Articles labeled: Arizona

A new report claims that 1 in 3 children in Arizona have at least one immigrant parent, up from 1 in 4 a decade ago. Gee, we can’t imagine that a certain Arizona Senator running for President will have this little statistic thrown at him in a debate question about illegal immigration…

The report is based on 2006 census data.

These children, whom the report dubbed “Gen G,” for Generation Global, pose both opportunities and challenges in the global economy.

“They really bring a lot of assets,” Welch said. “For one, they already speak two languages.”

They also pose significant challenges.

A Phoenix grandmother was left dead and her granddaughter wounded after a road rage incident lead to shots being fired at her car.

Phoenix police said the incident began near 19th Avenue and Bethany Home Road with a minor collision between the Dodge Durango the five people were riding in and a White Ford Escort.

The two drivers got out and a verbal altercation ensued, police said.

The 21-year-old driver of the Escort then followed the Durango to 21st Avenue and Ocotillo Road, where the 26-year-old passenger in the Escort fired several shots into the SUV, police investigators said.

It wasn’t immediately clear how police knew the ages of the people in the Escort.

Hey, never heard this one before — a dog that parents are describing as a “pit bull” attacked a 13-month-old boy in his yard.

Katie and Jake Stockman say it was a parent’s worst nightmare. “My 4 year old yelled “dog!” and I turn around and this pit bull looking thing comes up and just knocks him over. It slams his head on the concrete, looks like he kind of grabs him along the leg area.”

They say the dog appeared in their neighborhood about once every month. But it wasn’t until this week they say the dog attacked.

The mother says she scooped up her son then slammed the door, leaving the dog outside.

A tragic ending for a young boy when a soccer goal post fell over, hit him in the head, causing fatal injuries. The accident happened because the soccer goal was not properly anchored into the ground.

Although the article claims the YMCA was going to pay funeral costs, this is an instance where a settlement is probably in order. Although the posts aren’t meant to be hanging off of, he was only 8 and the after school program should have provided safety and supervision that was obviously lacking.

An 8-year-old boy died after a goal post fell on him during a Thursday soccer game at the South Mountain YMCA.

Gabriel Mendoza was hanging on the crossbar of a soccer goal post around 6 p.m. Thursday when it fell.

Gabriel was at a soccer game with his grandmother, said YMCA spokeswoman Norma Salas. He was participating in a YMCA after-school program called Activate Area.

Guess this will be a birthday this 10 year old never forgets…Thank goodness his gun toting uncle was on hand to take the pussy out.

PHOENIX - Paul John Schalow was spending Saturday camping and riding his ATV with his family in Tonto National Forest.

That’s when he said the unthinkable happened.

“My uh cousin was looking at it,” he said. “I looked at her face and its all funny so I turned around and I see it, and it start pawing, scratched my back and tried biting my head.”

Hmmm, and we just instituted a Wii restriction in our house, we better watch our backs! Hughstan Schlicker, a 15-year-old in Phoenix, Arizona, has admitted that he shot his father with a 12-gauge shotgun because Dad cut off his internet use so Schlicker couldn’t go on MySpace. Sheesh, Hughstan, couldn’t you have just gone and used the computer at the library instead?

Police arrested Hughstan after the slaying at the Pueblo Seco Condominiums and accused him of first-degree murder.

After the slaying, “the defendant first called his friend and told her what he had done. He told her he was going to kill himself but she told him not to. She convinced him to call the police and deal with the situation,” the report said.

Hughstan told detectives that he used the Internet to communicate with his friends and since his father took the Internet away, he was “just so depressed all the time,” the report said. Specifically, Hughstan said he hated his father because he was restricting his use of the MySpace Web site, MyFOXPhoenix reports.

An Arizona Jr. High School bans hugs lasting longer than 2 seconds to try to squelch increasing public displays of affection, but the students aren’t going to take this with their arms folded…

The “no-hugging” rule had previously been in the student handbook. After many students began expressing concern about public hugging and kissing in the hallways, the school began reinforcing the guideline by punishing huggers, which led to Friday’s protest.

Prior to the demonstration, the district said the principal and students brokered an agreement to clarify the “no-hugging” rule. According to the guidelines, small hugs, less than two seconds, are permitted but longer ones and kissing are not.

“We can only hug two seconds? That’s ridiculous,” Branham said. “It’s barely even a hug.”

With the prevalence of naughty pics online these days, please stay at home to take care of your “needs”, you pervs:

A 30-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of masturbating in front of three children at a Mesa-area school, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.

Jason Zuchowski faces six felony counts after the children, a 10-year-old and two 11-year-olds, closely observed his pickup truck, license plate and other details Saturday, Feb. 16 the Sheriff’s Office said.

A Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman said the suspect drove around the Taft Elementary School playground up to four times before he stopped along the fence, pulled out a pornographic magazine, and started the sex act inside the vehicle.

Smith said the suspect told investigators he was “at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Just curious as to when the “right” time would have been.

While this could be a very dangerous situation, my hope is that this dumb 13 year old was arrested to scare the be-Jesus outta him and that they’ll drop the charges (assuming he doesn’t already have a record).

He’s dumb. He’s a kid. He needs some sense knocked into him, not prison time, in my opinion.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested Monday night on suspicion of reckless endangerment after he allegedly pointed a green laser at a Phoenix Police Department helicopter, police said.

The helicopter was struck with the laser around 6:30 p.m., police said.

“As soon as I saw the light, I tried to turn my eyes away,” said Phoenix police Officer Bruce Bates, who had been flying the helicopter Monday night.

Poor little baby…when accidents happen, it can create a domino effect. For this little 3 year old, it looks as if she’ll recover from her 3 accident trauma.

A 3-year-old girl in Mesa, Ariz., escaped with several serious wounds after a trifecta of unfortunate accidents, MyFoxPhoenix.com reported Tuesday.

The girl was playing in her backyard Monday and was somehow able to climb to the top of a cinderblock fence, when she fell off the wall and landed on a neighbor’s cactus plant, MyFoxPhoenix.com reported. She was subjected to further bad luck when the neighbor’s two dogs bit her and dragged her across the yard.

Can’t we all just get along?

PHOENIX (AP) — A 12-year-old boy stabbed his 13-year-old brother during a fight over what to watch on television, police said.

The 13-year-old was listed in extremely critical condition Monday night. The brothers were fighting in the living room of their southwest Phoenix home Monday afternoon.

After a 12 year old is beaten to death by her parents, they proceed to leave her body on the floor for a few days before they call the police. They probably decided to do that after the body’s odor overcame them.

Wow. Just Wow.

PHOENIX — A 12-year-old girl was beaten with an electrical cord, and her parents left her dead body on the floor of her bedroom for days before they called 911, according to court documents released Tuesday.

Police arrested the girl’s father, 34-year-old Jeffrey Duchane Jr., and stepmother, 25-year-old Reiko Troupe, after officers were called to the house on Saturday. Troupe was jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder and child abuse. Duchane was jailed on suspicion of child abuse.

Both were scheduled to appear in Maricopa County Superior Court on Nov. 19. The Associated Press asked the county Sheriff’s Office to interview Duchane and Troupe, but those requests went unanswered Tuesday.

According to court documents, Troupe told police that she didn’t harm the girls and blamed Duchane for disciplining the children.

In Arizona, a substitute bus driver tells a 5 year old boy to get off of the bus nearly 6 miles from where his mother was waiting for him.

So, this bus driver gets the “Friday A-Hole” award. The boy didn’t want to get off at that stop, but the bus driver insisted.

Normally, I’m not for petty lawsuits, but I’m thinkin’ the parents should sue the school district and transporation company. It’s just plain negligence and according to the mother, the bus driver is not even being reprimanded or asked to apologize.

Jerk. Jerk. Jerk.

A five-year-old boy is safe Thursday after a substitute bus driver told the boy to get off at the wrong stop, almost six miles from where his mother was waiting to pick him up.

The incident resulted in a frantic search Tuesday afternoon by family members and employees of Puente DeHozho School where Tyler Figueroa attends kindergarten.

A mother, working at Hooters in Pheonix, Arizona, allegedly forgot her toddler in the back seat of her car when she went to work. She forgot to drop her baby off at daycare and returned to her car where she discovered her dead son.

This happens so often and why??? Why are parents forgetting about their most precious cargo? Why are daily distractions enough to forget about your own baby? Why is it so common? Could this happen to you??

PHOENIX — A 17-month-old boy left unattended inside a hot car for at least seven hours in a north Phoenix Hooters restaurant parking lot was found dead Tuesday afternoon.

FOX 10 Phoenix reports the baby’s mother had planned to drop the child off at childcare before heading to work at a restaurant near Bell Road and Interstate 17.

Instead, authorities say the mother went to work with the child still inside the car.

How cruel can one be? After a 5 year old girl is taken away from her biological mom for abusing her, she is left in the care of her father and step-mother who beat regularly with a computer chord and belt and put her in humiliating positions and beat her.

At least the school took a proactive approach instead of pretending it didn’t exist or that it was none of their business. I pray this little girl will be given a chance at life…hopefully she will be removed from these evil people. They don’t deserve any of their children. Why even have children if you’re going to use them as nothing mor than a punching bag?

A Mesa father repeatedly beat his 5-year-old daughter with a military belt and computer cord while she was in a push-up position with her pants down because she wasn’t doing her homework, according to police.

The girl had nearly 100 bruises on her back, legs, arms, buttocks and chest, and investigators called it one of the five worst cases they have handled, Mesa police spokeswoman Diana Tapia said.