Emily Decker stands on a narrow ledge more than 80 feet above the desert floor, clinging to the side of Flatiron Peak, a massive tower of rock in the Superstition Wilderness. She knows she’s in trouble, and fear tingles through her body. Her boyfriend, John Wilkinson, hangs about 10 feet…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s corruption is blatant, in your face, unrepentant. Yet, given the machinations of Horne’s lawyers, battling both Horne’s misdemeanor fender-bender charge with the city of Phoenix and the campaign-finance-law complaint brought by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, I suspect the AG will escape all but the…
The medical examiner has identified the body found in the river north of Tempe Marketplace on Sunday as ASU freshman Jack Culolias.Tempe police expected the body to be identified as Culolias, who was last seen around the time he got kicked out of the Cadillac Ranch restaurant/bar the night of…
Question: What is the only place on earth that has provided an Elvis impersonator, ice cream and cake, women throwing panties, coloring contests, a large Christmas tree, and an old man who likes to dress men in pink underwear?Answer: The jails of self-proclaimed tough-guy Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In fact, the…
For Terry Goddard, it must be tough going from Mayor of Phoenix to state Attorney General to gubernatorial candidate to, um, Central Arizona Water Conservation District board member. To be accurate, Terry Goddard has run for governor three times, hoping to emulate his pop Sam Pearson Goddard, Jr., who served…
Scottsdale’s most famous — or only — naked, PCP-fueled carjacker pleaded guilty to six charges related to his June episode.John Brigham, a former realtor and Chandler high school teacher, pleaded guilty to robbery, transportation theft, aggravated assault, and three counts of endangerment.See also:John Brigham Charged in PCP-Fueled Naked Carjacking Spree-John…
A student at Glendale’s Mountain Ridge High School probably scared the pants off just about everyone yesterday when he showed up to class trying to imitate the Joker, the character from the Dark Knight movie.Despite reports stating otherwise, Deer Valley Unified School District spokeswoman Heidi Vega tells New Times that…
A construction worker died yesterday morning at the still-ruined former mansion of “Burning Man” Michael Marin, who torched the house at 71 Biltmore Estates Drive in July, 2009.Phoenix police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times that a man working for the home’s new owner was crushed by a large, roll-up…
Arizona Republican Party chairman Tom Morrissey insists he is not a “birther.”However, Morrissey says, “In my opinion, what I have seen from the president, produced as a birth certificate, does not convince me that it is a real document.”See also:-Arizona GOP Chairman Tom Morrissey Says He’s Not a “Birther,” but…
Three Phoenix residents are facing child-abuse charges after spending nearly four days treating a 3-year-old girl’s severe burns with gauze, antiseptic spray, and ibuprofen.To give you an idea as to the extent of this burn, the girl’s skin was peeling off, and she was hospitalized in the Arizona Burn Center…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s joke of an “investigation” into President Obama’s birth certificate is still an issue.Now, even after President Obama’s re-election, Arizona Republican Party chairman Tom Morrissey — who insists he’s not a “birther” — says he does not believe the president’s birth certificate is authentic.See also:-Joe Arpaio’s…
Good news for the people who chose to live in a desert, but like playing in snow: both the Arizona Snowbowl and the Sunrise Park Resort will be opening their mountains this week for skiing and snowboarding.See also:-Sacred Hypocrisy-Snowbowl Protesters Face Charges for “Quarantine” of Forest Service Office…
David Luellen wanted to slash the tires on a bartender’s car, after getting upset with that bartender in the course of some Monday night drinking in Old Town Scottsdale.Luellen did not know exactly which car belonged to this bartender, so 21 people who parked in Old Town on Monday night…
Kevin Skinner, the Phoenix man accused of murdering his mother in March by suffocating her with a grocery bag, is again facing charges in his mother’s death, although the charges were previously dropped.Skinner, 22, was jailed on a first-degree murder charge on March 3, but was later found incompetent and…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s corruption is blatant, in your face, unrepentant. Yet, given the machinations of Horne’s lawyers, who are battling both Horne’s misdemeanor fender-bender charge with the City of Phoenix, and the civil, campaign finance law complaint brought by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, I suspect he will…
On the same day that a gunman murdered 27 people, including 20 children, in Connecticut, two Arizona teenagers made poor decisions.One, in Gilbert, was walking on a high school campus with a “toy rifle,” while the other, in Kingman, posted to Facebook that he was “down” to kill a bunch…
On the day 27 people, including 20 children, were murdered by a gunman in Connecticut, a Kingman teenager announced on Facebook that he was “down” to kill multiple children at a school.According to a Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman, the teenager explained to deputies that he was “being stupid and…
The body was of a 43-year-old Phoenix resident was found on Friday in a roadway, face-down, with his hands and feet tied behind his back, just a couple miles from Phoenix International Raceway.According to a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman, Hector Sanchez Duque has “no known ties” to the Tolleson…
Jan Brewer cannot run for governor again. There is no wiggle room in the Arizona Constitution. And if she tries, she is guaranteed to kiss the canvas with her plastic-surgery-gone-wrong gob, slapped down by the Arizona Supreme Court. See also: -Jan Brewer’s Sniveling New Memoir Laughably Paints Her as a…
If you had to pick the absolute worst day in American history to bring anything resembling a weapon near a school, that day would have been Friday, December 14, 2012.Hours after 26 people — including 20 children — were shot to death at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,…
A body was found yesterday in the river north of Tempe Marketplace, and police say it’s likely the body of ASU freshman Jack Culolias.Culolias was last seen around the time he got kicked out of the Cadillac Ranch restaurant/bar the night of November 30, and the only physical clue of…
Here’s your Christmas miracle, folks: the Arizona Cardinals won an actual football game, and they actually scored touchdowns in the process.After losing nine games in a row, rookie quarterback Ryan Lindley and the Arizona Cardinals defeated the Lions of Detroit, by a score of 38-10.See also:-Arizona Cardinals Suck More Than…
