At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, we take a look at the…
Today in Found at the Border: Officers at the border in Nogales found 4.5 pounds of meth hidden inside an accordion.According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, an 18-year-old Mexican citizen attempted to take the accordion through a pedestrian gate on Monday…
Andrew Thomas, who infamously abused his power as Maricopa County Attorney and had his law license taken away, has qualified for $754,000 in public funds for his gubernatorial campaign. The Arizona Secretary of State’s Office confirmed on Thursday that a supplemental filing of 259 five-dollar contributions Thomas made on Tuesday…
Ruben Gallego and Mary Rose Wilcox — and their respective camps — have been firing nasty missives at each other over who is more in favor of ‘common sense gun laws’ or gun reform. They’re lobbing their attacks across all social media platforms, and why not? It’s cheaper than mailing…
Arizona voters will decide in November on giving state lawmakers a raise.Arizona’s Commission on Salaries for Elective State Officers voted to propose a legislative pay of $35,000, an $11,000 increase over the current pay of $24,000. Thanks to the Arizona Constitution, voters have the final say on this proposal…
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal says he’s sorry for making offensive blog comments, but he’s not resigning.Huppenthal, a former Republican state lawmaker, was outed for writing comments under several pseudonyms saying things like people on food stamps are “lazy pigs,” and that Spanish should be banned from public…
Here’s a side-effect of Arizona’s perennially high rate of high-school dropouts — economic costs of $7.6 billion.That’s the estimate provided this week by a study from the Arizona Mayors Education Roundtable. Did we mention that’s just one year’s worth of dropouts?…
I think I might be Mexican — but there are some people who might disagree. Being that you are the source of all knowledge mexicano, I thought I might ask you. Here’s the deal: My ancestors left the United States in 1847 knowingly and entered recognized territorio mexicano. The U.S…
It was not as though Lulu lacked manners. However! It was Cinco de Mayo, and sometimes a girl just . . . loses all self-control. When the front door swung open, Lulu took one look at the chaos inside the home and threw herself into the party. She went straight…
A sort of moral sickness has gripped this country in the face of the unprecedented number of minors crossing the border in Texas, one that manifests itself in panic, falsehoods, sheer stupidity, and knee-jerk nativist hatred. In Lawrenceville, Virgina (population 1,300), residents recently pitched a fit when they found out…
It was not as though Lulu lacked manners. However! It was Cinco de Mayo, and sometimes a girl just . . . loses all self-control. When the front door swung open, Lulu took one look at the chaos inside the home and threw herself into the party. She went straight…
People keep driving the wrong way on Phoenix-area highways, and the Arizona Department of Transportation is going to see if signs do the trick.Just in the last two months, seven people have been killed by wrong-way drivers, and there were two more crashes caused by wrong-way drivers this week…
A sort of moral sickness has gripped this country in the face of the unprecedented number of minors crossing the border in Texas, one that manifests itself in panic, falsehoods, sheer stupidity, and knee-jerk nativist hatred. In Lawrenceville, Virginia (population 1,300), residents recently pitched a fit when they found out…
A Tucson-based company that plans to offer trips to near space announced that it successfully completed a test flight.World View, which plans to launch in 2016, says its balloon system went up 120,000 feet, or nearly 23 miles…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, who literally may end up in handcuffs this year depending on the outcomes of various criminal probes into his scummy activities, is using a photo of migrant children detained in Texas to raise money for his re-election campaign. In a mass e-mail sent out Tuesday…
Many residents of Yarnell who lost their homes in last year’s Yarnell Hill Fire have filed a lawsuit claiming the state’s forestry division was negligent in its handling of fire-fighting efforts.The lawsuit alleges that the Arizona State Forestry Division “unthinkingly and incompetently reacted to events.””It failed to devise and implement…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has released photographs of the Green Acres Boarding Facility, where 20 dogs died late last week.The dogs supposedly died from a lack of air conditioning, and several of the photos show the dead dogs arranged in a shed on the property…
More anonymous Internet comments made by state schools superintendent John Huppenthal have surfaced, and they aren’t pretty.Not that the previous comments were pretty, which included an explanation of how Franklin D. Roosevelt was responsible for the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler, and how food stamps recipients are “lazy…
An American Civil Liberties Union report on the militarization of police forces across the country spotlights “massive military-grade weapons caches” across police agencies in Arizona.”Arizona law enforcement, designed to serve and protect communities, is instead equipped to wage a war,” the report titled “War Comes Home” says…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the explanation given by the caretakers and owners of a Gilbert dog-boarding facility where 20 dogs died over the weekend “seems unreasonable.”The Sheriff’s Office initially described the dogs’ deaths at the Green Acres Boarding Facility as an accident, wherein a dog chewed through electrical wiring, killing…
For just $20, you can get a photo with Cesar Chavez.No, not the labor leader known for the “sí, se puede” tagline. We’re talking about former Republican Scott Fistler, who changed his name to Cesar Chavez as he attempts to run for Congress as a Democrat in Arizona’s 7th Congressional…
There are now six Republicans vying to be Arizona’s next governor, as Senator Al Melvin says he’s dropping out.Melvin released a statement saying he wasn’t going to be able to collect the 4,500 contributions of $5 needed to qualify for Clean Elections funding, a sum of $750,000…
