The 26-year-old Tempe man arrested in the murder of former ASU football player Tyrice Thompson pleaded not guilty this morning.MacDonald, a Marine who has a “top security clearance” — at least, according to his lawyer — is accused of stabbing Thompson outside the Martini Ranch bar in Scottsdale on January…
Gary Noel set fire to his wife’s house Saturday morning, and Noel says it’s because his wife left him for a woman.As far as the fire is concerned, Noel claims, “The bitch deserved it,” as he killed his estranged wife’s cat in the process…
It’s 1:30 p.m., and Monday’s lunch recess has just ended. Jodi Arias has re-taken the witness stand and casts a mellow gaze toward the defense side of the courtroom as she waits for the jury to file in. The afternoon session begins with a long attorney sidebar at the bench…
A Phoenix man with a history of domestic-violence-by-biting pleaded guilty late last week to the 2011 murder of his girlfriend, whose body was found beaten and bitten in a pickup truck.Paul Hamilton pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, as well as kidnapping and threatening, as police said at the time that…
Last week, we sifted through the archives of the Colbert Report, and found some of the best Arizona-based clips in the show’s history.As was the case with the Colbert Report’s comedy-news counterpart, the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, there were plenty of segements to choose from.See also:-Arizona’s Top 10 Appearances…
Arizona prisons are notorious reservoirs of criminal behavior, and apparently that’s just the staff. No joke. Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan admits as much in a recent post to his “Director’s Desk” blog, wherein he states that “in the past four and a half years, there have been…
Willems pumps up the alter kockers with his doomsday scenario, talk of spies in the other camp, and a plan to “block” voters from signing the recall petition As promised in this week’s column, above is the audio of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems speaking to the pro-Joe…
The joke’s on Arizona so much that we had to separate the state’s best appearances on Comedy Central “news” shows into two lists.Last week, we brought you some of the best Arizona-themed segments from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Now, we’ve gone through the Colbert Report’s archives, to bring…
Unless someone’s familiar with a Nogales-area establishment that sells chicken and meth in the same bucket, we’ll have to rely on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s claim that it busted a smuggling attempt.Yes, the preferred method of smuggling in this attempt apparently was to hide multiple pounds of meth inside…
The buckled pavement on U.S. Route 89 outside of Page, which was shown in almost-unbelievable photos released on Wendesday, was likely caused by a landslide.Aside from the highway just looking dangerous, one of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s engineers says the guardrail to the side of this pavement “drops off…
What are the chances that a lawyer who was found by a court to have “inappropriately touched” children would try to stop the recall of a county sheriff whose agency failed to properly investigate more than 400 sex crimes?This is quite the, um, coincidence, as we stumbled across a judgment…
Josh Booty has won the strange MLB Network reality television competition show in which former college quarterbacks battle to see who can throw the best knuckleball and earn the chance to pitch for the Arizona Diamondbacks during the team’s spring training.We’re not sure how we didn’t see this coming, but…
After more than 100 years of searching, nobody’s been able to find the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine, which is supposed to be located in the Superstition Mountains.We bring this up because one of the most recent unsuccessful gold hunters, Robin Byrd, had to be plucked out by a search-and-rescue team…
We’re not entirely sure what separates good accountants from bad accountants, but we can say with some certainty that only a terrible accountant would get caught stealing cash several times.That said, 39-year-old west Valley accountant Michelle Hice is allegedly a terrible accountant…
A pair of high-ranking cops who were at a Prescott bar where a Glendale man was injured in a fight said they couldn’t remember the name of the fellow cop who punched the man, although they went to that bar with this cop as part of their motorcycle club.According to…
When you think of cocaine in America, you might think of South Florida, where the cocaine trade was absolutely insane in the ’80s.Well, it turns out that “the biggest cocaine dealer” in one South Florida county gets his cocaine from Tucson, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
For the second time in just a few months, a woman had to be located and rescued from the Superstition Mountains, in her hunt for the fabled Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine.And, wouldn’t you know, just like every single other person who’s searched for the mine over the past 100-plus years,…
Gilman’s latest rakes Nowakowski over the coals for his parley with El Diablo Which side are you on? The recall effort is underway, and even Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems has acknowledged that if the recall committee Respect Arizona scores the needed signatures for the ballot, then, “Joe…
Afternoon recess is over. It’s 1:38 p.m. Prosecutor Martinez begins by asking about her journal entries. Her entry indicates that “Lonnie” was baptized on a Thursday night, as referenced in her previous testimony. The entry goes on to say she went to Travis’ house for the night, “where we explored…
Gavin MacFarlane, the Scottsdale man who shot and killed two people at a strip club in December of 2010, won’t get the death penalty after being found mentally incompetent. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens raised MacFarlane’s bond from $2 million to a cash bond of $5 million following…
Portions of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s 10,000-page sex-crimes internal investigation are now available online following a New Times records request. When the massive report was released to the news media and public on February 8, the agency at first refused New Times’ request to put it on a CD…
The people behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation are now trying to tell the Arpaio recall effort that they’ll go to court to shut it down if they don’t do it themselves.Spoiler alert: Fat chance, for Arpaio’s friends.See also:-Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is Nervous About the Recall Effort Against Him-Joe…
