The two biggest firefighting organizations in the state are alerting the public that a sketchy non-profit is targeting Arizonans with a telemarketing campaign that claims to raise money for burn victims. “Beware of scammer telephone solicitors who claim they’re affiliated with fire fighters groups,” warn the Professional Fire Fighters of…
The Phoenix City Council voted to approve a city Municipal ID card, which would allow undocumented immigrants and other disenfranchised individuals to obtain proof of identification. The ID card will permit citizens, who have trouble getting a state driver’s license or ID card, the ability to easily obtain city services…
Restrictive social-media policies have cut off one of the most important advertising routes for marijuana businesses and forced the creation of a new social space, MassRoots. Although social attitudes and laws surrounding marijuana have changed, social-media rules have yet to evolve. While a patchwork of states has approved forms of…
In many ways, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s rally today in Mesa felt a lot like the one he did in Phoenix earlier this year – just on steroids. The message was the same: “We’re going to stop illegal immigration, we’re going to take back trade, take back jobs… We’re…
Uber is offering free rides to new customers in Arizona this holiday season to cut down on DUI crashes, it was announced today. The company joined with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office in announcing the program. County Attorney Bill Montgomery said he wants “to leverage Uber’s innovative ride-sharing model to…
When 7-year-old Nora Lopez didn’t return home from school late last month, her mom was terrified, desperate, and confused. “I didn’t know what had happened,” Nora’s mother Basilia Lopez says through a translator. “I thought she had been kidnapped.” After hours of frantically searching for her daughter, a police officer…
A federal appeals court dismissed a challenge to Arizona’s race and sex-based abortion law this week. The decision upholds a lower court’s ruling that the plaintiffs – the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum, as represented by the American Civil…
Key evidence that could explain why the Granite Mountain Hotshots moved from a safe location into a treacherous box canyon where 19 men died on June 30, 2013, was in the Office of the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s possession but was not provided to a contracted state investigation into the…
Following the damning revelation that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security doesn’t check the social media history of visa applicants as a matter of policy, Arizona Senator John McCain is introducing legislation to change that – albeit with more than a few slights at the president. “Following the tragedy in…
Hide your kids, hide your wife — we’re all going to freeze. Maybe. Winter may not officially start until next week, but the National Weather Service is currently issuing a freezing weather advisory for much of Arizona, including the greater-Phoenix area. Today and tomorrow, daytime temperatures should hover around…
Michael Botticelli, President Barack Obama’s new Drug Czar, said on 60 Minutes that he doesn’t believe in cannabis legalization, deeming it “bad public health policy.” The hypocrisy meter is off the charts on this one: Botticelli works for Obama, who is destined to go down as the greatest marijuana president of…
Is Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery the only local politician in the state who spends the public’s money promoting himself — or he just the only one honest enough to admit it? According to a five-year-old state law, local governments are supposed to report what their elected officials spend on…
It’s official: Donald Trump will be in Mesa Wednesday for his second campaign even in metro Phoenix this year. And like his rally in Phoenix this past July, his presence looks set to draw hundreds of protesters. “Donald Trump is coming to Phoenix for a second time, and we don’t want…
Adherents of Islam have a long and varied history in the United States, despite their being a tiny minority of the total population. Here are some intriguing facts about the world’s fastest growing religion and those who practice it in this country. 10.Muslims were in America prior to the Declaration…
A wealthy Tempe attorney has been sentenced to five years’ probation, forced to give up hundreds of thousands of dollars, and stripped of the right to practice law — all because he stole money he didn’t need.
As the sun set in downtown Phoenix Sunday evening, at least 200 hundred people crowded around the “Release The Fear” sculpture at the corner of Roosevelt Street and Central Avenue for an anti-gun violence demonstration. From a distance, the group looked like a sea of orange shirts, headscarves, pom-poms, and…
Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy,. has called for a “jihad against jihad,” meaning an all-out fight against the extremist ideology that has become identified with the term jihad, an Arabic word that can apply broadly to a personal spiritual struggle on one end…
As the saying goes, kids say and do the darndest things. And in Arizona, apparently the same goes for politicians, celebrities, civilians, school boards, judges, and even giant inflatable pumpkins. With the end of the year upon us, we bring you the 15 most absurd news stories of 2015. 15. Arizona…
The Arizona Chapter of the Council on American and Islamic Relations is calling on the FBI to investigate a recent vandalism incident at the Islamic Cultural Center of Phoenix that it believes may be an anti-Islam hate crime. Imraan Siddiqi, CAIR Arizona’s Chairman, says that ICCP employees discovered broken windows…
Diane Douglas’ assault case against State School Board President Greg Miller has been slapped down by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery. Douglas, the Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction who Miller once called “unqualified for the job,” claimed that the board president assaulted her on August 24 at a board meeting…
Horse enthusiasts, it’s time to celebrate! The U.S. Forest Service announced today that it won’t remove the Salt River Horses next week as planned, ending – at least for now – what has been a contentious months-long standoff between the government and members of the local community. “This is the…
CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer moderated a satirical debate between Arizona Senator John McCain and Minnesota Senator Al Franken before the Arizona Cardinals and Minnesota Vikings faced off at University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale Thursday night. And it actually was funny. Imitating the format of a political debate, Scheiffer…
