We hadn’t used that headline even once during this men’s college basketball season. But the improbable happened, and both the Arizona Wildcats and the ASU Sun Devils won their weekend games against the Oregon schools fairly easily to close out the regular season in fine fashion. For the Devils, the…
Like most things, Apple’s iPad and iPhone are not built in the United States, which may need to be explained to Arizona’s senior senator, John McCain, who recently declared that the two products were assembled right here in the U.S. of A.Kudos to the 74-year-old senator for knowing the products…
The Phoenix Suns stomped the Milwaukee Bucks Friday night, winning 102-88 before dropping a tight game 122-118 to the Oklahoma City Thunder in overtime Sunday. Worse than the loss is an injury to Channing Frye, who dislocated his shoulder last night. The team will give Frye an MRI today. Friday’s game…
As you’re probably well aware, Senator Jon Kyl will not be running for re-election in 2012 — and that means the who’s who of Arizona’s GOP are all rumored to be considering a run, including fagala-phobic Congressman Trent Franks, who made it clear this weekend that the rumors are true.Franks…
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When I heard Sheriff Joe Arpaio was up at Glendale Avenue and 7th Street raiding a Pei Wei, I had to turn the car around. I was hoping Machete-star Steven Seagal was helping him bust a fast-food joint for Seagal’s A&E reality series.See, Seagal’s cop show was given the boot…
Two Arizona cities (that happen to be home to a large number of Arizona State University students) are ranked in the top 10 when it comes to rudest cities in the English-speaking world.According to a study conducted by the Foursquare social network, Tempe ranks No. 6 when it comes to…
It’s no secret that Arizona Cardinals failed quarterback Derek Anderson is getting the heave-ho from the team, the only question is when.ESPN’s Adam Schefter, a “reliable NFL insider,” predicted earlier this week that Anderson will be cut from the Cards before the week is over. Schefter predicted linebacker Joey Porter…
Apparently Robert Conley doesn’t believe in the phrase “mother knows best,” since he allegedly tried to murder his mom after she poured out his bottle of whiskey. According to documents obtained by New Times, Conley, 31, went to his mother’s Phoenix apartment Thursday evening and began drinking a bottle of…
About 200 Latino students walked out of class this morning to protest Russell Pearce’s latest legislative atrocity: SB 1611, an immigration omnibus that would forbid undocumented students from attending public colleges and universities in Arizona — even if they can pay tuition out of their own pocket. State Senator Steve…
The nearly 600-pound spokesman of Arizona’s own Heart Attack Grill died Tuesday — not ’cause of what would have been an ironic heart attack for a man whose weight suggests his heart probably resembled a basketball filled with ricotta cheese — but probably from pneumonia. Blair River was the 6-foot-8, 575…
A 28-year-old man was arrested early Friday morning after allegedly shooting and killing another man outside of a Phoenix strip club. About 2:30 a.m. Friday, an unidentified 34-year-old and his ex-wife left Le Girls Cabaret West, near Interstate 17 and McDowell Road. As the man was escorting his ex-wife to…
A Pinal County Superior Court judge this morning slapped the wrist of a Tucson woman convicted of peddling nearly $10,000 worth of crystal meth — she was sentenced to a mere 18 months probation.Perhaps stupidity creativity points were awarded to 27-year-old Vanessa Concepcion Gaxiola when Judge Howard Fell considered her…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced this morning that a 49-count federal indictment has been returned charging Jared Loughner, the lone suspect in the January 8, Tucson shooting rampage, with various crimes, including murder.In a twist, the new indictment names all victims of the shooting, not just federal employees. Before today, Loughner,…
You’d think that if you were an elected official whose life was turned upside down after finding out your wife had a three-year sexual relationship with a teenage boy, the only food you’d bring her in jail would be seasoned with cyanide. Not Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, who was reportedly…
Remember last year when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer crowed about all the headless bodies littering the Arizona desert?”Law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded,” the gaffe-prone governor squawked.Then, Brewer had to backtrack because there weren’t actually headless…
Last weekend, GOP Congressman Trent Franks spouted off about how President Barack Obama’s decision to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act was an impeachable offense — and that’s apparently all it takes to win the heart of nut-job Maricopa County GOP Chairman Rob Haney.Just hours after we posted our…
In response to allegations that his department inflated border-related kidnapping statistics to secure federal grants, Phoenix Public Safety Manager (a.k.a. double-dipping police chief) Jack Harris on Wednesday said the following: “Anyone that wants these stars can come and get them. But I’ve got news for you — I’m not giving them…
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Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon tweets this from his iPhone: “The truth about the kidnapping stats? There was no fraud. I’m confident the audit will show that.”And Gordon, who has thrown his confidence and support behind Phoenix Public Safety Manager Jack Harris, who was stripped of his duties as police chief…
U.S. District Judge David Campbell ruled today that the Tohono O’odham Nation’s 54-acre property in the West Valley must be taken into trust.And that means that the Nation is one step closer to building the West Valley Resort, a casino that would feature restaurants, bars, and retail shops for the…
Arsonist and alleged penta-murderer William Craig Miller was sentenced today to 16 years in prison in a 2005 arson case, which probably doesn’t sound that bad to Miller, since prosecutors will seek the death penalty in his upcoming murder trial. Back in November 2005, Miller set his north Scottsdale house…
