In an apparent case of better late than never, Phoenix police say a city parks and recreation department employee admitted to molesting three teenagers between 1995 and 1998.Arthur Rey Juarez, 42, was picked up by detectives on Saturday, the day before he had a “a scheduled activity with children on…
The head of the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office’s Asset Recovery Bureau, Peter Spaw, has admitted to working on a racketeering lawsuit he knew was unsupported by evidence. Yet the county attorney, Bill Montgomery, won’t say a word about it. Does the admission and potential two years’ probation of his law…
There’s no end to how Sheriff Joe Arpaio can spin anything for a bit of shameless self-promotion. In West Virginia Thursrday, Mingo County Sheriff Eugene Crum was shot while in his car on a lunch break. Moments later, and 1,950 miles away in Phoenix, this sad news is fed through…
Despite all the denials, the FLDS border towns of Colorado City and Hildale on the Utah/Arizona border still aren’t up to par on the American way of life.Even after recent reports of more horrific animal abuse (even more recently than we’d previously thought), and the reports that as many as…
Close to 1,000 people jammed the Painter’s Union Hall in Phoenix Thursday to hear the news that the recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio so far has scored more than half the signatures required to force a recall election on the octogenarian despot. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Has “Less Than…
The most interesting developments in the sensational trial of man-killer Jodi Arias this week had nothing to do with the boring, skepticism-inducing testimony by a domestic-violence expert. Two other key events had the public’s attention: The booting of Juror #5 from the jury panel and her subsequent return to the…
There’s no ballpark in Major League Baseball where you can get intoxicated for less money than at Phoenix’s own Chase Field.Fourteen ounces of beer at a Diamondbacks game is $4, which makes the Diamondbacks the cheap-beer champs, according to an annual report on baseball-game costs produced by a company called…
Three weeks after catching one examiner.com writer plagiarizing news stories, we stumbled upon another cut-and-paste offender: Kathleen Odenthal. We can’t help but wonder whether examiner.com, which calls itself a “dynamic entertainment, news and lifestyle network that serves more than 20 million monthly readers,” has a serious problem with plagiarism by…
A brilliant little gem from the makers of 9500 Liberty Believe it or not, once upon a time, Republicans were the ones fighting for the expansion of voting rights. Okay, so that was more than a century ago, following the Civil War. Still, it’s interesting to watch this short video…
If a 25-year-old guy asks a woman if he can date her 13-year-old daughter, there’s only one reasonable response — hell no, you may not.Jose Zarate apparently found this response so unreasonable that he killed the mother of the 13-year-old girl he was chasing, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s…
Yet again, the state of Arizona is the subject of one of Comedy Central’s “news” programs, this time thanks to Tucson gun advocates who are “standing up for guns.”This time, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart profiled the gun worshipers who are protesting the gun-buyback programs in Tucson, as well…
The Utah/Arizona border towns of Colorado City and Hildale reportedly are swarming with security cameras operated by the polygamist cities’ government.Reporters from the Salt Lake Tribune counted 29 cameras across the two towns but then were told there probably were 60 operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…
As a tease to an event tonight, Respect Arizona, the group seeking to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office, has announced that it has fewer than 200,000 valid signatures left to score, with less than two months before its May 30 deadline. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall: A Chance to…
The 15-year-old Tolleson girl charged with murder, as an adult, for allegedly shooting and killing her sister’s 17-year-old boyfriend has pleaded not guilty.Ladajianna Mosely — who was born in 1997 — told police she thought she had unloaded the .45-caliber handgun she and two others had just recently stolen after…
It took a couple minutes short of forever for the Arizona Diamondbacks to beat the St. Louis Cardinals last night/this morning at Chase Field.D-backs shortstop Cliff Pennington, who was acquired in the trade that shipped Chris Young off to Oakland, got the walk-off hit that scored Jason Kubel in the…
More than a year after Governor Jan Brewer claimed she outlawed the sale and use of the substances known as “bath salts,” and two years after she said the same of “spice,” Brewer now takes credit for signing a bill that’s supposed to “combat” bath salts and spice.Brewer says this…
I don’t expect a lot of Arizona Democrats to understand why I’m making such a big deal of the untimely passing of Jeff Vath, chief blogger and owner of the pugnacious, GOP-centric Politico Mafioso blog. After all, Vath was an uncompromising partisan who derided President Barack Obama, lionized U.S. Senator…
Please explain to me why so many mexicanas seem to think it more important to stay home and baby-sit than to attend school (so that they may become more in life than producers of offspring). As an educator (lately of students identified as “at risk” for failure in high school),…
After nearly 42 years in prison, Louis Taylor is adjusting to the world as a free man. Taylor cried Wednesday morning when talking about his new found liberation and says he took a hike and even ate some fast food to help him readjust to society. “I’m kind of overwhelmed,” he…
Only three other states in the U.S. of A. have higher “levels of gun violence” than Arizona, according to one report.Although magazines like Guns & Ammo congratulate Arizona for being “the best” state for gun owners — despite the fact that the magazine’s former editor shot and killed a man…
Kelly Wasko, one of three Valley women accused in the past few months of being a cancer faker, pleaded guilty to three charges related to her arrest.Wasko, a 41-year-old Gilbert resident, made about $12,000 after duping family and friends, who created a Facebook account to accept donations for Wasko’s imaginary…
Republicans seem to be getting VIP tours of the border lately to see how the border-crossing magic is made.First, Senator John McCain was on a tour of the border last week when he watched a woman hop right over that “danged” border fence, and now, a Republican congressman from Utah…
