Jury members in the Jodi Arias case wrapped up nearly five months of work today, causing a mistrial due to their failure to reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty. Some women jurors were crying and one even said “sorry” to the family of slaying victim Travis Alexander, according…
Photo courtesy of Mercy for AnimalsOne of the nearly 3,000 pigs at Country View Family Farms in Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania. The far mis a supplier for Hatfield Quality Meats, which is sold in twelve Northeastern states.This week’s story, “The Ag Gag War,” goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between…
The jury in the Jodi Arias case announced just before noon today that they can’t reach a unanimous decision on whether Arias should be executed. Maricopa County Judge Sherry Stephens sent the jury back to try again. Under Arizona law, the jury will be dismissed and a new jury convened…
Just watched the interview of Jodi Arias by Mark Curtis of Channel 12 (KNXV-TV), Troy Hayden of Channel 10 (KSAZ-AZ) and Ryan Owens of ABC News. In what may be one of the last TV interviews of Arias, since prison interviews aren’t normally allowed, Curtis and Hayden — who’d been…
The jury in the Jodi Arias trial will continue deliberating this morning about whether the murderer should be executed.Arias, always the drama queen, changed her talking points while addressing the jury yesterday, as she pleaded with the jury to let her live — despite previously saying she would “prefer to…
Jury members in the Jodi Arias trial have begun deliberating whether to sentence the cold-blooded killer to execution. The jury was dismissed just after 3 p.m. to begin their decision-making. With nearly five months of their lives invested in this trial, jury members probably can’t wait to finish up. It’s…
Jodi Arias asked the jury in her long-running murder trial to spare her life, contradicting previous statements that she preferred the death penalty to life in prison. She failed to apologize for killing ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in her highly anticipated statement to the jury today. See below for live blog…
While everyone’s caught up in the hype of the Jodi Arias trial, we’ll point out a quieter case that ended on Friday with a Scottsdale woman being sentenced to life in prison.Shari Tobyne shot her husband of 35 years, Dwight, then chopped up his body, and left most of his…
Police have identified the owner of the SUV that hit and killed Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz on Sunday.The problem is, at the time of this post, neither the owner of that SUV, 24-year-old Jesus Cabrera Molina, nor anyone else has been charged in Raetz’s death.See also:-Phoenix Cop Daryl Raetz…
The jury in the sensational trial of boyfriend-slayer Jodi Arias is expected to hear testimony today from Arias’ defense attorneys, who’ll try to argue that Arias doesn’t deserve execution. Arias has said she prefers life in prison. As we reported last week, state officials say Arias could be executed in…
Believe it or not, Amy’s Baking Company may not be the biggest “kitchen nightmare” in the Valley.That honor goes to Phoenix Vietnamese restaurant Pho 35, where the owner allegedly stabbed two of the restaurant’s co-owners to death in the dining room Thursday…
A Phoenix mother tried to give away her 6-month-old baby to four random people at a gas station before just giving up and calling 911 on herself, in hopes that she’d be jailed, and her child would be taken away, police say.Rozeanna Luna, 36, actually has several older children, including…
A volunteer dance teacher who’s worked with kids at several Valley high schools and a private dance studio is accused of having sex with a then-underage boy who was a student at Mountain Pointe High School in Ahwatukee.David Trujillo, 26, is accused of having sex with the boy beginning when…
The engrossing saga of convicted slasher Jodi Arias is wrapping up after the jury took about an hour on Wednesday to decide her fatal attack on Travis Alexander was “especially cruel.” Next up in the marathon trial that’s gone on since January 2nd: impact statements by Alexander’s family and the…
Upgrading airplane engines for Venezuela’s air force in violation of an arms embargo has resulted in a $250,000 fine and five years’ probation for Phoenix resident Floyd Stilwell. The 87-year-old former owner of Marsh Aviation in Mesa knew he shouldn’t have been doing such work for Venezuela after the 2006…
Bryan Teague of Peoria pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts related to the 5,220-acre wildfire he caused last August in the Tonto National Forest by putting a propane tank in a campfire. Teague, 56, faces the possibility of up to six months in prison, a $5,000 fine, and five years…
In an exclusive post-conviction interview, boyfriend-killer Jodi Arias insisted that she didn’t plan to kill 30-year-old Travis Alexander in 2008. But now that she’s been convicted of premeditated murder, she’d “prefer to die sooner than later.” Arias went on to say to Channel 10’s Troy Hayden, “Longevity runs in my…
It looks like the local Fox affiliate’s weak interview with Jodi Arias is the only interview with her anyone’s going to get in the immediate future.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office sent a brief to the news media this afternoon saying that the agency received an order from Judge Sherry Stephens…
A former Phoenix firefighter who was driving drunk when he hit a teenager and drove away in 2011 will spend a little time in jail.Mark Nehrenz was sentenced to 45 days in jail and three years on probation for the incident, which left the teenager with a broken hip.See also:-Phoenix…
The National Transportation Safety Board has decided that a blood-alcohol level of .08 is no longer the acceptable maximum for American drivers, and instead wants .05 to be the new threshold for DUIs.That obviously would have a big effect in Arizona, where the penalties for DUI are just about the…
A 26-year-old Phoenix resident told police that he was “very ashamed” that he was caught with his cellphone in an occupied stall in the bathroom of a grocery store.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Thomas Mattham said he was trying to watch the guy in the stall defecate,…
Drama queen/convicted murderer Jodi Arias has been taken off “suicide protocol,” according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.Arias was placed on suicide watch after a jury found her guilty of first-degree, premeditated murder in her killing of Travis Alexander.See also:-Jodi Arias Says She Prefers Death Penalty-Jodi Arias Guilty of First-Degree…
