A young man in Tempe goes out drinking one night, and once he leaves his friends that night, he’s not seen for about two weeks — when his body’s found floating in water in or around Tempe Town Lake.Those are the main details that have come out in the recent…
Apparently fresh out of a screening of Reefer Madness, Republican state Representative John Kavanagh wants voters to now vote to repeal Arizona’s medical-marijuana law, which voters approved in 2010.As the first bills are being submitted for the upcoming legislative session, Kavanagh submitted a bill that would put medical marijuana back…
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, several of our alleged criminals look like real…
The 2010 Arizona Medical Marijuana Act exempts qualifying patients from prosecution, but most Arizonans are still subject to arrest for felony possession of any amount of marijuana. Phoenix police alone arrest an average of about 10 people a day on suspicion of possession of marijuana. Phoenix police arrested 2,972 adults…
Followers of disgraced, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce practically begged for amnesty Wednesday night in Mesa from their blood-rivals, the moderate GOPers they derisively refer to as RiNOs (Republicans in Name Only). And more than two hours into a tense, divided meeting of Republican Legislative District 25 precinct committee…
According to the teenagers who took the Arizona Youth Survey last year, they didn’t suddenly become potheads because the state enacted a medical-marijuana program.This might sound like a disappointment to some of the program’s critics, but our colleague Ray Stern pointed out yesterday that the percentage of 8th, 10th and…
People who thought teens would be using marijuana more because of Arizona’s 2010 medical-pot law are wrong, a new study shows. Combined, the percentage of 8th, 10th and 12th graders who reported using marijuana at least once in their lives went from 29.9 percent before the law passed to 28.7…
African-Americans have held the Phoenix City Council seat in District 8 — which is currently held by Vice Mayor Michael Johnson — for the last 46 years.That streak could be in jeopardy later this year, since Johnson is term-limited, and the district doesn’t have the same demographic makeup as it…
Phoenix police say a man was killed on New Year’s Eve after being accidentally shot by his sister, who was playing with a gun while the two were posing for photos.Judging by the previous photo to the right of now-deceased 22-year-old Manuel Ortiz, this situation is not incredibly hard to…
Kudos to former Scottsdale mayoral candidate John Washington for calling out both the Arizona Republic and state Representative Michelle Ugenti on his Scottsdale Trails blog, and for introducing me to the hilarious and currently inactive parody Twitter site RubbingUGently, a wicked send-up of the Snottsdale sexpot-turned-Teabagger from Legislative District 23…
The cause of the provisional-ballot uproar has not been solved. At least, there doesn’t appear to be an agreement over the cause.Although Secretary of State Ken Bennett said one of the people involved in an effort to register 34,000 new Latino voters admitted that they were checking the permanent early-voting…
A jury couldn’t decide whether the former editor of Guns & Ammo magazine is guilty of murdering one of his friends.Richard Venola, 54, was arrested by Mohave County Sheriff’s deputies in May, after the former Guns & Ammo editor allegedly used a gun and ammo to shoot 39-year-old James Patrick…
A Pinal County judge dismissed a lawsuit against New Times, which had been filed over stories on this blog about a member of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s command staff apparently trying to scrub an arrest record from a DPS database.PCSO Lieutenant Blake King filed the lawsuit, alleging New Times…
In response to the shooting massacre of children in Newtown, Connecticut, some people back here in the desert have proposed their own methods of preventing that type of tragedy from occurring here.For Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he’s putting the armed geezers from his posse of volunteer deputies in schools,…
My muchos apologies for this Best Of edition—I’m still in the rancho getting faded on the Herradura and stuffed with tamales, pozole, birria and empanadas. But this is an oldie-but-goodie even Art Laboe would appreciate: a 2007 piece ripping apart former CNN personality Lou Dobbs, who I hear does magic…
Disgraced, recalled two-time loser, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, has endorsed businessman Robert Graham for chair of the Arizona Republican Party, according to notices in both the SonoranAlliance and SeeingRedAZ blogs. See also: -Russell Pearce’s “Wee Man” Rob Haney Crushed Like a Bug -Russell Pearce’s Mad Elf Rob Haney: Sued…
Jeffrey West and his roommate were arguing in their Mesa home on New Year’s Eve.Per West’s alleged line of thinking, this argument required a sledgehammer…
If you’re a fan of the football program at Arizona State University, you may have heard during the television broadcast of ASU’s bowl victory this weekend over the Naval Academy that ASU running back Marion Grice’s brother had been murdered over a pair of sneakers a week before the game.According…
According to several Valley reporters, a new survey shows that some Arizona teenagers have obtained marijuana from people who can legally possess marijuana.”No shit,” say the rest of us.See also:-Medical Marijuana in Arizona a “Charade,” and What’s Wrong with That, Exactly?-Arizona Organix Steps Out as the State’s First Authorized Medical-Marijuana…
Despite activists’ complaints that Latino voters were more likely to cast provisional ballots in this year’s election — and that elections officials were likely to blame — Secretary of State Ken Bennett pointed a finger back at the activists.Bennett recently testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee alongside other states’…
New Year’s resolutions are so yesterday. But, John Norcross, a psychology professor at the University of Scranton and author of “Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing your Goals and Resolutions,” tells the Boston Globe that studies show that about 60 percent of American adults plan to make a resolution and that…
Despite cops around the state probably hearing the phrase “just two beers” quite often during DUI stops this holiday season, the state government’s statistics show that Arizonans tend to be fairly slammed when they were caught driving drunk.For the second year in a row, drivers busted for DUI during specific…
