Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said in a disciplinary hearing against him today that he doesn’t know why a judge he thought was “biased” made a major ruling in Thomas’ favor.Thomas has maintained throughout his fight with county officials that retired Judge Kenneth Fields, who was assigned to cover…
Proving that the world really has gone crazy over Arizona’s annual haboobs (that’s what we used to call dust storms until a big one this year), a video of a Florence wedding marred by dust is going viral. Here’s the YouTube version — our professional opinion is that it’s downright…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is taking stand this morning in a disciplinary proceeding that could result in his disbarment.Click here to access the state Supreme Court’s Web site, then click on today’s live proceeding.Thomas was elected in 2004 on a platform of illegal immigration reform, then re-elected in…
Lisa Aubuchon lives in an alternative universe.True, we may have watched too many Star Trek episodes as a kid, but after watching the former deputy county attorney’s performance on the stand in the State Bar’s disciplinary hearings yesterday, we could come to no other conclusion. From the way she connected…
The new federal crackdown on medical marijuana announced on October 7 by California’s four U.S. Attorneys sent chills through the industry. It was a stunning reversal by the Obama administration. Only two years ago, Deputy U.S. Attorney General David Ogden wrote his infamous “Ogden Memo,” announcing that the feds wouldn’t…
AZ Urbanathlon, an obstacle-course race scheduled to take place on November 5 near Scottsdale, has changed its name to AZ Urban Race following a federal trademark complaint.Rodale, the publisher of Men’s Health magazine, says it owns the rights to the name “Urbanathlon” in the complaint it filed last week. Men’s…
We just wanted to make sure y’all had the link to watch Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio testify this morning in the State Bar disciplinary proceeding for his former political ally, County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Click here for the state Supreme Court’s Web site, then hit the either “in progress”…
Before Wednesday’s raid of a marijuana promoter Al Sobol’s compassion club, Phoenix police officials discussed a pending court case on the legality, in general, of such clubs. Cops then decided to move forward with the raid based on the same, thorny legal questions now before a Maricopa Superior Court judge…
If you want to hear Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detectives describe the “blatant” corruption they saw under the leadership of Joe Arpaio, tune in now to the State Bar’s disciplinary hearing for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. (If that direct link doesn’t work, click here and then click on the…
Dave Hendershott, Sheriff Arpaio’s disgraced former chief deputy, struggled to explain his grand conspiracy theories in the Andrew Thomas disciplinary proceedings today. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ousted chief deputy, Dave Hendershott, wearing a bold red tie and suit jacket, testified today for five to six hours in the Andrew…
Scott Ruth has heard the stories about Xenu the Galactic Overlord and the ghost-like “body thetans” that supposedly infest human souls. But all he knows for sure about the Church of Scientology is that it’s invaded his life. The church, which plans to turn its newly acquired property at 3845…
Four custodial workers at Sky Harbor Phoenix International Airport are getting their jobs back, plus back pay, in a settlement between their employer, GCA Services, and the feds. Isabell Marquez, Yadu Rijal, Hamid Amiri and Geoffery Kachiolwa were fired from their jobs because of their support for their union, United…
President Obama doesn’t just want to seize the property of California medical-marijuana dispensaries and hit them with huge tax bills.Now the Obama Administration plans to prosecute people who place ads for dispensaries — and possibly the newspapers that print them.One of the four U.S. Attorneys in California, Laura Duffy, told…
Valley attorney Mark Goldman must have taken a memory pill since we last talked to him. In today’s testimony during discipline proceedings for former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas,, Goldman described how Thomas assigned him to dig up information about County Supervisor Don Stapley in 2007.Goldman, a wealthy lawyer…
“Hey, Sharon, want to file a lawsuit against Facebook?”We imagine that a conversation that included that line might have taken place last week between former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods and his executive assistant, Sharon Beatty.Beatty, we’ve come to find out, is the Scottsdale woman acting as a plaintiff in…
A Scottsdale burglary victim used his mobile phone’s tracking app last night to pinpoint the locations of two suspects, who were then arrested by police.A short while before the high-tech bust, two people reported to the cops that a couple of dudes had broken into their home near the Loop…
Facebook calls it a glitch, but a Scottsdale woman and her Phoenix lawyer want to be compensated for the social media site’s surreptitious tracking of Web browsing history.Former state Attorney General Grant Woods filed the federal complaint on Friday for his client, Sharon Beatty of Scottsdale. But Woods is asking…
An official “unusual event” was declared at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station west of Phoenix on Saturday after water in a junction box outside of reactor containment building caused an electrical short.KTAR (92.3 FM) radio is the only outlet that appears to have reported the incident, but maybe that’s…
A Buckeye woman came home on Wednesday to a shocking sight: A man she knew was performing oral sex on her mentally disabled, 19-year-old son.Her son is too severely disabled to speak or give consent to sexual activity, court records state. The woman called 9-1-1- after the 26-year-old suspect, Stephen…
Ten Arizona sheriffs — five Democrat, five Republican — gathered at the Arizona State Capitol on Friday to call for an independent investigation into the “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal. The sheriffs held a news conference in front of the Arizona Peace Officers Memorial, decrying the “bloodshed” caused by the…
Tempe police officer Scott Saffell, 40, died yesterday afternoon in Ahwatukee after his personal motorcycle collided with a car that made a left-hand turn in front of him.This is one reason riding a motorcycle is risky: Other drivers. And the “car-makes-left-turn” collision is one of the most feared by riders.Phoenix…
Speaking of Ed Moriarity, the Montana lawyer recently helped a local boxer and boxing trainer file a lawsuit against Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, Janet Napolitano, and a raft of other defendants.Boxer Luis “Yori Boy” Campas and promoter Joe Diaz filed a $43 million claim against the county back…
