Nineteen wildland firefighters are dead in the Yarnell Hill Fire, a blaze that’s forced the evacuation of dozens of homes in two Prescott-area towns and left the state grieving. The firefighters were caught in the fast-moving fire and forced to use their portable shelters, media reports say…
Teabagging state Senator Don Shooter has been charged with three misdemeanors for barging into a charter school while yelling his name and scolding a teacher. A city prosecutor in Yuma charged the senator with disorderly conduct, disruption of an educational institution, and criminal trespassing…
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 and early next week:…
Governor Jan Brewer’s fight to keep the partners of gay state employees from getting benefits is a losing battle for the governor, so far.The day after the Supreme Court made its decision to strike down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, the court decided to not review Brewer’s fight…
No doubt Attorney General Tom Horne and anyone who wants to see him re-elected in 2014 (read: his staff) is elated by the news that Horne’s alleged squeeze, Assistant Attorney General Carmen Chenal, has put in her notice and will be leaving her position come July 5. Where to? Apparently,…
The Arizona Diamondbacks avoided a sweep in Washington yesterday, as Didi Gregorius dropped a successful bunt to hit in the go-ahead run in the top of the 11th against the Nationals.The pitching match-up between the D-backs’ Patrick Corbin and the Nats’ Stephen Strasburg delivered on the hype, as both went…
Sometimes the “don’t do meth” advertisements seem to go a little overboard, but the alleged actions of Glendale resident Yousif Benyamin go to show that meth helps make a lot of things possible.Benyamin, 29, beats his pregnant girlfriend, her 5-year-old kid, and her cats, when things don’t go his way…
Try not to over-analyze the first-round pick of the Phoenix Suns last night, Maryland 7-footer Alex Len — he’s an upgrade to the team.The Suns picked Len fifth overall, in a draft where there was no certainty in who was being drafted in the early spots…
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, all of our alleged offenders would…
Paul LaBarre and Ernest McKay, principals of a former Mesa-based cable company, have each been sentenced to five years’ probation for selling pilfered DirecTV signals. The criminal convictions and sentencing, which included six-figure restitution orders, follow a 2010 judgment in a civil lawsuit requiring the two men and several co-defendants…
The U.S. Senate voted 68-32 yesterday to pass the comprehensive immigration-reform bill brought by the so-called “Gang of Eight.”The problem for proponents of this bill is that it needs approval from the House of Representatives, which doesn’t seem likely…
Former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy Timothy Abrahamson will serve 180 days in jail in North Dakota for a brutal and cowardly attack last year on his wife’s lover.Abrahamson was sentenced to one year, to serve 180 days, plus two years’ probation, restitution, and to undergo an assessment, says Tristan Van…
Today in Found at the Border: A woman was caught trying to smuggle a pound of meth into the United States by hiding the stash in her vagina, according to authorities.A federal complaint says agents noticed part of a broken condom hanging out of 31-year-old Claudia Ibarra’s pants as they…
The federal immigration-reform bill passed the Senate this afternoon, by a vote of 68-32.Obviously, Arizona’s Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, as members of the so-called “Gang of Eight,” voted in favor of the bill…
An FBI investigation into a missing-person case on the Yavapai-Apache Nation Indian Reservation turned into an investigation of an extremely gruesome murder.Investigators believe 35-year-old Mario Chagolla Jr., a non-tribal member who lives in Camp Verde, stabbed a Native American man to death before cutting off his head and limbs with…
An F-16 fighter jet crashed in a field near Luke Air Force Base Wednesday evening, but both pilots were able to eject themselves from the plane and avoid injury.According to an Air Force spokesman, the pilots “were conducting a routine training mission,” and the cause of the accident is under…
If you require more evidence that Phoenix Magazine’s July issue cover story on Sheriff Joe Arpaio — penned by former New Times staff writer and current Phoenix Magazine associate editor Niki D’Andrea — is a massive wad of journalistic fellatio, a trip to your local Fry’s grocery store will convince…
There’s no doubt that many people have been disappointed by an in-person meeting with someone they met online, but a Glendale man didn’t just meet up with someone who fudged their stats a little on their online profile.Instead, police say the man — who planned on meeting with a woman…
Arizona, New Mexico, and California are among the worst places in the country to subsidize solar and wind projects if better air quality is the goal, a new study says.The best bang for the buck in terms of improving public health, according to Carnegie Mellon University researchers, could be had…
After a stellar rookie season in 2012, Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Wade Miley has been more or less pretty bad this year. On Wednesday, he was refreshingly really good, but his team couldn’t muster any kind of offense and dropped its second consecutive game to the Washington Nationals. The 3-2…
After finishing this season with the crappiest record in the Western Conference, the Phoenix Suns are proud to announce that there are new logos for the team.If the starting lineup of Goran Dragic, Luis Scola, Jared Dudley, Michael Beasley, and Marcin Gortat just isn’t good enough for you, these new…
It has gotten to the point that the public is generally unfazed by Governor Jan Brewer’s monumental struggles with the English language.That includes earlier this week, when Brewer kind of expressed her support for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, and her press team spent the rest of the day…
