Thank heavens for Gerardo Parra. The left fielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks single-handedly saved his squad from utter humiliation yesterday by unleashing a grand slam during the final game of their four-game series against the Atlanta Braves at Chase Field.His 419-foot homer during the second inning of Sunday’s game cleared…
Senate Bill 1070 is due to be heard in the Supreme Court this week, as the oral arguments are scheduled for Wednesday.Today’s the second anniversary of the immigration bill being signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer, and since then — or even before that — everyone’s developed an opinion…
Of all the trial balloons in the history of politics, this one most deserves to be shot down, stomped, incinerated, and spat on, with the remains dumped in the nearest landfill to rot.Seems there’s a cadre of hardcore Russell Pearce-worshippers in the state legislature that want to give the recalled…
If we learned something from congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-congressional-candidate Matt Salmon this week, it’s that the tea party doesn’t seem to appreciate comparing politics with the guy who said fine, kill Jesus if you really want to. (That’s paraphrased a little.)That’s the highlight from this week’s debate between Salmon and Kirk Adams –…
Jeffrey Martinson, the onetime Ahwatukee business consultant who remains charged with killing his 5-year-old son back in 2004, will face a retrial on murder and child abuse charges this July. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sally Duncan set the retrial date at a hearing in which she also denied a…
Rachel Alexander, the lawyer who worked with former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas to attack his political enemies, will appeal the suspension of her law license.Alexander received a suspension of six months and a day by the state Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Panel for her role in working on a nonsensical…
Robert Fisher, one of the FBI’s and Scottsdale Police Department’s “most wanted” fugitives, may still be in Arizona, according to information relayed from the FBI.Fisher’s accused of killing his wife and two young kids, then blowing up their Scottsdale home in April 2001.According to various media reports, including the Payson…
The body of an 88-year-old woman was found in her Mesa home, her car was found in Texas, and her 43-year-old grandson has yet to be found.Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detectives haven’t ruled the case a homicide — yet, at least — but it has been given “suspicious death investigation”…
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better than screw-loose GOP state Senator Sylvia Allen suddenly finding the Navajo County Board of Supervisors a more attractive sphere of influence than the lege’s upper house, along comes this beautiful news from a recent edition of the Capitol Times’ Yellow Sheet.Dam…
Dan Wise, a former Scottsdale accountant, was arrested yesterday for crimes related to allegedly running a $66 million Ponzi scheme, marking the fourth time he’s been arrested in connection with the same scheme.Wise, 55, was indicted earlier in the week on 102 federal charges for the alleged scheme, which the…
Australian professional golfer Matthew Giles took a drive into a Gilbert house on Monday, according to police.According to the “extreme DUI” charge Giles was booked into jail on, police are thinking alcohol may have had something to do with it.A little before 10 p.m. Monday, Giles “was traveling at a…
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime last night, marking the team’s third win in the opening round, all of them coming in overtime.For the second time this series, Mikkel Boedker scored the game-winner for the Coyotes.Now, the Coyotes are one win away from winning the first playoff…
Amy Alexander, the Scottsdale woman who struck and killed a bicyclist with her SUV last month, has paid a $420 fine for the two civil-traffic violations she received. Police say that 53-year-old Shawn McCarty was wearing a helmet and riding in the bike lane on Thompson Peak Parkway when Alexander’s…
Disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has until Tuesday at 5 p.m. to file an appeal to his disbarment order. The failed politician lost his law license after a disciplinary panel of the state Supreme Court found he had committed perjury, filed charges he knew were outside of the…
If you’re “desperate and humiliated” because you’re 35 years old and living with your mother, getting caught stealing more than $45,000 worth of merchandise from 25 different Walmart stores probably won’t remedy that.Still, that’s what police are saying Jason Dee Draper did to land him in jail on 28 felony…
Here’s a tip: If you’re planning on doing something that may be a crime, don’t tell the state’s largest paper before doing so.Apparently our tip is a little late, as it would seem that a fan of Tempe mayoral candidate Michael Monti did that yesterday.Legislative District 17 Republicans chairman A.J…
This week Attorney General Tom Horne paid a visit to recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Ban Amnesty Now radio show, where he regaled Pearce’s tens of listeners with his heroic legal work of late, despite Pearce’s incessant efforts to turn the conversation back to his ridiculous “buy-cott” (read, “boycott”)…
Arizona’s House Bill 2549 — which was derailed after a critic’s view that it was a “bill to censor electronic speech” caught on — now has some proposed changes.Based on the complaints from the main catalyst for the outrage on the Internet — the Media Coalition — the changes still…
After starting the season with seven wins and just three losses, the Arizona Diamondbacks just lost a home series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.You know, the same Pittsburgh Pirates that lost 90 games last year while the D’Backs won a division title.The D’Backs couldn’t put runs together in yesterday’s matinee game…
James Harden, who was one of the best things to happen to the ASU men’s basketball program in, say, a generation, is an NBA All-Star in the making.He would be a star, or the star, on many teams in the league. But on the Oklahoma City Thunder–a small-city franchise that…
Governor Jan Brewer signed House Bill 2563, which allows high schools to offer classes on “how the Bible has influenced Western culture,” although nothing requires youngsters to take the class.It also creates and exemption for the Bible from a law that says “all books, publications, papers and audiovisual materials of…
Why do Mexicans with lowriders have murals on their hoods and trunks/tailgates? And how come they always have waterfalls and half-naked chicks as part of the mural? The Crazy Filipino First off, gracias for not telling the old tired lowrider joke that goes like this: Why do Mexicans ride lowriders?…
