Arizona

On Friday, President Donald Trump’s campaign dropped its lawsuit in the state of Arizona. As The Wall Street Journal reported, after alleging that some ballots in Maricopa County were improperly rejected, Trump’s lawyers said that they wouldn’t ask officials to recount them. As attorney Kory Langhofer admitted at the hearing, less than 200 votes were […]

Fox News said it is standing by the decision to call the Arizona race in favor of Joe Biden. The network came under fire on Wednesday and Thursday for calling the contest as newly counted ballots show the numbers continuing to tighten. The cable network was among the first to declare Arizona for Biden, announcing […]

With 86 percent of the vote reported, former Vice President Joe Biden appears to be on his way to securing the first victory by a Democratic presidential candidate in Arizona since 1992, as he leads President Donald Trump by a 51 percent to 47.6 percent margin, according to The New York Times. The apparent shift […]

Mary Ann Mendoza, an Arizona woman who has been given the title “Angel Mom,” is scheduled to speak Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention. Mrs. Mendoza rose to prominence when her son was killed in a drunk driving incident that also claimed the life of the other driver, an undocumented immigrant. Since then, she’s […]

Arizona Republican Martha McSally gave an unusual pitch to potential donors this week — give up a meal so they can give to her campaign. The incumbent senator is locked in a tight race to keep her seat, and as AzFamily.com reported, she suggested that her backers could forgo some food and use that cash […]

The headquarters for the Maricopa County Democratic Party in Phoenix, Arizona, burned nearly to the ground on Friday morning, a fire that local authorities suspect to be the work of an arsonist. As Business Insider reported, the fire was sparked in the early morning hours and put out by close to 1 a.m. local time, […]

A CBS News poll released on Sunday found that President Donald Trump is trailing the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden in Florida, also establishing that the two candidates are virtually tied in Texas and Arizona. The poll found that Biden has a six-point advantage over Trump in Florida, while Trump is ahead of […]

A woman identified as Melissa Rein Lively has been captured in a bizarre video destroying a face mask display at a Target store in Arizona. Posted to YouTube, the video of the incident has since gone viral, and Lively has been dubbed the latest “Karen” to cause a scene in public, according to The New […]

Instagram star and YouTuber Amber Fillerup took to Instagram on Thursday, July 2, to share a series of photos she took during her family’s recent road trip through Arizona. Fillerup, her husband David, and their three children Atticus, Rosie and Frankie spent the past week hiking, exploring and taking in nature. The first photo in […]

19-year NBA veteran Jason Terry, who played a key role in helping the Dallas Mavericks capture an NBA title in 2011, is reportedly set to join the coaching ranks at his alma mater. The Athletic‘s Shams Charania reported via Twitter on Wednesday that the 42-year-old is joining Sean Miller’s staff at the University of Arizona […]

Republican Senator Martha McSally could be in big trouble in her re-election bid, a pollster claimed. As AZCentral.com reported, the Arizona incumbent is trailing by 13 points to Democrat Mark Kelly in the OH Predictive Insights tracking poll, which the news outlet obtained this week. The poll showed that McSally — who lost a Senate […]

More than two years after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump, Joe Arpaio is looking to get his old job back. The former Arizona sheriff, who left office in disgrace after being convicted of criminal contempt related to his department’s targeting of suspected illegal immigrants, this week filed election papers signaling his intention to […]

President Donald Trump‘s border wall with Mexico has long been the subject of fierce controversy. However, a new line of attack hit the proposed plans earlier this week after Raúl M. Grijalva, a Democratic representative from Arizona, slammed the president for beginning construction in Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, per The Washington Post. The […]

Two Arizona parents were arrested Tuesday after a fire at their Phoenix home resulted in the discovery of human skeletal remains. According to a CNN report, the couple identified as 56-year-old Rafael Loera and 50-year-old Maribel Loera face charges of child abuse after authorities earlier rescued three children in their custody. With the new discovery, […]

This past Thursday, a man in Arizona was caught trying to use a fake skeleton to drive in the high-occupancy lane, reports NBC News. He dressed the skeleton in a camouflage bucket hat and clothing before sliding it into the passenger seat of his car. For those unfamiliar, a HOV lane is exclusive to drivers […]

An orphaned teenager in Arizona is being forced out of his home by his grandparents’ homeowners association, which claims that housing the teen violates the community’s covenants that only people aged 55 and over can live there, Phoenix’ KNXV-TV reports. Collin Clabaugh, 15, lost both of his parents within the span of a few weeks. […]

The last time the Clemson Tigers faced the Ohio State Buckeyes was in the 2016 Fiesta Bowl, which was also a College Football Playoff semifinal. On Saturday, the two teams will meet once again in the Fiesta Bowl, the first showdown between the two FBS powerhouses since that 2016 confrontation. The game at State Farm […]

As President Donald Trump continues to face an ongoing impeachment inquiry battle which has now been taken up by the House Judiciary Committee for review before the matter could be passed to the U.S. Senate, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Vice President Joe Biden reeled in somewhat surprising poll results in the […]

An Iowa woman was killed this weekend after being struck by shrapnel from an exploding gender reveal, police say. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon in the town of Knoxville, which is close to 40 miles southeast of Des Moines. As the USA Today reported, the 56-year-old woman was severely injured the explosion sent […]

Kim Kardashian has been on television for much of her adult life. Her family’s reality television show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, debuted all the way back in 2007 and the public has been watching the family ever since. Despite that, many fans still don’t really know what Kim used to look like back when […]

The Republican Party of Arizona is facing national criticism after making a vow to stop Mark Kelly, husband of shooting survivor Gabby Giffords, “dead in his tracks.” The wording was used in a fundraising email sent this week by Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, who accused Kelly of trying to take guns away from people. […]

An Arizona widow — the widow of a veteran, no less — was told by her Homeowners Association (HOA) that she couldn’t display an American flag because it doesn’t fit in with her neighborhood’s “look.” As Yahoo News reports, 82-year-old Donna Cordero lives in a Peoria, Arizona retirement community. Like so many such communities, it’s […]

Doug Ducey launched a blistering shot at Nike after the shoe company heeded the advice of Colin Kaepernick in pulling a sneaker with the Betsy Ross flag, but now the Arizona governor appears to be taking it back. Last week, Ducey had announced on Twitter that he directed Arizona’s commerce authority to pull all financial […]

Starbucks apologized on Sunday for a July 4 incident in which six Tempe, Arizona police officers were asked to leave one of its locations because a customer didn’t “feel safe” around them, Reuters reports. The apology comes after the company had had a few days to investigate the incident. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, […]

The manager of a Tempe, Arizona, Starbucks reportedly asked several police officers to leave the establishment because at least one customer “didn’t feel safe” around them, Phoenix’ KSAZ-TV reports. The incident happened on Thursday, July 4. According to the Tempe Officers Association, five officers had gone to an undisclosed location in the city and ordered […]

An Arizona mom has been arrested on charges of child neglect, after allegedly leaving her 9-year-old son at McDonald’s so she could go to a casino and gamble, Yahoo News reports. The boy purportedly told police that his mother frequently leaves him alone, “but she always comes back.” Stacy Rupp, 34, allegedly left Phoenix with […]

An Arizona man allegedly robbed a bank a few months after being released from prison following a decades-long sentence for bank robbery and then told authorities he did it because he wanted to go back to jail, per CTV News. He reportedly said that he couldn’t afford to live on his small Social Security benefit. […]

On Tuesday, a video of a helicopter rescue that didn’t go quite as planned made the rounds on social media. After 74-year-old injured hiker Kati Metro was lifted from the ground in a stretcher, it began to spin at high speed as the helicopter ascended. According to her husband, George Metro, Kati is still feeling […]

A program called Food for Fines was successful in raising over 10,000 pounds of donated non-perishable food in exchange for clearing public library debt in Tucson, Arizona. According to local news outlet KGUN, the fundraiser ran for two weeks from April 15 to April 30. The 10,000 pounds of food accumulated was able to assist […]

Former space shuttle pilot and Gulf War veteran Mark Kelly has announced via Twitter that he is running for U.S. Senate in Arizona, according to CNN. “My next mission…. #FullSpeedAhead #ForArizona,” he tweeted on Tuesday. Kelly may be best known for being a space shuttle pilot and astronaut, having piloted and commanded numerous space shuttle […]

Cindy McCain, the widow of Sen. John McCain, runs the McCain Instituite, which has programs that are meant to combat human trafficking. McCain claimed in a radio interview this week that she personally prevented a human trafficking incident at an airport, but police say that’s not what happened. According to Arizona Family, a website for […]

The incapacitated Arizona woman who recently gave birth while in a long-term care facility was not in a coma, a lawyer for the woman’s family now states. Instead, the woman has intellectual disabilities as a result of seizures early in her childhood. Of course, this still means correct consent was not given by the woman […]

Mark Kelly, the retired astronaut who is married to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is eyeing a run for the U.S. Senate from Arizona in 2020, the Arizona Republic reported Thursday. An organization called 314 Action, which encourages the election of political candidates with a background in STEM fields, has launched an effort to draft Kelly […]

A high school basketball referee got himself into serious hot water after making a supposed joke that has highly racist undertones attached to it before starting a match. There are plenty of things that have become unacceptable to say as we’ve acknowledged the historic inequalities — whether it be as a result of race, gender, […]

Kody Brown and his wives Meri, Robyn, Janelle, and Christine are making yet another big move from their Las Vegas, Nevada homes to Flagstaff, Arizona, bringing with them an entirely new host of problems as the new season of Sister Wives readies for its debut on TLC. During this season, relationships are strained and questioned […]

As the Inquisitr previously reported, an Arizona woman who has been in a vegetative state for over 14 years gave birth last week, prompting a sexual misconduct investigation of the nursing facility she was housed in, Hacienda Healthcare. On Monday, the CEO of the facility, Bill Timmons, announced his resignation, which was unanimously accepted. The […]

Donald Trump is at least partially to blame for Republican Martha McSally’s loss to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in the November 6 midterm election, according to an internal Arizona GOP memo. And as KNXV-TV (Phoenix) reports, the memo also blames the memory of John McCain, a damaging primary cycle, and the old foe of politicians everywhere: […]

A coffee shop in Arizona has decided to take on a theme that many will be attracted to and others will avoid at all costs, reports Florida’s WUFT. This coffee shop is called The Trumped Store and Coffee House, and it is located in Show Low, Arizona. According to reports, a steady stream of customers […]

An Arizona man is accused of murdering his girlfriend on the very same day he was released from prison, KTAR-FM (Glendale) is reporting. David James Bohart, 34, had only been out of prison for a matter of days, having completed a three-year sentence on drug-related charges, when he was brought right back into custody following […]

A Tucson man says he was assaulted in the city’s downtown area for wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat, KVOA-TV (Tucson) is reporting. Jonathan Sparks says he is a passionate supporter of Donald Trump and, as such, makes it a point to wear the white-on-red hat bearing the slogan, which has become symbolic […]

An 11-year-old Arizona girl foiled a kidnapper by demanding a “code word,” causing him to flee once he realized she wasn’t going to fall for his scheme, Fox News is reporting. Now the girl’s mother is crediting that bit of parenting advice with saving her daughter’s life. For decades now, parenting advocates have encouraged parents […]

After her lead more than doubled, as the Inquisitr reported on Friday, Arizona Democratic United States Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema continued to see her lead widen on Saturday as election officials recorded results from approximately 100,000 uncounted ballots. According to results posted by the Arizona Secretary of State, as of 7 p.m. local time on […]

Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema saw her chances of victory in the state’s United States Senate race improve on Friday evening when the Arizona Secretary of State reported that the 42-year-old congressional representative’s lead over Republican Martha McSally had increased to more than 20,000 votes, or one full percentage point. At the moment, approximately 400,000 ballots […]

Tuesday was full of frustration for voters in New York, Michigan, Florida, Arizona, and Georgia, among other states, as long lines and voting machine malfunctions put a wrench in the Democratic process on Election Day. The national hotline for reporting poll problems was already flooded with calls by 5 p.m. EST, reports USA Today, with […]

In race pitting a Republican woman who in 1991 became the first female military pilot to fly in combat, according to Aviation Week, against a Democratic woman who was once homeless, per The Washington Post, and if elected would be the first openly bisexual Senator in United States history, 42-year-old Kyrsten Sinema now appears poised […]

In an announcement that could have a major impact on the race for the senate in Arizona, Green Party candidate Angela Green has dropped out of the running and endorsed Democratic candidate Kyrsten Sinema on her way out. As 12 News reported, Green holds much the same values as Sinema and the Democratic party in […]

A 53-year-old has survived six days in rough terrain in Arizona after she lost control of her vehicle on October 12. Her car careened off the road and then became lodged in a tree. Unable to travel due to her weakened state, the woman stayed close to her vehicle while she waited patiently for help […]

The stars of TLC’s Sister Wives are dealing with a big split in their polygamist clan as per a new report by Radar Online. Kody Brown and wife Meri, Robyn, Christine, and Janelle are dealing with a problem that could tear the very fabric of their clan apart. Allegedly, Meri Brown Kody’s first wife, whom […]

Two female U.S. Army veterans who are married to one another say that Phoenix landlord Gary Faulkinbury refused to rent to them, telling them to come back once Trump is out of office, Yahoo! News is reporting. Faulkinbury has since apologized. Alyssa Gillaspy and her wife, Kara Gillaspy, both served in the U.S. Army. Alyssa […]

Jenna Folwell, 19, was arrested on Thursday after she reported that her 4-week-old infant son was abducted from a park in Chandler, Arizona — but the baby was found dead and Folwell confessed to killing him, according to a report by Phoenix TV station KPNX. Folwell initially told police that she was placing the infant […]