One of the two Phoenix police detectives who was shot earlier this week has been released from the hospital.Detective John Hobbs, 43, died on Monday after being shot by 28-year-old William Thornton. Police Chief Daniel Garcia announced today that the other detective who was shot, 37-year-old Albert Casados, has been…
Yet another new Arizona abortion law has resulted in a lawsuit.The latest lawsuit, filed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Center for Reproductive Rights, alleges a new regulation that restricts how medicated abortions are administered is unconstitutional.David Brown, a staff attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, says…
To read all the fake outrage spewed by schoolmarmish lefties over state Representative John Kavanagh’s skewering of Sheriff Joe Arpaio during a recent roast of the aged autocrat, you’d think Kavanagh had shot a Mexican man in Reno just to watch him die. Don’t get me wrong, I take a…
Sitting in the Senate Caucus room with a handful of reporters a week and a half after he delivered a rousing speech to activists protesting against an anti-gay measure at the Capitol, state Senator Steve Gallardo says it’s time to announce his sexual orientation. “I’m gay, I’m a Latino, and…
The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Monday in support of the continued jailing and prosecution of marijuana users. Influenced by Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk, a staunch marijuana foe, the 4-0 vote for a resolution in favor of prohibition was calculated to help derail planned legalization efforts…
The Arizona Democratic Party is publicly calling for state Treasurer Doug Ducey to fire lobbyist Cathi Herrod as a policy adviser for Ducey’s gubernatorial campaign.Herrod, president of the Center for Arizona Policy, has become a popular target for local lefties recently because of her push for passage of controversial Senate…
Arizonans appear to be helping Mexican tourism make a comeback.After tourism plunged in 2009, American traveler rates to Mexico have been steadily climbing each year. But local travel agencies are noticing a significant increase recently in the number of people traveling south of the border…
The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to allow the state health department to conduct warrantless searches of abortion clinics, among other things.This comes less than a week after Governor Jan Brewer vetoed Senate Bill 1062, pointing out that it had nothing to do with her legislative priorities,…
The Chandler Police Department has released the surveillance video from a fatal shooting that took place inside a Walmart two weeks ago.Kriston Belinte-Chee, 36, was shot and killed by 25-year-old Cyle Quadlin on February 16 after the two got into an argument at the service counter that escalated into a…
For the second month in a row, pollsters have found that Arizonans don’t really know who they’d like to see as their next governor.In results released today, Public Policy Polling found the leader in the GOP primary to be “undecided,” at 34 percent. The leading GOP candidate is Secretary of…
A humorous TV ad featuring a back-alley sushi dealer is getting called the first commercial promoting marijuana ever to run on “mainstream” television. Cable mega-company Comcast signed a deal with MarijuanaDoctors.com to start airing the ad for two weeks in New Jersey on Fox, CNN, A&E, and other cable networks…
The National Parks Service estimates that communities near Arizona’s national parks lost out on about $27 million in visitor spending when the federal government entered a shutdown in October.The NPS report estimates that $17 million of the lost visitor spending in Arizona was a result of the Grand Canyon’s closure…
According to one nationally recognized expert in correctional medicine, medical care in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s vast incarceration complex is not just potentially hazardous to the health of pretrial detainees and jail staff, but to that of the general public. Dr. Robert Cohen, a member of New York City’s Board of…
Bill Montgomery has been stymied in two separate cases of medical-marijuana patients who possessed small amounts of concentrated marijuana. Records show that the Republican county attorney will continue to try to saddle one of the valid patients with a felony conviction. But before we tell you about the patient, we…
One week, the majority of the Arizona House of Representatives demands greater religious protections, even if it means allowing potential discrimination against others.The next week, an atheist leads the House in prayer…
Two Phoenix police detectives were shot while chasing a fugitive, authorities say.The shooter was killed at the scene, near 43rd Avenue and Bethany Home Road…
The National Weather Service has confirmed that a “small tornado” touched down in Mesa over the weekend.According to the NWS, the tornado took a hot tub about a mile west of downtown Mesa, and several people reported watching the hot tub spinning over an apartment complex before it landed upside…
Stay out of the race for retiring Congressman Ed Pastor’s seat in Congressional District 7 — that’s the message that more than a dozen Latino community leaders and business owners sent today to Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema. A flurry of hopefuls announced their interest or intention to run for the CD7…
The percentage of money that Arizona school districts are spending on actual classroom instruction hit a new low in 2013.The Arizona Auditor General has been monitoring this figure only since 2001, but Arizona districts spent less than 54 percent of their available operating dollars in the classroom in 2013 –…
Two former detectives fired from the Florence Police Department received good news from the officials at the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training. AZ POST, the body that certifies police officers to carry a badge and a gun, informed both police officers in February that the state board is not…
A Laveen-based group shipped nearly two tons of pot through the U.S. Mail in the past three years, a federal indictment states. Oneil Watson (a.k.a. Richard Powell), was indicted on Friday, and Kerry Ann Hoo, Marlon Powell, Albert Kelly, Rebekah Robertson and Priscilla Zuniga were indicted on February 25th in…
A 1-year-old boy spent Friday night in a stranger’s backyard after apparently being abandoned there by his mother, according to police.The residents of the home, near 57th Avenue and Indian School Road, thought there was a stray cat making noise in their backyard all night, police say. When they took…
