Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this week launched a new campaign attacking gun violence. The initiative, called the Women’s Coalition for Common Sense, will focus on the nexus of guns and domestic violence. Women in the United States are 11 times more likely to die as a result of gun…
The number of sexual assaults reported at Arizona State University nearly doubled from 2013 to 2014, according to the university’s annual security report. That may sound ominous, but, according to advocates for victims, it’s actually good news. ASU police investigated 35 cases of rape or forcible fondling in 2014, compared…
Between taunting worshipers with insults and waving signs inscribed with slogans like “Stop Islamic immigration to the U.S.A.”, the crowd that mobbed the Islamic Community of Phoenix Saturday chowed down on bacon. “We’ve been eating a lot of bacon over here so you’d better think twice before you blow anybody…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that it will investigate the death of a wild horse at the Salt River Recreational area as a case of animal cruelty, recanting earlier statements that there was no evidence of foul play. By the time police responded to tips that Dotty, a…
Eviela Carrera came to the United States, like many immigrants do, to give her four children a better life. But, making just $8.30 an hour assembling chicken sandwiches and cleaning the broiler at a Phoenix Burger King, the Mexican native is struggling to hold onto this hope. She’d like to…
People will get offended by anything these days. That’s the hypothesis University of Arizona Alumni Josh Miller set out to test when he launched a tongue-in-cheek petition on Change.org last week calling on rival Arizona State University to stop “using Satan as its mascot.” In the petition, Miller, a 37-year-old…
Rallying under a cry for “no more victims,” a group of Arizona State University students has launched a campaign to pressure the school to repeal its on-campus weapons ban. ASU Students for Self-Defense assembled for its first meeting less than 24 hours before a heavily armed man opened fire on…
On Wednesday, Dotty the wild mare was running footloose and fancy free along the Salt River. Thursday, a kayaker found her dead, floating with the current. The Salt River Wild Horse Management Group, which has been tracking the herd she belongs to for the past 17 years, declared the death…
Phoenix city officials ordered an open-air mulching facility to shut down this week after a months-long tussle with nearby residents and business owners, who complained the odor and particulates emanating from the facility were making them sick. In a letter to Green Earth Recycling, which set up on the corner…
While the insanely rich continue to flock to California and New York, this year, seven of the nation’s 400 wealthiest people hail from Arizona. That makes the desert state one of the 15 most popular home bases for billionaires, according to Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of the nation’s elite. Meet the…
A Tempe City Council woman filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new Arizona law blocking local governments from banning the use of plastic shopping bags. Lauren Kuby, with help from the Arizona Center for Law in the Public interest, argues that Senate Bill 1241 violates a provision of the state’s…
Roger Scott watched the press conference in a windowless 8-by-12 cell in the maximum-security wing of Arizona State Prison-Eyman on a clear, plastic television specially designed to prevent inmates from hiding contraband amid its internal wires. Frail at 67, with hollow cheeks and a perpetually trembling right arm, he sat…
The cry to halt “anchor baby” births is clambering toward fever pitch among Republican presidential hopefuls. But, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis, the issue isn’t as urgent as Donald Trump and company would like Americans to believe. Researchers estimate the number of babies born to undocumented immigrants…
The Arizona Cardinals’ profitability increased 54 percent in 2015 under the direction of successful Head Coach Bruce Arians — proof that winning ways generate bigger bucks. The NFL team’s value, which had hovered between $800 million and $1 billion for the past decade, jumped to $1.54 billion this year, landing…
Three-time WNBA champion Diana Taurasi won’t be on the court when the Phoenix Mercury heads to the playoffs today, but she still plans to help fill the stadium. Taurasi purchased 333 seats for every Mercury home game and will have them passed out to fans on a first-come-first-serve basis. The…
Before raping her for the first time, the leader of the Islamic State terrorist group informed Arizona aid worker Kayla Mueller that she must marry him or die. Zeinat, a 16-year-old Yazidi girl who was held captive with Mueller, related the story to CNN softly, striking blue eyes looking out…
Thousands of people flocked to the state fairgrounds in Phoenix this weekend to buy and sell firearms, swap battle stories, and update their Second Amendment-inspired T-shirt collections at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show. For those of you who missed it, here are the 10 most interesting things we…
Necessity really is, as Plato said, the mother of invention. Arizona State University managed to earn the title “most innovative school” from the prestigious college rankers at U.S. News & World Report this year — despite the fact that Arizona leads the nation in higher education budget cuts. Number 2…
When a U.S. District Court judge rejected claims that the so-called “show me your papers” section of Arizona’s controversial 2010 immigration law discriminated against Latinos, DeeDee Garcia Blase’s first thought was: “What the heck just happened? This state clearly has a racial-profiling problem!” Her second: “We have to prove it!”…
Guadalupe’s vice mayor is pressing for a recall of Mayor Rebecca Jimenez after she pleaded guilty to misrepresenting her household income to obtain food stamps. Vice Mayor Andrew Sanchez blasted Jimenez for bringing the small town of about 6,000 “negative media attention by her choices. “Mayor Jimenez holds others in…
The air quality at the Phoenix RV park where 62-year-old Maggie Torres lives is so bad that she bought her dog goggles to protect his eyes when he hangs his head out the car window. “I am afraid he is going to get particulates in his eyes,” she said. It’s…
Arizona babies are the least likely in the country to be vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest immunization survey. About 84 percent of the state’s children between the ages of 19 and 35 months have received the MMR shot,…
