The campaign manager for independent Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Mike Stauffer says the challenge to Stauffer’s nomination signatures has been dropped.With the support of Democratic candidate Paul Penzone, plaintiff Lois Pfau filed the claim, alleging 12,726 of Stauffer’s 29,794 submitted signatures were invalid, for various reasons.Stauffer needed 19,410 valid signatures…
As the Tempe Police Department got verification earlier this month that the five burned bodies found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley were identified as James and Yafit Butwin and their three children, another group of five people was still apparently missing. Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s theory was…
Moses Ulloa — the man voted by our readers as having the third-dumbest hometown pride face tattoos in the Valley — was arrested yet again yesterday.Ulloa and his moronic tattoos — which include the City of Glendale logo on the top of his head, “Murdercopa County” on his neck, horns…
When Governor Jan Brewer’s being dumped on by her compadres at Fox News for something, it would seem to be an indication that she may not have the brightest idea about what’s going on…
Sharon Holmes was picked by the Mohave County Republican Party to head to the state GOP convention last month for a shot at becoming a delegate for the Republican Party National Convention.She didn’t win that spot, nor did she win a car chase with Kingman police Sunday evening.According to an…
About 200 people filed into the Carl Hayden High School auditorium in west Phoenix in search of answers on Monday evening, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that allowed one of the most controversial provisions of SB 1070 to stand. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, councilmen Michael Nowakowski…
Governor Jan Brewer declared yesterday that the Supreme Court’s decision on SB 1070 was a “victory,” as the high court sided against Arizona on three of the four provisions challenged.The governor was basing her “victory” on the Supreme Court letting section 2(b) — “papers please” — stand, though the opinion…
Governor Jan Brewer is in the throes of a full-on hissy fit in response to the news that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is yanking its 287(g) agreements with Arizona law enforcement agencies, supposedly in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier today to uphold the “papers please” section…
Scott Verbout’s the guy who edits the spelling and grammar for the writers of the Casa Grande Dispatch, online at TriValleyCentral.com.He’s also the guy who was arrested by Ak-Chin police last week for allegedly doing some creative writing of his own, which he sent, along with pictures of his penis, to…
If right-wingers such as Arizona’s clueless, incompetent Governor Jan Brewer had actually read today’s U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Senate Bill 1070, they would not be so quick to issue press releases spinning the court’s 5-3 ruling as a victory for xenophobes, or even for the idea of some sort…
There have been only 10 documented bear attacks in Arizona since 1990.Three of those have come in the last month.A Tempe man hanging out at the Ponderosa Campground in the Tonto National Forest was the third person attacked by a bear this month, after the bear went into his tent…
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Don’t let those conservative critics mislead you: The Arizona Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Judge is really a big softie. Judge William O’Neil has given Rachel Alexander, the ethics-bending former underling of Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, another chance to appeal the ordered suspension of her law license. O’Neil, after upbraiding former…
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Scientology formally opened its new Phoenix Ideal Org facility on Saturday with a celebration attended by hundreds of the religion’s followers. The grand opening near the former home of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard follows a bitter eviction process for the former tenants of the building complex at the northeast…
Governor Jan Brewer is declaring the Supreme Court’s decision on SB 1070 a “victory,” as the high court sided against Arizona on three of the four provisions challenged.The Feathered Bastard is providing the updates on the 1070 decision, as the Supreme Court let section 2(b) — “papers please” — stand,…
There were a slew of scowling faces populating the stands at Chase Field this past weekend, but — for once — none of ’em belonged to Arizona Diamondbacks fans. Nope, it was members of the Chicago Cubs nation who were glowering as they watched their team get swept by the…
SCOTUSBlog.com is reporting that Section 2(b) of Arizona’s immigration law, Senate Bill 1070, has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as not pre-empted by federal immigration law.Of the court’s decision, SCOTISBlog writes, “It was improper for the lower courts to enjoin section 2(b), which requires police officers to check…
Glendale police announced Friday that the search for the body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley has entered its “final stages.”Jhessye’s mother, Jerice Hunter, was arrested for child abuse in November, but was released after charges weren’t filed.Police have said they believe Jhessye’s dead, and her mother’s the only suspect…
Glendale police say today that the search for the body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley has entered its “final stages.””As of today, there has been no significant discovery of evidence directly connected to Jhessye’s death,” police say in a statement.Police believe Shockley’s body was placed in a trash bin some time…
Thanks to the advice of someone claiming to be “therapist” Paul Fischer’s ex-wife, asking that we “get to the bottom” of Fischer’s alleged assault against a woman, we checked out some more material in the case.Fischer, who does work as a “family and marriage counselor” in Phoenix, was arrested in…
No one, probably including the University of Arizona’s head baseball coach Andy Lopez would have predicted when the season started in February that the Wildcats would make it to the College World Series in Omaha. But they did. And on Sunday night, Arizona will oppose either Arkansas or South Carolina…
