Federal Judge G. Murray Snow, who’s presiding over the racial-profiling case against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, did not seem too happy yesterday. MCSO and Arpaio’s side of the courtroom got a talking-to from Snow yesterday at a hearing to discuss some of Arpaio’s public comments, plus the investigation surrounding…
The activist group Citizens for a Better went to the state GOP headquarters in Phoenix to demand an apology after Maricopa County Republican Party chairman A.J. LaFaro accused the group of voter fraud. LaFaro drummed up nationwide controversy by implying he witnessed voter fraud when someone with Citizens for a…
An Arizona state Representative who is a member of the Navajo Nation says the Washington Redskins’ name is offensive and should be changed. Just weeks after Native Americans protested in Glendale outside an Arizona Cardinals game against Washington, Democratic Representative Jamescita Peshlakai has publicly called on Arizona’s congressional delegate to…
UPDATE October 28, 11:25 a.m.: The above video has been updated to include exclusive video of the incident, plus an interview with one of the people arrested. Phoenix police shot protesters with pepper balls and arrested six people downtown on Saturday night. The 40 to 50 protesters who were demonstrating…
Arizona can be unpredictable sometimes. From legal gay marriage to a Phoenix snow day, here are 10 things you never thought you’d see in Arizona:…
The official investigations into the deaths of medical-sector executive Jonah Shacknai’s girlfriend and young son have long been over, but not everything is settled. According to authorities, 6-year-old Max Shacknai died from an accident under the care of his father’s girlfriend at his Coronado, California, mansion in 2011. Rebecca Zahau,…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, our inmates are the types…
A YouTube video with more than 400,000 views purporting to show “ballot box stuffing” in Arizona actually shows a completely legal practice. A.J. LaFaro, the chairman of the Maricopa County GOP, has been drumming up controversy by implying he witnessed voter fraud when an activist for the group Citizens for…
About a month after a Phoenix police officer fatally shot a mentally ill woman, city leaders have announced a plan to change how the police department deals with the mentally ill. Michelle Cusseaux, 50, was fatally shot by Phoenix cop Percy Dupra on August 14, after police say she threatened…
Did you hear the one about the blind man who went to the gun show? No, it’s not a joke — Democratic Congressional Candidate James Woods, who’s blind, actually went to a recent gun show in Mesa and purchased a revolver as a bit of a campaign stunt to denounce…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is making a detention officer stay home for the next three weeks because the officer visited Sierra Leone. Arpaio issued a press release announcing that the unnamed officer has been placed on administrative leave over MCSO’s fear of Ebola…
Two polls released this week but Democrat Fred DuVal down, but not out, against Republican Doug Ducey in the race for Arizona governor. One poll puts DuVal down 1 percentage point, and the other puts him down 5 percentage points, which, in current times, qualifies as good news for a…
A debate between Congressional District 9 candidates essentially turned into a half-hour infomercial for Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, as Republican candidate Wendy Rogers skipped the event. “This candidate forum is not a debate,” Rogers spokesman James Harris explains in a statement to New Times. “Typically, a debate is something hosted by…
Courts across Maricopa County issued nearly 300 wedding licenses on Friday, the first day of legal gay marriage in the state of Arizona. Aaron Nash, a spokesman for the Clerk of the Superior Court, tells New TImes that three times as many marriage licenses were issued on Friday than on…
Attorney General Tom Horne has given the green-light for same-sex marriage in Arizona, saying that the first ceremony could be completed before lunchtime today. Horne insisted he disagreed with the federal judge’s ruling that ordered an end to enforcing Arizona’s laws against same-sex marriage. However, given recent court decisions, Horne…
UPDATE 11:14 a.m.: Same-sex marriage is now legal in Arizona. Click here to read the latest updates. A federal judge declared Arizona’s laws against same-sex marriage unconstitutional and issued an order prohibiting officials from enforcing those laws. However, there’s currently one person standing between same-sex couples and Arizona marriage licenses…
The widow of a man who died after an encounter with Phoenix police was at Phoenix City Hall Thursday with a group of supporters demanding to know more about the man’s death. Balantine Mbegbu, a 65-year-old Phoenix resident, died on October 6 after being tased by a Phoenix police officer…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. There’s a reality TV show called Ink…
Arizona State University’s athletics department issued a message to fans to “discourage” the use of face paint at school events. This comes just days after some students started an uproar over the use of black face-paint by students at a recent football game in which students were encouraged to wear…
Obamacare has been blamed for a lot of things, but blaming the health care law on the passage of a supposedly anti-gay law is one we haven’t heard before. Yet, that’s what Republican Congressional Candidate Andy Tobin declared in a debate this week with Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, as the…
Arizona’s Proposition 100, the 2006 law that denies bail to undocumented immigrants accused of many crimes in the state, will no longer be in effect in the near future. A panel of judges from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found the voter-approved law unconstitutional, as a violation of…
In the fifth and final gubernatorial debate yesterday between Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal, Ducey apparently walked back on his commitment to eliminating the state’s income tax. After DuVal attacked Ducey’s plan to get rid of the income tax, Ducey replied that, “No one’s talked about eliminating the…
