While J-Dud nabbed a double-double with 20 points (including a trio of three-pointers) and 10 rebounds, the rookie Morris racked 18 points off the bench in his 26 minutes of game time. It was definitely a hot night offensively for Planet Orange, as they shot 50 percent overall, racked up…
The arrest reports for the six people allegedly connected to the brutal murders of a Paradise Valley couple last month were unsealed this afternoon, but offer little new information about the murders — it’s so heavily redacted that one of the pages is completely blacked out, with the exception of…
Dead puppies are no fun — just ask 21-year-old Sadie Elizabeth Madrid, who was apparently so bored with her dead dogs that she left them to rot in her apartment for nearly two months.Madrid’s two dogs got sick in early December — they were throwing up, losing weight, etc. Rather…
Yusra Farhan’s daughter recently started talking with a boy. So, Farhan beat her with a shoe and tied her to a bed because her “Iraqi culture states that a female is not allowed to be having contact with males because females are not allowed to have boyfriends,” she later told…
A teen-touching former teacher at a Valley high school was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to one count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor with sexual motivation.Additionally, Otis Magee will have to register as a…
The Glendale Police Department has arrested two people they believe are responsible for the death of a person found burned in the desert near the White Tanks Mountains early this morning.The body has not yet been identified.Glendale police were contacted yesterday by the Phoenix Police Department about a possible homicide…
Xenophobia, self-adulation and delusion are just some of the repulsive dishes offered at ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s radio cafeteria of hate, which airs Tuesdays and Mondays at 7 p.m. on Phoenix’s KFNX 1100 AM.The disgraced Mesa pol, who lost by 12 points to now-state Senator Jerry Lewis in a…
Remember yesterday when the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office put out a press release saying how it used its “cell phone technology” to track down an inmate who escaped from an MCSO jail? Well, that was bullshit.We spoke to U.S. Marshal for Arizona David Gonzales this morning, and he tells us…
The Arizona Wildcats and Colorado Buffs are very similar teams–scrappy, undersized, terrific team defense, very well-coached. The two teams met last month in Boulder, and the Cats lost a one-point heartbreaker. Last night in Tucson was a different story, as Arizona, playing with just seven players, wore down Colorado in…
Yesterday had both its highs and lows for the Phoenix Suns. First the good news: Steve Nash was named to this year’s NBA All-Star team as a reserve on Thursday, which shouldn’t come as a surprise based on his outstanding play thus far in the season (including leading the league…
Phoenix has made public portions of the logs that former Mayor Phil Gordon’s security-detail once maintained to track how they spent their time. Though much anticipated, the documents hardly read like declassified top-secret Pentagon documents. Partly because their release comes more than two years after they were originally requested…
A minimum-security inmate at one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails escaped “several days ago,” but was arrested this afternoon at his girlfriend’s house in New Mexico, the MCSO announced this afternoon.If this is the first you’re hearing about an escaped MCSO inmate, that’s because the Sheriff’s Office didn’t…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery announced this afternoon that a sixth suspect has been arrested in connection to the murders of a Paradise Valley couple found bound and burned in their home last week.Additionally, Montgomery defends releasing Michael Crane from custody after he’d been arrested for unrelated crimes just weeks…
Ron Barber, a former aide to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, announced this morning that he’ll run in the special election to finish the remainder of Giffords’ term.Giffords resigned from Congress last month so she can focus on her recovery after getting shot in the head during last year’s shooting rampage…
A detention officer with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office accused of getting drunk and pointing a loaded gun at his own son has pleaded not guilty to one count each of aggravated assault and criminal damage.Jeffery Higgins entered his plea in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning.According to court records,…
Phoenix police said yesterday that the woman to the right could potentially be the mother of a newborn who was dumped in front of a Phoenix home on Tuesday. They’ve since contacted the woman, and it turns out she is NOT the mother of “Baby Kathleen.” “The woman pictured in…
Lots of sports action in Tempe this weekend, which for our purposes starts tonight at the Wells Fargo Arena, where the ASU Sun Devils should be in a close, if not so artistic, battle against the equally lowly Utah Utes. With Lockett, ASU was a marginal-at-best team. Without him, well,…
My family for six generations have been born and raised in Brownsville, Texas. Everyone speaks Spanish most of the time. Right now, almost every Republican in the state is trying to get redistricting to the finish line to cut out the bumper crop of Mexican-American candidates from coming up. They…
Long before we were officially a state, Arizona was making history — and not all of it bad, though some of it certainly borders on the unbelievable. In 1910, a Maricopa County Sheriff by the name of Carl T. Hayden took part in the first known automobile chase. He caught…
PRINCESS VICTORIA Victoria herself responds: Most interesting thing to me is that [inside the article] in an Arizona paper, the close-up photo of my ukelele case (with a bumper sticker that says “I Support Arizona!”) is covered by my Santa suit. Feels like George Orwell’s 1984, where truth is forbidden…
A Goodyear teen who brought a gun to school to kill his math teacher last year pleaded guilty this afternoon to one count each of attempted first-degree murder and possession of a firearm.Izrahias Morales was only 15 when he brought the gun to school last February, but was charged as…
A scholarship has been set up to honor the memory of slain Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Coleman, who was murdered last month while responding to a burglary call at a medical facility in Anthem.The Rotary Club of Anthem is the group behind the scholarship honoring the slain deputy.The scholarship…
