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Arizona Diamondbacks Swept By San Francisco Giants After the Bullpen Blows It...Again

The Arizona Diamondbacks have been living and dying by their bullpen this season, moreso the latter than the former as of late. And last night's 9-6 thumping by the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field was a pretty agonizing demise. "This will probably be one of the toughest defeats to take," stat ... More >>

What Do You Do With a Violent, Developmentally Disabled, Mentally Ill Kid?

Republican State Representative Steve Smith's List of Nutso Legislation

With the news that Republican state Representative Steve Smith is again trying to get the public to cut a quarter-million-dollar check to ousted Senate President Russell Pearce, we took a look at all the bills Smith's sponsoring this session.To describe the list of Smith-sponsored bills in one word: ... More >>

Ex-DPS Officer Threw His Mail in the Garbage (Along With His Bondage Child-Porn Collection, Allegedly)

Former Arizona Department of Public Safety officer Roger Forney did not do such a good job getting rid of his alleged collection of child porn depicting boys "in bondage and sexual torture situations," according to details laid out by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.Forney's first problem was t ... More >>

Jan Brewer Investigated by Feds Over Criminally Insane Son's Social Security Benefits

Governor Jan Brewer​Federal authorities spent more than a year investigating Governor Jan Brewer's role in collecting Social Security benefits intended for her mentally ill son, Ronald, who currently is in a state hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1990 on kidnapping an ... More >>

Convicted Pervert Thomas Reischmann's Wife Charged for Aiding in Weekend Escape Attempt

Bonnie Reischmann.​The wife of a convicted sex offender who escaped custody -- and was promptly caught -- over the weekend has been charged with helping her hubby run from authorities.Thomas Reischmann, 54, served prison time for rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault. Following his release in 2008, ... More >>

Jan Brewer Can Solve Mental-Health Crisis By Looking to Bedlam

So, a new batch of thousands of mentally ill Arizonans are going to lose most, if not all of their current benefits (counseling, transportation, etc.), ostensibly because of the state's ongoing fiscal crisis.   ​We wrote about the dire situation a few weeks ago in "Hindsight," and w ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Response to Jared Loughner? Slash Services from an Already Beleaguered Mental-Health System

Walter McCarthy Found Guilty but Insane of Killing Girlfriend's Dad in North Scottsdale

Walter McCarthy was found guilty but insane today of stabbing his girlfriend's father to death in north Scottsdale​Laurinda Cumming is terrified.She says her ex-boyfriend has pulled a fast one on the legal system, and now there's a chance he'll be released from custody even though he stabbed her f ... More >>

What Will Become of Van Buren Street's Mahoney Building?

Jan Brewer's Criminally Insane Son and His Mysteriously Sealed File

​It's no secret -- not really -- that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has a son who is seriously mentally ill. During her years in the state legislature and as a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, she mentioned it often in passing, and earned a reputation as a big-hearted advoc ... More >>

Shoot to Kill: An Antique Dealer Has One Last Chance at Freedom After Gunning Down an Unarmed Homeless Trespasser

Hearing Tomorrow At State Mental Hospital For Infamous `Blood On Their Hands' Killer

We got an incredible E-mail a few hours ago from Alan Hedges, a Texas man whose 7-year-old granddaughter Alexia and her grandmother Mauricia Aviles (in the photo) were bludgeoned to death in 1999 by seriously mentally ill family member Rodney Aviles.​The brutal murders occurred in Mrs. Aviles' hom ... More >>

Suicidal Tendencies: The Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections Is a Bloody Mess

Does U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke Have the Stones to Take on Sheriff Joe?

Hot Links: Inmate Escapes, Food Stamps, and Teen Pimps

​An inmate escaped from the State Prison Complex in Florence Sunday morning, after cutting a hole in a fence. Police are still searching for the escapee, Yelson Moreno, 20, a Mexican national who was serving a 30-month sentence for theft...Transportation officials at the Maricopa Association of Go ... More >>

Investors Foaming at the Mouth to Buy State Buildings; Arizona Capitol on the Block

After digging itself into a $3.5 billion hole, who would actually want the state government as a tenant?​The state's having a bit of a yard sale right now, and what's on the lawn? How about a hospital, a state park, and, oh yeah, the state capitol.We reported on this a few weeks ago, and belie ... More >>

Are Your Papers in Order?

Are Your Papers in Order?

The Sanchezes are American citizens who've been in this country longer than Joe Arpaio's family. The Sanchezes are criminally brown.

Assault Charges Dismissed Against Fixed-Gear Bicyclist; Phoenix Prosecutors Could Re-File

Fixed-gear fanaticism rolls into the PHX

Scene of the Crime

Take a tour of the scene of Phoenix's most famous murder

Winnie Ruth Judd: A Tour

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 20, 2005

Crying Shame

Carl Gholson was a gifted sax player. He was also a paranoid schizophrenic. He became another victim of Phoenix’s scorching heat

Blood on their hands

Six hours after County mental health officials sent a psychotic man back home, he killed his mother and young niece.

He'll Be Missed

A mental-health advocate succumbs to a brain tumor

A is for Artist (A is also for Arsonist)

From brilliance to madness and beyond, Jacob Martinez's artistic and personal journey has taken him further than he'd ever dreamed. The fire inside now quelled by medication, the nightmare of his mental illness is over. But at what price?

Mental Giant

One of the Valley's most revered mental-health advocates struggles with cancer

Caught Off Guard

Councilman's company sends unlicensed guards to Sky Harbor, DPS records show

A Mother's Torch

'Insane' mom sentenced in 1998 burning death of two kids

AIDS and Abetting

Danielle Adair is a mentally ill, AIDS-carrying prostitute. But officials release her to the streets over and over and over again.

Janet Clams Up

AG Napolitano turns down her 60 Minutes of fame

Checks & Imbalances

How the state's leading private fiduciary helped herself to the funds of the helpless

Flashes 01-27-2000

Flashes

Letters

Indecent Exposure

They spent months covered in the dust and dirt of a prison renovation. Now, dozens of officers and inmates say the state risked their lives by making them work with asbestos.

Deaf and Damned

If Artie Martinez weren't deaf, he might have talked his way out of the Arizona State Hospital. Instead, he was locked up there for nearly 40 years.

Could You Become Another Artie Marinez Case?

ComCare Didn't Care

State probe finds that agency's "failure to comply" with regulations contributed to veteran's death

Letters

A System Gone Mad

Two agencies were supposed to be taking care of Donald Ellison. Instead, they were missing in action--and the mentally ill Vietnam veteran was left to die on the street.

Serial Talker

The nation's premier medical criminologist imparts his profundity--and profanity

Can Arizona Throw Away the Key?

Washington state official foresees difficult days for Arizona's new "sexual predators" law

Mental Health MASQUERADE

Litigation over care fo rArizona's mentally ill ended four years ago. Sowhy have private attorneys racked up more than $1 million in fees since then?

THE UNTOUCHABLE

EVERYONE AGREES JOHN SAHHAR DOESN'T BELONG ON THE STREET, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO TAKE CARE OF HIM.

MEETING ON THE MIND

MARRIED PRIESTS DO IT DIVINELYRENT A PRIEST USES CLERICS WHO WEAR WEDDING RINGS--AND COLLARS

CRUSADER OF THE LOSTATTORNEY CHICK ARNOLD'S CAMPAIGN ON BEHALF OF THE MENTALLY ILL IS ALL UPHILL