Why can’t the United States and Mexico agree on one only name for the Rio Bravo-Grande river? And I don’t understand why the Americans lo dice en español? Marfa Maven The Mexican is a Californian by the grace of God so doesn’t dare tread the intellectual waters of the Lone…
LIES LIES LIES Dwindling political prospects for Babeu: Tremendous story by Monica Alonzo on the prevaricating chameleon Paul Babeu (“The Great Exaggerator,” May 17). To have practically all his distortions [catalogued in one place] is eye-popping! After this latest exposé, he won’t be re-elected sheriff, even though he has dropped…
Arizona Senate Minority Leader David Schapira tried to address bullying in the state’s school districts this year. Schapira — an instructor at Arizona State University, a former high school teacher in the Paradise Valley School District, a member of Tempe Union High School District governing board, and a ranking member…
Bottle-blond bangs swept over one eye — this, the other boys whispered, was not a man’s haircut. One of them — a popular, handsome specimen — grew particularly incensed at his classmate’s new look. He formed a posse and found a pair of scissors. After locating the blond boy, the…
Correction: In the following story, Manny Cruz serves as executive director for the Abandoned Mine Safety Organization (AMS) Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit. In the 20 years since she founded The Family School, Sue Johnson is hard-pressed to think of a kid with more cognitive challenges than Rocky Cruz. The popular…
Mark Dixon of Casa Grande is ticked off at Arizona Supreme Court Disciplinary Judge William O’Neil, that much is clear.O’Neil, former presiding judge for the Pinal County Superior Court, had the contractor come out to his property to do maintenance and they had a “very close friendship,” according to an…
Seven candidates are vying to serve as the next sheriff of Pinal County, a post now held by one of those candidates — embattled incumbent Paul Babeu. Babeu faces stiff competition from three Republicans, two Democrats and one Independent. Babeu quit his race for a seat in Arizona’s Fourth Congressional…
The Kingman Police Department wrapped up a three-month investigation into heroin trafficking last week, leading to the arrests of five people — two of them children of a state legislator.Michael Randolph Goodale, 27, and Stephanie Lynn Goodale, 31 — both of whom call Republican state Representative Doris Goodale “mom” –…
Lisa Aubuchon’s law license will be canceled officially as of July 2, the state Supreme Court ruled today.Aubuchon and former boss, failed politician Andrew Thomas, were disbarred in April following weeks of testimony over the bad decisions they made in their fight with county leaders.Unlike Thomas, Aubuchon is choosing to…
According to one Gilbert neighbor, neo-Nazi baby-killer and anti-immigrant vigilante J.T. Ready boasted of hunting “two-legged varmints” just days before a massacre in which Gilbert police believe he murdered four, including a 16-month-old girl, and then committed suicide. In a police report released Tuesday by the Gilbert Police Department, Budd…
John Rocker, a former steroid-using homophobic relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and other teams, still exists — which is just about enough John Rocker news for one day.Unfortunately, he gave an interview to conspiracy theorists about his book and his love for Governor Jan Brewer, so we really couldn’t…
Ogden’s Own Distillery, based in Utah, has been making some big news lately after one of its products — Five Wives Vodka — was banned from being sold in Idaho by the state’s liquor division.In a letter to the company’s distributor in Idaho, the liquor board wrote that its members…
We got a copy of the letter from Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk, explaining to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery why no charges will be filed against Tempe Mayor-elect Mark Mitchell.Aside from the “absence of a reasonable belief of probable conviction,” Polk also notes Mitchell’s age at the time and…
Here’s an odd advertisement from the Barack Obama campaign — why can’t Mitt Romney just be like Arizona’s own Senator John McCain?The video, as you can see above, shows McCain during the 2008 campaign trail, not hitting the meatballs served to him about Obama being the scariest man on the…
Geraldo Rivera reminded us yesterday that he’s still alive, after telling conspiracy-theorist Lord Christopher Monckton that he and the rest of the “birthers” are “all smoking crack together.”Monckton, not surprisingly, was just in Surprise on Monday to talk to the “Surprise Tea Party Patriots,” with donations going to Maricopa County…
The Yavapai County Attorney has reportedly decided to not file charges against Tempe Mayor-elect Mark Mitchell in the case involving the woman who recently came forward claiming Mitchell sexually abused her as a kid.The case — initially reported to Phoenix police — was forwarded to the Yavapai County Attorney’s Office…
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has denied the state of Arizona’s motions to dismiss a legal challenge to SB 1070 by Friendly House, a social-service agency for immigrants.The Friendly House lawsuit is a separate action from the challenge to SB 1070 by the U.S. Justice Department being considered by the…
By most standards, Thomas O’Rourke got a bit rowdy this weekend.After consuming some alcoholic beverages at his Phoenix home Sunday evening, a kid ended up getting shot with a BB gun, a cat was killed, and that dead cat was thrown at a moving vehicle.According to court documents obtained by…
William Null pleaded guilty today to a few charges, including second-degree murder, for beating his aunt to death in Mesa in November.Cigarettes sparked an argument between Null and Cynthia Pesek — at least, that’s what Null told police at the time of his arrest — and after three days of…
It was October 1989 when we went to the Arizona State Fair for a boxing card that included our friend Michael Carbajal, then an up-and-comer straight from the Olympic Games in South Korea one year earlier. On the undercard was a 22-year-old from Albuquerque who weighed in at 115 pounds,…
Hundreds of applications for medical-marijuana dispensaries — along with their $5,000 application fees — poured into the state Department of Health Services last week. The latest update on the Arizona DHS Web site shows 484 applications received in 99 of the 126 districts (a.k.a., “CHAAs,”) around Arizona that are allowed…
A woman attending her daughter’s middle-school graduation ceremony was killed in an Avondale school’s parking lot Friday, in a shooting police believe was carried out by her ex-boyfriend.Takesha Barnes — a domestic-violence victim who had just taken out an order of protection against 38-year-old Thomas Moton earlier that week –…
