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 alleged offenders all have…
Another poll of the race for governor shows a tie between Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal. This poll released this week by the New York Times, CBS News, and YouGov is now the third poll since the primary election to show a tie between Ducey and DuVal…
Last night’s first gubernatorial debate between Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred DuVal largely focused on the two candidates’ bread-and-butter issues: business growth for Ducey, and education for DuVal. The most contentious parts of the debate were over DuVal’s record on the Arizona Board of Regents, as Ducey repeated lines…
Governor Jan Brewer’s executive order creating the “Governor’s Office of Faith and Community Partnerships” is not sitting well with some atheist and civil-rights groups. Leaders of these groups, along with a couple of atheist politicians, delivered a letter to Brewer’s office this morning, asking for certain “safeguards” and “balance” in…
Dozens of allegations of widespread problems in the Arizona Department of Corrections’ health care system were made public yesterday. The claims come from the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona’s big class-action lawsuit against the state prison system, which claims that the ADC’s health care services are wholly inadequate (to…
The storm that caused record rainfall around Phoenix yesterday caused enough damage to force some homeowners out of their houses. There’s no way of telling exactly how many people were displaced from their homes because of flooding, but Red Cross officials tell New Times that a dozen people sought shelter…
A storm that crossed through Arizona yesterday produced the rainiest day ever recorded in Phoenix history, plus caused plenty of damage along the way. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton declared a state of emergency to deal with “extensive damage” flooding did around the city, especially to homes. Stanton said he and…
Welcome to Phoenix, where a few inches of rain have pretty much turned the city into Atlantis. Rainfall records are on pace to be broken, schools have canceled classes, power outages are being reported, and cars are floating in the middle of the interstate…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered. Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
The attack ad that hits Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred DuVal for voting for tuition increases as a member of the Arizona Board of Regents isn’t going away. In fact, it’s now in Spanish, too…
When students are accepted to both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, a majority choose to attend ASU, according to one set of statistics. It’s not a sure thing, but Parchment, a company that helps students transfer their official high school transcripts to colleges, looked at its users’…
Last week, we told you about a story from the nonprofit investigative journalism outlets ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting that explored how a Chinese national gained access to all kinds of sensitive records, such as the Arizona driver’s license database, before he disappeared. The meat of the story:…
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 looking especially…
A Tempe church is giving sanctuary to a Guatemalan immigrant who’s facing deportation as a result of a traffic stop. Reverend Eric Ledermann of the University Presbyterian Church says Luis Lopez-Acabal can stay “as long as it takes” to avoid his deportation.” Luis is our neighbor who has been here…
The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States has stayed the same since 2009, according to the Pew Research Center. Researchers estimate that there were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country in March 2013. The New Democrat Network, a lefty think-tank, has attributed the net-zero flow…
It took about a week, but the match-ups for all nine of Arizona’s congressional races have been decided. The Republican primary in Congressional District 1 had been too close to call since the primary election last Tuesday, but businessman Gary Kiehne has conceded defeat to Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin…
After a 9-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed a shooting instructor with an Uzi in Mohave County last week, an Arizona lawmaker is proposing a ban on giving machine guns to children. “I cannot believe we need a law like this, but we do,” Democratic Representative Victoria Steele tells New…
DUI task forces around the state arrested 582 people on DUI charges over Labor Day weekend. That’s an increase over the same weekend in 2013, when the task forces arrested 503 people on DUI charges…
The race to become Arizona’s next governor is tied, according to the second poll on the race released in the last week. The latest poll comes from Rasmussen Reports has Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred Duval tied at 40 percent each, based on interviews with 850 likely Arizona voters…
People around Phoenix seem to generally have a different taste in vehicles than people in other parts of the country. That leads us to notice some trends in car-buying around here, and this list of 10 cars you’ll see way too often around Phoenix:…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered. Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
A story this week from the nonprofit investigative journalism outlets ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting explores how a Chinese national gained access to all kinds of sensitive records, such as the Arizona driver’s license database, before he disappeared. “[T]he people responsible for hiring [Lizhong] Fan say one thing…
