Despite the high attendance, perhaps one of the least-known facts about the Waste Management Phoenix Open is that Phil Mickelson won the thing.See, the final round on Sundays always encroaches on the pre-Super Bowl activities, and we were wondering the day before if it was possible to get drunk just…
Like millions of other free Americans, you may have watched the Super Bowl yesterday.And, if you watched the commercials during this game as well, that means you were also exposed to the above advertisement from Go Daddy, a Scottsdale-based company…
A Phoenix man who let his 5-year-old niece starve to death in his apartment — then did nothing as her body was decomposing in the apartment — will be going to prison.Leonard Orta Jr., 49, was sentenced to 18 years in prison, as part of a plea agreement, in which…
While the National Rifle Association has proposed putting an armed guard inside every American school, the lobbying organization’s “news” arm ran a gushing endorsement of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s school-patrol posse, which puts an armed guard in zero schools.The public-relations piece for Arpaio aired on the TV show “NRA News Cam…
Just about every week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, our alleged criminals are breaking all the rules…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before — a deal to purchase the Phoenix Coyotes didn’t work out.Prospective owner Greg Jamison had a deadline of yesterday to buy the team and finalize an arena lease agreement with the City of Glendale, and it didn’t happen…
Attorney Mark Hummels was taken off life support last night, and he became the second person to be killed as a result of Wednesday’s office-building shooting in Phoenix.The attorney for the Osborn Maledon law firm and businessman Steve Singer were shot by 70-year-old Arthur Harmon, after they were all involved…
The second public-opinion poll released in recent weeks on Arizona’s medical-marijuana law also shows that voters support the act more than in 2010, when it was approved by voters.The newest poll, from Chad Willems’ Summit Consulting Group, says 55 percent of “likely voters” support the law, while just 39 percent…
A new poll that shows high support by Arizona voters for medical marijuana is unlikely to be challenged by anti-pot lawmaker Representative John Kavanagh: The political consulting firm used by Kavanagh and his wife, Fountain Hills Mayor Linda Kavanagh, conducted the survey. Kavanagh still hopes to pass a bill that…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has issued what’s undoubtedly the world’s whiniest response to the recently announced recall effort against him.There’s a statement from his campaign manager Chad Willems, as well as an Arpaio fundraising e-mail, in which the Sheriff asks, “Why do they hate me so much?”See also:-Joe Arpaio…
A Scottsdale man who once had a role in a $64 million Ponzi scheme will spend his weekends in jail for the next eight months for stealing cacti.The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona says 46-year-old Kenneth Cobb stole eight saguaro cacti from federal land, which is one of the biggest…
Mark Hummels, an attorney who was shot yesterday in the Phoenix office-building shooting, “will not survive,” according to his law firm.”Our friend and partner, Mark Hummels, was severely injured in yesterday’s senseless shooting,” a statement from the Osborn Maledon law firm says. “We have been informed that Mark will not…
A campaign to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is under way, with the penning of the first of the 335,000 signatures needed for an election to take place in November. William James Fisher, a local attorney, is the chairman of Respect Arizona, a political action committee formed to oust…
Former Arizona Diamondbacks first-baseman and color-commentator Mark Grace was sentenced this morning to four months in jail.According to a Maricopa County Superior Court spokesman, Grace was granted work release, and will also serve two years on probation.See also:-Mark Grace and Daron Sutton Being Replaced by Bob Brenly and ESPN’s Steve…
Arthur Harmon, the man police say shot three people yesterday at a Phoenix office building, was found dead in the parking lot of the Bass Pro Shops store in Mesa.Police believe he committed suicide by shooting himself.See also:- Attorney Mark Hummels “Will Not Survive” Shooting, According to Law Firm-Phoenix Shooting:…
A political committee that’s apparently going to try to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed its registration paperwork with the county elections department yesterday.Now, all the recall effort needs is more than 300,000 signatures to trigger a recall election, and enough votes for a candidate to defeat Arpaio in…
Grammar question/rant. If Spanglish is a legitimate dialect/language, why do you feel the need to italicize every instance of code switching? I seriously doubt that when you speak you emphasize every puta palabra (emphasis intended here), but that’s what your article reads like. We all know that you are speaking…
Charlie Sheen lives in a big yellow house on a T-shaped intersection in the middle of a fake neighborhood in a gated community off Mulholland Drive. When I arrive there on a Saturday afternoon in January, I am intercepted in Sheen’s driveway by a security guard, a friendly, not intimidatingly…
Political alliances continue to take shape in City Council District 8 with State Senator Anna Tovar being the latest to declare her support for Kate Gallego, one of several candidates in the race. Gallego, along with Lawrence Robinson and Pastor Warren Stewart, are vying to replace Councilman Michael Johnson, a…
The Pinal County Democrats aren’t happy with Sheriff Paul Babeu’s latest rhetoric about pushing for a law making it a crime for federal law enforcement officers to enforce President Barack Obama’s proposals to reduce gun violence. Yeah, he did say that. Babeu brought it up during an appearance on Fox…
A U.S. District Court judge has scheduled a hearing on April 9 in an ongoing legal battle to block the Tohono O’odham Nation from building a casino in the West Valley. Despite several back-to-back legal victories for the Nation, its opponents are not backing down. “Throughout this process, the Nation…
Mark Kelly, while testifying in a U.S. Senate committee hearing on gun violence, informed the rest of the room that another Arizona shooting had just taken place during the meeting.After talking about the Tucson shooting of his wife, former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Kelly fielded a question about background checks, and…
