It’s a sad day when a minister getting arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor is no longer shocking.Chandler Police arrested 25-year-old Joshua O’Bannion after a 14-year-old girl told police that the minister had had sex with her on three separate occasions.O’Bannion served as the youth minister at the Christ…
The ruse of bipartisanship shall be on display September 21 as the Legislature begins its first talks over private school tax-credit reform. The Bipartisan Task Force on the Private School Tuition Tax Credits, a committee comprised of three Republicans and five Democrats, plan to give it their all in…
A new study conducted by the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix might make it a little harder for kiddies to get their hands on an “official Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred-shot range-model air rifle, with a compass, and a stock, and this thing which tells time,” made famous in the classic “A…
The ultra-“moral” morning man for 92.3 FM (KTAR), and often-deserved punching bag of this paper, Darrell Ankarlo, returned to the airwaves with a vengeance today, after a five-month absence resulting from a car accident that nearly ended his career…
donating his brain to science? Well, we never… Arizona Cardinals receiver Sean Morey announced yesterday that he has agreed to donate his brain, plus some spinal-cord tissue, to a medical study being conducted at Boston University. The donation, after death of course, is part of the “Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy — a…
So 52 underage people walk into a bar…and they all got arrested.The Tempe Police Department, in response to a complaint from the Department of Liquor Licensing and Control, made 52 arrests at a single bar Saturday night.That many minors in one place would even put Michael Jackson’s Neverland to shame (too…
Ever been on an airplane, and have the misfortune of being seated next to crying baby? Sure, it sucks, but most of us in civilized society deal with the annoyance, and move on with our lives, because we know that a baby doesn’t know better.What if you’re just walking down…
Arizona Senator John McCain is the new target of the “green” movement, so much so that Repower America, an offshoot of Al Gore’s Alliance For Climate Protection, has opened an office right here in Phoenix.Operating out of a rented house, Repower Arizona, as this faction is called, claims to be…
About 10 a.m. Friday, police responded to what they initially thought was an attempted suicide at a unit of a residential community at 6721 East McDowell Road.A man was found shot in the chest, and according to police reports, in “grave” shape.The man, 42-year-old Alberto Gonzales, was alive when police…
Any piece of legislation with the word “abortion” in it is more than likely going to enjoy a wild ride through the legislative and judicial processes.A new bill passed by the Arizona Legislature is no exception.Planned Parenthood of Arizona announced today that it intends to sue the state over the…
After nearly not selling out on opening day, after a lackluster training camp, after a quiet off-season, and after winning the NFC Championship, the Arizona Cardinals are finally back. We don’t just mean that it’s football season again, we mean that the Cardinals are back to playing, well, like the commiserable…
In the news business, we like to check our facts, spell names correctly — you know, just the basics to try to keep our integrity in tact.Well, Melissa Gonzalo, a reporter for Channel 12 news (KPNX-TV), must have missed that class at journalism school, or wherever she received her talking-head training…
Arizona is the off-season home to countless professional baseball players, so, in December, police pulling over a relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins wouldn’t be that faratched.Unfortunately for a Mexican national living in Chandler, it’s September, and the Marlins aren’t in town to play the D-Backs.So, when 41-year-old Oscar Corral…
If you can’t trust a former porn star, who can you trust?A former business partner of famed porn legend Jenna Jameson is claiming in Maricopa County Court that Jameson, and her ex-husband John Grdina, screwed him out of at least $125,000, Courthouse News reports…
Well, it seems former Arizona Governor Fife Symington, who narrowly avoided a prison sentence after being convicted of extortion, bank fraud, and making false financial statements, is taking a page out of former disgraced Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry’s book and may try to get his old job back.If you’re convicted of…
There is no sweeter irony than stealing an unlocked police car, and when cops in Farmington, New Mexico left their cruiser open, and running, that’s exactly what one Phoenix idiot did.Way to make us proud across state lines.Mathew Anderson, 21, of Phoenix was at a party in New Mexico, when…
For 99.9 percent of the population, getting in the ring with some of the toughest fighters in the world is nothing short of a death wish.For 25-year-old Matt Betzold, it’s a dream come true — even though he’s only got one leg.When Betzold was 6 years old, he was poisoned by…
A 17-year-old Phoenix kid turned himself in to police Tuesday after authorities say he was identified responsible for the strong-arm robbery of a jewelery store last week.Avery Lowe robbed the London Gold Jewelry Store at 7311 W. Bell Road for an estimated $1 million in retail goods, according to police.Lowe…
Last week, Arizona schools chief Tom Horne warned of hero worship when President Obama addressed the nation’s school children Tuesday.Horne probably should have broadened his warning to include starstruck state legislators, as well as the nation’s youth.Case in point: Barack’s biggest fan, Representative Kyrsten Sinema.It seems as though every time…
The mother of the three-year-old girl, and the mother’s boyfriend were officially charged with the child’s murder yesterday by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.Police say the child’s mother, 26-year-old Susan Witbracht, and her boyfriend Dauntorian Sanders, 23, both of Chandler, beat the toddler with a belt until she was covered in…
If a naked baby is porn, what exactly is the stuff the rest of us watch?That’s what a Peoria family is probably wondering after they had their children taken from them, and put into state custody after a Wal-Mart worker contacted authorities about some family photos it developed.Lisa and A.J. Demaree…
A high-level aide to Governor Jan Brewer has quit, making him the second member of the Brew Crew to jump off the sinking ship in the last six weeks. Brian McNeil, deputy chief of staff of operations for Brewer, handed the governor his resignation yesterday. McNeil bailed in the midst of the tumultuous budget…
