The Kingman Police Department wrapped up a three-month investigation into heroin trafficking last week, leading to the arrests of five people — two of them children of a state legislator.Michael Randolph Goodale, 27, and Stephanie Lynn Goodale, 31 — both of whom call Republican state Representative Doris Goodale “mom” –…
Lisa Aubuchon’s law license will be canceled officially as of July 2, the state Supreme Court ruled today.Aubuchon and former boss, failed politician Andrew Thomas, were disbarred in April following weeks of testimony over the bad decisions they made in their fight with county leaders.Unlike Thomas, Aubuchon is choosing to…
According to one Gilbert neighbor, neo-Nazi baby-killer and anti-immigrant vigilante J.T. Ready boasted of hunting “two-legged varmints” just days before a massacre in which Gilbert police believe he murdered four, including a 16-month-old girl, and then committed suicide. In a police report released Tuesday by the Gilbert Police Department, Budd…
John Rocker, a former steroid-using homophobic relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and other teams, still exists — which is just about enough John Rocker news for one day.Unfortunately, he gave an interview to conspiracy theorists about his book and his love for Governor Jan Brewer, so we really couldn’t…
Ogden’s Own Distillery, based in Utah, has been making some big news lately after one of its products — Five Wives Vodka — was banned from being sold in Idaho by the state’s liquor division.In a letter to the company’s distributor in Idaho, the liquor board wrote that its members…
We got a copy of the letter from Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk, explaining to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery why no charges will be filed against Tempe Mayor-elect Mark Mitchell.Aside from the “absence of a reasonable belief of probable conviction,” Polk also notes Mitchell’s age at the time and…
Here’s an odd advertisement from the Barack Obama campaign — why can’t Mitt Romney just be like Arizona’s own Senator John McCain?The video, as you can see above, shows McCain during the 2008 campaign trail, not hitting the meatballs served to him about Obama being the scariest man on the…
Geraldo Rivera reminded us yesterday that he’s still alive, after telling conspiracy-theorist Lord Christopher Monckton that he and the rest of the “birthers” are “all smoking crack together.”Monckton, not surprisingly, was just in Surprise on Monday to talk to the “Surprise Tea Party Patriots,” with donations going to Maricopa County…
The Yavapai County Attorney has reportedly decided to not file charges against Tempe Mayor-elect Mark Mitchell in the case involving the woman who recently came forward claiming Mitchell sexually abused her as a kid.The case — initially reported to Phoenix police — was forwarded to the Yavapai County Attorney’s Office…
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has denied the state of Arizona’s motions to dismiss a legal challenge to SB 1070 by Friendly House, a social-service agency for immigrants.The Friendly House lawsuit is a separate action from the challenge to SB 1070 by the U.S. Justice Department being considered by the…
By most standards, Thomas O’Rourke got a bit rowdy this weekend.After consuming some alcoholic beverages at his Phoenix home Sunday evening, a kid ended up getting shot with a BB gun, a cat was killed, and that dead cat was thrown at a moving vehicle.According to court documents obtained by…
William Null pleaded guilty today to a few charges, including second-degree murder, for beating his aunt to death in Mesa in November.Cigarettes sparked an argument between Null and Cynthia Pesek — at least, that’s what Null told police at the time of his arrest — and after three days of…
It was October 1989 when we went to the Arizona State Fair for a boxing card that included our friend Michael Carbajal, then an up-and-comer straight from the Olympic Games in South Korea one year earlier. On the undercard was a 22-year-old from Albuquerque who weighed in at 115 pounds,…
Hundreds of applications for medical-marijuana dispensaries — along with their $5,000 application fees — poured into the state Department of Health Services last week. The latest update on the Arizona DHS Web site shows 484 applications received in 99 of the 126 districts (a.k.a., “CHAAs,”) around Arizona that are allowed…
A woman attending her daughter’s middle-school graduation ceremony was killed in an Avondale school’s parking lot Friday, in a shooting police believe was carried out by her ex-boyfriend.Takesha Barnes — a domestic-violence victim who had just taken out an order of protection against 38-year-old Thomas Moton earlier that week –…
For anyone still trying to vote in the 2004 election for Tempe mayor, we’d like to inform you that Hugh Hallman is no longer endorsed by “Tempe firefighters and police.”Sure, Hallman was elected mayor in 2004, but why not hit him with a complaint while he’s on his way out…
Congressman Trent Franks — the “self-appointed Mayor” of Washington D.C., as an area advocacy group calls him — had his office protested last week, as his new-found “constituents” aren’t quite happy with the job he’s doing.As you may recall, a group called “DC Vote” isn’t quite pleased Franks — the…
Many would like to believe that even the most guileful and nefarious of individuals are capable of compassion, particularly toward the weakest among us.Sadly, human behavior argues otherwise. To rationalize away the sufferings of others is a fairly easy mental trick, and when the payoff for doing so is political power, pangs…
It appears that Pinal County released a mountain of public records to Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Goode — about a years’ worth of e-mails between Paul Babeu and several members of his command staff on a CD — without typical redaction. And now, an attorney representing the county wants to know what Goode…
The Center for Arizona Policy has offered a response to the Internal Revenue Service complaint filed against it — claiming the organization doesn’t meet tax-exemption requirements — and that response includes the exact three things we expected: they’re atheists, homosexuals, and wrong.The Secular Coalition for Arizona and No Longer Silent,…
Ed Moriarity has quit as Lisa Aubuchon’s pro-bono attorney, saying he and his law firm can no longer afford to work on her long-running case.The countrified, oft-combative Montana lawyer defended Aubuchon for free through the disciplinary hearings that resulted in the disbarment of his client and former Maricopa County Attorney…
Public Policy Polling released the last of the results from its probe of Arizona voters today, which show that if you’re one of Arizona’s two most-famous sheriff’s, most people don’t like you.More people said they liked the City of Yuma than said they liked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Yuma.A…
