Peoria PD is looking for an arsonist with a grudge against a beauty school. A fire broke out Wednesday night around 11 in the 11000 block of North 99th Avenue and destroyed the school and several other buildings beside it in the strip mall…
Governor Jan Brewer has signed a bill into law that’s supposed to cut down on the number of photo-radar cameras in the state, which probably won’t happen.See, according to House Bill 2477, a city or town can’t put a photo-radar system on a state highway . . . unless it…
Here’s something that’s totally normal: You can follow America’s favorite murder defendant on Twitter. Seriously.There aren’t too many tweets up there, but the story associating Arias with this account seems to check out.See also:-Psycho Killer: Jodi Arias’ Kinky Death-Penalty Trial…
Michael Cohn, the 61-year-old Scottsdale resident accused of murdering his wife Linda inside their North Scottsdale home on March 27, has pleaded not guilty.Of course, that’s just his plea. Cohn told a 911 dispatcher that day, “I just killed my wife.”See also:-Michael Cohn’s “I Just Killed My Wife” 911 Call…
Based on the cops’ account, 64-year-old Eugene Maraventano’s alleged murder of his wife and son were pathetic.Not only did Maraventano allegedly stab both of them to death for extraordinarily poor reasons, but he also tried unsuccessfully for the next four days to kill himself.See also:-Eugene Maraventano Thought He Gave His…
We’re in state testing this week at the high school where I teach. After the students finish a section, they can only sit and read or just sit. I did an experiment: I chose the cholo-est, tatted, pierced non-reader and dropped your book on their desk. Students who never read…
On a day in November, a cadre of African-Americans assemble at the First Institutional Baptist Church to discuss the uncertain future of black leadership in Phoenix. Crisis hangs in the air. They ponder how to hang on to the Phoenix City Council seat in District 8, which has been a…
The only thing surprising about how Governor Jan Brewer’s flunkies forced Colonel Joey Strickland to resign from his post as director of the Arizona Department of Veterans Services is that people are surprised by it. We’re talking about “GED Jan” here. She’s governor only because HighGround Public Affairs’ Chuck Coughlin…
Arizona has a different reality for the undocumented than in most parts of the country. So there are different demands the pro-immigrant community should make on the U.S. Congress in regards to comprehensive immigration reform, if any positive effect is to be felt soon in Sand Land. See also: -Jan…
Tuesday night, Warren Stewart’s campaign says it logged a first in Phoenix politics — a town hall where participants called in and asked questions, listened to a few stump speeches, and voted on a few questions asked by the moderators. Stewart is seeking a seat on the Phoenix City Council,…
With his two home runs this afternoon, outfielder A.J. Pollock doubled his career total and drove in four runs to power the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 10-2 drubbing of the Pittsburgh Pirates at Chase Field. The D-backs struck quickly, scoring three runs in each of the first two innings. The…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks introduced — again — legislation on Tuesday that, if signed into law, effectively would prevent the Tohono O’odham Nation from building a casino in the West Valley. There are a few bits about H.R. 1410, this latest bill, that are worth pointing out. See also: Trent…
Andrew Kent, who police say admitted to his frat friends and to the father of a victim that he threw a bottle of Everclear into a bonfire that burned two women at a party, pleaded not guilty this morning to throwing said booze into fire. The two women burned by…
Border Patrol Agent Aaron Anaya, who said he was “fucked” after getting caught smuggling about 147 pounds of marijuana into the United States while on the job, was more or less correct in his assessment.Anaya signed a plea agreement today that will send him to prison for five years.See also:-Border…
Haven’t been paying attention to the Phoenix Suns this year? Don’t worry, one play from Tuesday night’s game against the Houston Rockets is all you need to know about to have a clear picture of how this season is going.That play involved Suns center Jermaine O’Neal getting called for goaltending…
Arizona Democratic Congressman Ron Barber wants members of Congress to “share the pain” with federal employees who’ve seen a reduction in pay or will be threatened with a reduction in pay due to budget cuts.This “pain” apparently would be felt under Barber’s proposal of a 20 percent reduction of Congress…
The Phoenix woman accused of shoving a vibrator into her 2-year-old son’s anus has pleaded not guilty to charges in the case. The vibrator had to be surgically removed. Rickesha Burns, 21, called police almost two weeks ago, reporting that her son was bleeding from his anus but said she…
Right-hander Brandon McCarthy has not exactly been awesome in his first two starts with the Arizona Diamondbacks.McCarthy gave up six runs, four of them earned, in his start Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Chase Field, which proved to be an insurmountable total for D-backs hitters, who posted five runs…
Policing the FLDS towns of Colorado City and Hildale on the Utah/Arizona border could become with a new $420,000 for taxpayers.Attorney General Tom Horne’s funding for the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to patrol the area is running dry, after a bill that attempts to deal with the situation in Colorado…
Eugene Maraventano, a 64-year-old Goodyear resident, told police this weekend that he stabbed his wife and son to death and failed to kill himself after multiple tries over the course of the next four days.”I killed my wife and I killed my son; I can’t kill myself,” Maraventano told a…
Breitbart.com, founded by the late Andrew Breitbart, made an unsurprising move this morning by publishing an article about the recall effort against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, effectively soliciting donations for the pro-Joe forces.What is surprising, however, is writer Warner Todd Huston’s revisionist explanation of Arpaio’s sex-crimes debacle. Actually, it’s more gross…
A twitter pic posted by Mario E. Diaz touting that ex-mayor Phil Gordon and Ellisa Mullany, Gordon’s ex-girlfriend/fundraiser, are part of the “money team” for Pastor Warren Stewart’s campaign is raising eyebrows in some political circles. An interesting political tactic, to say the least, given the pair — Gordon and…
