Aircraft emergency slides aren’t always the bouncy-castle thrill they appear to be — as Tammie Dent knows too well. The Phoenix woman broke her tailbone on a slide after an Allegiant Air jet carrying 154 people made an emergency landing in Flagstaff two years ago. Dent and her husband are…
Gilman skewers Pearce and brings back an old Pearce bud from the dead From beyond the grave, J.T. Ready haunts recalled, disgraced state Senator Russell Pearce in this new video by Dennis Gilman on the controversy surrounding Pearce’s racist e-mails, unearthed and made public by the ACLU. Some of the…
When a pair of women found Christopher Shahin in the backseat of his car with a girl last year, Shahin let the women know that the girl was his “baby mama” and that “she fine.”The girl was not Shahin’s “baby mama,” nor was “fine” — she was a 14-year-old girl…
Former Alaska Governor and Vice President runner-up Sarah Palin says Congressman Jeff Flake should be the next U.S. Senator from Arizona.The gaffe-prone ex-governor — who briefly wanted to “stand with our North Korean allies” and sparked concerns about the “Department of Law” — says Flake’s the kind of guy who…
These days, the once-proud Houston Astros are more like a Triple-A minor league franchise than a bona fide big-league team. So when the `Stros came to town over the weekend, it was welcome news for the up-and-down Arizona Diamondbacks, who are (or should be) in desperation mode now as the…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lead birther “investigator,” Mike Zullo. After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve narrowed it down to five finalists. Only one person…
See also: Russell Pearce’s Racism “Discovered” by Arizona’s Media See also: Russell Pearce’s Mexican-Bashing E-mails Slammed By Randy Parraz, Others Recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s heart, or what little there is of it, goes out to the victims of the Dark Knight Rises shootings in Aurora, Colorado. But…
See Also: Russell Pearce’s Racism “Discovered” by Arizona’s Media Former Senate President Russell Pearce’s racist e-mails, recently made public by the ACLU, were slammed today by politicians and activists at the Arizona State Capitol. Around 20 members of Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group that made the 2011 recall…
In the past few weeks, we’ve ranked the dumbest moments of two of Arizona’s most trusted elected officials, Governor Jan Brewer and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. We decided to give the politicians a break this week and rank the dumbest moments of individuals who we’d actually expect to have really stupid…
See also: Naked Man on Bath Salts No. 2: Michael Hurtado Was Making Out With CarsSee also: Tempe Joins the Naked-Man-on-Bath-Salts Train Seriously, Tempe: put down the bath salts, and put on your clothes.For the third time this week, Tempe police have arrested a naked person doing really weird things,…
See also: Congressional Candidate Matt Salmon Says Lobbyist Matt Salmon Never Lobbied for “Obamacare” Republican Congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-congressional candidate Matt Salmon’s explanation of doing lobbying work on “Obamacare” bills — or not doing lobbying work on the bills — isn’t quite satisfying former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams.Adams accused his primary opponent…
See also: ACLU Trying to Stop 20-Week Abortion Ban; Says “No Court Has Ever Upheld” Such a Law Bill Montgomery, Maricopa County Attorney, wants a lawyer for the unborn in a lawsuit targeting a state law that bans most late-term abortions. The Republican politician filed a motion in federal court…
See also: Tempe Joins the Naked-Man-on-Bath-Salts Train The Tempe Police Department was probably not messing around Wendesday when it issued a public warning about the chemicals known as “bath salts.”After finding 23-year-old Sean-Paul Branscome slamming himself against walls and jogging around a Tempe neighborhood in the nude on Sunday after…
Don Kenney, a former Arizona lawmaker and the “quarterback” of one of the state’s worst scandals, has been charged with five felonies related to his fraudulent California real estate license. In the infamous AzScam case, Kenney was among several lawmakers in 1990 who sold their votes to a man they…
See also: ACLU Seeks New Injunction on “Papers Please” Portion of SB 1070 See also: Russell Pearce Scores Another Win Against Hispanics See also: Russell Pearce’s Falsehoods, Inaccuracies and Inventions on Channel 12’s Sunday Square-Off See also: Russell Pearce Preaches Hate on Ban Amnesty Now Radio Show Color me bemused by the local…
See also: Shooting at a Midnight Screening of The Dark Knight Rises Leaves 12 Dead, 50 Injured in Colorado Chilling radio traffic by police and fire fighters released on the Web reveals the chaos found by first responders at the scene of the mass shooting at a Colorado theater. At…
A Phoenix man is accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend last week, as police say his story unraveled because he failed to properly light the crime scene on fire.Dwandarrius Robinson, 21, faces murder, arson, and kidnapping charges after the body of his girlfriend, Shaniqua Hall, was found bound in burning…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu declared his office vindicated after the Pima County Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute his director of communications over allegations that he unlawfully deleted public records. It wasn’t exactly a clean-cut victory for Babeu or his office…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his birther brigade — led by chief “investigator” Mike Zullo — held another press conference this week to announce their new “evidence” that President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery.Not surprisingly, the Cold Case Posse’s “evidence” was debunked months before Arpaio and Zullo presented…
Forget everything you learned about the Holocaust, kids, because Congressman Trent Franks is contemplating whether abortion is actually the “greatest genocide in world history.”There’s a reason we have a category of stories called “Trent Franks (Sigh)” and it’s for stuff like this — or when he said black people were…
See also: Joe Arpaio’s Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He’s Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio Racial-Profiling Trial Draws Protestors’ Calls for Justice on Opening Day See also: Joe Arpaio’s Racial Profiling Case Costs County Close To $1 Million, So Far In the law-enforcement experience of Maricopa County…
See also: Tom Liddy was Andrew Kunasek’s Deep Throat; County Supervisor Describes Tip on Arpaio/Thomas Plot to Overthrow Board See also: Maria Brandon, Fired Maricopa Civil Attorney, Says County Retaliated Against Her for Defending Sheriff Joe Arpaio Tom Liddy, the son of notorious Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy, stole some…
