An unrepentant Lisa Aubuchon is testifying at the moment before a hearing panel that is considering serious disciplinary action against her, her ex-boss County Attorney Andrew Thomas and another attorney.L Aubuchon has been trying to explain the litany of oft-told events that led to the ongoing hearings at the Arizona…
To hear Barnett Lotstein tell it, ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas was willing to sacrifice his political career in order to do the right thing by going after alleged “corruption” in county government Lotstein spun, um, testified this morning at the ongoing disciplinary hearings regarding his former boss, Thomas,…
A friend just pointed out a little question-and-answer interview that the New York TImes published over the weekend with Shaquille O’Neal. …
The jury in the Mark Goudeau serial murder/rape case resumes deliberations this morning in downtown Phoenix at the Maricopa County Superior Court…
We watched the morning news a bit ago as onetime Disney-superstar-turned-train-wreck Lindsay Lohan slipped in the back door of the Los Angeles County morgue to do ghoulish penance for whatever it was that got her on probation. Lohan landed at the morgue (not in a body bag–yet!) after failing to…
Rachel Alexander, one of former Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas’ key insiders during his six years in office, is on the stand trying to explain how she got put “in charge” of an ill-conceived and politically motivated civil racketeering case against county supervisors, judges, and others. …
Testimony continues this morning at the Thomas/Aubuchon/Alexander disciplinary hearings at the Arizona Supreme Court in downtown Phoenix. Lisa Aubuchon, a onetime top assistant to former Maricopa County Attorney, is expected to take the stand at the hearing in an attempt to save her legal skin. She and Thomas are…
Mark Goueeau’s fate officially is in the hands of a Maricopa County jury as of 10 a.m. …
We drove over to the Harkins movie-theater complex at Shea Boulevard and Scottsdale Road the other day to check out the new documentary about the infamous and horrific April 2001 Scottsdale murders of Mary Fisher and her two young children, Brittney and Bobby Jr. It’s called Where Is Robert Fisher? and concerns one of…
We’ll be chiming in soon with our take about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday that upheld the inadmissibility of the 1991 confession of Buddhist temple mass murderer Johnathan Doody. Killer Johnathan Doody gets a new trial–and the jury won’t hear his 1991 confession. The effect of the high…
We thought we’d be reporting here on the sentencing of a Phoenix woman who plea bargained to a reduced charge of “custodial interference” in the curious case of a young girl snatched from her East Valley home back in 2007. Brenda Byers-Couture had pleaded guilty to the charge at…
So it’s come down to this–a fifth and deciding game tomorrow afternoon for the upstart Arizona Diamondbacks in what has become a humdinger of a a first-round playoff series against the Milwaukee Brewers. Last night’s 10-6 win seemed closer than the final score indicates, with neither team able to stop…
Dennis Burke, who abruptly resigned in late August as the United States Attorney for Arizona after becoming mired in controversy, had to deal with another traumatic event earlier that month: Burke nearly killed a pedestrian with his vehicle in an accident on North Central Avenue. Phoenix police records show that…
Oddly, this one seems like a long time ago, what with the Diamondbacks about to take the field in a few hours to stave off playoff elimination at the hands of the suddenly mighty Milwaukee Brewers. But when we have an opportunity to reflect on the 2011 season, Ryan Roberts’…
We were there for this one, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ NL West division-clinching 3-1 win over the defending World Champion San Francisco Giants. It happened to be one of the more exciting games of the year, and not just because of the momentous occasion of the icing on the home team’s…
The Diamondbacks went into a road series with the Los Angeles Dodgers with an eight-game cushion over the fading San Francisco Giants. Ace pitcher Ian Kennedy got the start for Arizona, and scuffled at the start, giving up four runs in the first inning before settling down. LA still led 4-3…
Arizona was playing poorly on this homestand, and against the team with the worst record in baseball, the lowly Houston Astros. Just like that, the home boys fell behind 7-1, and the relatively small crowd at Chase Field (announced attendance was 17,814, but it seemed about half that to those…
A few weeks earlier, Milwaukee’s power-hitting first-baseman Prince Fielder chose not to pick the D-Backs’ Justin Upton for the All-Star Home Run Derby in Phoenix, which pissed off a lot of Arizona fans. Though Upton publicly took the high road, it surely had to bother him, and he took it…
The St. Louis Cardinals long have been an upper-echelon franchise with perhaps the greatest fan base in all of Major League Baseball. For sure, they are a passionate bunch, as we found out one night some time ago when we almost found ourselves in a bar fight with Cards fan…
It was a sellout at Miller Park in Milwaukee (same as it was in the first two games of the ongoing National League playoffs) on a beautiful Fourth of July. The Brewers were cruising, up 6-1 after the fourth inning. But this was becoming a special D-Backs team. Over the…
Yeah, we know that the 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks are but one game from extinction at the hands of the formidable Milwaukee Brewers. But it ain’t over yet–and, besides, it was a blast getting here. Back on June 24, in a seesaw battle up in Detroit, the D-Backs somehow snuck past…
By this point in the season, it was beginning to become ever more clear to Arizona fans that this team might just be a little bit special. The exciting come-from-behind 6-5 win over the Florida Marlins at Chase Field was a case in point, the D-Backs’ 17th such win from…
