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Flip-Flopping John McCain Is No Political Profile in Courage

Judy Burges or Steve Smith: Which Legislator Supports More Nutso Bills?

Believe it or not, after listening to Republican state Senator Judy Burges run her mouth on an Agenda 21 conspiracy theory earlier this week, we're not actually sure if Burges is behind the craziest legislation at the capitol this session.There's also Republican Representative Steve Smith, who's mor ... More >>

The Invisible War: Doc Reveals a Military That Is "Target Rich" for Sexual Predators

More Combat Veterans Are Falling Prey to Gambling Addictions

J.T. Ready Confirmed by Police to Be Among the Five People Dead in Gilbert Massacre, and the Suspected Shooter

Until around 5 a.m. today, news outlets were relying on sources to confirm neo-Nazi J.T. Ready was among the five people dead in yesterday's massacre in Gilbert.Gilbert police have now confirmed Ready is dead, along with four other people, including a baby born last January.If Ready's name doesn't r ... More >>

CD9 Gets Another One: Republican Leah Campos Schandlbauer, Ex-CIA Officer

​Republican Leah Campos Schandlbauer has become the ninth person to announce a candidacy for Arizona's newly formed Ninth Congressional District.According to her campaign announcement, Schandlbauer's a Scottsdale resident, Hispanic Republican, and a former CIA operations officer. Her campaign says ... More >>

Luke Air Force Base Stabbing Deaths Ruled Murder-Suicide

​The bizarre deaths of two people at Luke Air Force Base over the weekend has been ruled a murder-suicide, authorities announced this morning.The bodies of Gaudioso Gamilla, 62, and Vilma Gamilla, 61, were found stabbed to death inside the base's post office Sunday night after their son, who lives ... More >>

Further Studies at UCLA Sounded the Alarm About Concussions and Their Treatment

Tucson Man Indicted for Posing as Air Force Officer to Enter Base

www.legionofvalormuseum.com​According to the United States Attorney's Office, a Tucson man went to some extraordinary lengths to gain access to an Air Force base earlier this year. Once inside, he bought stuff from the base's commissary in what a U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman tells New Ti ... More >>

Cindy McCain Speaks Out Against "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in New Ad. "The Mav" Can't Like That

NOH8 Cindy McCain's pro-LGBT crusade can't sit well with her lawmaker hubby​Props to Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain, for taking a stand against her lawmaker husband -- and his continued reluctance to allow gays to serve openly in the military -- by participating in a star-stu ... More >>

Shaq Sued by Former Employee for Hacking Into Computer to Destroy Evidence of Affairs -- and Attempting to Frame Employee for Possessing Kiddy Porn

www.imdb.comFormer Suns big man, and star of the film Kazaam, Shaquille O'Neal.​Framing someone for possession of kiddy porn seems like a drastic way to get a little revenge. But former Phoenix Suns big man -- and former member of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "posse" -- Shaquille O'Neal, i ... More >>

High Science: Synthetic Marijuana Is Legal, and It Might Get You High -- But Is It Safe?

JWH "Synthetic Marijuana" News Available Every Week on Jackalope Ranch

Wikimedia Commons A chemical diagram of the JWH-073 compound.​Back in February, we wrote about a synthetic cannabinoid called JWH for this blog. Several things have happened since then, so much that we now have a category dedicated to synthetic marijuana called "Buzz Buzz" on our arts and ... More >>

El Mirage Probably Will See Complete Turnover on City Council, Effectively Silencing Concerns Over Potential Noise-Impact of F-35s On Residents' Quality of Life, Property Values

Luke Air Force Base sits just outside of El Mirage, and is on a short list to receive a fleet of F-35's.​Looks like major change is on the horizon for El Mirage, a West Valley city where five out of seven seats on the City Council are up for grabs. The deadline for potential candidates ... More >>

Like a WMD, Matt Damon Blows Up America's Big Lie in The Green Zone

Hot Links: Casinos, Deadly Bar Fights, and Rain

​Officials broke ground this morning on a domestic violence shelter in downtown Phoenix. The Chrysalis Women's Shelter costs $3.1 million and will expand services to children and women who are victims of domestic violence. The 24,300-square-foot facility will have 50 beds and is scheduled to ... More >>

Snowflake Man to Serve 26 Months in Stabbing of Co-Worker in Iraq; Was Indicted Under Military Law

Aaron Bridges Langston, 32, of Snowflake, will serve 26 months in a federal prison for stabbing his co-worker in the neck while working in Iraq. Langston, who worked for the Defense Department contractor Kellogg Brown and Root, was the supervisor for an Indian national woman he attacked on February ... More >>

A palm to the Children’s Museum of Phoenix for saving downtown’s Monroe School

View the original military record of McCain’s torture

A Cancer on ASU

Could Bob Pettit have cured cancer in his lifetime? We might never know, thanks to nasty university politics

Blood Business

Probing America's passion for war

Straitjacket Jan Brewer

Empowering the Secretary of State, especially this secretary of state, to decide when elections can be suspended is a crazy idea. Sanity must prevail in state government

Under Siege

Polygamists are barricading their homes in the midst of mounting legal assaults by authorities

Letters

Letters from the issue of Thursday, August 18, 2005

Doomed River

The Southwest's last free-flowing stream ran dry for eight days in mid-July. It's time to act

In the Crosshairs

County lawmen boffing hookers isn't Sheriff Joe's only problem. Fed up with his thuggery, Arpaio's own political party has targeted him for defeat

Big Bad Developer

George Johnson is quickly becoming the most notorious developer in Arizona

River Gamble

Rick Renzi's hoping people buy his line that an amendment he's sponsoring has nothing to do with his father's defense business

Get a Grip!

Star-struck Hollywood hopefuls fight to make the scene in Phoenix's filmland fringe.

Letters

Letters

Shot to Hell

Mandatory participation in military's anthrax vaccine program pushes plunger on medical controversy

Midnight Chow Boy

Jerry's Restaurant

Is John McCain a War Hero?

The senator's five years as a prisoner of war have been widely viewed as heroic. But as he prepares a White House bid, a small group of detractors is determined to expose him as a wartime traitor

Missing Earl Jr.

A Glendale couple forges a national alliance and a personal bond in their mutual quest to find the 2,087 Vietnam-era POWs and MIAs

Trial and Heir

In the trial of the decade, Butch Harrod is found guilty of the 1988 murder of wealthy Phoenix widow Jeanne Tovrea

The Suspect's Sidekick

It was an arduous trail that led investigators in the Jeanne Tovrea murder case to accused killer James "Butch" Harrod. A common sight en route was Edward "Hap" Tovrea Jr.

Letters

Deadly Panacea

What led an AIDS patient to inject a substance manufactured from common dirt into her blood stream?

Holy Roller

The Outer Space Undergroud

Arizona's quiet visionaries yearn to make the state a hub of commercial space travel

Buffaloed Soldiers

NFL dumps Arizona group representing black military units as Super Bowl colorguard

WANNA BUY A $70 MILLION LAKE?SALES-TAX-BACKED BONDS WILL JUMP-START TEMPE'S STALLED RIO SALADO PROJECT

Opiate for the Mrs.

When laws are broken, somebody's got to be punished. In the case of Cindy McCain, that somebody is Tom Gosinski

MOTOROLA THE STORY SO FAR

A YEAR INSIDE THE MOTOROLA MESSSINNERS AND VICTIMS--WARRIORS AND REGULATORS

MOTOROLA: THE STORY SO FAR

THE COST OF TOXIC SPILLSHERE'S HOW YOU'LL PAY FOR MOTOROLA'S CONTAMINATION

OUT OF THE AIR FORCE CLOSETHOW A MODEL SERGEANT CAME TO ADMIT HIS HOMOSEXUALITY ON NATIONAL TV

THE FATAL SOLUTIONAIR FORCE MECHANIC SAYS HIS LEUKEMIA IS LINKED TO SOLVENT CONTAINING DEADLY BENZENE