. Phoenix,…
If a hard freeze in April hadn’t annihilated northern Michigan’s tart-cherry crop, a little boy in Beijing might be pouring Herkner’s Original Cherry Topping over his mung-bean ice cream right now. But the fickle weather forced Lynda Herkner, 74, and her sisters to delay plans to export their siren-red dessert…
I’d have no problem with Governor Jan Brewer’s whining like a stuck javelina about the Obama administration’s jerking 287(g) agreements with Arizona, and promising to not pick up, or answer questions about every brown person ‘Zona cops pull over. That is, if either her kvetching or the administration’s move were…
Representative Luis Gutierrez of Illinois conducted a pop quiz on “spot the immigrant” this morning on the House floor while discussing the Supreme Court decision to allow the “papers please” provision of SB1070 to stand. Too funny. On this C-SPAN video (fast-forward to 15 seconds), Gutierrez blasts the law as…
The body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley will likely never be found after Glendale police announced today that the search of the Butterfield Landfill has been completed.Rick St. John, assistant police chief, said at a press conference this afternoon that people have sifted through 9,500 tons of trash since February. But…
George Kuykendall is off to prison for 24 years after taking a plea deal in what Mesa police told New Times was “the worst case of child abuse [they’ve] seen where the child survives.”Kuykendall beat his 4-year-old daughter with a power cord so severely that her kidneys shut down after…
All three people accused of using Craigslist to find a dog to “fornicate” with have pleaded guilty.The charges stem from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest Craigslist bestiality case, in which a detective responded to a post on the website looking for a dog for sexual purposes, and the three…
Don Kenney, the former “quarterback” of one of Arizona’s most notorious scandals, AzScam, stole his son’s personal info in 1998 to work as a real-estate broker in San Diego.This month, following a brief expose by former Arizona Republic reporter Lily Leung, Kenney’s son agreed to surrender the real-estate license that…
After a few rounds of mental-competency hearings, Michael Crane — accused of murdering Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro and Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet — would now like to represent himself against charges of murder, kidnapping, arson, and burglary.A court spokesman says Crane and his current attorney said in…
Let’s all play Sand Land’s new favorite game… Illinois Congressman Luis Gutierrez is freaking cool. A passionate pro-immigrant advocate and enemy of nativist goobers everywhere, the guy also has a sense of humor, as evidenced by his appearance on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this morning to…
It looks like the near-endless hit parades the Arizona Diamondbacks had against the Seattle Mariners and Chicago Cubs last week didn’t carry over into Atlanta.The Diamondbacks were limited to just one run against the Braves last night, as D’Backs starting pitcher Daniel Hudson tossed four or fewer innings for the…
Yesterday we told you about the unsuccessful attempt to challenge independent Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Mike Stauffer’s signatures, which was supported by Democratic candidate Paul Penzone.Stauffer’s already set to be on the general election ballots in November, as would Penzone — a former Phoenix police sergeant — if he defeats…
The campaign manager for independent Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Mike Stauffer says the challenge to Stauffer’s nomination signatures has been dropped.With the support of Democratic candidate Paul Penzone, plaintiff Lois Pfau filed the claim, alleging 12,726 of Stauffer’s 29,794 submitted signatures were invalid, for various reasons.Stauffer needed 19,410 valid signatures…
As the Tempe Police Department got verification earlier this month that the five burned bodies found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley were identified as James and Yafit Butwin and their three children, another group of five people was still apparently missing. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s theory was…
Moses Ulloa — the man voted by our readers as having the third-dumbest hometown pride face tattoos in the Valley — was arrested yet again yesterday.Ulloa and his moronic tattoos — which include the City of Glendale logo on the top of his head, “Murdercopa County” on his neck, horns…
When Governor Jan Brewer’s being dumped on by her compadres at Fox News for something, it would seem to be an indication that she may not have the brightest idea about what’s going on…
Sharon Holmes was picked by the Mohave County Republican Party to head to the state GOP convention last month for a shot at becoming a delegate for the Republican Party National Convention.She didn’t win that spot, nor did she win a car chase with Kingman police Sunday evening.According to an…
About 200 people filed into the Carl Hayden High School auditorium in west Phoenix in search of answers on Monday evening, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed one of the most controversial provisions of SB 1070 to stand. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, councilmen Michael Nowakowski…
