The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has improved its handling of requests for information and public records in the past year, but the paranoid minds over there still see some reporters as the enemy. Example: The investigative detour into Arizona Republic reporter Yvonne Wingett that detectives took while cooking up a case against County Supervisor…
Arizona Representative Rich Crandall got some good news today: his only opponent in the District 19 state Senate race has ended his campaign.In a statement released last night, Mesa businessman James Molina announced he was bailing on his campaign because his business’ demands on his time are too much for…
The latest round of photographs from neo-Nazi J.T. Ready’s patrols in the Arizona desert shows the Mesa storm trooper getting chummy with the U.S. Border Patrol, even leaning on a Border Patrol vehicle at one point.There’s a photo of Ready with a Border Patrol Agent on a motorcycle, and there’s a pic…
Rapper DMX, fresh off completing a four-month jail sentence in Maricopa County, is headed back to the clink. “X’s” latest stop on his tour of southwestern slammers: Los Angeles.The legally challenged rapper has 90 days to turn himself in to authorities to begin serving time for a probation violation stemming…
The Arizona Department of Public Safety issued apologies yesterday to the families of the two girls involved in the dead body mix-up following a car accident on Interstate 10 last week.If you’re not familiar with the snafu, the two girls (pictured) were in a car wreck. One died and the other is in…
Editor’s Note: As a staff writer for Phoenix New Times, award-winning journalist Terry Greene Sterling reported for years on the political brawls and human tragedies that have made Arizona the epicenter for the national immigration debate. Sterling is now a contributor for The Daily Beast, and Writer-in-Residence at the Walter…
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MCSO Joshua Larsen a.k.a. “Cowboy Cowboy.” There’s good news and bad news from the front lines of the war on perverts. The bad news: they’re out there. The good news: a lot of them are idiots willing to believe that a child they met in an Internet chat room is…
Last year’s sweep of Maricopa County offices for hidden bugs had nothing to do with the feud between county officials and the tag-team of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and then-County Attorney Andy Thomas, says County Manager David Smith. Instead, the two sweeps costing taxpayers $14,600 were conducted out of concern about…
If Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth doesn’t already want to deliver a firm kick to the balls of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff’, he should. Hayworth’s entire campaign’s been marred with — among other things — his ties to Abramoff and the corruption-based hits just keep on comin’.The group Citizens for Responsibility…
The Arizona Diamondbacks, sporting a not-so-stellar 37-62 record, are clearly sellers at the trade deadline this season. While Dan Haren was shipped off to the Angels yesterday, is another D-Backs pitcher could be on the move. This time it’s Edwin Jackson who has piqued the interest of the Washington Nationals…
It was Chad George’s party, and he’ll cry hit you in the head with a bat if he wants to.The 22-year-old George hosted a party at his Maricopa home over the weekend that ended when police say he hit one of his guests in the head with an aluminum baseball…
With NFL training camps set to start up soon, ESPN has released its off-season Power Rankings. This list, which ranks all 32 NFL teams from top to bottom, has the usual suspects at the top. But another predictable team is your Arizona Cardinals, who placed 15th on the rankings. For…
Over the weekend, the family of 19-year-old Abby Guerra held a carwash to try to raise money for a funeral. Guerra was in a car wreck about a week ago while driving home from Disneyland with some friends, and her family was told she was killed in the accident.Only, she…
About two weeks ago, the former head of the Andrew Thomas rah-rah squad, and current director of social media for the J.D. Hayworth Senate campaign, claimed that a poll putting John McCain ahead by 45 points in the race was “doctored.”After making the accusation on her blog, Intellectual Conservative, Rachel Alexander…
A fire gutted a downtown Tempe home over the weekend, injuring three firefighters and blowing the front door of the house about 25 feet onto Mill Avenue.The blaze started around 10:40 p.m. Saturday at 1204 South Mill Avenue — across from ASU and just south of the bars. We happened to…
It certainly wasn’t a weekend to remember for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Not only did the Snakes lose the services of ace pitcher Dan Haren in a nothing trade with the Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim, the sucktastic squad was also the victim of a series sweep by the San Francisco Giants…
Welcome to a playoff race, Dan Haren. The D-Backs ace was traded to theAmerican League Angels on Sunday in exchange for Joe Saunders and minor leaguers Rafael Rodriguez and southpaw Patrick Corbin. They also get a player to be named later, rumored to be pitching prospect Tyler Skaggs. Long rumored to…
Last Wednesday, someone described by witnesses as an old lady robbed a Pima County bank with a handgun.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, a woman believed to be between the ages of 60 and 70 went into the Bank of the West in the 3,000 block of South Kinney…
The only problem with this, of course, is that Arpaio’s so sick in the head he’ll probably get a rise out of it. Still, brilliant of Zack de la Rocha to dedicate “Killing in the Name” to him. For a full report on Friday’s Rage Against the Machine concert at…
Of all the high points in Rage Against the Machine’s anti-SB 1070 concert at the Hollywood Palladium Friday night, the one that made it worth the six hour trek from Phoenix to Los Angeles for me was when Rage front man Zack de la Rocha dedicated the incendiary anthem “Killing…
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