The National Weather Service has issued an improbable tornado watch for Maricopa and Pinal counties until 10 p.m.Sorry, snowbirds, Phoenix isn’t nothin’ but sunshine all the time.According to the National Weather Service, a major tornado in Phoenix is incredibly rare but evidently, not impossible. In fact, Arizona averages four tornadoes…
It’s not officially official yet, but if ESPN’s Chicago insider, Bruce Levine, is right, which he often is, the Cubs have chosen Mesa as their first choice for their new spring-training facility Suck on that, Charlie Crist.The Cubs have spent the last several months deciding whether they would remain in…
Did you hear the one about the guy who broke into a head shop and stole $300 worth of fake weed? Probably not, because it’s not a joke — some idiot actually did it on Monday night in Flagstaff.In the police blotter of yesterday’s Arizona Daily Sun, there is a…
A Mexican national suspected of murdering a woman in 2003 was busted by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Nogales.Guzman Badilla-Corona, 28, better known in the crystal-meth community as “Indio,” was trying to cross back into the United States from Mexico when he got picked up by border agents. After running Badilla-Corona’s fingerprints…
Tiger Woods, whose location has been more elusive than Osama Bin Laden’s since his Thanksgiving car wreck, was spotted outside a sex-addiction-rehabilitation clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Another loss for the Arizona economy, as hopeful businesses in Wickenburg planned for his arrival — and that of the media frenzy that was certain to follow –…
Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Brett Mecum seems to think that the $50,000 left off of the organization’s latest spending report is “all good,” but another GOP bigwig is calling for an independent audit of the party’s books. Yuma County Republican Party Chairman Phil Townsend sent a letter to high-ranking…
Despite walking away from his judgeship on America’s Got Talent after an alcoholic, shirtless bout with a cheeseburger, David Hasselhoff is getting back on the tube — and there’s a good chance the Hoff may make a cameo appearance in Arizona.The former Knight Rider star and Baywatch beefcake is getting another shot at…
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 open in the fall…The first of…
We’ve heard of all sorts of fevers — cat-scratch, valley, fevers where the only prescription is “more cow-bell” — but we weren’t familiar with the variety that a Phoenix man claims made him “violently ill,” prompting a lawsuit against PetCo.George Heitzman claims he contracted something called rat-bite fever after he bought…
The highly publicized search for the Tempe baby who went missing in December has hit a roadblock, but a babysitter, who may be one of the last people to see the child alive, is describing her time with the 8-month-old to San Antonio news outlets. From everything that has been…
Sarah Palin, the new darling of the Conservative party, announced today that she will be making the campaign rounds for several Republican Congressional candidates, including a stop in Arizona to campaign for her former running-mate, John McCain.Apparently getting run down by the hope and change-train in the 2008 presidential election…
Arizona Senator John McCain is looking at last night’s Massachusetts Senate election as the “wake-up” call that could change how business is done in the nation’s capitol. “Last night, a shot was fired around this nation … saying no more business as usual in Washington, D.C.,” McCain said on the Senate floor this…
This is one of the few haircuts we’ve ever seen that may be dumber than the “blown out” Long Island locks Paulie D sports on Jersey Shore. This Arizona Cardinals super-fan was originally seen on The Smoking Gun and his mug was brought to our attention by our friends at Heat City, who find…
The majority of the luxury condos at the posh 44 Monroe luxury high-rise are facing foreclosure. A notice of trustee’s sale has been filed by the Scottsdale’s Stearns Bank to sell 182 of the building’s 196 units. The condos will be sold to the highest bidder on April 14…Phoenix police…
There’s no shortage of discouraging news for Arizona today. In a prior post, we told you about Maricopa County’s dismal national ranking in terms of job loss, and the latest news on the education front isn’t any better.According to the annual report from Editorial Projects in Education, Arizona ranks fifth-worst…
It would seem that there is one defender that Arizona Cardinals star wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald can’t seem to shake: speed-cams — the dreaded defender of Valley freeways. Fitzgerald’s Cadillac Escalade has been photographed by speed-cams as it was blasting down Valley freeways six times since August, according to a…
In the most recent blow to Maricopa County’s reputation throughout the country, the latest jobs report is out, and it ain’t pretty for the Valley.Among the county’s other embarrassing, um, problems — law enforcement and prosecutorial, mainly — Maricopa County is now the No. 2 county in the country for net job…
Pick a job, any job…Paradise Valley Mayor and political rookie Vernon Parker’s PR honcho, Jason Rose, reluctantly confirmed to New Times today that the mayor is dropping out of the race for governor and is planning on filing paperwork this week to officially make him a candidate for the congressional…
It looks like the East Valley Tribune isn’t the only Valley Freedom Communications-owned newspaper that will get a new lease on life this year — the Trib’s buyer reportedly wants to buy all of Freedom’s Valley papers.The Trib had announced it would shut its doors on January 1, but a…
State Senator Pam Gorman announced that she will be joining the growing field of potential replacements for Congressman John Shadegg. Gorman says that Washington D.C. politicians are “out of control” and she seems to think she can change that. This is the same Pam Gorman who caused a bit of a…
The Phoenix Suns former big man (and ex-Sherriff’s, um, deputy), Shaquille O’Neal, is suing a Phoenix man for use of the nickname Shaq received when he first came to the desert. The word in question — like the Valley’s great saguaro cactus — exists almost nowhere else in the world. That…
Representative Judy Burges is at it again. The Skull Valley Republican, who’s introduced such laughable legislation as the “I didn’t pay enough fund,” which asks taxpayers to donate money to the state to help Arizona out of it’s current financial nightmare, has introduced a new bill that feeds the controversial fire…
