Remember last summer when Glendale police found what appeared to be the beginning stages of a sex dungeon being built in the backyard of alleged kiddy-porn connoisseur William Willis? Well, he was released on bail as his case works its way through the court system, and he’s since cut off…
For a state that recently became only the second in the country to pass a law that names an official state gun, it shouldn’t come as much of a shock that Arizona scored a whopping zero points on this year’s Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence annual scorecard — and…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s media sluttiness knows no bounds and now includes exploiting abused horses in an apparent attempt to repair his image. As the walls are caving in around his corrupt command staff following the (partial) release of a report from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office regarding misconduct…
Being a police officer is a hard, thankless job, and the vast majority of cops are good people. Then there’s Phoenix police Officer Patrick Larrison, who ruins the public perception of police officers when he essentially body-slams an unarmed, non-threatening 15-year-old girl into the side of a building.It was all caught on film,…
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he would not release photos of Osama bin Laden’s bullet-riddled corpse to the public, claiming the photos are too graphic and “not in our national security interest.”We’re no conspiracy theorists, but Obama’s decision to not release the photos is just the latest in a…
Kid-killing rapist Donald Beaty is scheduled to be put to death on May 25 at the state prison in Florence for the 1984 murder and rape of 13-year-old Christy Ann Fornoff. Let the last-minute appeals commence.Beaty’s attorneys filed a motion yesterday to have his death sentence overturned, claiming his trial…
The nice part about “holidays” like St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s Eve, and Cinco De Mayo is that police literally tell you they are going out of their way to arrest drunk drivers. They tell you when, for the most part where, and advise that, to avoid getting a DUI,…
Apparently quite a bit. Participants in last night’s “undie run” caused enough of a “ruckus” to force police to pull the fire alarm at the school’s Memorial Union to get thousands of rowdy, scantily clad students to leave the building…
President Barack Obama has decided to not release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, despite the majority of Americans thinking he should.Obama apparently doesn’t pay attention to data retrieved from New Times’ uber-unscientific morning polls, which overwhelming shows that people want to see photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse…
If you like jet-packs, the outdoors, or the possibility of some guy plummeting thousands of feet to his death, you may want to head to the Grand Canyon Friday, where a Swiss daredevil plans to fly over the canyon with a jet-pack.Yves Rossy, a former fighter pilot, plans to jump…
Despite that it’s unclear whether Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will be physically able to run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl, she already leads every Republican in the field — at least according to the somewhat left-wing pollsters at Public Policy Polling.PPP released the results of a…
Yesterday, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced that after his office’s investigation into misconduct by top deputies in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, he’s determined that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio knew nothing of the misconduct.Babeu claims that Arpaio became so insulated by now-fired Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott that the…
As the U.S. government weighs whether to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s bullet-riddled corpse to appease conspiracy theorists doubting his death is legit, the now-former public enemy number one is having a great time in hell — at least that’s what an uber-lame Twitter account celebrating his killing would have you believe.Like…
The Avondale Police Department wants to remind Valley residents that an infant taken from a swap meet in 2001 is still missing, in the hope that some new ink about the girl’s abduction could create some new leads.Ten years ago Friday, 4-month-old Jacqueline Vasquez was with her mother and 2-year-old…
As a certain editor at the Arizona Republic knows, we often let many of the paper’s small screw-ups slide. Rather than call the Repub out for a minor typo in a headline, we’ll send a friendly e-mail alerting him to the problem. We’re not gonna do that today — today’s…
Leave it to facts and statistics to blow holes in stereotypes that have been widely accepted by racists everywhere.According to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Mexicans work more than anyone else on the face of the Earth. As a friend asked, “even the Japanese?”…
The second officer shot during the execution-style murder of a Buckeye police officer over the weekend is expected to recover, the Phoenix Police Department announced today. Additionally, a third suspect in the case was located, questioned, and released, Phoenix Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times.A second suspect in the case…
A Pinal County woman was arrested last week on charges that she assaulted her husband as the two were driving near Casa Grande — which wouldn’t be much of a news story if the woman arrested weren’t Pinal County Family Court Commissioner Theresa Ratliff.Ratliff and her husband were driving to…
Osama bin Laden was shot and killed at a mansion he had built in an affluent Pakistani suburb just feet from what’s been described as Pakistan’s version of the West Point Military Academy. Yet the Pakistani government claims it had no idea he was living within its borders. That would…
Next Media Animation, a Taiwanese a cartoon-video production company known for their famous takes on Tiger Woods’ late-night fender bender and Chris Brown’s Good Morning America freak-out, have released a video chronicling the death of Osama bin Laden all the way to his first moments in hell. It includes a…
As you may have heard, Osama bin Laden, the POS responsible for the deaths of thousands of people and who managed to evade capture — and death — for nearly 10 years, is dead. What you may have not heard (yet) is reports that he was given a “proper Muslim…
Two Buckeye police officers were shot early yesterday morning after stopping a truck that was being driven erratically in a west Phoenix parking lot. One of the officers was taken to a Valley hospital in critical condition and is expected to survive. The other officer wasn’t as fortunate — he…
