If you’ve been craving a dose of “Reefer Madness,” there’s still time to RSVP to Thursday’s annual conference of the central Arizona anti-drug organization MATForce. The public portion of the conference runs from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors auditorium, 205 West Jefferson Street. The…
Drought conditions are quite common in Phoenix, but don’t forget about the other drought: It’s been nearly two years since one of Phoenix’s pro sports teams in the four major sports has been in the playoffs.So far this year, the Arizona Cardinals, Phoenix Suns, and Phoenix Coyotes each finished their…
The number of Arizona parents choosing to not have their children vaccinated is increasing.Back in 2003, only 1.6 percent of kindergartners weren’t vaccinated due to a personal-belief or religious exemption. As of last school year, a decade later, that rate more than doubled, to 3.9 percent…
Professor Travis Pratt’s affair with a graduate student didn’t work out so well. The criminal-justice expert has agreed to settle the student’s lawsuit at the end of this month. He and his wife are no longer married. And he was fired from Arizona State University — on Valentine’s Day…
A woman who complained to US Airways received a shocking Twitter message in reply — a picture of a woman masturbating with a scale model of a Boeing 777. According to jalpoknik.com, the US Airways tweet with the X-rated photo remained up for more than 20 minutes before the company…
A fight Sunday night in a Phoenix diner between police officers and a berserk man on a destructive rampage ended when the man fell ill and died after he was tased four times. Police haven’t yet released the name of the 38-year-old white man, pending notification of his family…
First nativists and birthers, now Holocaust-deniers and anti-Semites? Yes, even for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, this jumps the proverbial shark. I’m talking about a recent interview Arpaio granted to Pennsylvania-based Holocaust-denier Victor Thorn, author of The Holocaust Hoax Exposed: Debunking the 20th Century’s Greatest Fabrication and Made in Israel: 9-11 and…
Not sure I’ll believe this until I see Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s geriatric scrawl on it, but reproduced at the bottom of this post is the so-called “corrective statement,” filed by the MCSO’s attorney Tim Casey in the ACLU’s big civil rights lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio. You’ll recall that on May…
Social-media websites like Facebook and Twitter may make it easier to connect with people, but they also make it easier to make an ass out of yourself in front of everyone.Here are 10 people who did just that, in what we’re calling the 10 worst social-media posts in Arizona history:…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered.Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
Of the 10 most-dangerous suburbs in America, two of them are suburbs of Phoenix.That’s according to the real estate website Movoto, which ranked Glendale as the seventh-most dangerous, and Tempe the eighth-most, based on FBI crime data…
A fake news report going viral on the Internet claims that teens are getting high by smoking crushed-up bedbugs. To the frustration of local, anti-substance-abuse speaker Shane Watson, the hoax uses video footage of him from the bogus report on dabbing by ABC 15 we told you about on Thursday…
The woman who chucked a shoe at Hillary Clinton during a speech in Las Vegas has been identified as a Phoenix resident.Police say 36-year-old Alison Michelle Ernst was the one who threw the shoe at Clinton, although Clinton was able to dodge it…
More people have been bringing their pets to Phoenix-area animal hospitals to treat marijuana ingestion, according to a local chain of animal clinics.According to the Emergency Animal Clinic — which owns five hospitals across Phoenix, the East Valley, and West Valley — there’s been a pretty sharp increase in such…
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.With this week’s offenders, you may want to…
The Arizona Legislature has passed a bill that would allow the state health department to search abortion clinics without an administrative warrant.The legislation, House Bill 2284, passed the House in March and got approval from the Senate yesterday by a 17-13 vote…
Anti-drug educator Shane Watson often thinks about his appearance in a viral ABC 15 news story about the “threat” of dabbing. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that for a short period of time, it ruined my life,” says Watson, who works for the local drug-prevention organization notMYkid. He’s not…
A person who flew into Phoenix last week brought measles with them.Maricopa County’s health department issued a warning saying people were probably exposed to the highly contagious disease…
Tomorrow is Arizona’s Tax Freedom Day, one of the most depressing ways to look at how much money you’re forking over to the government every year.Tax Freedom Day, developed by the Tax Foundation think tank, illustrates how long it takes Americans to earn enough money to pay a year’s worth…
Arizona still has the third-highest rate of uninsured children in the nation.However, that rate is dropping, and a report released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides some insight into what type of kids are getting insured…
Hussein Mohamed took a hard road to America. Born into a minority clan in a nation rife with ethnic conflict, the boyish 24-year-old with gangly limbs and intense brown eyes describes fleeing his village in Somalia in 2012 after gunmen threatened to kill him. Mohamed says he was forced to…
They’re called the Dream 9 — young men and women who were brought into the country when they were children but who returned to Mexico, their birthplace, and then attempted to re-enter the United States last summer. They didn’t cross under the cover of darkness. They didn’t hike for days…
