With time winding down on the Holiday DUI Task Force’s operations, the statewide crackdown on drunken driving continued with another 182 arrests on Saturday.
Since the Thanksgiving weekend, the task force has posted more than 2,500 arrests. Tonigh
Mexican illegal immigrant Lindi sat down in the weeks before Christmas to decide when to go back to Mexico. She has spent three years working as a hairdresser in and around Phoenix, but now she figures it is time to go back to Mexico [for good].
Police in suburban Scottsdale have begun routinely asking for proof of citizenship from every suspect they arrest and turning those who are in this country illegally over to federal immigration officials.
A motorcycle cop seized the car belonging to a foreign motorist legally driving through Mesa, Arizona in what is being investigated as a racial profiling incident. Police claim he was guilty of backing up illegally and cited a statute that is almost
Electronic monitoring of motorists will soon expand dramatically as states begin using radio frequency identification chips in drivers' licenses. These chips broadcast the identity of card holders to any chip-reading sensor within a minimum of th
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has spent $2.5 million in public money on public service advertisements, most of which he’s been in, since taking office 3 years ago. Thomas is using the cloak of public service to promote himself politically.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to waste even more public money by appealing a court ruling regarding visiting hours for attorneys and other legal defense personnel meeting with inmates in county jails.
The Bush administration warned landowners along the southern border Friday that it would seize their property if they refused to cooperate with federal efforts to build a fence meant to slow illegal immigration.
The Strategic Edge Breakfast Club on Thursday. Libertarian activist, Barry Hess will debate Mark Manoil, Democrat Commissioner on the looming crisis in American health care. Debating where we are, where we're heading and what can be done
Under increasing pressure to take a stronger stand on immigration issues, Mayor Phil Gordon announced Monday that he would seek to end a controversial police immigration-enforcement policy. Operations Order 1.4 prevents city police in most cases from
Tom Bearup - the only announced candidate against Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the Republican Primary and was part of Arpaio's administration. ( those in Arizona that care INTERVIEW DATE: Thursday, May 22, 2003
Officials are investigating a YouTube.com video that appears to show an unknown man driving a Lamborghini Murcielago about 219 mph on Loop 202. [It's only taxpayer money to investigate after all.]
Phoenix will likely have to slash programs and services in the coming year as the result of a budget shortfall caused by the slowing housing market and plunging sales-tax revenue. The current forecast shows Phoenix will take in $53 million less than
Foes of public financing of elections are trying once again to void parts of the Clean Elections law that Arizona voters approved in 1998. The legal papers filed in federal court contend that provisions of the law unconstitutionally coerce candidates
Richard Gage, AIA is a 20-year architect, has performed extensive research into the collapses of all 3 World Trade Center buildings. What he has to present in a live multi-media presentation is shocking and timely. This Saturday
Courts must balance First Amendment concerns and competing interests when considering whether to require identification of senders of anonymous e-mails, an Arizona court ruled stemming from a corporate executive's personal life.
Stores selling “adult” magazines have no state constitutional right to stay open all night, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge panel reinstated criminal charges against the owners of two Phoenix stores. They
Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.
Fort officials chang
Judge Anna M. Baca of Maricopa County Superior Court said evidence shows Dennis Wilenchik, a private attorney deputized by the County Attorney acted under grand jury laws that required him to notify the grand jury foreman and the county’s top judge t
Beginning Jan. 1, Arizonans arrested for certain crimes will be compelled to give (evidence) a DNA sample to law enforcement. Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard announced the state's plan for accommodating that new data and coordinating the e
Taylor said he’s using YouTube and CraigsList.org is because police need all the help they can get.
“We’re very concerned for our residents,” he said.
Together, Taylor said both cases have gotten more than 150 hits. But he said he wants an arre
This taxpayer funded beauty contest violates libertarian principles and they will not give their sanction by participating. The AzLP won a lawsuit in 1996 to be removed from this event but the state government can't take "NO" as an answ
[what a surprise] A woman who died in police custody during an airport layover was intoxicated on a potent mix of alcohol and antidepressants and accidentally strangled herself on her shackles, an autopsy released Friday concludes.
The Maricopa Co
Phoenix's Palo Verde Nuclear Plant was under a 9 hour lock down today after security personnel detected a pipe bomb in a vehicle trying to enter the plant. Here is the behind the scenes story.Freedom's Phoenix exclusive!
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's top minions don't understand the public part of public documents. Let's hope that, one day, the sheriff's regime will fall like some South American junta, and Chagolla will be lucky to be doing his flacking for th
Talk on Real ID, especially Gov. Napolitano's agreement with Homeland Security. - Jeff Greenspan, Regional Coordinator for Ron Paul 2008 Campaign will reveal what the Ron Paul campaign has been up to recently locally and in the western USA
Someone sends me a copy of this letter Attorney General Terry Goddard fired off to County Attorney Andrew Thomas mentioning the New Times case, and asking that Thomas recuse his office from the investigation and have it "transferred immediately
The ruling comes in an Arizona case in which social workers, accompanied by Maricopa Co. deputy sheriffs, made unsupported threats to place a family's children in custody and arrest the parents if they were not allowed to search the family's
I was happy to see the Republic bury the story on B4. Though I was a little disturbed to see how quickly they removed the original story from AZCentral.com. I reckon Rep editor Ward Bushee ain't cut out for a night in the slammer. Heh.