Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell and Elections Director Karen Osborne presented the official 2012 canvass to the Board of Supervisors today, and the BOS approved it after a discussion of the controversy over the late vote count. Overall, turnout was slightly down this year compared with 2008, with 76.51 percent…
As you may know, or should know, Arizona State University beat the University of Arizona on Friday to win back college football’s oldest trophy, by a score of 41-34.Since you probably either saw the game, or heard about it, we’ll give you some of the finer points you may have…
A 14-year-old child is dead, and two other children were injured after being ejected from a vehicle that was rear-ended on Interstate 10 on Friday by a driver hopped up on anti-anxiety pills, police say.John Morken was driving the car that slammed into the SUV that had six occupants, and…
Seven state prison inmates in Florence are in intensive care, probably because they tried to get wasted this weekend.Of course, the prison doesn’t bring in bottles of pinot grigio for the inmates, so Pinal County officials are thinking it was the homemade “pruno” that did the inmates in, and landed…
David Goodrich told police in Tempe that he “accidentally” stepped on his roommate’s dog.The dog was “obviously dead” after this, Goodrich, 25, told the cops, but the fact that Goodrich was still wiping blood off the floor when his roommate got home — among other factors — has police thinking…
Gilman’s report from the front lines Wobblies, Unitarians, Occupy folks, and assorted concerned citizens converged on at least two Walmart locations in the Valley on Black Friday to protest the way the mega-corp treats its workers, and local videographer Dennis Gilman was on hand to capture some of the action,…
Rookie quarterback Ryan Lindley’s clearly not the Arizona Cardinals’ quarterback messiah, as evidenced by the 31-17 loss to the St. Louis Rams in Glendale yesterday, and Lindley’s four interceptions along the way.Lindley threw just two touchdown passes yesterday, and both of them were to Rams cornerback Janoris Jenkins, who ran…
Superstition Search and Rescue team members have located the remains of a man in the Superstition Mountains. Volunteers discovered the remains about a half-mile from the spot where Jesse Capen, a gold prospector in search of the Lost Dutchman’s Mine, had set up his campsite back in 2009. Capen, a…
Black Friday’s a great American pastime in which citizens storm retailers — most notably Walmart — fight with each other over low-quality and low-cost goods, and proceed to make YouTube videos of their fellow citizens fighting over the aforementioned goods.Between the local scene and the rest of the country, it…
Maricopa County Democratic Party Chair Ann Wallack will not be running for re-election this year when county Dems meet on Saturday, December 8 to elect new officers. Wallack, who has served as MCDP chair for four years, said she had been thinking about stepping aside for a while. But it…
Two brave women, aged 16 and 20, showed up at the Mesa Police Station on October 30 with a shocking tale: They’d been sexually abused by their stepfather, Edgar Garcia, for the past 12 years. They told of a series of rapes and molestations that began when the 20-year-old was…
Phoenix police report that a homicide investigation has begun after a body was found on Thanksgiving Day with obvious “trauma.” The body was found “in the area of 4015 East Madison” in Phoenix, writes Phoenix Officer James Holmes in an e-mail when asked about recent death investigations. “We have not…
Allan Sobol, the brash medical-marijuana marketer who got himself busted last year for opening a compassion club, has pleaded guilty to selling pot along with three former club employees. We profiled Sobol earlier this year in a feature story (see link below), chronicling his fights with other members of the…
Arizona sports fans will have their eyes glued to the Duel in the Desert tonight, the century-old rivalry football game between the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. CBS News is predicting a watchability factor of “not bad at all” for the annual Territorial Cup, with excitement expected from…
This Black Friday, (which began on Thursday), seemed tamer than last year, but a survey of YouTube vids this morning still turned up a few gems. We begin this compilation of seven videos with what looks like a dogpile on a TV or some other boxed item at a local…
The head of the Casa Maria Free Kitchen in Tucson has turned down a $2,000 donation from Walmart, calling it “blood money” because of the way the mega-chain treats workers. Brian Flagg admitted to the Arizona Daily Star, however, that it would have been “harder to resist” a higher amount,…
We sympathize with anyone who has to work on a major holiday like Thanksgiving Day. Instead of the traditional descent into T-Day nirvana, belly packed with turkey, stuffing and cerveza (or your liquid sustenance of choice), more of the retail workforce than ever is heading to Walmart, Target or the…
A business in Glendale has become Arizona’s first licensed medical-marijuana dispensary under a voter-approved 2010 law. It’s called Arizona Organix — but it would have been more fitting had the owners dubbed the place Target and adopted the mega-chain’s red concentric logo. This is hostile territory — the land of…
Bill Tonnesen is distracted by dog shit. A wet, orange-brown turd on a concrete paver at one of the several rental properties he’s recently renovated has stopped him dead in his tracks. “Oh, noooooo!” Tonnesen moans, pointing at the mess. “How did that get here? We’d better . . …
I have a problem I need your advice on. My granddaughters were born and raised in Georgia, as was their father. Their knowledge of their culture is zero, and I have tried to educate them by talking to them and even writing a book of my life growing up in…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s initial court date for his hit-and-run charge today was delayed till December 17 after his attorney Michael Kimerer asked for more time to prepare Horne’s defense. Horne has already pleaded not-guilty to the fender-bender, which took place in an apartment complex parking lot at the…
Forget about the settlement approved by the county this week that sends $3.25 million to the family of a woman who died in one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails, the Sheriff is more concerned with bitching about the extra nickel it’s going to cost to feed the inmates tomorrow.The latest…
