Citizen Staff Writer
WEEK IN REVIEW
1Love and politics: You would think that being the daughter of a former presidential candidate would land you a few dates. But Meghan McCain, 24, says that having Arizona Sen. John McCain for a dad has made it more difficult for her to establish relations, foreign and domestic, with guys. The professional blogger says that Election 2008 “killed my personal life.”
2Dog kills infant: A 2-week-old baby dies in Mesa after apparently being attacked by the family’s chow. The mother had placed the baby in a low bassinet or crib. Police found the child with obvious bite wounds to the head. The chow has been quarantined.
3Payne trial: Reina Irene Gonzales says she could have helped Tyler and Ariana Payne before they died but didn’t. Tyler, age 4, and Ariana, 3, starved to death in 2006. Their father, Christopher Mathew Payne, is charged with first-degree murder, child abuse and concealing the children’s bodies. Gonzales, Payne’s ex-girlfriend, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 22-year sentence in exchange for testifying against Payne.
4Home invaders: Three men arrested in a violent North Side home invasion were well equipped and appeared to have experience or at least training in the crime, a Tucson police spokesman says.
5Sherrif Joe: Maricopa County’s Joe Arpaio has turned law enforcement into an embarrassing, offensive media circus in which he serves as ringmaster. Or so the Citizen says in an editorial. Our readers beg to differ.
Compiled by PAUL SCHWALBACH
pschwalb@tucsoncitizen.com