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If you didn’t catch last night’s South Park, you missed out. Not only did it touch on Arizona’s focal issue, illegal immigration, and introduce the world to the term “Mexi-Jew,” it featured the show’s portly, pissed-off star, Cartman, portraying a hillbilly sheriff bearing a striking resemblance to Maricopa County’s corrupt top-cop, Joe…

A former Arizona State University swimmer drowned in a university-owned swimming pool early Monday morning, and authorities suspect alcohol was involved.James Rigg and Andrew Schneller, both 22 and former members of the ASU swim team, sneaked into the Mona Plummer Aquatic Complex in Tempe about 1:30 a.m. Monday by hopping…

A 7-year-old boy is dead and a 5-year-old girl was taken to a hospital with serious injuries after their father drove the car they were in over a 40-foot embankment yesterday afternoon.According to the Mesa Police Department, the children’s father, 42-year-old Bradley Patrick, may have been under the influence of…

On the same day our cover story about the Church of Scientology’s new Phoenix “Ideal Org” hit newsstands, our sister paper in New York, the Village Voice, reports that the Church is now probing our parent company, Village Voice Media.See our cover story on what Scientology is up to in…

Jahessye Shockley, the missing 5-year-old Glendale girl, has now been missing for roughly 40 hours, and investigators continue to search for the young girl. Authorities have expanded the search for Shockley, who it now appears could have potentially been abducted. According to the Glendale P.D., Shockley wandered away from siblings…

Dear Readers: The Mexican doesn’t want to take this week off but has to because it’s his mother periódico’s Best Of issue and the Mexican is tasked with eating a thousand tacos in the search for the best one in Orange. I’ll return next week, more panzón than ever —…

HIZZ(DIS)ONER Phil = nothing short of pathetic: Your story on Phoenix Mayor Gordon’s legacy was right on (“Phil Unveiled,” Monica Alonzo, September 29). The guy had so much promise in the beginning, only to squander it by being a DiNO [Democrat in Name Only]. You may not believe it, with…

Scott Ruth has heard the stories about Xenu the Galactic Overlord and the ghost-like “body thetans” that supposedly infest human souls. But all he knows for sure about the Church of Scientology is that it’s invaded his life. The church, which plans to turn its newly acquired property at 3845…

I had an interesting conversation following the recent debate between state Senate President Russell Pearce and his recall opponent, Republican Jerry Lewis, at Mesa’s East Valley Institute of Technology. As I was speaking with Pearce’s brother Lester, a Justice of the Peace, and listening to him apologize profusely for angrily…

We’ll be chiming in soon with our take about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday that upheld the inadmissibility of the 1991 confession of Buddhist temple mass murderer Johnathan Doody.   Killer Johnathan Doody gets a new trial–and the jury won’t hear his 1991 confession. ​The effect of the high…

Four custodial workers at Sky Harbor Phoenix International Airport are getting their jobs back, plus back pay, in a settlement between their employer, GCA Services, and the feds. Isabell Marquez, Yadu Rijal, Hamid Amiri and Geoffery Kachiolwa were fired from their jobs because of their support for their union, United…

The 2015 Super Bowl is coming to Phoenix, and if you believe the rhetoric from the self-righteous religious-advocacy groups, so are swarms of underage hookers looking to cash in on the testosterone surrounding the big game.No matter whom you believe, the Phoenix Police Department will be ready for the mythical…

We’ve all had those mornings after a night of heavy drinking where we wake up and say to ourselves “what the f**k did I do last night?”Chances are, the answer to that age-old question isn’t “pulled out my penis, fatally stabbed my friend, attempted to stab my girlfriend, and kicked…

The Glendale Police Department has issued an Amber Alert for a 5-year-old girl who was last seen at an apartment complex near 6800 North 45th Avenue.According to the Glendale P.D., the girl, Jahessye Shockley, wandered away from siblings a little before 5 p.m. yesterday and hasn’t been seen since. Her…