Two years ago, a slate of five tea-party candidates ran for the non-partisan, 15-member Central Arizona Water Conservation District board with the aim of promoting limited government. Two won: Cynthia Moulton and Mark Lewis. They added to a push by conservatives begun in 2008 to add more of their numbers…
A Kingman police officer hit the club early Friday morning, but only because he was looking for the lady who locked her children in a bedroom so she could go hang out at that club.Amanda Marie Morse, a 24-year-old Kingman resident, had left her youngsters locked in the room for…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas may be a political loser, but he’s still popular with the women — of the Paradise Republican Women’s Club, anyway. The venerable Valley club has scheduled Thomas, a failed politician whose abuse of power led this year to disbarment and disgrace, to appear as guest…
A 16-year-old Chaparral High School student has been arrested in a bizarre case involving two rapes in Scottsdale.Danny Jackson’s the one accused of the rapes, and was arrested Friday — about a week after another man turned himself over to police in the case…
Here’s the thing about the propositions on the ballot for tomorrow’s election: for the most part, they’re boring, and at the end of the day, you may not really give a damn.Thankfully, people like ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce, Governor Jan Brewer, and the lobbyists from Center for Arizona…
Carl Blackburn’s answering machine picked up a curious robocall from the Arizona Republican Party a couple days ago — and it sounded like the local Catholic church was directly urging voters to vote Republican. It went like this: “The St. Margaret’s Catholic Church, 2435 East McArthur Drive in Tempe. Please…
Driving under the influence: not very funny. Republican state Representative David Burnell Smith’s arrest for alleged DUI: hilarious.Smith pulled the alleged DUI trifecta in his encounter with Scottsdale police: as an attorney who claims he “fights for those who have been arrested and/or charged with a DUI,” he reportedly tried…
The Arizona Cardinals’ trend of playing mediocre-but-losing football continued for a fifth straight game, as the Cards lost to the Green Bay Packers 31-17 at Lambeau Field yesterday.Even with the offensive line not playing at Pop Warner-level for once, the offensive unit was still meh, and as you can imagine,…
Maricopa County Bill Montgomery has prosecuted far fewer illegal immigrants for conspiring to smuggle themselves than his predecessor, Andrew Thomas. Thomas, who was disbarred earlier this year for abusing his power, came up with the idea to charge average illegal immigrants with conspiracy under Arizona’s 2005 state human smuggling law…
Democratic congressional candidate Kyrsten Sinema purportedly described herself as a “criminal defense attorney who represents murderers” a few years ago, and that’s apparently caused some controversy.That comment sparked supporters of her Republican opponent, Vernon Parker, to start demanding Sinema’s client list, including the names of any “murderers.”See also:-Bill Montgomery Joins…
The above video posted in early October by YouTuber BlessedONE333returnz is freaking hi-larious, and offers a window into the cracked minds of these human PayDay bars who think Joe Arpaio walks on water. This crazy lady is kvetching off-camera about an anti-Arpaio mailer in the form of a faux newspaper…
To rip off the great Samuel Langhorne Clemens, reports of Mike Stauffer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Finance reports were due in to the county last night, and the Republican-turned-Independent’s campaign for sheriff filed a “No Activity Statement,” which would normally attest to no expenditures or donations for the time…
Democratic sheriff’s candidate Paul Penzone was joined by two prominent Arizona Republicans Friday morning, as he cast his ballot at the Maricopa County Elections tabulation center downtown. Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods and Rich Dozer, one-time president of the Arizona Diamondbacks, both GOPers, were on hand to show their…
Imagine putting just about everything you own in a U-Haul truck to move out-of-state, and just a few blocks after saying goodbye to the old house, the truck explodes.That’s what happened in the area of 51st Avenue and Loop 101 this morning, and the driver’s stuff went just about everywhere…
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court has decided to make Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery happy and grant more time to both sides in a hearing on Monday related to Arizona’s ban on late-term abortions. As we blogged last night, Montgomery filed an emergency motion with the appeals court yesterday to…
Over the past couple of weeks, the Arizona Republican Party, supporting Republican congressional candidate Vernon Parker, has demanded that Parker’s Democratic opponent, Kyrsten Sinema, release a list of her clients as a criminal-defense attorney.The odds of that happening are pretty close to zero, if not exactly zero, but now Maricopa…
Half of a Sun City couple that allegedly ran a meth lab in their garage pleaded guilty this morning to child abuse.Brenda Lipe initially faced five felony charges after she and her husband, Lancelot Lipe, were arrested in April after Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies found out Lancelot had allegedly started…
El Mirage Mayor Lana Mook bemoans that residents in her community are lodging fact-starved concerns and complaints with the city. Her solution? She gets city employees to address these oft-complained-about topics with PowerPoint presentations and handouts at a public meeting, but she doesn’t bother letting the public know that these…
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 Fourth Avenue visitors look like something definitely went wrong…
President Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina says they’re done trying to win Arizona, now that the election’s a few days away, according to Politico.”Messina called Arizona an ‘enticing prospect’ and said that public and private polling has shown the state fairly close,” the Politico report says. “But the Obama adviser…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has entered a plea of “not guilty” in Phoenix Municipal Court for his March fender-bender at the love nest of his state-financed mistress Carmen Chenal. That’s the accident witnessed by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who had been dogging Horne over his alleged…
Testy, testy! “I think there’s a ‘Deputy’ in front of your title,” Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery tells one of the Pima County Attorney’s underlings in an October 31 e-mail. Montgomery makes the smarty-pants comment in a series of recent, heated e-mails released today in court records from a lawsuit…
