A City of Yuma employee was crushed by a 16-foot saguaro cactus this week, according to city officials.William Mason, a water-distribution technician with the city’s utilities department, has been in the intensive-care unit at a hospital since Tuesday.According to the city, Mason was checking out a water leak in the…
James Peters, the Scottsdale police officer who made headlines in February for shooting and killing the sixth person of his 12-year stint with the department, is set for retirement.Scottsdale’s police board for the Public Safety Personnel Retirement System approved Peters’ “accidental disability retirement application” yesterday.Peters’ most recent shooting was on…
Yep, you read the headline right. Because a group of interfaith leaders and activists plan a candlelight vigil near Tent City on Saturday, June 23, starting at 8 p.m., “America’s toughest most cowardly sheriff” will be placing his vast incarceration complex on lockdown for the day, preventing inmates from receiving…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office blew two chances to prosecute J.T. Ready for pulling guns on illegal immigrants months before the neo-Nazi gunned down four people in Gilbert, records show.The documents were released by Nick Martin of Talking Points Memo (and former Valley reporter), who broke the story about the missed…
Wikfors on Sunday Square Off, sparking a firestorm Mitt Romney may be attempting a shift to the center on immigration, but word has yet to trickle down to the hardcore nativists of the Arizona Republican Party.As the GOP presidential hopeful was in Florida yesterday trying to woo the National Association of…
Congressman Ben Quayle denies changing his stance on immigration policy, contrary to what Congressman David Schweikert and a few others have suggested.The Schweikert campaign’s response to that: you’re going to trust Brock Landers?Yes, Quayle’s past contributions to TheDirty.com — then known as DirtyScottsdale.com — are back like it’s 2010, when…
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division sued the neighboring towns of Colorado City and Hildale yesterday, as the DoJ apparently thought it was inappropriate to have a child rapist running the show.The DoJ filed suit alleging religious and housing discrimination, with much of the lawsuit bringing claims against the “Marshal’s…
Randy Parraz and his merry band of activists from Citizens for a Better Arizona celebrated their success at Wednesday’s Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting with a pizza party…at Sheriff Joe’s place.By Joe’s place, I mean Arpaio’s executive suite of offices on the 19th Floor of the Wells Fargo Building…
Believe it or not, an elected official in Arizona is pleased with something the federal government did.Attorney General Tom Horne handed out his thoughts on the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division suing Colorado City — the town on the Utah/Arizona border that child rapist Warren Jeffs used to call home…
As we told you at the beginning of the week, Congressman Ben Quayle didn’t seem incredibly upset about creating a way for many people who were brought to the United States illegally to be able to stay here, without a path to citizenship.In fact, he went on 12News to explain…
The story “Collateral Damage,” which is now available in print and on here on our website talks about a new book by retired assistant El Mirage Police Chief Bill Louis about the outrageous failure of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigative unit to look into hundreds of alleged sex-crimes cases from about…
Colorado City — the town on the Utah/Arizona border that child rapist Warren Jeffs used to call home — is being sued by the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division for religious and housing discrimination.The feds say the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Jeffs are still…
About 5 to 10 percent of U.S. high-school boys say they’ve been “physically forced” to have sexual intercourse against their will, according to survey results reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The numbers come from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report published by the CDC on June…
If the description of a shooting suspect includes the New York Yankees logo tattooed to his forehead, it really cuts down on the guesswork.That’s how 21-year-old Carlos Benito Sturgus got caught making another awful life decision last week in Mesa, as police say he shot an innocent bystander while he…
Paradise Valley Town Councilman Vernon Parker is leading the Republican field in the state’s Ninth Congressional District, according to a poll commissioned by Vernon Parker.It’s pretty much impossible to tell how legitimate the poll is, as one anonymous person on the Internet says it sounded a lot like a “push…
Yesterday, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors came to a vote on whether to let the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office repay the taxpayer money Sheriff Arpaio wasted to send a deputy to Hawaii.Supervisor Fulton Brock didn’t show up, so by a vote of 2-2, the supervisors voted to not allow…
In anticipation of the upcoming Reconquista, I’ve decided that I need a Mexican girlfriend. I feel this will help me fit in better with our new Mexican overlords. However, Mexican ladies must be approached with particular regard to culture and customs, and that raises many questions. A well-known example of…
REVOLUTION NOW Take it to the streets!: The escalation of civil disobedience that you mention is coming! We have waited too long for a rational [solution to illegal immigration]. As Stephen Lemons’ and Michael Lacey’s articles note, things only have gotten worse for brown people (“Crossing the Line,” June 7)…
On November 2, 2007, career Phoenix cop Bill Louis was feted at a retirement ceremony in downtown Phoenix. Assistant Chief Louis was leaving the big-city agency after almost 31 years to join longtime PPD colleague Mike Frazier in El Mirage, the then-rapidly growing West Valley community near Luke Air Force…
Like a lot of DREAM Activists, Phoenix’s Daniela Cruz is both elated and skeptical in the wake of President Barack Obama’s watershed decision not to deport young immigrants such as herself. “I’m happy, and at the same time, I know it’s all politics,” the 21-year-old says following the June 15…
Maria Rivera made her initial appearance before a judge today after being arrested for allegedly shaking her 11-month-old daughter, Stormi Rivera, who’s not expected to survive her injuries.Defendants are most often silent during these appearances, listening to the judge explain what their charges are and the conditions of their release…
Town of Buckeye police officer Kevin Rorke has been cleared of wrongdoing in the bloody Black Friday arrest at a Walmart of shoplifting suspect Jerald Newman. No charges were ever filed against Newman, either. And now Newman is suing the town, says Buckeye police spokesman Lieutenant Jared Griffiths. (A Buckeye…
