Court orders for DNA samples of more than two dozen Phoenix police officers were served on Monday in regards to the death of Phoenix Sergeant Sean Drenth. The officers ordered to turn over their DNA are the same cops believed to be involved in a fraud scheme that resulted in...
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Cartel members aren't really turning Pinal County into something more like Afghanistan, despite what Sheriff Paul Babeu wrote in a letter last week to the mayors of several Arizona border cities.Ironically, the sheriff had written in response to the mayors' urging that he stop putting out inflammatory, inaccurate statements about...
If you were expecting to learn the fate Prop. 203 -- Arizona's medical marijuana initiative -- tomorrow, don't hold your breath. Election officials don't expect to be done counting ballots until next week, which violates election statute, but, as we just found out, is not that big a deal.From the...
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In Season: Winter Squash
One of the defining moments of the latest war on medical marijuana in Arizona came last month when Gilbert SWAT officers raided the home of a patient suspected of having a single ounce of weed. Ross Taylor's not only a bona fide, card-holding patient under the law, he also is...
Arizona's mental health laws are among the best in the country and might have been used to get Jared Loughner treatment if applied properly, says Charles "Chick" Arnold, the state's leading expert in mental health law. "While our system sucks, our statutes are the best in the country," says Arnold...
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Barnett Lotstein, the face of ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' legal baloney, has been hired at a Scottsdale law firm. Before he quit the job voters gave him in 2008, Thomas typically had Lotstein -- his spokesman -- answer all the tough questions. You know, questions like "Do you have...
One year in the early '80s, my sister was a Brownie, my mom was the cookie chairman and there existed a Girl Scout cookie called the Kookabura which was everything I loved in a cookie. Girl Scout cookie season is upon us already this year, which has me reminiscing. As...
It was one of those perfect sun-drenched spring afternoons in Tempe, the sort of day that draws so many kids to America's most shat-upon institution of higher learning, Arizona State University. It's not hard to see why a group of college kids playing kickball and drinking beer on a small...
Title: Touch My Beer and I'll Kill Ya Basics: Let's start with what Catfish Mustache isn't (thank God): Countrified rock, emo, pop-punk. What we do have -- in lieu of all those super fun genres -- is some funk rock with some hip-hop sprinkled in for good measure. Warning --...
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Top 10 Songs for Jukebox Warfare
At the end of 2007, Against Me!'s album New Wave was one of the most acclaimed albums of the year: number one on Spin's list, number five on Blender's, nine in Rolling Stone, 21 in the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll. This year, the band's newest album, White Crosses,...
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Brewed For Battle: Doppelbock
It's about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we're losing track of the times we've said, "Woah, when did that go up?", we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town -- their...
Tempe art-punks Vegetable sprouted much more quickly than most bands. Whereas plenty of their peers' projects take years to develop, Vegetable's backstory comprises a flurried few months, culminating in a debut single, a regional tour, and the honor of closing out the now-defunct Eastside Records in the time it would...
The Arizona Supreme Court today handed state Senate President Russell Pearce a partial win in his bid to rig the redistricting process that will affect Sand Land politics for the next 10 years.In an order just issued by Vice Chief Justice Andrew Hurwitz, the court agreed with Pearce and state...
Louie Puroll crouches beside an ocotillo in the desert between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, his M-16 rifle slung in front of him. It's a cool November morning, and we are in Pinal County, 3.5 miles south of civilization, which is the Veja Truck Stop at Interstate 8 and State Route...
Governor Jan Brewer will appear on CNN tonight and give her explanation of the allegation that she was drunk when she crashed into the back of a mini-van in 1988. According to Jan, the news that she apparently got away with a DUI is the result of one thing: "Silly...
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Safwat Saleem was baffled when the results of the latest Pew Research Center survey showed nearly one-in-five Americans now say Obama is a Muslim, and his only reaction (a gag reflex, he says) was to laugh.The graphic designer, computer programmer, filmmaker and artist says he's trying to express the humor...
UPDATED: Click here for update.Like mother, like daughter... Rachel Brock, the 21-year-old daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and his wife, Susan, who is currently in jail on multiple charges related to an alleged sexual relationship she had with an underage boy, has been arrested for partaking in sexual...
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2010 Redux: Recipes
T he relationship between Alyssa Goodale and the women treating her for Lyme disease ended abruptly in February 2010. It had not been inexpensive, costing Alyssa's parents more than $10,000 out of pocket over a four-month stretch on "energy machine" sessions and vitamin and nutritional supplements, not to mention a...