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It’s the digital age, the age where every move we make is virtually tracked through Twitter, Facebook, Myspace and more. We have cameras set up on nearly every corner, video clips are as easy to access as your cell phone, and yet somehow, animal cruelty still exists with over 5,000 cases being reported each month. Now a person has managed to slice 14 cats down their spine. Another 20 cats were poisoned and dumped into a Phoenix canal. And at least another 24 cats have been reported burned and/or drowned with threatening notes left next to their mutilated bodies in...

Fresh off of the Limbaugh smear, Rick Sanchez tries to bite off more than he can chew again. He compares Arpaio to Bull Connor, but it doesn't work.

Even though the DC protest was much, much, bigger every little bit still helps. I did not see any SRM coverage so all the more reason to cover the one that happened in Phoenix today! Lots of flags and love of country on display . It happened in front of the State Senate. If they continue to ignore us using the first they will eventually see us use the 2nd amendment.

Phoenix police on Friday released an audio recording of a 911 call made in the case of an 8-year-old Liberian girl allegedly raped by four young boys last month. In the five-minute call, the manager of the Phoenix building complex where the girl lived tells the dispatcher that a resident says a teenage boy locked the girl in a vacant apartment and had her screaming. The manager also says the girl came out of the apartment in only her underwear and holding her dress in her hand. The girl has been in state custody since the July 16 incident. The...

The men arrived on troop trains that came in the night. They all wore heavy coats with a big P on the shoulder and they would be spending the duration of World War II at the prisoner of war camp in Florence. It was one of more than ten such camps in Arizona. Star filesThe view from the guard tower of the camp in 46. The first prisoners who arrived in Florence, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, were Italian POWs. That was in May 1943. But, following Italy’s surrender in early September of that year, the prisoners were shipped...

The sheriff has started his own blog to combat media attacks. By KFYI News The Maricopa County Sheriff's Department has launched a new blog on the office's web site called "The Truth Behind the Headlines." The blog will swing back to media coverage the Sheriff believes is inaccurate and incomplete. So far, Sheriff Arpaio has only fought back against newspaper articles and editorials he says are skewed against him. Check out Sheriff Joe's blog here.

At the link is the interview done with Chris B. at the Phoenix Healthcare protest of President Obama. Chris B. is the black activist who was carrying the AR-15. Chris is a freedom activist. The interview with Chris starts about 4 minutes into the clip. Go to the link to hear the interview.

Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted says a lot of things in his column this week that would have got him labeled a loon in my high school Theology class. But that was in the 80s when the real loons were teaching high school Theology. We were taught not to take stories of miracles or the existence of the devil as literal. Such beliefs and talk were “mysto-babble� and indicative of an immature faith. We needed to get to the allegorical sense and to help us there we were given exhaustive naturalistic explanations of the miracles in the Bible. (note: My school...

Thousands of protesters and supporters of President Barack Obama’s health care reform efforts stormed the streets of Phoenix Monday, as the nation’s president came to town to address veterans. Eating breakfast at 7 a.m. at Tom’s Tavern in downtown Phoenix, Leona Meditz of Phoenix said the U.S. government isn’t designed to decide who should or should not get health care services. Instead, she said, the nation is built on competition, as insurers compete to provide coverage to citizens. Meditz said she read the 1,000-page health care proposal document, saying the effort is based on socialized medicine. “We need choices,” she...

Congress, Festival for Our Lady of Guadalupe   Events will take place Aug. 6 -8 in Phoenix following Supreme Convention. The Knights of Columbus will hold its First International Marian Congress on Our Lady of Guadalupe from August 6-8, 2009, following the organization’s 127th annual convention in Phoenix.  The Congress will conclude with a Guadalupe Festival at Jobing.com Arena on August 8. Nearly 20,000 attendees are expected from throughout the United States and from Mexico.Co-sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, the Diocese of Phoenix, the Archdiocese of Mexico City and the Center for Guadalupan Studies, the Congress will be held at...

In a pilot program, the charitable arm of Citigroup is giving the National Council of La Raza money to help buy foreclosed homes in Phoenix for rehabilitation and ultimate purchase by low-and moderate-income Latino families. In all, New York-based Citi Foundation is providing $1.75 million to the NCLR, of which $235,000 will go to its Raza Development Fund. That'll allow the fund to acquire, maintain and rehab properties to sell or lease. Raza Development Fund chief Tom Espinoza says the fund will add about $4 million and federal stimulus program money will boost the total to about $12 million to...

All involved were West African refugees. The girl's parents blamed the little girl. What is the media not telling us? Police: 8-Year-Old Raped by Four Boys (hat tip Azygos) Police allege the boys lured the girl to an empty storage shed on July 16 and restrained her as they sexually assaulted her. By Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) _ Phoenix police have arrested four boys between the ages of 9 to 14 for allegedly raping an 8-year-old girl last week. Sgt. Andy Hill said Wednesday that the boys face charges of kidnapping and sexual assault. Police allege the boys lured the...

SNIPPET: "Three U.S Airways planes were diverted from Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix to Yuma between 7 and 8 p.m. Monday, said Craig Williams, airport director. He added that he didn't know why the flights were diverted." SNIPPET: "United connects with Los Angeles while US Airways connects with Phoenix."

The United States may have narrowly missed a repeat of the 9/11 attacks in June — and, apparently, even the FBI doesn’t realize it. On June 4, a 24-year-old Muslim man named Raed Abdhul-Rahman Alsaif was arrested for trying to bring a seven-inch knife on board a U.S. Airways flight at Tampa International Airport, destined for Phoenix. The blade was seen by a screener and Alsaif was caught before he could get onto the airliner. Of course, he says he is innocent, as some forgetful friend gave him the luggage bag and failed to mention that a knife was embedded...

Fr. Rob Clements was just 10 years old when he discovered the beauty of the Catholic faith. He had been riding his bike in Sacramento when he stumbled upon a large Catholic church. Leaving his bike parked outside, he entered to find a priest in the midst of the concluding rites for a funeral. “It was just spectacular,” Fr. Clements said. “I saw the casket with the black cover on it and the crosses. The priest incensed the body and I was just blown away with this.” When he headed back outside the church, he discovered his bike was gone....

AUTHORITIES ARREST TWO PEOPLE ABOARD U.S. AIRWAYS FLIGHT AT PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AFTER SMUGGLING HANDGUN ON BOARD.

Saudi Arabian Muslim Student Raed Al-Saif at Univ. of Tampa Tries To Get On Plane With 7 inch Butcher Knife in His Carry On Bag, the last name "Al-Saif" is linked to Al-Qaeda. Fifteen of the nineteen on 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia they used box cutters and small knives to take over control of the 4 airplanes on 9/11. The United States government determined that al-Qaeda, headed by Osama bin Laden, bore responsibility for the attacks, with the FBI stating "evidence linking al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable". The Government...

EL MIRAGE, Ariz. -- A whispered 911 call from a cellphone early one January morning brought police to a home on West Columbine Drive in this Phoenix suburb. Inside, they found more than 30 half-naked and shivering men -- prisoners, police say, of a gang that had smuggled them in from Mexico. Beaten and threatened with a 9-mm Beretta pistol, a local detective's report said, the men were being shaken down for as much as $5,000 apiece, a ransom above the $1,000 that each had agreed to pay before being spirited across the border. Such cases are increasingly common in...

PHOENIX – Police in Phoenix say they've arrested a woman accused of leading an armed robbery gang involving her 12- and 14-year-old sons. Police say 51-year-old Cynthia White Roberson coached some of the four boys and three men who would face charges with her. The suspects are accused of at least 20 armed robberies in Phoenix and Glendale since late April. Police say Roberson lost her job six weeks ago and guilted her sons and some of the others into committing the robberies to pay for rent and a car loan.

What a great turn out - they estimated 5000+. It was SO awesome to be amongst all these wonderful people, standing strong for what we believe. At first it was hard to hear the speakers because a helicopter hovered for the first hour. I don't know if it was a news chopper or police, but it was annoying. After that, several speakers went up, from JD Hayworth, Bruce Jacobs (KFYI), John Shadegg, Russell Pierce, Trent Franks... I took these photos with my digital camera...

Photos from the Phoenix tea party...

Scattered SitesHome Ownership/Home Ownership Training The Scattered Sites Housing Program is offered by the City of Phoenix Housing Department in order to provide home ownership opportunities to qualified families with low to moderate incomes. This program educates and enables our families to purchase homes in areas where they can reside in safe and healthy living conditions throughout the City. Participants in the program select one of the Scattered Sites houses owned by the City of Phoenix. Our families work to qualify for a home mortgage while leasing the house from the City. The rent charged will not exceed 30% of...

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In what should send a frightening chill down the spine of every blogger, writer, journalist and First Amendment advocate in the United States, Phoenix police raided the home of a blogger who has been highly critical of the department. Jeff Pataky, who runs Bad Phoenix Cops, said the officers confiscated three computers, routers, modems, hard drives, memory cards and everything necessary to continue blogging. The 41-year-old software engineer said they also confiscated numerous personal files and documents relating to a pending lawsuit he has against the department alleging harassment - which he says makes it obvious the raid was an...

PHOENIX - Home sales last month in the Phoenix metropolitan area rose to their highest levels since 2005, foreclosures fell for the first time in a year and prices showed signs of leveling off in some areas. ``The affordable end of the Valley's housing market could finally be at the bottom looking up,'' said Mike Orr, a real-estate agent and analyst. ``Homes priced for $150,000 or lower are selling fast and even getting multiple offers. My money is on home prices in many of those neighborhoods being slightly higher by June.''

PHOENIX, Arizona (AFP) – A serial killer convicted of terrorizing Phoenix for over a year with a series of random drive-by shootings was on Friday sentenced to death, court officials said. Dale Hausner, 36, was found guilty earlier this month of six murders and 74 other offences during a deadly crime spree in this southwestern US city from May 2005 to June 2006. He was sentenced to death for each murder conviction. Earlier this week Hausner ordered his attorneys not to argue on behalf of his life. He also waived his right to present evidence about his life and background...

PHOENIX (CNS) -- Maybe TV isn't so bad after all. An estimated 92,000 inactive Catholics in the Phoenix Diocese have come back to the church in the last year thanks in large part to a groundbreaking television advertising campaign called Catholics Come Home. The promotional spots featured people and locations from around the Phoenix Diocese to promote the church during prime-time television. The cornerstone of the campaign, the Catholics Come Home Web site, addresses often misunderstood aspects of the faith. "For those who had fallen away from the practice of their faith, it let them know that we want them...

Looks like a flyer put out by the FBI Citing "Constitutional Defenders" and those "Making numerous references to the U.S. Constitution" in the same categoru as KKK, Neo-nazis, etc. Notably there is no listing on it for "Islamofascist", "Al-Qaeda" or "Islamic Militant"

A watchdog group claims that homes all over the country, including thousands in Phoenix and Tucson, may have been built with tainted drywall. "America's Watchdog" says the drywall may contain gypsum mined near Chinese toxic waste dumps. "We think the drywall is made of gypsum, which is a naturally occurring product mined in China," said Thomas Martin with the group. "But unlike U.S. manufacturers, the Chinese never cleanse the gypsum." Martin says the contamination isn't limited to only residential homes. Most of the houses were built after 2001. "Some of the mid to high-rise buildings that have been built during...

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a superstar in the area of returning illegal aliens to their home countries. Anyone who goes to his jail has their immigration status checked, and if they are illegals, they are turned over to ICE. He has been conducting "saturated patrols" in and around the Phoenix area, picking up hundreds of illegals. He has been working with our excellent Maricopa County Attorney, Andrew Thomas, to prosecute the illegals and their "coyote" handlers under Arizona's Human Smuggling law, with great success. The illegals and their supporters are so alarmed at his success that they have...

0bama has arrived in Phoenix for his "Town Hall" meeting at Dobson High School in Mesa tomorrow. He is staying at a Resort on Lincoln Dr that is also the venue this evening for a fundraiser for John McCain. Smart move on his part, at least he knows he'll have the hotel pretty much to himself tonight without having to go to the expense of booking all the other rooms...

In the story of the emperor with no clothes, it took someone whose observations are rarely heeded -- a child -- to point out the obvious fact that no one else could acknowledge. In the case of drug policy, it takes people who are usually ignored by Washington policymakers -- Latin Americans -- to perform the same invaluable service. Last week, a commission made up of 17 members, from Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa to Sonia Picado, the Costa Rican who heads the Inter-American Institute on Human Rights, did nothing but admit the truth: The war on drugs is a...

PHOENIX, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Police in Phoenix, Ariz., say they are tackling the almost-daily occurrence of home invasions and kidnappings in the Arizona capital. Officials said the high number of home invasions and kidnappings has earned the city the title of "kidnap-for-ransom capital" of the United States, The Arizona Republic reported Sunday.

The Gulf Cartel in Mexico has now been deemed the biggest terroristic threat in the United States, including in North Texas. In recent months, there have been no kidnappings or deaths related to the Gulf Cartel in North Texas, authorities say. However, a large task force recently arrested dozens of cartel members and confiscated millions in cash, drugs and weapons. The Gulf Cartel has been called one of the most dangerous groups in the world, and authorities said they have waged a war to control all the drugs coming into the U.S. from Mexico. "They are fighting back with the...

Phoenix has more kidnappings than any other city in America due to the drug cartels. Audio at the link of Glenn Beck discussing this with someone in Phoenix. He also offers to by rifles for the Phoenix police... Since they only have 15!

Phoenix Now Kidnapping Capital of US Thanks to Mexican Drug Gangs

According to ABC News, the use of kidnapping by Mexican drug cartels for ransom and revenge has spread beyond the Rio Grande and into Arizona — and the federal government has done nothing to stop it. Phoenix has become the second-worst city in the world for kidnappings, right behind Mexico City, with brutal dismemberments for those abductees who do not get ransomed quickly enough: In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City...

In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.

div class="noticia_imagen_contenedor" style="width: 288px;"> Bishop-elect James S. Wall Phoenix, Feb 5, 2009 / 11:33 am (CNA).- This morning, the Holy Father appointed a Phoenix priest, Fr. James S. Wall as the new bishop of Gallup, New Mexico.  Fr. Wall, 44, will be the diocese’s fourth bishop. Fr. Wall, the current Vicar for Priests for the Diocese of Phoenix, was born in 1964 in Gando, Arizona on the Navajo reservation.  After studying History at Arizona State University, he went on to earn a Master of Divinity degree from St. John Seminary in Camarillo California, Jim Dwyer from the Diocese of Phoenix...

PHOENIX -- The mayor of Phoenix blew his nose into a Terrible Towel and then threw it to the ground at a send-off rally for the Cardinals in Phoenix on Monday. On Tuesday night, he apologized for his actions. Mayor Phil Gordon said, "At no time did anyone intend, in any way, to offend the Steelers organization and their many fans, supporters and traditions."

Paperwork's been filed that seeks to extend the terms of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and four other city council members. Backers say the move -- which would eliminate staggered council terms -- would save a lot of cash during tough economic times.

<p>PHOENIX (AP) - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans the latest in a series of "crime suppression" sweeps on Friday in a rural area west of Phoenix.</p> <p>An estimated 200 deputies and posse volunteers will fan out near Interstate 10 and Miller Road near the town of Buckeye.</p>

PHOENIX -- The 61-year-old owner of a Phoenix jewelry store shot and wounded two would-be robbers who walked into the business and pepper sprayed him in the face, police said. The men entered the store near 32nd Street and Bell Road Monday afternoon and attempted to sell a watch, said Detective Cindy Scott of the Phoenix Police Department. The owner said he could not purchase the watch and both men left the store, Scott said. "About ten minutes later, the suspects returned and pepper sprayed the victim in the face," Scott said. One of the men then removed a metal...

Police say one of two young boys beaten severely in an attack in a Phoenix park has died. Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson says 7-year-old Jesse Ramirez died early Friday of his injuries. .. His cousin, 10-year-old Edwin Pellecier, remains in critical condition at a local hospital. Police arrested 36-year-old Jose Sauceda Gallegos within hours of the attack. Thompson says additional charges will be added to the child abuse and dangerous crimes against children charges he faces. ...

Monsignor Dale Fushek, founder of LifeTeen Phoenix, Dec 16, 2008 / 07:23 pm (CNA).- Bishop of Phoenix Thomas J. Olmsted has issued a decree of excommunication to Monsignor Dale Fushek, founder of LifeTeen, and Father Mark Dippre for their establishment of and leadership in an "opposing ecclesial community."Fushek, one of three founders of LifeTeen, has not been active in the youth ministry for four years.The priests had served together in the 1990s at St. Timothy’s Catholic Community in Mesa, Arizona, the East Valley Tribune reports. A year ago, they founded the non-denominational Praise and Worship Center, which meets Sundays at...

Fr. Dale Fushek, best known for being one of the founders of "Life Teen", has finally been excommunicated. From the Diocese of Phoenix website: December 15, 2008-The Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix, has issued a Decree of Excommunication to Reverend Monsignor Dale Fushek and Reverend Mark Dippre. Fushek and Dippre have incurred the censure of excommunication because they have chosen to be in schism with the Catholic Church by establishing and leading an opposing ecclesial community known to the public as the Praise and Worship Center. Both priests have consistently refused to comply with explicit directions...

MAF Announcing Honoring Heroes at the Holidays IIMove America Forward is thrilled to announce that we are bringing back Honoring Heroes at the Holidays to honor our troops again this Christmas and holiday season! Last year, MAF introduced Honoring Heroes at the Holidays and traveled to cities all over the country. We were so excited by the results that we had to do it again for 2008! Our troops deserve to know that we love and appreciate them! Starting December 13th, we’ll once again be hitting the road to take our message to the people of America who want to...

MYFOXPhoenix.com/Arizona Dept. of Public Safety Arizona Department of Public Safety Detectives have confiscated about 2,118 pounds of marijuana from a truck that appeared identical to a United Parcel Service truck. A suspect fled the scene when an officer and narcotics canine attempted to stop the vehicle, according to MYFOXPhoenix.com. A search of the truck yielded nearly $1.2 million worth of marijuana bundles typically transported by

PHOENIX, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Muslim leaders in Arizona have drawn increased scrutiny from federal officials in the past year because of a string of suspicious incidents, officials say. Although no one in the state has been accused of supporting terrorists, one Mesa, Ariz., man was charged with lying to the FBI during the terror financing investigation into a Muslim charity accused of funneling money to the Palestinian group Hamas, The Arizona Republic reported Sunday. Also drawing attention to Arizona Muslims was a target-shooting episode in Phoenix that involved a large group of Muslim men and boys firing hundreds of...