Only in Arizona (and maybe Utah)…More than 40 Arizona state legislators have signed on to a bill that would make the Colt single-action Army revolver the official state firearm. Like many actions taken by the Legislators this legislative session, the move seems to defy all logic.In case you forgot, there…
The Arizona Legislature is one step closer to tackling a serious problem that doesn’t actually exist.Today, the House reportedly gave initial approval to a bill that would require women getting an abortion to sign a document promising they aren’t aborting the pregnancy based on sex, and another promising they aren’t…
In case you hadn’t heard, Madison, Wisconsin, looks more like Cairo, Egypt, these days, with thousands of people taking to the streets in protest of Governor Scott Walker’s new budget and the effect it has on the bargaining rights of union workers, namely, the most coddled of all government employees:…
Senator John McCain, as well as several other members of Congress, are renewing efforts to get boxer Jack Johnson pardoned — despite the fact that Johnson’s been dead since the Truman administration.McCain, as well as New York Representative Peter King, plan to reintroduce a congressional resolution urging a pardon for…
Pitchers and catchers reported for spring training in the Valley last week, but San Francisco Giants closer Brian “The Beard” Wilson didn’t spend his weekend working on his fastball — he spent it partying with Charlie Sheen, and several baseball legends, in what might be the best weekend ever for…
If any good came from the shooting rampage in Tucson last month, it’s an institution opening today at the University of Arizona with the goal of getting politicos to tone down the rhetoric.The National Institute for Civil Discourse opens today in Tucson. The organization is described as a “center for…
You might think a state as strapped for cash as Arizona’s been these last few years wouldn’t have pissed away nearly $5 million on things like bridges for sheep. You’d be wrong.The Arizona Republic this morning published an article about three bridges built across the Hoover Dam that are three…
Several bills that would place stricter regulations on abortions will be heard in the Arizona state Legislature later today, and pro-choice groups aren’t happy about it. In fact, one group calls the bills an “assault [on] a woman’s dignity.” Aside from forcing abortion doctors to offer patients the opportunity to…
The Arizona Republic ran a story on its website yesterday vilifying a Tucson photographer for trying to get the Gannett-owned newspaper — and several other news outlets — to cough up some (a lot of) cash for using a photo of a 9-year-old girl killed during the January 8, shooting…
A couple of Chandler gangsters kept things extra gangsta this morning, when police say one thug shot another.Chandler Detective Frank Mendoza tells New Times that about 10:20 a.m. today, an 18-year-old male was shot at a home at 449 West Ray Road in Chandler. He took bullets to both his…
Tea Partiers from across the country will be flocking to Phoenix next week for the group’s first ever “American Policy Summit.” Sounds scary, we know, but it’s not as scary as it could be — Sarah Palin will not be in attendance.No, the former vice presidential candidate will not be…
Former Arizona governor and current Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that she will not seek the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.Napolitano is the latest politico to announce she won’t be running. Congressmen Ben Quayle, and Raul Grijalva, as well as former Congressman John Shadegg, have…
Authorities continue to search for a U.S. Marine reported missing on Monday.Military officials initially thought 22-year-old Jonathan Kyle Ferguson’s disappearance was an unauthorized absence, but now believe it’s a missing person case.Ferguson was last seen at an IHOP restaurant in Yuma about 3:30 a.m. Monday…
Quintel Rich has a pretty infamous penis — and he’s not shy in showing it off.Rich, a convicted sex offender, spent the better part of 2009 exposing his penis to unsuspecting victims. After a little prison time, Rich got right back into the swing of things and whipped it out…
Senate hopeful Jeff Flake is a refreshing voice of sanity in a state filled with lunatics.Unlike several GOP members of the Arizona state Legislature (see all their names right here), Flake doesn’t see President Barack Obama as a Kenyan version of the Manchurian Candidate, and has a message for those…
An alleged Glendale pimp was arrested yesterday in connection with the 2009 murder of a California man he thought was a guy he’d argued with in front of an apartment building. The man the pimp shot, however, was not the person with whom he was arguing — he was a…
While most of us were at work yesterday afternoon — presumably not shit-faced — a drunk Phoenix lawyer was driving his brand new BMW through downtown Phoenix. Sadly, he drove it into a couple walking near the light rail tracks, leaving a woman clinging to life. Just before 2 p.m.,…
Photo-radar enforcement is done-zo on Arizona highways, but several Republicans in the Arizona state Legislature say that’s not good enough — they want it banned everywhere.While state-wide photo-radar enforcement was given the heave-ho by voters last year, it still exists in cities across the state — and a bill making…
There’s a pissing match underway between the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office and three mayors of cities along the U.S./Mexico border — and it just got pissier.In one corner: Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. In the other: mayors Arturo Garino of Nogales, Michael Gomez, of Douglas, and Juan Escamilla, of San…
While cruising around drunk, the last thing you want to crash your car into is a police cruiser. Enter 69-year-old Barry Lee Smith, who did precisely that while driving around Scottsdale drunk last night.A 13-year veteran of the Scottsdale Police Department was on routine patrol just before 7 p.m. last…
Frequent New Times readers know that we’ve spent a good part of the last eight months covering the mysterious death of Jeff Ahlers, a Tempe man whose bullet-riddled body was pulled from a canal last June.It turns out, the death has now been ruled a suicide, according to the Tempe…
A father of a student at St. Gregory’s Catholic school in Phoenix says that aside from being a pederast, Carl Mosher, a gym teacher at the school accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student, has not only devastated the school, but he was a flat-out shitty teacher, as well…
