Fresh from the rumor mill: if Sarah Palin runs for president, she will base her campaign out of Scottsdale, continuing the Palin family’s invasion of Arizona.As you know, Palin’s daughter Bristol recently/inexplicably bought a home in Maricopa. Then a job as an on-air personality at a local radio station just…
The Scottsdale man whose erratic driving is alleged to be responsible for the death of an 11-year-old girl, and who ranted and raved about Jesus and Satan following the wreck, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning, where he pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.At his initial court appearance, 46-year-old…
A Phoenix robbery suspect is dead after shooting it out with police after holding up a 7-11.According to the Phoenix Police Department, officers responded to a robbery in progress at the convenience store near 48th Street and McDowell Road about 2 a.m.When officers arrived on the scene, the suspect ran…
Embattled state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard reportedly told Senate Republicans that his now-ex-girlfriend, Aubry Ballard, pulled out a gun during a roadside brouhaha last month that left the senator with a black eye and Ballard in the hoosegow.Bundgaard met with Senate Republicans yesterday to discuss the February 25, incident,…
Well, they actually did it…The Arizona Senate yesterday approved a bill that puts the Grand Canyon State one step closer to becoming the first state in the entire union to have its own official state gun (Arizona’s currently in a race with Utah for that, ahem, honor).The Senate voted 18-12…
Elizabeth Johnson, the kinda-hot/borderline-nuts-o mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, was supposed to be in court this morning to attend a hearing regarding the kidnapping charges she faces stemming from her son’s disappearance in December of 2009.Johnson, apparently, didn’t feel like it.For at least the second time in less than…
Things could have been much worse for a 9-year-old Glendale boy who was the victim of a flasher Friday night. For starters, the flasher could have had a penis.That wasn’t the case, though. The alleged flasher was a 24-year-old chick who — as far as flashers go — is a…
State Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard will remain the second-most powerful person in the Senate following a closed-door meeting with members of the Republican caucus this morning, at which GOP lawmakers discussed the senator’s February domestic violence incident, and reportedly have decided to take no action to remove him from…
The only “first-aid”45-year-old Samuel Cresante will be receiving for the next several years will be at a prison infirmary. Cresante was sentenced in federal court this morning to 19 years in prison for a string of at least 12 bank robberies lamely dubbed by the FBI’s bandit-naming department as the…
A Maricopa teen really (really) wants to be a mom.According to authorities in Maricopa, Kassandra Toruga concocted a plan to obtain a baby — her 9-month pregnant friend’s baby, that is — by killing the girl and stealing the fetus.On February 16, Toruga went to her friend’s home armed with…
David Nelson, the former Jehovah’s Witness elder arrested last year for playing strip poker (among other things) with a 14-year-old boy, pleaded guilty this morning to two counts of sexual conduct with a minor stemming from incidents dating back to 1980.Nelson, the former leader of the Madison Park Congregation Church…
A detective from the Phoenix Police Department was arrested yesterday for allegedly stealing drugs from the department’s evidence room.The unidentified detective is a 12-year veteran of the force.According to police, the detective would steal Oxycontin that was scheduled to be destroyed. As if nobody would notice, the detective would replace…
The black eye state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard allegedly suffered as the result of a right hook from his now-ex-girlfriend, Aubry “Highway Heavyweight Champion” Ballard, is probably the least of the senator’s concerns this morning.See New Times’ story on the Rumble Next to the Carpool Lane here.Yesterday, Senate Democrats…
We regret to inform you that we nearly let Governor Jan Brewer get away with one.Since our earlier post about the governor’s vacation to Alaska, which she claims is her “first vacation in over two years as Governor,” we were reminded of a story we published last May. That story,…
The goal of Elizabeth Johnson, mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, apparently is to make the boy’s father, Logan McQueary, as miserable as possible — a plan that now includes sending him “poetry” that quotes lyrics from a musician nobody’s cared about since 1998.In a bizarre “poem” Johnson sent to her baby-daddy, McQueary,…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s in Alaska at the moment, and the only bad news is that she’s not staying…forever.For what she claims is the first time in more than two years as Arizona’s governor, Brewer is taking a vacation.The gaffe-prone gov announced via-Twitter last week that she would be in “Alaska…
A Phoenix man who drunkenly crashed into a Department of Public Safety patrol car while driving the wrong way on the westbound Loop 101 last year was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning, where he was sentenced to five years in prison.Michael Chicharello, 31, pleaded guilty to aggravated…
The man pictured is 44-year-old Ronald Slavin, and he sucks at crime.On Friday, Slavin was arrested for trying to burglarize a car and assaulting the officers who arrested him. He was treated at Arizona Regional Hospital for injuries suffered during his arrest, but he checked himself out. That’s when he headed to…
Republicans in the Arizona state Senate pissed away their time and your tax dollars last week when they passed a resolution backing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in his budget battle with labor unions and his efforts to put restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees.Say what you will about what’s…
Like most things, Apple’s iPad and iPhone are not built in the United States, which may need to be explained to Arizona’s senior senator, John McCain, who recently declared that the two products were assembled right here in the U.S. of A.Kudos to the 74-year-old senator for knowing the products…
As you’re probably well aware, Senator Jon Kyl will not be running for re-election in 2012 — and that means the who’s who of Arizona’s GOP are all rumored to be considering a run, including fagala-phobic Congressman Trent Franks, who made it clear this weekend that the rumors are true.Franks…
Two Arizona cities (that happen to be home to a large number of Arizona State University students) are ranked in the top 10 when it comes to rudest cities in the English-speaking world.According to a study conducted by the Foursquare social network, Tempe ranks No. 6 when it comes to…
