The wildfire that started Tuesday afternoon just north of Sedona, near Slide Rock State Park, is up to about 7,500 acres.The firefighting effort, which now involves more than 800 people, has so far been able to keep the fire west of State Route 89A, which has been one of the…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where one police department will be setting up a sobriety checkpoint and other departments will be operating “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
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 bring you our second edition…
Governor Jan Brewer has called a special session of the legislature to deal with the creation of the Department of Child Safety, which is replacing Child Protective Services.Brewer made the announcement today, and also released the details of her bill to reform CPS…
Cox Communications is establishing super-fast Internet service in the Phoenix area with speeds on par with Google Fiber.The announcement from Cox comes just a few months after Google announced it planned to offer gigabit broadband service, which Google has billed as “100 times faster than today’s basic broadband.”…
The wildfire that started Tuesday afternoon just north of Sedona, near Slide Rock State Park, has grown to 4,500 acres.The fire was about one-tenth that size 24 hours earlier…
House Republicans in Washington have blocked a vote on a bill that would allow certain undocumented immigrants to serve in the military, and the Pentagon is reportedly considering doing that without congressional approval.The idea’s apparently not agreeable to everyone, but at least one undocumented immigrant has served in the military…
I’m a half-mexicana, half-gabacha working as an appointment scheduler in a medical office. I’m one of a handful of schedulers there who speak Spanish. I’ve noticed in the years I’ve been working in this field that about seven to eight times out of 10, when a Spanish-speaking patient calls, gets…
As Tom Horne’s zombie-like re-election campaign staggers forth, a question remains: Who will chop off its head? Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s bizarre relationship with women is best described by ex-AG staffer Sarah Beattie, the 26-year-old who has deluged both state and federal authorities with physical evidence demonstrating that Horne…
As Tom Horne’s zombie-like re-election campaign staggers forth, a question remains: Who will chop off its head? Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s bizarre relationship with women is best described by ex-AG staffer Sarah Beattie, the 26-year-old who has deluged both state and federal authorities with physical evidence demonstrating that Horne…
Cacti are taken very seriously in Arizona.Scottsdale police arrested a 16-year-old Gilbert boy yesterday for cutting the arm off a cactus in Pinnacle Peak Park…
President Obama says the inspector general looking into allegations that 40 veterans died waiting for care at the Phoenix VA hospital does not see a link between the wait times and the veterans’ deaths.Obama made a statement this morning about the state of various investigations into wait times at VA…
A wildfire started yesterday afternoon just north of Sedona, near Slide Rock State Park.The “Slide Fire” was estimated to be 400 to 450 acres as of about 7:30 p.m. yesterday, according to information provided by the Forest Service…
Do you want to dig up dirt on your new boyfriend, local politician or the business begging for your money and time? If you live in Maricopa County or elsewhere in Arizona, we’ve got a few awesome and mostly free online resources for you:…
Researchers at Arizona State University found in a study of teenagers that overweight teens had an average of one fewer friend than non-overweight teens.Additionally, when the kids were asked to make a list of their closest friends, non-overweight teens chose more non-overweight friends, whereas overweight kids weren’t as discriminatory on…
The Arizona Department of Transportation is releasing more of the “clean air — blue skies” license plates, which allow drivers to be in the HOV lane solo at any time.When the plates first rolled out in 2007, pretty much any vehicle using an alternative energy source could get the plate,…
The field of Democrats to replace retiring Congressman Ed Pastor in Congressional District 7 just got a little less crowded.State Senator Steve Gallardo announced that he’s going to run for a spot on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors instead of a seat in Congress…
Out of the largest metro areas in the country, the Phoenix metro area is one of the most dangerous for pedestrians.Recently released National Highway Traffic Safety Administration statistics show Phoenix is near the top in pedestrian deaths, but that’s partly because Phoenix is one of the biggest cities in the…
Seven people have been killed by wrong-way drivers on highways around Phoenix over the last week, and highway-safety officials held an “emergency meeting” to discuss the issue.While there’s no one solution to the problem, it was just last year that the Arizona Department of Transportation tested out some systems to…
A Tempe woman is accused of making her boyfriend’s 3-year-old daughter eat her own feces as punishment.Nicole Candelaria, 28, denied the claim, but the girl’s two siblings corroborated the story to police, according to court documents obtained by New Times…
A Chandler police officer is on paid leave for allegedly showing up to a job while he was impaired.Officer Lonnie Morris, 53, arrived to an extra-duty job at a Chandler church, and was arrested on a DUI charge after police were contacted…
If you’ve traveled through rural areas of Arizona, chances are you’ve seen an anti-Obama, anti-government, or generally conspiracy-theory-based billboard on someone’s property.What you may never see, however, is a pro-Obama billboard, which is what appears to have been erected along Interstate 40 in northeastern Arizona…
