As you may know, one of the men behind the “Kony 2012” viral video, Jason Russell, was nabbed in San Diego last week for allegedly masturbating in public and generally acting like a weirdo, which he isn’t being charged for.On the other hand, here in Phoenix, 40-year-old Daniel Delaney allegedly…
Kevin Skinner, the 22-year-old Phoenix man who called the cops earlier in the month to let them know he’d just murdered his mother by suffocating her with a grocery bag, pleaded not guilty this morning.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Skinner and his mom got into an argument…
If you were watching KTVK (Channel 3) this morning, you may have heard anchor Kaley O’Kelley shout a four-letter word that ends in “uck” when she found out quarterback Peyton Manning was headed for the Denver Broncos.While many people in the Valley have probably dropped an F-bomb or two over…
David Denton did not want to talk to the cops this weekend while staying at the Arizona Grand Resort.This urge to avoid the cops was so bad that police say Denton, 33, left his meth and heroin stash with his 6-year-old kid and jumped off the third-floor balcony to hide…
We usually don’t call DDS of the year this early — or at all, really — but we’ll give the honorary title to the Phoenix dentist who chased down the guy who decided to show off his penis in his waiting room.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 40-year-old…
By turning a two-game win streak into a four-game win streak with a pair of wins over the weekend, the Phoenix Suns are currently half a game back of the last playoff spot in the Western Conference, and one game over .500.The Suns’ win on Friday night wasn’t too unexpected…
UPDATE: Denver!The Arizona Cardinals and Ken Whisenhunt delivered the news on Friday, saying free-agent quarterback Peyton Manning is “no longer an option for us.”Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7 million roster bonus, and Manning’s still shopping around for a team to play for.According to the sports rumor mill, the…
Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, isn’t a lesbian.That’s about the most important fact we derived from her new Q&A with Playboy, in which she mostly talked about dudes and some politics.McCain was asked to expand upon her recollection of a girls trip to Sedona after her father’s unsuccessful…
New York Senator Charles Schumer has been trying to get Governor Jan Brewer to show up to his Senate subcommittee hearing on immigration in April, and gave the governor a few general questions that would be asked.The governor’s spokesman has said on a few occasions that Brewer isn’t planning on…
UPDATE: The Arizona Cardinals released a statement from coach Ken Whisenhunt saying Manning “is no longer an option for us.”You can throw that Arizona Cardinals Peyton Manning jersey you prematurely ordered straight in the garbage — the Cardinals won’t be landing Manning, and Cards quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7…
Corletha Sherie Davis was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for fatally shooting 37-year-old Discount Cab driver Brian Mann in November 2010.Despite initially telling the cops she had nothing to do with Mann’s murder, Davis didn’t make it extremely difficult for the cops by hiding the evidence — including…
Pedro Reyes-Lopez, who was arrested by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office over the weekend for allegedly hosting a cockfighting party — then rearrested on a first-degree murder charge Tuesday by Phoenix police — may have also been known as your child’s crossing guard.ABC15 got the scoop, but a district official…
Arizona Republican Congressman David Schweikert’s trying to phase out the dollar bill, and replace it with a dollar coin through his “COINS” Act.According to a poll commissioned by a pro-dollar bill advocacy group, Schweikert’s own Republican constituents and base voters aren’t too hip to the idea by a pretty wide…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent his boys out on the 58th illegal-immigrant roundup “employer sanctions operation” today, and get a load of this — a grand total of zero employers were arrested, while 31 non-employers were arrested.According to our math, there have been two employers sanctioned through 58 “employer…
David Ybarra found out yesterday that throwing chunks of concrete at Gilbert police officers is an awful idea.Ybarra, 36, was shot by two officers yesterday after he tossed concrete their way and a responding Taser blast didn’t work.Gilbert police Sergeant Bill Balafas tells New Times that Ybarra’s family phoned up…
Remember the Sacagawea dollar? Remember how reverse-awesome that was? Susan B. Anthony, anyone? Eisenhower?! Well, Arizona Republican Congressman David Schweikert’s trying to bring back the dollar coin, and according to a recent poll, Schweikert’s own constituents aren’t fans of the idea — by a pretty healthy margin.The poll — which…
On Saturday night, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office raided a Phoenix cockfight, arresting 40 people — 17 of them alleged to be illegal immigrants.One of those alleged illegal immigrants, 43-year-old Pedro Reyes-Lopez, was identified as the owner of the house, which earned him a big mugshot in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s…
Republican state Representative Carl Seel and Senator Judy Burges are still trying to keep Americans they somehow believe are Kenyans — well, at least one — from being on the state’s ballot in presidential elections.Last year, a “birther” bill was approved by the Legislature and passed on to Governor Jan…
Wendy Rogel-Pagasa pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of her 2-year-old son, Jorge Zamora-Rogel.Phoenix police say the 18-year-old mother called 9-1-1 more than three hours after the boy went unconscious — and eventually died — due to being badly beaten by…
The threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from some guy with a keyboard in Tennessee was apparently so serious that the sheriff’s office says he was sentenced to probation.Arpaio has claimed Adam Eugene Cox is an “Obama fanatic” — intel the sheriff says came from evident from what he…
Phoenix’s R&S Mattress company just wanted to show it was excited about the prospect of free-agent quarterback Peyton Manning coming to play for the Arizona Cardinals.As you can see in the video above, Manning’s marketing company didn’t think it was cute…
Wendy Rogel-Pagasa* pleaded not guilty today to charges of second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of her 2-year-old son, Jorge Zamora-Rogel.Phoenix police say the 18-year-old mother called 9-1-1 more than three hours after the boy went unconscious due to being badly beaten by her boyfriend Juan Garcia –…
