Gilbert resident Stefan Selvy was justified in shooting a man who had tried to rob him of some beer, police said on Thursday. Selvy, 21, spent a tense week on the legal hot seat after the August 26 shooting behind a Circle K that left 36-year-old Bobby Baughman, also of Gilbert, dead…
Just when you think things can’t get any sicker… Phoenix pediatrician Emilio Luna has been charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with distributing thousands of child porn photos into an online, public file-sharing system. The office didn’t offer too many details in its news release beyond that, other than the fact that…
Now that Jan Brewer’s proven herself a space-case of a public speaker, her Democratic competitor, Terry Goddard, is renewing his call for a whole series of debates. The milqetoast candidate, son of former Arizona governor Sam Goddard, would just love watching a repeat or two of last night’s gaffe, we’re…
Keith King, the less-than-better half of a marriage built on stolen luggage, pleaded guilty today to a raft of charges that should put keep him away from the airport for a while. King’s wife, Stacy King, was sentenced last month to three-and-a-half years in prison following her own guilty plea…
A Chandler man with a history of violence against his former wife was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of hiring a man to shoot the woman in the head. Michael Stephen Sawins, 33, of 875 West Pecos Road, #1165, gave his .22-caliber Derringer pistol to his friend and former roommate,…
Arizona has had more than its fair share of bad characters in the governor’s chair for too many years. Ev Mecham: Impeached. Fife Symington: Convicted. Jane Hull: Alt Fuels. Napolitano: Credit Card’s Maxed Out — Time to Quit. Now we’ve got these bozos to choose from…
Joe Watson’s gonna have a lot of time to work on his poetry-for-snacks business. The former writer for New Times, (who also spent time scratching for the Arizona Republic and East Valley Tribune) was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison for his role as the “Salon Bandit.”…
Patrick Chorpenning, the former director of the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services, pleaded guilty today to two corruption-related felony charges. He’ll be sentenced on October 6 by Judge Susan Brnovich, but prosecutors have already agreed to a sentence that includes only probation. However, Chorpenning also agrees to pay back $451,351…
State officials seized eight illegal gaming machines yesterday at three Valley Moose and Elk lodges, and one American Legion Hall. The lodges, all of which also serve liquor, had been getting a cut of the illegal proceeds, confirms Rick Medina, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Gaming. But Medina also says the…
No recounts will be needed in any state or county race following last week’s primary election, says Matt Benson of the Secretary of State’s office. As of late-afternoon Tuesday, all the votes statewide have been counted. Some races got within a rat’s hair of forcing a recount, like the Democratic one for…
Utah’s oldest newspaper, the Mormon-owned Deseret News, is laying off nearly half of its staff in a major restructuring based on financial problems. Jay Evensen, the News’ editorial page editor, writes in a blog post today that the cuts are due to a loss of advertising dollars. The paper was bleeding out money despite holding steady…
The collection of creditors who own the unfinished Centerpoint condo towers in Tempe haven’t decided yet which of several bidders will be the new owner of the foreclosed project, but reportedly will soon. “I don’t have anything to report,” Mark Winkleman, chief operating officer for ML Manager, writes in an…
A 22-year-old Surprise man has pleaded guilty in a 2006 crash that left three teens dead, and the firefighter mom of one victim is being treated for depression after learning he might get probation. The Houston firefighter, Jane Draycott, made headlines a couple of weeks ago after being busted for shoplifting a DVD player, some…
It turns out that Jason Shelton, anti-speed-camera activist, was assaulted by a Scottsdale police detention officer in jail is true, after all. We just received a copy of the notice of claim filed against the city of Scottsdale by anti-speed-camera activist Jason Shelton, who’s suing over his bogus 2008 arrest. As…
A man who was arrested by Scottsdale police while filming anti-speed-camera activists during a 2008 protest is suing the city in federal court. Jason Shelton, who now lives in Bonner Springs, Kansas, alleges in a lawsuit filed yesterday that the police made a false arrest, infringed on his civil rights,…
News release from county just in: 2010 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS August 26, 2010, 4:25PM, Phoenix, AZ – Maricopa County Recorder, Helen Purcell, says every effort is being made to complete final counting for the August 24 Primary Election by Saturday, August 28, 2010. “We’ve tabulated 57,231 early ballots today. We…
If you don’t like rules, you shouldn’t have moved in. That’s the message, roughly speaking, from a Laveen homeowner’s association in regards to its ban on the historical, “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden flag. Following our article yesterday about Andy McDonel, the non-Tea-Party member who likes flying the snake, we received an open…
The Arizona Cardinals and NFL Management Council filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against former Cards player Calvin Pace, demanding he pay $2.8 million for lost time during the 2005 season. The lawsuit, filed in U.S District Court in Arizona, states that Pace “severely injured his arm while wrestling with a friend”…
A Laveen homeowner’s association is wrong to prohibit the historic Gadsden flag from flying in front of a home, an ACLU representative says. “We believe that (HOAs) don’t have the power to hijack people’s free speech rights,” says Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Arizona…
About 12,000 provisional ballots were amassed today at the Maricopa County Elections department, officials say, bringing the total number of uncounted votes in Tuesday’s primary to at least 133,000. The provisional ballots are from voters who didn’t have proper identification at the polls, recently moved or had some other minor technical…
Election officials tell us that at least 116,000 119,000 ballots remain uncounted in Arizona.That’s more than enough to flip the close race for state Attorney General again – maybe even a couple more times. The nail-biter of a Republican primary had Andrew Thomas in the lead for most of the…
Days before North American Coin and Currency collapsed in 1982, Robert Bartemus received a check for about $8,000 for the silver he had stored with the precious-metals company. The check bounced. “I was just devastated at the time,” says Bartemus, an 85-year-old Florida resident. Amazing it sounds, Bartemus might just see that $8,000 again…
