A woman was either trying to kill herself or was testing her ability to dodge moving vehicles on a Valley highway this morning. Either way, she failed — she was hit by a tractor-trailer and lived.According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, the woman pulled her car to the…
In a 5-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has sustained Arizona’s employer sanctions law.The law forces employers to check the immigration status of employees, and allows the state to penalize businesses that hire illegal immigrants…
Conspiracy theorist whack-job Ed Chiarini claims that the January 8, Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and several injured — including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — was a hoax.Chiarini is the man behind the website wellaware1.com, which claims the horrific ordeal was a drill staged by law enforcement agencies, with…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and state Attorney General Tom Horne have both actively campaigned to keep the federal government out of Arizona — until it comes to voter-approved medical marijuana.Brewer and Horne are about to ask a federal court to make a ruling on the legality of Arizona’s medical-pot program,…
As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio continues to take it on the chin for various acts of mismanagement and corruption within his department — which now includes Mexican drug cartels infiltrating the MCSO — the man who wants his job has some suggestions for the aging sheriff.Click here for the…
Game on.The Arizona Supreme Court has lifted a stay on the execution of kid-killing rapist Donald Beaty.Beaty was scheduled to die at 10 a.m. today, but the court issued a last-minute stay of the execution last night as his attorneys objected to the substitution of the sedative pentobarbital in place…
[jump] In the middle of the hearing, with his head down and face inches from the table in front of him, Loughner reportedly said “thank you for the freak show. She died in front of me.”He was removed from the courtroom.When he was brought back in, Loughner was given the…
A Phoenix man — with a lengthy rap sheet for domestic violence — was arrested yesterday for the murder of his girlfriend, during which he allegedly bit off her nipple.Paul Lavon Hamilton’s been charged with one count of second-degree murder in the beating death of Stephanie Joyce, his girlfriend of…
Just in case you read the above headline and nearly had a stroke, relax — 74-year-old Senator John McCain is NOT running for president in the 2012 election.”The Maverick” spoke to a group of Alabama businessmen and government leaders yesterday, where he was probed about whether he had any intentions…
The Arizona Supreme Court has issued a stay in the execution of kid-killing rapist Donald Beaty because of a last-minute switcheroo in one of the drugs used to put him down and a clerical error made by state officials.Beaty’s attorneys reportedly objected to the last-minute substitution of the sedative pentobarbital…
Governor Jan Brewer and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne are preparing to file a declaratory judgment in federal court that would put a halt to Arizona’s medical marijuana program.The move comes after U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke warned Arizonans in a letter to the Department of Health Services that Arizona’s voter-approved…
One of those arrested, a detention officer, is the baby-mama of a cartel “kingpin” and another is a former member of the sheriff’s anti-human-smuggling task force who’s himself an alleged human smuggler.The three officers, Deputy Alfredo Navarette and detention officers Sylvia Najera and Marcella Hernandez, were arrested this morning after a…
If you flew on a United Airlines flight out of Phoenix this afternoon, you may want to wash your hands — or your everything.A United plane, in which a guy masturbated and ejaculated on his seat on May 19, has been criss-crossing the country since. According to a website that…
A former teacher/cheerleading coach at a Tucson high school pleaded guilty this morning to charges that she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student at the school for which she formerly worked.Christie Elliot, a now-former English teacher and cheerleading coach at Empire High School in Tucson, pleaded guilty to assault…
Our sources, it appears, were correct.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office just confirmed that three sheriff’s deputies have been arrested in connection with a drug- and human-smuggling operation.Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Bill Montgomery plan to brief the media on the busts at 3:30 this afternoon.According to the MCSO, “Arpaio…
UPDATE: The MCSO confirms to New Times that three sheriff’s deputies have been arrested. Click here for details.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office served search warrants at three west Valley locations this morning, and county sources tell New Times the boys in beige are investigating some of their own for alleged…
The search is on for two men who police say robbed a guy earlier this year, and now authorities want your help. They’re even making it worth your while.Silent Witness is offering up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspects, one of whom is pictured to…
The First Amendment apparently doesn’t extend to Twitter-town — if you work for the Arizona Daily Star, anyway.A federal labor board recently found that the Star was well within its rights when it fired a public safety reporter for a series of morbid “tweets” he posted on his Twitter account…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks wrote a recent article for Roll Call, in which he argues that gender differences between men and women should keep the ladies off the front lines of a combat situation.Franks argues that sexual tension between male and female soldiers “further complicates the situation by providing one…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks has a message for subscribers of “radical feminism”: you need a penis to serve in military combat roles (cue the feminist outrage).Franks penned an article for Roll Call last week, in which he argues that gender differences between men and women should keep the ladies off…
When confronted by two women as he had sex in his car, Christopher Nader Shahin told them that the girl involved was his “baby mama” and that “she fine.” Turns out, the girl wasn’t his “baby mama;” she was a 14-year-old he’d just kidnapped from a grocery store, and she…
CBS’ Phoenix affiliate KPHO has been sued by a Mesa doctor the station accused of being a pervert in terms of how he treated a few female employees.According to Doctor Khalid Shirif, the medical director of Creative Health Care Services (Sunrise Health & Hospice), KPHO falsely reported that he fired…
