What fun we’ll have next year watching Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, one of Arizona’s sleaziest politicians, crash and burn. Indeed, Horne’s recent failure to silence the Arizona Public Integrity Alliance, which has been running TV ads critical of him, offers a preview of the vicarious pleasures to come in…
News production isn’t a perfect science, as evidenced by some of our fellow Fourth Estate-ers of Phoenix.From an accidental C-bomb, to racial insensitivity, to slow news days, to a guy who’s just makin’ it up, and more, we bring you the 10 worst local media moments of 2013:…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
Himanshu Patel, who spent about a decade managing the town of Florence, now is vying to become Cave Creek city manager. Patel is competing against Peter Jankowski, from Massachussetts, and James Palenick, from North Carolina, for the job. And Cave Creek town officials are expected to make a final decision…
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, it looks like we got the…
A study found that abuse of migrants by border authorities in this country is a “systemic problem.”Or maybe we should say, another study came to that conclusion…
Since the week of Thanksgiving, nearly 1,000 people around Arizona have been arrested for DUI by one of the DUI task forces around the state.These task forces operate from late November through the end of the year (as they have in previous years), and stats from the Governor’s Office of…
If it sounds like the viral story of a Pinal County man getting a lifetime ban from Walmart for price-matching is too good to be true, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office says that’s because it is.ABC 15, which ran the story this week of a man named Joe Cantrell, who…
Arizona State University was in the news often in 2013.Outside of academic achievements, ASU was highlighted for its battle against the party-school reputation, its renovations and expansions, as well as some athletic success. Check out our picks of the top 10 ASU stories of 2013:…
You mocked and didn’t answer the legitimate questions raised in a letter to you a couple of weeks ago, about the guy who didn’t see a rosy future for a Mexican-led America. The writer correctly referred to serious problems in the Hispanic community, such as poor academic performance and births…
Like most rich folks, deep-pockets Scottsdale developer George Johnson is good at getting his way. Maybe not all the time, but often enough. Earlier this year, when Johnson wanted the right to convey water to an as-yet-undeveloped area of Florence, he got it from the Florence Town Council, saying he…
The police detective who helped reveal the thousands of ignored Child Protective Services hotline calls revealed the apparent reasoning for the shelving of the cases in a month-old memo to Governor Jan Brewer.Gregory McKay, a Phoenix police detective who’s currently overseeing CPS’ Office Child Welfare Investigations, said CPS administrators’ designation…
Last week, we told you about how Sheriff Joe Arpaio was cutting back on inmate visitation at the county jails, just in time for the holidays, so a new video-visitation system could be installed.It turns out that the new video-visitation system will be the only way to visit with inmates…
A state fire supervisor asked the Granite Mountain Hotshots whether they could assist in Yarnell minutes before the 19-member crew left a burned-over safety zone along a mountain ridge and began its descent into a chaparral-choked box canyon where the men died in a firestorm…
More than 2,800 Arizonans picked out a health insurance plan last month through the federal marketplace established by Obamacare.In October, the first month the marketplace became available, just 739 Arizonans picked a plan, although well-publicized troubles with the healthcare.gov website kept people from completing the entire process…
Monday was a deadline set by federal Judge G. Murray Snow in the ACLU’s big racial-profiling case Melendres v. Arpaio for plaintiffs and defendants to submit lists of prospective candidates for the position of court-appointed monitor over the MCSO. This, assuming the two sides could not agree on a monitor…
Featuring threesome seekers, cokehead judges, hockey dads from hell and, quite naturally, Wells Fargo…
A convicted felon is accused of murdering a 14-year-old Claudia Ann Lucero, whose body was found in a Mesa dumpster on Friday.Mesa police announced the arrest of 31-year-old Alex Madrid, an ex-boyfriend of Lucero’s mother. Mesa Police Chief Frank Milstead said detectives believe Madrid sexually assaulted the girl and strangled…
Instead of waiting for the understaffed Child Protective Services to get around to looking into the ignored cases of abuse in Scottsdale, the police department announced that it’s going to help out.Of the 6,554 ignored reports to the CPS hotline, 143 occurred in Scottsdale, and the police department’s making a…
If you’re the type of person who still has faith in humanity, you probably haven’t seen the list of 27,438 custom license plates that have been rejected in Arizona.This list includes people who wanted to drive around every day with their license plates reading “BBYDCK,” “HOTNUTZ,” “VAGKING,” or one of…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has scheduled “community outreach meetings,” as ordered by a federal judge in the Melendres v. Arpaio civil rights case.According to the judge’s order, “The MCSO shall clarify for the public at these meetings that it does not enforce immigration laws except to the extent that…
Just because Arizona’s major sports teams haven’t made postseason runs this year doesn’t mean their weren’t some amazing moments.Between the Diamondbacks, Suns, Coyotes, Cardinals, and ASU, we have the top 10 moments in Arizona sports this year:…
