Sex sells — and it does a bang-up job at raising funds for charity, too. The Silent Witness police hotline is having charity auction this week, and the top item for bid is a tour for four of the legendary Playboy Mansion…
Thomas “Paydirt” Destories, accused of killing a photo radar van operator, told police after being arrested that he was “sorry” and that he “didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt.” Evidence at the scene, though, appears to say otherwise. According to court paperwork, (see below), five shots “of a large…
Just heard from a reliable source who got a phone call at home this morning from a pollster who wanted to get feedback about Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The caller wanted to know how our Phoenix-area source felt about the possibility of Arpaio running against Senator John McCain in 2010. After that, the…
Six runs in a single baseball game isn’t exactly an offensive blitzkrieg, but when you’re the Arizona Diamondbacks, a half-dozen revolutions around the base path is huge. Especially considering that the team had only managed to cough up two stinking runs in the past 31 frames. It’s also huge when…
Five teenagers were arrested Monday after stealing a motorcycle at gunpoint. Police suspect the teens are tied to a car theft ring…About two dozen protesters gathered outside the studios of The Colbert Report to protest Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was a guest on the show last night…Eight people…
Monday night, faux right-winger Stephen Colbert showed how long it takes to make pastry out of Maricopa County’s corrupt top constable: exactly six and a-half minutes. The whole Colbert Report segment was predictably goofy. Sheriff Joe didn’t even lead. Instead, he followed the second mate from the Maersk Alabama, Ken…
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His name is Thomas Destories, but he also goes by “Paydirt.” He ran a local adventure business.And he doesn’t appear to have gotten a single photo enforcement ticket.Police released details this afternoon about the man they say gunned down a speed camera worker in cold blood as he worked in…
Fare collection for Metro light rail, like the system’s ridership, is trending in the wrong direction. The system brought in an estimated $547,294 in March, says Metro Light Rail. That’s slightly higher than the $528,000 it collected in February (more days in the month, remember), but still much lower than in January,…
UPDATE: Sadly, Meghan McCain’s “Twitter creep” isn’t the real Slim Shady (read, “McCoy.”) Rather, it’s the faux Joe Arpaio that New Times has blogged about in the past. Score one for faux Joe. After painstakingly going through Meghan McCain’s Twitter correspondence, I found only one comment from “Joe Arpaio,” and…
East Valley Tribune reporter Ryan Gabrielson and former Tribber Paul Giblin have brought home a Pulitzer prize for their work on a series that exposed apparent racial profiling and wasted resources in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s anti-illegal-immigrant tactics. The newspaper tied with the Detroit Free Press to win in the category of…
Sixto Balbuena, the 20-year-old Chandler man who stabbed his apparent rival at the home of their teacher, has been indicted for second-degree murder. That’s no surprise. But what could be interesting is if the teacher, Tamara Hofmann, ends up with an indictment of her own. The Maricopa County Attorney’s…
In a last-ditch effort to impact the way Stephen Colbert treats mean ol’ Joe Arpaio on The Colbert Report tonight, the folks at the pro-immigration org America’s Voice are urging people to e-mail a message to the show’s producers through their Web site. Thing is, if you wanna get in on…
The Peoria Unified School District has agreed “it will no longer prevent” a 14-year-old student from wearing a gay-pride wristband, the ACLU says today. The district, however, says it never agreed to any such thing — because the student was never disallowed from wearing the accessory. Maggie Olney, spokeswoman for the district,…
The East Valley Tribune web site displayed local news and advertisements again after about 12 hours of near-dormancy on Sunday due to a domain name screw-up. Evidence points to the explanation that someone at the Tribune or Freedom Communications, the Trib’s parent company, forgot to renew the eastvalleytribune.com domain name…
Paul Chagolla, a deputy chief for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims in an open letter published in the Arizona Republic that his office does enough work serving felony warrants, and that critics on the subject are advocates of illegal immigration. It’s difficult for us to believe nearly anything coming…
Police are hunting have arrested a suspect in a SUV who shot a photo radar van operator Sunday night. (SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST). The 51-year-old victim, Doug Georgianni, had worked for the photo enforcement company Redflex as a “driver-technician” for only three months, according to a news…
There’s one word to sum up the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 2009 season thus far: Exasperation. While the emotion has been brewing amongst players and fans since the second game of the year against the Colorado Rockies — when the Snakes began their infuriating tendency of squandering decent pitching with woefully-inconsistent offense…
The world premiere of the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine will take place at the Harkins Cine Capri at Tempe Marketplace on April 27. Tempe won the premiere, which star Hugh Jackman is scheduled to attend, through an online contest by Twentieth Century Fox…Alicia-Monique Blanco, better known as Miss Arizona, earned…
It looks like someone forgot to pay the bill.The East Valley Tribune Web site died this morning, one day after the registration on its domain expired. The Trib’s IT folks will probably have the site up and running soon — maybe even today. We’re pretty sure we’d have heard if…
Big, bad, neo-Nazis? Um, not exactly. See, the local defenders of the white race — at least the Arizona adherents of the National Socialist Movement, led by pseudo-fuehrer Jeff Schoep nationally — are girly men. When it comes to fliering Phoenix anonymously, under the cover of darkness, they have no problem. But when…
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