Governor Jan Brewer’s lawsuit against Arizona’s medical marijuana law took a beating today in federal court, where a judge told the state’s lawyers to pick a side on the issue.Brewer and her legal enforcer in the case, state Attorney General Tom Horne, campaigned against Prop 203 before voters passed it…
A junior high school student in Chandler will have to sit out the entire semester after she and a few friends jotted down some plans about how to best murder their language arts teacher earlier this year.Some of the ideas that made the students’ list (which you can see below)…
Police say a Scottsdale man got hammered on liquor and beer Saturday afternoon, sexually assaulted his own wife, verbally abused his nephew and daughters, and then tried to stage a fight between a chihuahua and a pit bull.When the two pooches didn’t fight, 48-year-old David Shelburg Jr. slammed their heads…
A man who placed an ad on backpage.com for an AR-15 assault rifle had the gun stolen from him — then shot at the fleeing suspect with a handgun, hitting a Valley Metro van.The messy gun deal went down in the parking lot of Sportsman’s Warehouse, 1750 South Greenfield Road…
A 20-year-old surgery assistant at a Sun City hospital was arrested at work last week following a grand-jury indictment on charges of possessing child pornography. Ryan Hazelton was 17 and living with his folks in Chandler when a 2009 Tempe police investigation caught up to him and his family’s home…
The Arizona Cardinals beat the San Francisco 49ers 21-19 yesterday for the team’s fifth win in 6 games — and that’s after starting the season 1-6.Cards’ quarterback Kevin Kolb went down early with concussion-like symptoms after getting drilled by Niners linesbacker Ahmad Brooks.Enter B-squad QB John Skelton, who replaced Kolb…
Last week, in honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s (embarrassing) investigation into the continuously debunked “birther” conspiracy theory (and the friggin’ beating America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” is taking in the press these days) we submitted the above cover of Globe, one of the sheriff’s favorite publications, for this week’s…
In the wake of the national media attention his office has received over hundreds of botched sex-crime investigations, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made no secret that there are “other local agencies” who absolutely suck at investigating sex crimes, too.The sheriff hasn’t named names, but we’re stunned to find…
The city of Phoenix convinced at least 1,500 misdemeanor scofflaws to come in to court this week and take care of their old warrants.Sergeant Tommy Thompson says the number is conservative and that he’ll get an exact count on Monday from city court.The police, court, public defender’s office and city…
The Arizona Supreme Court ordered the City of Glendale to pay legal fees incurred by the Tohono O’odham Nation during court battles related to the city’s opposition to tribal plans for a resort-style casino near the city.The latest batch of legal fees are more than $25,000, and that, added to…
Scottsdale-based Taser International, the manufacturer of stun guns used by police departments all over the world, is off the hook for two Taser-related deaths because the two men who died each had PCP in their systems when they were zapped by authorities.One of the men apparently was a steroid user,…
The New York Times piled more criticism of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio this afternoon over his office’s record of poorly investigated sex crimes.Reporter Marc Lacey, in what will be one of his swan-song articles from Arizona before leaving to serve as deputy editor of his paper’s foreign desk, writes…
Eugene Foster’s girlfriend’s teen daughter will probably think twice before she takes naked pictures of herself on her cell phone. That’s because Foster taught her a “lesson” Wednesday night — by sending naked photos of the girl to dozens of contacts stored in her cell phone.Many of those who received…
Clergy child-abuse expert Janet Heimlich will be in Scottsdale this afternoon to give a talk about abuse within the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect of Mormon polygamists once led by Warren Jeffs.Heimlich is the author of Breaking Their Will, an expose on maltreatment of children…
It’s pile-on time for that infamous ignorer of sex-crimes cases, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and, boy, does the near-80 autocrat ever deserve the abuse.Democratic Congressmen and state legislators are calling for his scalp in the wake of his latest scandal — the MCSO’s ball-drop on more than 400 sex cimes cases,…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have blown it on 432 sex-crime investigations, but there’s one “investigation” he’s quite proud of: his “Cold Case Posse’s” investigation into whether President Barack Obama’s eligible to be president.In honor of the sheriff’s (embarrassing) investigation into the continuously debunked “birther” conspiracy theory (and the…
The evidence shows that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top men ran an illegal campaign-finance scheme to benefit their boss’ 2008 race, say newly released investigation documents. The internal affairs probe of the so-called SCA scandal concluded earlier this year and resulted in the termination of two of Arpaio’s closest aides, Chief Deputy Dave…
Arizona senators Jon Kyl and John McCain today issued a joint statement saying they are “concerned” with the the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s bungling of several hundred sex-crime investigations.”Concerned” is as far as the senators would go, though, and rather than calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head — as several…
One unfortunate aspect of the occupation of the Salt River Project’s Tempe headquarters last week was that the activists involved were not able to pull off a similar action at the Westin Kierland Resort, where corporate interests and GOP legislators were engaged in a veritable orgy of legislative cross-pollination during…
Just five months after signing into law the nations “toughest” anti-immigration law, Alabama lawmakers are having “second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state’s prized Honda and Mercedes plants.”The backpedaling involves the state’s Republican attorney general…
According to the medical website drugs.com, some of the side effects of Xanax include decreased sexual desire or ability, diarrhea, dizziness, drowsiness, dry mouth, light-headedness, nausea, tiredness, and weight changes. One of the more severe side effects (as you can see in the mugshot to the right) is red, swollen…
Four alleged human smugglers were arrested last night when the Department of Public Safety busted up a drop house in Avondale.Also found inside the home was weed, cash, and 19 illegal immigrants — many of whom have been arrested before for crimes like drug possession, weapons misconduct, child abuse, crimes…
