A Queen Creek man was arrested for an incident at a Walmart store in Mesa that included drunkenly driving an electric cart in the parking lot and swinging a knife at an employee, according to police.Jeremiah Kuczynski, 19, was just recently arrested in the March incident, which started with him…
Republican Senator Jeff Flake helped defeat amendment that called for an expansion of the federal background-check system for gun sales.Senator John McCain supported the amendment, as did two women who reportedly ended up being escorted out of the Senate — Patricia Maisch, who grabbed a gun magazine from Jared Loughner…
What do we need to do to make the güeros understand we come in peace? As Mexicans, we are from this great American continent as well, but in the average closed-minded English-speaking folks’ definition of “American,” it’s amusing to see they don’t understand what it really means. As in, unless…
The kid had it coming. That’s the impression conveyed by the press release from the Phoenix Police Department on the recent shooting death of 16-year-old Alexander Wilson by an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer. Wilson was cruising the west side with his friend Will Brown, 18, in a Chevy…
Something interesting was happening last Saturday during Country Thunder in Moonshine Willy’s women’s bathroom, because DPS officer Steven Svestka refused to leave it. Pinal County Sheriff’s Department received a call around 10 p.m. saying that Svestka, 41, was “being disorderly and refused to leave the women’s restroom area,” according to a…
After spending a year studying 156 penises in Uganda, researchers say male circumcision reduces bacteria on the penis, and perhaps is the reason why circumcision can protect men from contracting HIV.Scientists have been studying the relationship between circumcision and rates of HIV for more than two decades, and this study…
Republican Senator John McCain announced today his support for an amendment that calls for an expansion of the federal background-check system for gun sales, an amendment that’s specifically being targeted for defeat by the National Rifle Association.According to all the newspapers in Washington, the so-called “Manchin-Toomey amendment” is likely headed…
Police say the man who shot at a group of people attending a birthday party in Phoenix this weekend, killing two people, admitted to doing just that.One of the men killed in Carlos Rodriguez’s drive-by shooting was the birthday boy, 18-year-old Jason Acosta-Ramos…
A 17-year-old Peoria girl has joined her mother and brother as a murder defendant.Alysa Gibson is now the third family member arrested in the murder of her father, Steve Gibson, who was killed at his Peoria home about six weeks ago.See also:-Steve Gibson of Peoria Killed by Teenage Hitman Hired…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: The Arizona Diamondbacks lost a hard-fought battle at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx Tuesday night due to a pitching fiasco on their part and epic homers by the home team. No, this is not a rerun from 2001. That said, the D-backs’…
Gilbert resident Jamison Eaton shouted racial slurs at Hispanic day laborers outside a Phoenix Home Depot store as he chased them with a baseball bat, according to police.Eaton, 30, was seen by “several independent witnesses” chasing the laborers near the store, and out into traffic on McDowell Road near 75th…
As our colleague Ray Stern pointed out yesterday, it was not even a year ago that Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk declared the feds would shut down every medical-marijuana dispensary in Arizona “as it opens.”Stern called bull on Polk’s claims at the time, and as you can tell at this…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is gettin’ real popular with some in the pro-immigration reform crowd. Never mind that he collaborates with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in prosecuting undocumented workers, while ignoring those who hire them. See also: -Bill Montgomery’s Victims Rot in Jail, While Arizona Republic Praises His Hypocrisy on…
Above is the video clip we referenced Monday, the one in which Sheriff Joe Arpaio successfully used the explosions at the Boston Marathon for some attention on Fox News.”They’re even after the sheriff here,” Arpaio told Fox’s Neil Cavuto.See also:-Boston Marathon Explosions: Fox News Goes Straight to Clueless Joe Arpaio-Boston…
An outline of the immigration bill formed by the “Gang of Eight” — which includes Arizona’s Republican Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake — has been released.There’s a whole lot of stuff in this outline, including some of the more specific details on immigration law, but it includes sections on…
A look at court and police records shows a fuller portrait of Alexander Wilson, a kid shot by a DPS officer more than a week ago at a west Phoenix Chevron gas station. A press release sent to Valley media says Wilson was wanted on a warrant for armed robbery,…
Steven Craig Shiflet, the Mesa resident who admitted to starting the near-18,000-acre Sunflower Fire in the Tonto National Forest last year with an “incendiary shotgun shell,” was sentenced Monday to probation.Shiflet fired the shell during a bachelor party in the desert near Sycamore Creek on May 12, and the fire…
Most of the time, things don’t work out like they do in action movies, which apparently came as a surprise to 18-year-old Luis Cardenas this morning.Cardenas, who allegedly started a car chase with the Phoenix PD a little before 1:30 a.m. today, ended up driving to Scottsdale and onto a…
Now, a news flash from inside the stultifying atmosphere of the Arizona Republic’s editorial bubble: Hypocrisy is a good thing. Particularly as practiced by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery. See also: -Joe Arpaio, Bill Montgomery Lose Again: Undocumented Worker Found “Not Guilty” -Bill Montgomery’s Deaf Victim Diana Blanco Honored by…
For what it’s worth, the biggest name in women’s basketball was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury Monday.Baylor’s Brittney Griner was taken with the first overall pick in the WNBA draft, meaning she’s probably unlikely to be drafted by the pathetic Phoenix Suns…
Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk announced in dramatic fashion last July that federal authorities would shut down every medical-marijuana dispensary in Arizona “as it opens.” Polk made the bad prediction in a letter she penned and sent to the governor after getting several other county attorneys to sign it. We…
While TV news programs around the country played footage of the explosions at the Boston Marathon, and interviewed witnesses and people with knowledge of the situation, Fox News rolled with a clueless county sheriff from 2,500 miles away.Of course, Arpaio used the setup for shameless self-promotion: “They’re even after the…
