Sue Sisley has been fired again. An apparent victim of hardball politics, the Valley doctor and would-be cannabis researcher was told by the University of Arizona in June to vacate her office at the school’s downtown Phoenix campus. Now Sisley’s been booted off the Maricopa County Medical Society’s board of…
A Phoenix man admitted he shot his 1-year-old American bulldog in the hind leg with a .22-caliber rifle on Sunday night because he was “upset” with it, cops say. The wounded dog was reportedly “extremely friendly and in good spirits” when cops arrived at the man’s residence at 401 West…
Several races from Tuesday’s general election remained too close to call on Wednesday afternoon. The southern Arizona Congressional race between incumbent Democrat Ron Barber and Republican Martha McSally was one of them. However, McSally was retaining a slight lead over Barber and some were predicting he’d have trouble overcoming it…
“What happened: I blame myself. I fell.” That’s what Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said from his hospital bed last year in an official video he posted about breaking his arm. As usual, the six-term politician (who vowed back in the 1990s to only serve one term) wasn’t exactly telling…
As you now know, Tuesday night was a stunning upset for Democrats across the country. In a burst of mid-term politician fatigue, Americans put majority power in the hands of the U.S. Senate and firmed up the GOP stronghold in the House. Arizona’s Republican victory shouldn’t have been as shocking…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery seems to enjoy playing Let’s Make a Deal, even if he gets burned now and then. In his latest move of seeming leniency, Montgomery’s letting AR-15-toting brain scientist Peter Steinmetz escape serious penalties as long as he promises to, among other things, keep his weapons…
Republican Doug Ducey will be the next governor of Arizona, having beaten Democratic candiate Fred DuVal soundly in unofficial results Tuesday evening. It was a landslide, with the ice cream mogul beating the Democratic lobbyist by about 12 points…
Democrat and former state lawmaker Kyrsten Sinema has kept her seat in Congress, easily besting her Republican competitor, Air Force vet Wendy Rogers. Sinema’s victory in Arizona’s CD9 flew against the prevailing winds nationally in a heavily Republican election night. So did the apparent victory of Ann Kirkpatrick in CD1…
Terminally ill patients will have the “right to try” experimental drugs and treatments under an Arizona ballot proposition that won in a landslide on Tuesday. Proposition 300 seems like common sense to some, but it’s a remarkable proposal in some ways: If a patient, doctor and experimental drug maker agree…
Tim Casey, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s longtime lawyer, wants out of the hot-potato Melendres racial-profiling case now that it’s in a “compliance phase.” Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona don’t want him to leave so fast, though — not with questions and things left to discover…
Fred DuVal was forced to distance his campaign from a local Democratic gay-rights group last month after the leader called a Democratic lawmaker a “cunt.” Robert Rowley of the Stonewall Democrats of Arizona had put the dreaded c-word under a Facebook picture of State Representative (and soon to be State…
The judge in the Jodi Arias penalty-phase re-trial can’t prevent the public and news media from watching the show, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens, who oversaw the lascivious first-degree murder trial that ended in May with Arias’ conviction, kicked members…
The State Bar of Arizona has created a short video to remind Tuesday’s general-election voters not to blow off the decisions on all those judges on the ballot. The “Finish the Ballot” cartoon (below) comes at a time when at least two judges in Arizona, including one in Maricopa County,…
Jermeel Reeves doesn’t seem to think you watch enough porn. At least, that’s one possible explanation for why the 28-year-old Phoenix man was driving around west Phoenix just before 9 p.m. on Saturday night with a porn movie playing in his car’s rear window. Reeves, a wanna-be rapper from Detroit…
A Mesa woman says gave trick-or-treaters a special prize on Halloween — her own wedding ring. Since then, the story of Brooklin Yazzie’s lost ring, reported on Saturday by ABC-15 News (KNXV-TV) has been picked up by news outlets around the world. Any ghouls and goblins who hit the Yazzie…
News on Friday that the election for president of the Navajo Nation will be postponed was clearly not what Democrats in northern Arizona wanted to hear. Poor turnout in Tuesday’s election by Navajos would likely impact the close race between Congressional District One candidates Ann Kirkpatrick and Andy Tobin…
Arizona’s “top” prosecutors on Thursday urged the public to oppose cannabis legalization, warning that diverted medical marijuana is an increasing source of the drug for teens. Problem is, these modern-day prohibitionists are cherry-picking their data from the newly released 2014 Arizona Youth Survey by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission. And…
Eager customers and vendors are paying to attend November bridal and fashion events around Arizona, but the events are bogus. The scam appears to be somewhat sophisticated, with a massive online ad blitz and a professional-looking website featuring news about the supposed events. Both potential event attendees and vendors are…
A Phoenix police officer was arrested and booked into jail on Tuesday, accused of pulling a gun on people during an apparent road-rage incident while transporting prisoners. Jeremy Sweet, 51, has worked for the department’s Central Booking Unit for about seven years. On Monday at about noon, he was transporting…
Several Arizona Republic editorial staff members failed to land a job after being forced to reapply for a position at the state’s largest newspaper. Veteran journalists were among those who did not make the cut when the dust settled. The layoffs follow news in August that the paper’s parent company,…
Glendale firefighters cussed and made threats during an altercation in the driveway of a home on Sunday, as captured by a neighbor’s video camera. “You motherfucker. You’re fucking dead meat, bitch!” a firefighter yells at a patient in a gurney, as can be seen in the video uploaded to YouTube…
The dangers of fire and explosions related to “hash oil” may be newsworthy, but Friday’s Arizona Republic story on the cannabis concentrate reads more like pro-prohibition propaganda. “Dangerous hash-oil blasts are an increasing concern,” according to the headline of the Valley & State story. A sub-head continues, “In markets with…
