AS MARICOPA COUNTY'S FINANCES DETERIORATED, COUNTY SUPERVISORS USED THE HEALTH CARE AGENCY AS A FINANCIAL DUMPING GROUND. THEY LOADED THE AGENCY WITH DEBTS. THEY BLAMED THE COUNTY'S FISCAL MESS ON THE COUNTY HOSPITAL. AND THEN THE SUPERVISORS GOT TO DO WH
Deputy Secretary of State Kevin Tyne will be soon-to-be Governor Jan Brewer's chief of staff, and Brewer has named a Who's Who list of familiar names from previous GOP administrations to her transition team, which will be led by (gulp - for those with long memories) Chuck Coughlin. Here's the team:
Bas Aja, Arizona Cattlemen's Association
Lisa Atkins, Greater Phoenix Leadership, fmr. congressional chief of staff
Richard Bark, Gallagher and Kennedy, fmr. chief of staff to House Speaker
Linda Ble
Larry Johnson, a former executive at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, has written a book titled Frozen. In the book, Johnson writes that employees at Alcor mishandled baseball legend Ted Williams' head, with one employee taking baseball-like swings at Williams' frozen head with a monkey wrench...The Turf Paradise horse racing track reopens today after extensive remodeling. Among the renovations are new grass turf, a new dirt track, and a spa for the horses...Vivian Kelly
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Scottsdale-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation released an official statement this afternoon in response to claims by a former employee that the frozen head of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams was tossed around like, well, a baseball, while lab technicians tried to hit it with a monkey wrench."Alcor denies allegations reported in the press that there was mistreatment or disrespectful treatment of the remains of Ted Williams at Alcor, and will be litig
Two juveniles were arrested by Phoenix police for allegedly shooting at traffic signs and speed enforcement cameras with BB guns. DPS officers stopped a black Volvo after reports of shots fired on eastbound Interstate 10 and took a male and a female into custody. There were reportedly five juveniles in the vehicle...Phoenix Suns center Robin Lopez must undergo surgery on a broken left foot, and is expected to miss six to eight weeks of basketball while he recovers. Lopez suffered the
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Ted Williams had his head severed and frozen when he died in 2002The frozen head of Ted Williams made headlines again last week when a new book claims lab technicians at Scottsdale-based Alcor Life Extension Foundation used the Spendid Splinter's frozen head as a baseball as they hit it with a monkey wrench.Well, Fox Sports is taking a gimmicky approach to predict the baseball playoffs, and using the severed frozen head of "Teddy ballgame" to posthumously predict the pl
