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Going Rogue: An Obsessive Phoenix Patrol Cop Tried to Nail the Wrong Guy in the Baseline Killer CaseBy Paul RubinThursday, February 04The lead story on KPHO-TV's evening news last April 1 had bombshell potential. With a mug shot of a sullen-looking African-American man... More >> -
Spy Games: The Citadel Turns Everyday Phoenicians into Covert “Spies”By Niki D'AndreaThursday, January 28"Who are you? What are you guys doing here?" The blonde poking her head out of the motel bathroom door looks genuinely startled. It's almost... More >> -
Burning Sensei-tion: A Cadre of Karate Instructors Make the Stupidest Decision of Their Lives and Wind Up Dead or Facing Prison TimeBy Ray SternThursday, January 21Twenty gallons of gasoline were poured into a 400-square-foot room. The pungent liquid soaked the floor, desk, and computer inside the small... More >> -
Return to Sender: The Feds, Fueled by Local Anti-Immigration Hostility, Are Draining Talented Undocumented Youth into MexicoBy Malia PolitzerThursday, January 14Twice a week, Teresa has a nightmare. It is almost always the same. She and her husband, Michael, are driving home in their gray Chevy pickup,... More >> -
Paint on a Happy Face: Local Artist Luis Gutierrez Is on the Cusp of Making It in the Art World Despite Struggling with MSBy Malia PolitzerThursday, December 31It's a warm November evening, and another First Friday is winding down at Portland's Restaurant & Wine Bar on the edge of downtown Phoenix. The... More >>
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Broward - Palm Beach
As Haitians Rebuild, a Photographer Captures the Catastrophe
By Michael McElroy
Michael McElroy is a South Florida-based freelance photographer who spent seven days in... More >>
Dallas
In the War of Attrition Waged by the Texas Attorney General Against Robert O'Donnell, There Were Unintended Consequences
By Sam Merten
Robert O'Donnell stands rigidly in the courthouse hallway, his arms folded across his chest,... More >>
Denver
Can a veterans court help former GIs find justice here at home?
By Joel Warner
What are you going to do, shoot me?"
It was around ten o'clock at night when Edward Lynch... More >>
Houston
Crash Reports
Running a red light and killing someone does not automatically mean you're in trouble in Harris County.
By John Nova Lomax
Steve Morrison probably never knew what hit him that April afternoon in 2008. After the... More >>
Kansas City
Allegations of racism and mismanagement spark a power struggle at the Mutual Musicians Foundation
By David Martin
Amid Kansas City's failure to preserve and redevelop 18th Street and Vine — a historic... More >>
Miami
Super Bowl guide to sex, drugs, gambling, and living large in South Florida
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
Welcome to the land of excess and instant gratification. You sensed it when you got off the... More >>
Minneapolis
Dan Buettner's Blue Zones teach nine secrets of a longer life
Oprah author shares his longevity plan
By Erin Carlyle
The red-walled foyer of Dan Buettner's Lake of the Isles home is packed with party guests.... More >>
San Francisco
The ABCs of Ditching School
Schools are trying to contain their truancy epidemic. How're they doing? Just ask the students smoking pot less than a block from campus.
By Lauren Smiley
In the late morning of the first day of the new semester at John O'Connell High School of... More >>
St. Louis
Amazing Facts & Beyond! tries to sniff out the truth about the 66-Year Stink
By Dan Zettwoch
It was the summer of 2010, St. Louis was a city
under stench. It smelt of wet vomit, dry hops,... More >>
Blog
Valley Fever
Pizza and Wing Sauce Leads Police to Attackers of Delivery Driver in Mesa
Tue Feb 9, 4:35 PM
?A pizza delivery man was attacked for his pies early Saturday morning, but the suspected thieves didn't make as clean a getaway as they had hoped -- the idiots left a Hansel-and-Grete... More >>
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Columns
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High Times: Valley Smokers Buy, Steal, and Inhale JWH-018 to Get High – and They Say It’s Working
Thursday, February 04Nick Mathison leans over the glass display cases at Trader's Smoke Shop in Peoria and spreads a pile of flaky green herbs across the counter. "I... More>>
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 2, 2010
Thursday, February 04UP IN FLAMES And while we're talking stupidity . . .: Ray Stern's story on the fire at Young Champions of America headquarters in Phoenix... More>>
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On Being Proud of Your Cultural Heritage and Narcos
Thursday, February 04How can a formerly proud Latina like myself feel proud to be Mexican again after my beloved relative was murdered in Mexico by narcos while... More>>
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 2, 2010
Thursday, February 04
UP IN FLAMES
And while we're talking stupidity . . .: Ray Stern's story on the fire at Young Champions of America headquarters in Phoenix... More >>
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