Senator Jeff Flake has changed his explanation of why he didn’t support an amendment to expand background checks for gun purchases and apparently is willing to vote for expanding background checks.Flake’s stance has been confusing, but Flake has offered up a scenario in which he’d vote for the amendment he…
While the jury is still considering Jodi Arias’ fate for killing Travis Alexander, we have some insight on what’s going on in her head.It’s easy, really, because she’s a nationally known murder defendant with a friggin’ Twitter account, and one of the few words that accurately describes Arias’ posts would…
Kelly Wasko, one of several Valley women recently arrested for a cancer-faking scheme, will be spending some time in prison.Wasko, a 41-year-old Gilbert resident, was sentenced this morning to 18 months in prison for collecting donations through Facebook to treat her fake cancer.See also:-Kelly Wasko, Gilbert Woman Who Faked Cancer…
Steve Carpenter has resigned as a deputy from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office following accusations that he helped another deputy in a plan to assault a North Dakota man. No allegation ever surfaced that Carpenter helped former deputy Tim Abrahamson pummel West Fargo resident Jason Swart, who’d had an affair…
Paul Goldschmidt and the rest of the Arizona Diamondbacks crushed the Los Angeles Dodgers last night in L.A., 9-2.Goldschmidt went 4-for-5 with a homer and three RBI, as Trevor Cahill pitched seven full innings, giving up both of the Dodgers’ runs…
Abengoa, the Spanish renewable-energy giant, will build a $110 million garbage-to-electricity plant in Glendale for Chicao’s VIESTE Energy, Abengoa announced Monday. The plant, which will be sited at the Glendale Municipal Landfill, 11480 West Glendale Avenue, will convert about 180,000 tons of sorted trash (including plastics) annually, an Abengoa news…
Shannon Liska says her pitbull Trax didn’t deserve to be shot by a U.S. Forest Service officer while on a camping trip in March. Shannon Liska’s 2-year-old pitbull still has a bullet shard in its snout. The dog is now toothless on one side of his mouth, and doesn’t have enough jaw…
People who wish to turn over guns to their local governments to have them destroyed won’t have that option in a few months.Governor Jan Brewer recently signed the bill that prevents the government destruction of guns obtained in buyback programs, as the City of Phoenix and Phoenix Police Department just…
Tim Abrahamson, a former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputy, pleaded guilty today to assaulting his wife’s lover in North Dakota. He faces up to five years in prison when he’s sentenced on June 27th, says Cass County prosecutor Tristan Van de Streek. Meanwhile, Deputy Steve Carpenter, Abrahamson’s apparent accomplice in…
Lisa Allen certainly knows the answer to the question she posed in a letter to the editor published in Saturday’s Arizona Republic. Click here to read Lisa Allen’s letter to the editor. In the letter, the longtime spokeswoman for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio congratulates the Phoenix Police Department for…
A Mesa resident got an unexpected visitor to his apartment Saturday night — Derrick McDonald, who police say walked into the apartment to scream about being eaten by (likely imaginary) cats.For some reason, Mesa police officers are inclined to believe that McDonald may have ingested some sort of illicit drug…
Phoenix police estimate that more than 800 guns were turned in during this weekend’s buyback event, billed as being the biggest gun-buyback event in the history of Arizona.Those guns will all be destroyed, since the new law preventing the destruction of guns turned over during buyback events in Arizona won’t…
The Peoria PD arrested Matthew Pape two days ago after he allegedly — and from what witnesses say and what’s indicated in the police report, accidentally — killed his friend while play-fighting at a bar, police say. About 10 p.m. Friday, Pape, 39, and his friend, David Witmer, 45, were…
Abdullatif Aldosary — the Iraqi refugee accused of detonating an “explosive device” outside the Social Security Administration building in Casa Grande in November — apparently will be charged in a murder that occurred just days before the bombing.Orlando Requena, 26, was working the overnight shift at Arizona Grain in Maricopa…
Not that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and friends haven’t looked desperate to avoid a recall election throughout this entire process, but these Phoenix billboards definitely have the distinct scent of desperation.It was just a couple of weeks ago that Feathered Bastard wrote about Arpaio apologist John Philip Sousa IV and his…
The Arizona Republic somehow has found it reasonable to give a platform to recalled Senate President Russell Pearce, and in Pearce’s op-ed piece this morning, he says he wants to be known for his stance on gun rights.Perhaps, just perhaps, Pearce isn’t the guy to trust on gun “freedom,” as…
The jury in the Jodi Arias murder trial huddled at 9 a.m. this morning on its big decision following about an hour of deliberations on Friday. The panel’s decision will be announced about an hour or less after it’s made, court staff tells us this morning. Whether individual jury members…
Congressman Ed Pastor has joined Congressman Trent Franks’s efforts to block the Tohono O’odham Nation from building a casino in the West Valley. We called his office to ask why he supported HR 1410, the proposed law, tailor-made for the Gila River Indian Community, an Indian tribe with the West…
The Arizona Diamondbacks missed an opportunity over the weekend to keep pace with the suddenly surging San Francisco Giants in the National League West. As the Giants won their sixth-straight game Sunday, the D-backs lost their second of three to the San Diego Padres, the presumptive division doormat. For the…
New Hampshire Republican State Representative Stella Tremblay wants Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Cold Case Posse” — which she calls one of the only “unbiased” groups out there — to investigate a potential government cover-up of the Boston bombing.Arpaio, who is unqualified to investigate the validity of President Obama’s birth…
Monty’s head nearly explodes as he’s challenged by Carlos Garcia of Puente Kudos to Carlos Garcia and his fellow activists at Puente for again confronting Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on his policy of overcharging undocumented workers so as to make them ineligible for bail, coercing a guilty plea that…
A Phoenix woman is facing a felony charge for allegedly squeezing a cop’s scrotum — and not in an attempted-bribery kind of way.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Colleen Fellin, 30, was standing in the middle of Indian School Road near 20th Avenue around 4 p.m. last Friday,…
