Despite months of hype and planning, Jon Ritzheimer’s Global Rally for Humanity did not draw the thousands and thousands of people he expected would join him in rallying against Islam. Ritzheimer, the de facto leader of Arizona’s Islamophobia movement, garnered attention earlier this year after he organized a large anti-Islam…
It’s time to take off your “Make American Great Again” hats and put away your Ben Carson and Jeb! paraphernalia because finally, after two lively debates between the Republican presidential candidates, it’s time for the Democrats to take the stage. Tonight’s event in Las Vegas is the first of six…
Shortly after a student at Northern Arizona University shot four other students during what authorities are saying was a fight outside of a popular fraternity hot spot late last week, another round of the national gun-control debate exploded on social media. Predictably, those calling for tighter background checks and laws…
U.S., Representative Raúl Grijalva will announce a bill this afternoon designed to permanently ban uranium mining in the Grand Canyon watershed. The Tucson congressman’s measure, officially called the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument Act, calls for protecting the area by declaring the region a national monument. According to a…
Phoenix police released surveillance video this week they say could help catch the killer of a transgender woman murdered in August. On August 11, the last images of 35-year-old Kandis Capri were captured on a Phoenix convenience store camera as she walked outside in the parking lot. Wearing a striped…
Halloween’s a great time to relax your inhibitions and dress up as anything or anyone you want. Or not. Thanks to cell-phone cameras and social media, wearing the wrong costume now is a potentially Google-able faux pas that may haunt you for many Octobers to come. On the other hand,…
Between taunting worshipers with insults and waving signs inscribed with slogans like “Stop Islamic immigration to the U.S.A.”, the crowd that mobbed the Islamic Community of Phoenix Saturday chowed down on bacon. “We’ve been eating a lot of bacon over here so you’d better think twice before you blow anybody…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio suffered another damaging round of testimony Friday in his ongoing contempt trial, as an MCSO detective on the so-called “Seattle investigation” explained how Arpaio and Cold Case Posse honcho Mike Zullo used a confidential informant to target federal Judge G. Murray Snow. Sergeant Travis Anglin, who worked…
Critics of Hickman’s Family Farms filed an air-quality complaint this week with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in their latest attempt to shut down the company’s massive egg-producing facility in Tonopah. Since Hickman’s opened the plant a year ago at Indian School Road and 415th Avenue, critics say, the air…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that it will investigate the death of a wild horse at the Salt River Recreational area as a case of animal cruelty, recanting earlier statements that there was no evidence of foul play. By the time police responded to tips that Dotty, a…
For the second time this year, a big anti-Islam rally is scheduled to take place outside of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. Officially part of the “Global Rally for Humanity,” Saturday’s demonstration will be one of many purportedly taking place around the world, intended to draw attention to the…
Eviela Carrera came to the United States, like many immigrants do, to give her four children a better life. But, making just $8.30 an hour assembling chicken sandwiches and cleaning the broiler at a Phoenix Burger King, the Mexican native is struggling to hold onto this hope. She’d like to…
According to Northern Arizona University officials, one person is dead and three others are wounded following an early morning shooting on the Flagstaff campus. A statement from the University reports that the shooter is in custody and that the three victim are being treated at Flagstaff medical center. The first…
The blunt realities of the state’s medical-marijuana industry are exposed in a remarkable ruling on a lawsuit between business partners that features allegations ranging from a “lack of financial controls” to a shady seed deal in a parking lot. The lawsuit’s between the two partners of Uncle Herbs of Payson,…
Whenever federal Judge G. Murray Snow questions Sheriff Joe Arpaio during the sheriff’s ongoing contempt trial, all kinds of muscles tighten at the defense table. And for good reason, Snow knows the case better than anyone. He also remembers in detail what people say in his court, and he most…
A Peoria high school teacher and his wife are the latest in a long line of Metro-Phoenix educators accused in sex scandals involving students. Brian Woolsey, a 45-year-old Sunrise Mountain High School teacher, has been arrested and charged with 13 counts of sexual conduct with a minor and two counts…
Eyeglasses must now come off for Arizona driver’s license and identification photos, but religious head scarves or hats are okay if worn “daily,” according to state Motor Vehicle Division policies designed to meet national REAL ID Act requirements. The latest rules make it easier for a new, digital facial-recognition system,…
Phoenix police raided the home of a man suspected of raising roosters for cockfighting, finding about 45 birds and other evidence of the banned blood sport. Carlos German Vasquez-Morales, 30, was booked into jail on suspicion of 45 felony counts, then released with a pending court date. The investigation began…
It’s a good week for Arizonans who support Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Not only is Sanders coming back to the state for a second political rally this Friday, but Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva is expected to give the Vermont Senator his first official congressional endorsement. Grijalva, a Mexican-American liberal…
People will get offended by anything these days. That’s the hypothesis University of Arizona Alumni Josh Miller set out to test when he launched a tongue-in-cheek petition on Change.org last week calling on rival Arizona State University to stop “using Satan as its mascot.” In the petition, Miller, a 37-year-old…
There is Arpaio as he would have the world see him, and there is Arpaio as he actually is. So many of Arpaio’s fans — the people who vote for him and nearly worship him — couldn’t care less about the reality beneath the public image of a strutting tough…
Sex and suicide have no natural link. They don’t go together any more than date and rape, unless . . . Unless you are transgender. If you know an individual who is transgender, your that person is likely to attempt suicide at a rate that, in sheer scope, invites comparison…
