After Arizona State University student Erika Escalante recently tweeted three photos of herself and a friend picking cotton under the caption: “Our inner n***** came out today,” social media erupted in outrage: “You are racist. Ignorant,” one woman posted on Twitter. ” Ur so ignorant its painful,” tweeted another. “That’s…
LifeLock announced today that it reached a new agreement with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that it violated terms of a 2010 settlement plan. Back in 2010, the ethically-challenged company was ordered to pay $12 million to the FTC for engaging in deceptive advertising. The company clawed back to…
The Phoenix Police Department Disciplinary Review Board is suggesting Sergeant Percy Dupra — the officer who fatally shot Michelle Cusseaux during a routine court-mandated mental health pick up order last year — be demoted for his actions, and Cusseaux’s family and friends are furious. “[The] decision not to recommend termination…
Remember junior high, when the algebra teacher caught you passing notes, then made you read one out loud to the class? On Tuesday, that embarassing vignette repeated itself in federal Judge G. Murray Snow’s court, with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favorite deputy, Detective Brian Mackiewicz’s being questioned by plaintiffs’ attorney Michelle…
Cannabis enthusiasts rolled into the Phoenix Convention Center Tuesday for the second day of the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo. The three-day marijuana conference, which kicked off Monday with a job fair, hosted hundreds of weed-related businesses, products, and professionals in Arizona’s growing cannabis industry. Packing the convention center at…
Still scrambling for a last-minute Halloween costume? We’ve got your back. From politicians to musicians to criminals, Arizona is full of scary-as-hell people just begging to be your muse. Here are 14 DIY costume options that promise to horrify your friends: 14. Jan Brewer All you need is a blond wig,…
Get excited, Phoenix because it’s time for round three of the frenetic yelling fest otherwise known as the Republican Presidential Debate! The theme of the night is “your money, your vote,” which might normally sound like a snooze-fest, but with the combined business acumen of Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina…
Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is lobbying to get its namesake’s face on a postage stamp. Christopher Callahan, the school’s dean, started organizing a letter-writing campaign after the U.S. Postal Service announced last week that it is considering a proposal, submitted by the Society…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s contempt trial resumes at 9 a.m. today in federal court before Judge G. Murray Snow, and Arpaio’s …
A new op-ed in the Washington Post penned by President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, William M. Daley, blames the Republican Party’s current dysfunction on Arizona Senator John McCain’s “reckless” choice of Sarah Palin for his presidential running mate in 2008. Daley calls McCain “one of the party’s more…
In the latest sign of marijuana going mainstream, a three-day marijuana-industry conference at the Phoenix Convention Center kicked off this week with a well-attended job fair. The main events of the Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo will take place today and Wednesday, featuring about 300 exhibition booths, guest speakers and…
Arizona is now one of 24 states officially suing the Environmental Protection Agency over President Obama’s flagship carbon-emissions-reduction initiative, the Clean Power Plan. Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who has been talking about suing the EPA for months, announced that his office and the Arizona Corporaton Commission jointly signed onto…
A detective in a massage-parlor sting was nude when he began receiving what court records call a “hand job” from a suspect in May, but Glendale police insist the officer stayed within policy. The incident during an undercover operation demonstrates the fine line officers have to walk to make busts…
The word “alien” is a technical term defined by Merriam-Webster as “relating, belonging, or owing allegiance to another country or government.” But U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego says it’s “dehumanizing and offensive.” He recently signed on to co-sponsor a bill, introduced by Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), that would strike the word…
Hundreds of Phoenix residents living with what they deem insufferable airplane noise pollution are planning to join thousands of other furious people around the country in “No Fly Day,” a national day of protest against the Federal Aviation Administration this Saturday. Phoenix, like at least a dozen other cities, had it’s…
MCSO Detective Brian Mackiewicz occupies a unique position within Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s organization. Not only is he a favorite of both Arpaio and Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, his assignments investigating “threats” against the sheriff, as well as his involvement in various special MCSO missions, have allowed him to travel to…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has rejected a plea from the Navajo Nation for assistance in dealing with the fallout of August 5 Gold King Mine spill that sent more than three million gallons of toxic wastewater downstream into critical Navajo waterways. In a letter containing almost no details or…
The parents of a teenager — who recently was sentenced to five years in prison after trying to hide her pregnancy by throwing her newborn out of a window — say they’ve been denied custody of their granddaughter because they’re undocumented. Samantha Perez was 15 years old when she was…
A Glendale police detective started getting a “hand job” from a suspected prostitute while engaging in a sting operation at a massage parlor, according to court records. After the Arizona Attorney General’s Office announced the raids and arrests of five Chinese suspects in the case, AG Mark Brnovich’s spokeswoman, Mia…
The Northern Arizona University Police Department released video footage and documents this week that help illuminate what happened right before and right after Steven Jones, the freshman charged with the October 9 shooting at NAU that killed one student and injured three others, opened fire. Jones, who pleaded “not guilty”…
A new report from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office says that all five members of the Baxter family drowned after their car plunged into the Tempe Town Lake earlier this week. The Tempe Police Department is investigating the situation as a murder-suicide because authorities say that video-surveillance footage shows…
When Lily Gallego began attending Carl Hayden Community High School as a freshman, she struggled to keep up with schoolwork and didn’t feel that teachers paid much attention to her. “It was really fast-paced,” she said. “If you didn’t get it, oh well. You moved on to the next lesson…
