Phoenix police released the names of the three people found dead in a Phoenix home yesterday afternoon, and it appears to them that this is a double homicide/suicide — with a side of dog-icide.Police got a call about 2:30 p.m. yesterday from a neighbor of 81-year-old Richard Schmalenbach saying she saw…
A 14-year-old Chandler girl’s been missing since Monday and the Chandler Police Department wants you to help find her.Gabrielle Lacy was last seen on Monday afternoon in the 600 block of West Oakland Street in Chandler.Lacy also goes by the name “Keyshia” and police believe she is a runaway.Chandler Detective…
Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd has found himself smack-dab in the middle a closer-than-expected race that, according to the only poll released on the matter, has him leading his Republican opponent Ben Quayle by two points. So he’s decided to dump a ton of his wife’s own money into his…
Initial reports that powder found in a swastika-covered envelope sent to the Tucson office of Congressman Raul Grijalva was toxic have turned out to be false.The FBI announced today that despite reports yesterday claiming the powder was confirmed to be toxic, it wasn’t. The feds won’t say what the substance…
The Arizona Court of Appeals has upheld the criminal convictions of Gary Karpin Jr., a.k.a. “Dr. Buzzard,” a disbarred attorney who preyed on people, mostly women, who hired him as a “mediator” in their pending divorce cases. The unanimous appellate decision upholding Karpin’s convictions on 23 counts of theft…
Allegedly murdering a homeless guy wasn’t the only activity in which 14-year-old Javon Wilson participated on September 28 — he also was interviewed by ABC 15 for a story about the economy.It’s creepy. The interview was reportedly conducted just hours before police say Wilson, and another homeless man, 23-year-old Ronald…
A group of Hispanic Republicans released its list of Hispanic-friendly candidates in the 2010 election, and, somewhat surprisingly, the majority of them are Democrats. Of the 14 races the group Somos Republicans is watching, it claims only three Republican candidates are “Hispanic friendly.” The group prefaces the list by…
Under heavy criticism over several unsolved murders, the Tempe Police Department arrested two people — including a 14-year-old boy — in connection with the September stabbing death of a homeless man. Police arrested Ronald Therman-Lamar Alewine, 23, and Javon Desmond Wilson, 14 — each homeless — in connection with the…
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The Tucson office of Congressman Raul Grijalva — the southern Arizona congressman who famously called for a boycott of all things Arizona after the passage of SB 1070 — was shut down this afternoon after staffers received a package containing what was later confirmed to be a toxic substance.The envelope…
Typically, senior citizens don’t draw too much suspicion from law enforcement, so we’re a little shocked to learn that a 76-year-old Mexican woman was arrested for smuggling more than $125,000 worth of cocaine across the U.S./Mexico border earlier this week.According to officials at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the woman…
The dude is everywhere, but is especially prevalent on Fox News, where his bleatings about the evils of illegal immigration — replete with incorrect statistics — are greeted sans any anything approaching intellectual honesty, much less any old-fashioned fact-checking. Sheriff Babeu is going hard while the going is good –…
We’ve spent the last two weeks trying to get Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd to respond to a few questions, to which voters might want to know the answers before heading to the voting booth. It’s been two weeks and he hasn’t given us one actual answer.In the past, Hulburd’s campaign’s…
Since our earlier post about a complaint filed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee against Senator John McCain regarding some TV ads The Maverick funded — and starred in — the McCain campaign’s responded to the charges.The DCCC feels that two ads McCain released violate the McCain/Feingold campaign finance reform act…
Nationally recognized mediator Kenneth Feinberg won’t handle the politically delicate claims by Maricopa County officials against the county after all. Feinberg tells us this morning that the plan to have him mediate the claims “never got beyond the discussion phase. We never finalized anything.” Nor was he paid anything, he added. In…
No suspects are in custody for the murder of the latest Arizona State University student killed in Tempe and the father of the victim appeared on KPHO last night to offer a deal to the accomplice of the man who murdered his son.In an almost-as-bad-ass-as-Mel-Gibson-in-Ransom moment, Dan Marco, a criminal…
Two new campaign ads funded by — and starring — Senator John McCain have Congressional Democrats in a huff.The ads are for Congressional candidates Jesse Kelly and Ruth McClung and are similar-in-nature to “campaign ads” run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in which he didn’t so much hype himself,…
Charged with assault and currently free on bail, the Phoenix police officer who fatally shot an unarmed domestic violence suspect — and his dog — will be in court this morning to be arraigned on new charges.Officer Richard Chrisman will be arraigned on charges of second-degree murder, animal cruelty, and…
I’m not the type to let things slide when I see something that strikes me as ignorant, no matter who it is. When my friend’s mom posted jokes on Facebook about Mexicans, and her friends popped up with comments I felt were racist, I just had to step in and…
Got cancer? Have some pot. Dying of AIDS? Have some pot. Handicapped from the effects of multiple sclerosis? Have some pot. Chronic headache, heartburn, or painful pimples? Have some pot! This could well be the case after November 2, if Arizona voters approve Proposition 203, the “Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.”…
NO ANGELS For a long time, at least since I moved to Phoenix several years ago, the Phoenix Police Department has benefited from comparison to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Joe Arpaio always has been a polarizing figure, and the MCSO’s bully tactics and the often-deadly conditions it maintains…
LESBIAN MORMONS They’re all crazy: I enjoyed “Killer Art.” I found it thoroughly entertaining (Kathleen Vanesian, October 7). When artists are classified as cutting-edge and given free rein, there are inevitably times when normal people look on, scratch their heads, and try to figure out what motivates artists to make…
