| February 2, 2009 | - Just after the Arizona Cardinals scored their last touchdown of Superbowl XLIII (which they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers), a cable channel in Tuscon, Arizona, interrupted the broadcast with pornography. “I just figured it was another commercial until I looked up,” said one viewer. “Then he did his little dance with everything hanging out.”
| Source:
BBC
|
| November 5, 2008 | -
California,
Florida, and Arizona passed propositions banning same-sex marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| July 27, 2008 | -
John McCain endorsed a ban on affirmative action in his home state of Arizona.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| May 3, 2008 | - An eight-year-old boy in Arizona died after a goal post fell on him during a soccer game.
| Source:
Fox News
|
| May 17, 2007 | -
Arizona
dogs were advised to not swallow hallucinogenic toads.
| Source:
Tucson Citizen
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| February 24, 2007 | -
Phoenix International Airport security officials using Smart-Check, the airport's new X-ray vision scanner, could see travelers' weapons, collarbones, and bellybuttons.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| December 4, 2006 | - A police officer in Tempe, Arizona, was criticized for telling two black men that they could get out of their littering tickets if they rapped. “The dangers of littering,” rapped one of the men, “you will get a ticket. If you ain't wit' it, you better be experienced.” “It's important,” said Reverend Jarrett Maupin, “for police officers to realize that black people do not speak hip-hop.”
| Source:
Yahoo News
|
| October 5, 2006 | - Further allegations emerged regarding the behavior of recently-resigned Congressman Mark Foley (R., Fla.) with underage pages. “He didn't want to talk about politics,” said one former page. “He wanted to talk about sex or my penis.” Congressman Jim Kolbe (R., Ariz.) said that he had confronted Foley over inappropriate contact with pages as early as 2000, and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert vowed not to resign over the scandal.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| July 19, 2006 | - Sheriff's deputies in Arizona stumbled upon 100 Mexican
immigrants wandering in the desert west of Phoenix.
| Source:
NY Times
|
| June 14, 2006 | - Vandals were emptying the water tanks that volunteers place in the Arizona desert; the volunteers maintain the tanks so that illegal immigrants from Mexico do not die from dehydration when crossing into the United States.
| Source:
KVOA Tucson
|
| May 15, 2006 | - The mayor of Scottsdale, Arizona, was offended by a new restaurant called the Pink Taco.
| Source:
Local6.com
|
| May 13, 2006 | - In Lynchburg, Virginia, at Liberty University (which fines its students $500 if they engage in witchcraft), Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) stood next to Jerry Falwell and spoke in support of the Iraq war.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Liberty University
|
| March 25, 2006 | - A poodle
rapist in Phoenix, Arizona, remained at large.
| Source:
KOLD
|
| March 8, 2006 | -
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano ordered more soldiers to patrol the Mexican border. "We are not," she said, "at war with Mexico."
| Source:
The Washington Post
|
| March 7, 2006 | - In Arizona a 52-year-old Deputy Fire Chief named Leroy Johnson was seen dragging a lamb into a neighbor's barn. The lamb’s owner, Alan Goats, entered the barn to confront Johnson. "You caught me, Alan," said Johnson, zipping up his wet pants. "I tried to fuck your sheep." Police described the victim as small, gray, three feet tall, and four feet long.
| Source:
The Smoking Gun
|
| February 2, 2006 | - An Arizona State University student was arrested for masturbating in a school library. "To be honest," he explained, "the Internet connection at my dorm isn't good enough."
| Source:
Web Devil
|
| December 26, 2005 | - A woman in New York City was under investigation for putting her dead husband in a suitcase and leaving him there until neighbors complained of the smell. “She wanted to take him to Arizona to be buried,” explained a detective.
| Source:
Newsday
|
| November 30, 2005 | - In Phoenix, Arizona, a 14-year-old freshman at Barry Goldwater High School was arrested for raping a 75-year-old woman.
| Source:
AZCentral.com
|
| August 23, 2005 | - President George W. Bush defended his policy in Iraq against the criticism of anti-war protesters like Cindy Sheehan. "Democracy is unfolding," he said. "We cannot tolerate the status quo." Bush, whose 36 percent approval rating is lower than Richard Nixon's during Watergate, spoke in praise of the war while visiting Donnelly, Idaho, which has a population of 130, as 200 anti-war protesters rallied outside. Bush also promoted his plan for a prescription drug benefit for Medicare while visiting a golf resort in El Mirage, Arizona.
| Source 1:
Democracy Now!
Source 2:
CNN
Source 3:
The Guardian
|
| July 22, 2005 | - It was hot in most of the United States. Many U.S. cities set records for high temperatures, and huge wildfires burned in the Southwest. At least twenty people, many of them homeless, died from the heat in Phoenix, Arizona.
| Source 1:
The New York Times
Source 2:
Washington Post
|
| May 14, 2005 | -
Wal-Mart apologized for running an advertisement that equated current Arizona zoning ordinances with the Nazi regime. Using a photo of a 1933 book burning in Berlin, the ad read: “Should we let government tell us what we can read? Of course not . . . So why should we allow local government to limit where we shop?”
| Source:
Washington Post
|
| April 18, 2005 | - The Mesa, Arizona, police department applied for funding to buy and train a tiny monkey that they can dress in a kevlar vest and send into dangerous situations.
| Source:
AP
|
| March 22, 2005 | - A thirteen-year-old Arizona girl threw an egg at the president's motorcade. She was arrested.
| Source:
Common Dreams
|
| March 7, 2005 | - An Arizona ice-cream-truck driver who raped and impregnated a nine-year-old girl was sentenced to life in prison.
| Source:
KPHO
|
| January 24, 2005 | -
United States
immigration authorities were evaluating a program that uses unmanned drones to patrol the border of Arizona and Mexico.
| Source:
USA Today
|
| November 21, 2004 | -
Scientists flooded the Grand Canyon.
| Source:
ABC News
|
| November 15, 2004 | -
Catholic dioceses in America were buckling under the financial strain of sex-abuse lawsuits; dioceses in Tucson, Arizona, and Portland, Oregon, had declared bankruptcy.
| Source:
Chicago Sun-Times
|
| July 9, 2004 | - Confused brown pelicans were crashing into streets in Arizona, because heat waves rising from the pavement look like water.
| Source:
New York Times
|
| September 0, 2000 | - U.S. National Park officials in Arizona, hoping to track poachers, planned to embed security microchips into saguaro cacti.
| Source:
The Scotsman
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