There’s good news and bad news regarding Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” posse’s “investigation” into whether President Barack Obama is eligible to be president.The good news: the investigation will be finished by early next year, so Arpaio’s team will soon be able to tackle other non-existent issues like illegal…
Tucson’s “occupiers” can straight-up occupy.According to the Tucson Police Department, 20 arrests were made yesterday during the “Occupy Tucson” demonstrations at two different parks in the city.The 20 arrests make a grand total of 351 arrests since the “Occupy Tucson” demonstration began October 15, Tucson Sergeant Maria Hawk tells New Times.Of the…
When 23-year-old Michael King Jr. robbed a Phoenix bank yesterday morning, police already were actively looking for him in a sexual assault/robbery that happened at a Phoenix porn shop nine days earlier.When King ultimately was arrested, he went out in a hail of cash — stolen cash — that he tossed…
New setting, same old story.Under oath while on the stand this morning in the his disciplinary “trial,” former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas claimed that a TV reporter gave his office a great tip in its quest to investigate county “corruption.”The former Channel 15 (KNXV-TV) reporter, Josh Bernstein, did an…
Props to the ever-entertaining and informative Politoco Mafioso blog for scoring the following intriguing info concerning Summit Consulting’s Chad Willems, state Senate President Russell Pearce’s campaign manager.Willems, of course, is not the only local GOP operative hustling to save Pearce’s hide in the November 8 recall. There’s also Chuck “Brewer’s Brain” Coughlin…
If next year’s presidential election were held today, President Barack Obama would carry Republican-leaning Arizona, according to a recent poll.According to a Rocky Mountain poll released yesterday, Obama leads all possible Republican candidates in Arizona by at least a five-percentage-point margin.Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is the GOP candidate who…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is back on the stand this morning in the State Bar’s disciplinary proceeding against him.Here’s the link to the state Supreme Court’s Web page on the hearings. Click there, then click on the live proceeding. Don’t forget — later you can access Thomas’ testimony…
Shamed former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas will again today take the stand in the state Bar ethics hearing that could potentially conclude with Thomas saying “buh-bye” to his license to practice law.Thomas spent the majority of the day yesterday on the stand trying to explain why he charged numerous…
There’s something I’m concerned about or bothered by. I was born and raised in Mexico, but I’ve been [in the United States] for eight years. All the talk about 9/11 is too much, because every single year brings a rehash of the tragedy. I really think that remembering the event…
LOST IN SPACE A reformed Scientologist weighs in: Great article. I started Scientology in Phoenix in 1975. Wish you’d have done this article back then so I could have saved myself the large detour (“Pain in the Org,” Ray Stern, October 13). But the Scientology people who work in Phoenix…
The 28 days Christopher Quaratino spent in a spooky-looking house in Amityville, New York, defined his life. Quaratino was just 7 when he and his family moved into the 4,000-square-foot Dutch Colonial home on Ocean Avenue in the Long Island town in 1975. Now, at 43, he’s still creeped out…
AZ Urban Race, formerly AZ Urbanathlon, has yet to clear all the hurdles in a lawsuit filed by the publisher of Men’s Health magazine.As we reported on October 18, the obstacle-course race hosted by Mountainside Fitness was slapped with a lawsuit by Rodale, Inc., the magazine’s publisher. Men’s Health has…
We’re biased on this one.Gotta admit it.We watched hours and hours of testimony by former Maricopa County Andrew Thomas today, and the guy definitely seemed to have an answer for everything — but only in the way our mother used that phrase on us in our most smart-alecky moments. Thomas…
There are currently 175 law enforcement job openings at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, and if you’re not a military veteran returning from combat, any application you may submit will only be considered after those submitted by returning military folks, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today.Arpaio has “ordered” that all military…
Andrew Thomas certainly seems to believe his own theories as he defends himself today against a State Bar complaint that could cost him his law license.In the former Maricopa County Attorney’s world, County Supervisor Don Stapley is “corrupt,” whose motive to commit crimes was the money he was being paid…
Julie Kuhns’ boyfriend might have some explaining to do…to his wife.Kuhns, 45, was arrested Monday after admitting to police that she drank a third of a bottle of vodka before “accidentally” shooting her boyfriend in the chest.Her boyfriend, it turns out, is married to another woman.According to court documents obtained…
Did they leave out a zero somewhere?I keep rubbing my eyes and scratching my noggin over this latest campaign finance report filed yesterday by the Committee to Oppose Recall of Russell Pearce, which is run by the Virginia-based Team America PAC, co-chaired by anti-immigration stalwarts Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan.Despite…
In our account of the “Occupy Phoenix” demonstration in downtown Phoenix earlier this month, we used the above image of an “occupier” holding a sign stating that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is a “lying whore” who has Alzheimer’s disease.In our post about the rally, we suggested that calling someone a…
Part Two of the morning testimony by former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas brought out even more of Thomas’ apparently hypocritical thought processes.We say hypocritical because it’s difficult for us to believe that Thomas believes the words coming out of his mouth.As we noted in our last post about today’s…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said in a disciplinary hearing against him today that he doesn’t know why a judge he thought was “biased” made a major ruling in Thomas’ favor.Thomas has maintained throughout his fight with county officials that retired Judge Kenneth Fields, who was assigned to cover…
Proving that the world really has gone crazy over Arizona’s annual haboobs (that’s what we used to call dust storms until a big one this year), a video of a Florence wedding marred by dust is going viral. Here’s the YouTube version — our professional opinion is that it’s downright…
One of the more telling moments during fired deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon’s remarkable testimony at yesterday’s disciplinary hearing was her twisted take on office investigators Mark Stribling and Tim Cooning. It came during Aubuchon’s Twilight Zone-like account of what led up to the infamous direct criminal complaint that then-Maricopa…
