The failure of the Jodi Arias jury to agree on the death penalty sparked thousands of tweets and comments to various blogs and news sites. While many would prefer to see the vicious, calculating killer fry, we thought we’d check out one blog site that caters to Arias’ supporters and…
Jury members in the Jodi Arias case wrapped up nearly five months of work today, causing a mistrial due to their failure to reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty. Some women jurors were crying and one even said “sorry” to the family of slaying victim Travis Alexander, according…
He’s baaaaack. Conservative activist and former state lawmaker Greg Patterson has cranked up his controversial “Espresso Pundit” blog again, but has sworn off covering university issues because of his position as a state Board of Regents member. Patterson let his popular news-and-opinion blog go dark for a year after he…
Photo courtesy of Mercy for AnimalsOne of the nearly 3,000 pigs at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The far mis a supplier for Hatfield Quality Meats, which is sold in twelve Northeastern states.This week’s story, “The Ag Gag War,” goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between…
Ninety percent of medical-marijuana cardholders didn’t qualify for nothing but “chronic and severe pain,” as Channel 5’s Morgan Loew reported last week, the director of the Arizona Department of Health Services told us this morning. New Times writer Matthew Hendley wrote several articles recently about Loew’s May 15 report on…
Medical-marijuana cardholders can be prosecuted when they possess too much weed or do something else that falls outside the boundaries of state law, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled last week. It sounds like a no-brainer — break the law, you could be prosecuted. But the voter-approved 2010 Medical Marijuana…
A few short years ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer became the hero of most conservatives and the villain to most liberals when she signed the anti-Mexican SB1070 bill into law. Now, with Brewer possibly staking her legacy — as USA Today put it recently — on the Medicaid fight, she’s…
Like many Americans, I’ve heard about the “Fast and Furious” scandal, in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels. Now, if I say any more, I might be talking about facts that I don’t know,…
It took nine months of incarceration in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s notorious Estrella Jail, but what should have happened in August of last year, happened just recently in the case of Luz Ruiz Rascon, mother of two U.S.-citizen children, one of whom suffers from leukemia. You may recall from my February…
The Phoenix Police Department released a report Wednesday on the shooting death of 22 year-old Zachariah Pithan by a Phoenix Police Officer on April 20, an incident the report characterizes as “justifiable homicide.” See also: -Did Phoenix Police Need to Kill Zachariah Pithan? According to the report, four officers were…
After losing a tough game Tuesday in extra innings, the Arizona Diamondbacks could muster very little offense the Colorado Rockies’ Jorge de la Rosa, losing 4-1 Wednesday afternoon and dropping two of three in the series. The loss gives the D-backs and Rockies the same 26-21 record heading into weekend…
No one’s currently willing to blow a minimum of $50,000 on a plane that acted as Air Force One at at least one occasion, and has been sitting at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport for a while.The General Services Administration auction was supposed to last for two weeks, but the auction…
The actions of Republican State Representative Steve Smith have provided us with the reason why Democratic Representative Juan Mendez’s God-free invocation at the House Representatives yesterday was such an unlikely event.Today, Smith led the House in a second prayer, apparently his way of saying sorry to the man upstairs about…
The jury in the Jodi Arias case announced just before noon today that they can’t reach a unanimous decision on whether Arias should be executed. Maricopa County Judge Sherry Stephens sent the jury back to try again. Under Arizona law, the jury will be dismissed and a new jury convened…
Just watched the interview of Jodi Arias by Mark Curtis of Channel 12 (KNXV-TV), Troy Hayden of Channel 10 (KSAZ-AZ) and Ryan Owens of ABC News. In what may be one of the last TV interviews of Arias, since prison interviews aren’t normally allowed, Curtis and Hayden — who’d been…
A 78-year-old woman who thought she put her Toyota SUV into park outside a Mesa fabric store yesterday was incorrect, and ended up driving quite a distance into the store, hitting three people…
Democratic State Representative Juan Mendez’s God-free invocation at the House Representatives yesterday, as first reported by New Times, is attracting nationwide attention.If you want to see the video of Mendez’s invocation, check it out after the jump:See also:-Atheist Lawmaker Quotes Carl Sagan Instead of Doing Prayer Before House Session…
The Arizona Diamondbacks scored a quartet of runs in a single inning to rally back from an 0-4 deficit last night, but it wasn’t enough to defeat the Colorado Rockies. The D-backs fell to their National League West foes 5-4 in the 10th inning after Rox catcher Wilin Rosario’s base…
The jury in the Jodi Arias trial will continue deliberating this morning about whether the murderer should be executed.Arias, always the drama queen, changed her talking points while addressing the jury yesterday, as she pleaded with the jury to let her live — despite previously saying she would “prefer to…
Please see update below. Former Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez’s camp is partying tonight, celebrating what they believe may be a win over incumbent town Mayor Yolanda Solarez. See also: -Guadalupe made it clear that Joe Arpaio’s attacking anyone with brown skin -Joe Arpaio’s Nemesis Rebecca Jimenez, Guadalupe’s Once and Perhaps…
The Phoenix Police Department’s SWAT team rammed a house Tuesday morning with a giant truck, trying to storm the home after 32-year-old Israel Celis Sr. allegedly kidnapped his own child and beat his wife in a hotel room. An Amber Alert that set off a nearly 12-hour chase and standoff ended Tuesday morning…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery has given his response to a federal appeals court ruling Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban, and it’s about as dramatic as the programming for the Lifetime TV network.”The ruling is disappointing in that it permits the Kermit Gosnells of the country to continue their grisly operations…
