Arizona Daily Star

Daniel Patterson, Disgraced Ex-Legislator, Already Talking About Getting Back in Office

Former Democratic state Representative Daniel Patterson, who resigned from the House last year before a vote on his expulsion could take place, is already talking about getting back into office.Patterson's not talking about a 2014 run, but rather filling a potential vacancy in the near future.See al ... More >>

Liquid Sol, A "Coachella-Like" Music Festival, Reportedly Coming to Canyon Moon Ranch in September

Attention local concert commandos: Keep the third weekend of September open on your social calendar and set aside enough gas money to get you to and from Florence. That's because, per recent reports that have surfaced online, there's supposedly gonna be some sort a "Coachella-like multigenre music ... More >>

President Obama Talked Immigration Reform While Jan Brewer Got Stale at the Border

President Obama got some heavy applause during his bits on immigration reform during yesterday's State of the Union address, as he delivered points that were almost echoed in  Republican Senator Marco Rubio's response.Then, we read what seem to be some unintentionally hilarious accounts of Gove ... More >>

Ka'Deem Carey Knocked Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend to the Floor, Says Pregnant Ex-Girlfriend

The man with the most rushing yards in all of major college football this year shoved his pregnant ex-girlfriend to the ground and was "threatening [her] pregnancy" last month, according to that ex-girlfriend.Reports out of Tucson state that University of Arizona running back Ka'Deem Carey is going ... More >>

FBI Agents Uncover Details of Love Affair!? General Petraeus and Arizona AG Tom Horne Share Same Doghouse

Americans have been learning in the last few days of how FBI agents uncovered evidence of an extramarital affair of a top official. The official, of course, is former CIA Director and U.S. Army rock star General David Petraeus, who announced on Friday he would resign his post after news of the affa ... More >>

Ron Barber in Trouble for Calling House GOP, With 86 Percent White Men, a "Bunch of White Guys"

Democratic Congressman Ron Barber -- who won the special election in June to fill the seat of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords -- is already fighting for his reelection, and he's already made his Republican opponent angry.Martha McSally's campaign put out a press release condemning Barber for ... More >>

ATF Says 68,000 Guns Recovered in Mexico Were From U.S.; Official Admits Number Could be Only Fraction of Mexico's Seized Guns

A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says that 68,000 guns seized by Mexico in recent years came from the United States.But an ATF official in Washington D.C. admits the agency has no idea how many guns Mexico seizes overall, or whether the 68,000 figure rep ... More >>

Janos and J Bar in Tucson to Close Next Month

May 27 no doubt will be a dark day for Tucson food lovers. Two of the city's most acclaimed restaurants -- Janos and J Bar -- will serve their last suppers on May 26 before permanently shuttering their doors at the Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa. In a phone interview with Chow Bella, celeb chef J ... More >>

Etan Patz Missing Boy Case In NYC: Recent Hope Of Finding Body Apparently Ends In Futility

Word emerged this morning from a "source" in a CNN story that the highly publicized search of a Soho (lower Manhattan) basement for Etan Patz's body has turned up empty.The little boy vanished in late May 1979, and would almost 40 years old now if still-unknown evildoer hadn't snatched him from the ... More >>

Arizona Republic Joins the Train of Papers Bailing on This Week's "Doonesbury" Cartoons

​The political-correctness police over at the Arizona Republic have decided this week's "Doonesbury" comics won't be showing up in the dead-tree editions of the paper.The week-long story arc of the comic mocks the abortion laws in Texas, including a woman having a seat in the "shaming room," meeti ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Suspicious Past as School's Headmaster

Peruvian Restaurant In Tucson Planning to Open Second Location in Scottsdale Promenade

​Bye-bye Rumbi's, hello Inca's. ​Rumbi's Island Grill, part of a chain in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Arizona, has said, "aloha" to its location in the Scottsdale Promenade (next to Subway and Picazzo's Organic Italian Kitchen), and will soon be a second home for Inca's Peruvian Cuisine ... More >>

Killer Cantaloupes Shipped to Arizona, but No Listeria Outbreaks Noted in State; 13 Dead Elsewhere

Image: www.jensenfarms.com​Cantaloupes containing a potentially deadly bacteria that has killed 13 people were shipped to Arizona, but aren't known to have caused problems here, health officials said Tuesday.Dozens of people have been sickened by listeria in at least 14 of the 25 other states to w ... More >>

Warren Jeffs and Polygamist Henchmen Subject of Fine New Book

We remember Debra Weyermann from our long-ago days trolling for stories for the Sierra Vista and Bibsee dailies down at the Mexican border. She was known as "D" in those days when she covered the courts for the Arizona Daily Star, and did a bang-up job.   Kick-ass book by veteran journal ... More >>

Pima County SWAT Officers' Shooting at Former Marine 71 Times Was Justified, Probe Concludes. Suspect Died in Hail of Bullets

​Firing more than 70 shots at anyone might seem like overkill, but the Pima County Attorney's Office determined that the 71 shots the county's SWAT Team fired at 26-year-old Jose Guerena were justified.Guerena, an Iraq War veteran, was hit 22 times and killed in the hail of bullets, accor ... More >>

Drug Probe Led Pima County SWAT Team to Shoot Iraq War Vet More Than 60 Times

​Documents released yesterday by the Pima County Sheriff's Department show that the controversial shooting of an Iraq War vet was the result of a complex drug investigation into the man and his brother.Jose Guerena, a 26-year-old father of two and veteran of the war, died on May 5, in his home ... More >>

Arizona Daily Star Allowed to Fire Reporter for "Inappropriate" Tweets, Labor Board Finds

​The First Amendment apparently doesn't extend to Twitter-town -- if you work for the Arizona Daily Star, anyway.A federal labor board recently found that the Star was well within its rights when it fired a public safety reporter for a series of morbid "tweets" he posted on his Twitter account l ... More >>

MoMo Jones Departure From Arizona Basketball a Sad Day for Reporters

We loved Lamont "MoMo" Jones and his critical role as a quasi-point guard on an exciting Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team that literally came an inch from a berth in the Final Four. MoMo Jones, we knew and liked ye​But we equally appreciated MoMo's goofy motormouth, which was extensi ... More >>

Tucson's Rebellion Over Ethnic Studies Continues Today

Ethnic studies student Angelica Penaran takes a TUSD board member to the woodshedThe fight against the effort to slowly kill the Tucson Unified School District's embattled Mexican-American ethnic studies program continues today with a TUSD board of governor's meeting scheduled for 5:30 p.m. La ... More >>

Psycho; Tombstone Horror Producer's Mother's Skeletal Remains Sat in Home For a Year, Cops Say

Short of designing a suit of human skin, Timothy Fattig is the real life Norman Bates.​Somebody's seen Psycho one too many times...A Tombstone horror film producer was arrested last week after his mother's skeletal remains were found in her home -- where they'd sat for about a year, despite the ma ... More >>

Border Mayors to Sheriff Paul Babeu: Tone it Down a Bit, Brah *UPDATED*

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's pissing off mayors of border cities.​UPDATE: Click here to see Babeu's response to the border mayors' letter.Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's making a pretty nice career out of being the face of the immigration debate in Arizona, but several mayors of border citi ... More >>

Lion Meat is Back on the Plate in Arizona

Hold your picket signs, people. The folks at Mesa's Il Vinaio are not serving lion meat again. After last year's uproar, when owner Cameron Selogie started serving lion burgers as a special for the World Cup (um, do they really even eat lion in South Africa?), the restaurant started getting pr ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Shooter: Arizona Daily Star Selling Photos Thought to Be of the Shooter, Jared Loughner, on Web Site for $125 Each

​The Web site for the Arizona Daily Star is selling photos of the man believed to be responsible for shooting several people, including Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords and a federal judge, for $125 each.The newspaper isn't trying to cash in on this morning's tragedy -- many newspapers sell ... More >>

Louie Puroll Firing Put in Second Place by Chandler Mall Standoff

The best thing that happened to Louie Puroll and the Pinal County Sheriff's Office yesterday was the standoff out at the Chandler Mall, a made-for-TV incident that put the deputy's firing deep into second place, news-wise. ​ Still, by now everyone who follows local news knows Pinal County S ... More >>

Rock Climber Hung Around for Bee Attack on Mt. Lemmon -- Literally

Image: Mountain Project/Paul Crowder Hairpin Turn (Left Hand Wall) at Mount Lemmon is a wonderful place to go rock climbing -- as long as you pack your bee suit.​One of the best, if not only, defense against an attack of swarming killer bees is to run away. But you can't do that when  ... More >>

John McCain's Tucson Office Protested, Undocumented Activists Arrested

David Abie Morales Screenshot from David Abie Morales' video of the protest today in Tucson The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that four young pro-immigration demonstrators, three of them undocumented, were arrested during a protest at U.S. Senator John McCain's Tucson office today. The Star ... More >>

Strictly Fo Da Parkys: Watch 66-Year-Old Rap About Parkinsons Disease

It takes some serious guts to laugh at yourself whilst fighting a debilitating disease, and that's exactly what you'll get from Sharon Kha, a former veep from the University of Arizona who is now suffering from Parkinsons, the progressive wasting disease that also afflicts Michael J. Fox. As Tucson ... More >>

DPS Sends Photo Radar Ticket to Designer of Novelty License Plate After a Truck Sporting the Decorative Plate Was Caught Speeding

www.azsmartblonde.com​Here's a new way to potentially beat the dreaded photo-radar cameras: Buy a novelty license plate.This method apparently worked for one Arizona speeder, whose large white Dodge pickup truck went speeding past a photo radar station and the camera snapped a shot of the li ... More >>

Randy Miller, Hopeful Buyer of East Valley Tribune, has Reputation for Soft News - But Better Than Alternative

The East Valley Tribune could be in for a serious change in direction under the helm of its possible rescuer, Randy Miller, owner of Tucson's Explorer newspapers. ​ Miller has surfaced as the hopeful buyer of the battle-worn Trib, and a finalized letter of intent with the Trib's parent co ... More >>

Cheap Tricks

Stingy Scoundrel offers tips to save you bucks and/or land you in jail

Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, Republican Mike Harris, Nativist Craig Tillman, and Scores More Nuts Star in Video from Obama's VFW Visit

from usadefender1's YouTube site Thar he blows! Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready spouts off, as Republican Mike Harris looks on​There was so much attention paid to anarcho-libertarian AR-15 bearer Christopher Broughton in the wake of President Barack Obama's visit to Phoenix last Monday that some of the ... More >>

Pro-Shawna Forde Site Pimped by Laine Lawless, Mexican Flag Burner Extraordinaire

Shawna Forde gets a little help from her pal, nativist Wiccan Laine Lawless​Just when you think the nativists have sunk to a new low, they limbo right down into the gutter a little lower. In this case, it's our old pal, Wiccan wackjob Laine Lawless (real name, Roberta Dill), known for her love of ... More >>

Yellow Sheet Reporter Fired in Dispute; Phil Riske Planned to Retire at Month's End

Image: www.yellowsheetreport.com​ Veteran Arizona Capitol Times reporter Phil Riske has been fired from the Yellow Sheet, a paid-subscription politics rag, says an Arizona Republic blog post by Matthew Benson. Riske had been with the Cap Times for seven years and planned to retire at the end ... More >>

Giffords Statements on Healthcare Reform Show the "Devil is in the Detail"

​ Reading the full transcript of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' August 10 interview with the Arizona Daily Star, it's easy to see why people are so frustrated with plans to launch government-run healthcare insurance. The costs, the potential savings, the type of coverage, the pote ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Lawsuit Filed by State Gets Dismissed; AG's Office Says Suit Unlikely to Force Change

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard filed a motion Tuesday afternoon to have his lawsuit against the owners of the Tucson Citizen dismissed because it wouldn't accomplish anything. Goddard had already failed last week to convince a judge to force the owners, Gannett and Lee Enterprises, to keep ... More >>

Tucson Citizen Owners Could be Forced to Publish Paper; Judge to Rule Tueday

After a 90-minute hearing in federal court, Judge Raner Collins said he will decide Tuesday whether to order the corporate owners of the Tucson Citizen to keep publishing the 138-year-old newspaper.State Attorney General Terry Goddard, who accuses Gannett and Lee Enterprises of trying to monopolize ... More >>

East Valley Tribune Finds New Ways to Spell Hypocrisy

At the ASU-Idaho State men's basketball game at the Wells Fargo Arena that just finished a few minutes ago (Sun Devils won 90-55), we couldn't help but notice a well-lit advertisement at courtside directly across from the official scorer's table. "East Valley Tribune--Where Local News Is First, ... More >>

Barrett Marson Bids Adieu as House Speaker's Spokesman and Capitol Blogger

Barrett Marson, spokesman for outgoing Arizona House Speaker Jim Weiers, says in an e-mailed farewell that he'll look back fondly on his four years dealing with the "jackals" in the media, some of whom he may have even enjoyed getting to know. Friends and acquaintances of Marson's know he's ... More >>

David Modeer, Phoenix Water Director, to head Central Arizona Project

David Modeer, director of the Phoenix water department, has been tapped to become the next general manager of the Central Arizona Project. The 336-mile long system of pipelines and canals helps bring water to 80 percent of the state's population.  In a Tucson Citizen article, Modeer ... More >>

New Times adds 17 Arizona Press Club awards to our list

Silence of the Lambs

CPS would rather shut up than deal with scrutiny

Mock Turtle Scoop

The Spike clears up tale of the tortoises and the harebrained

Winning Style

New Times writers win big at annual Press Club fete

Where's My Purse Again?

Does Jimmy eat purses? Only if you blink at America West Arena.

Extra Censory

In Arizona, high school administrators can decide what may or may not be published in student newspapers. They are not bashful about protecting their own interests.

Winning Form

A Reputation in Ruins

FLASHES, 6-15

THE MOVIE LOVER

DISASTER RESPONSE