Drunk driving is bad. With that out of the way, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
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, we found some extraordinarily goofy…
Supporters of Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Ducey aren’t taking Democratic challenger Fred DuVal lightly. With the primary election barely over, Ducey supporters had a DuVal hit on TV, spending more than a half-million dollars to slam DuVal — a former member of the Arizona Board of Regents — for college…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery brought together several Phoenix-area police chiefs yesterday to explain how the departments are handling encounters with mentally ill people. Of course, this comes on the heels of the shooting of Michelle Cusseaux, a 50-year-old mentally ill Phoenix resident who was fatally shot August 14 by…
Four Arizona lawmakers appear to have lost their primary races. Three Democrats and one Republican are losing races in which all or nearly all of the voting precincts have reported their results, and each lawmaker facing a loss is doing so under different circumstances…
The morning after Arizona’s primary election, there’s still one race to be settled among the state’s nine congressional districts. Former Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin has a lead of just a couple hundred votes over Gary Kiehne in the battle to take the Republican nomination in Arizona Congressional District 1,…
State Treasurer Doug Ducey cruised to an easy win Tuesday night for the Republican nomination for Arizona governor and will take on Democrat Fred DuVal in November. The results were not so good for another pair of Republicans in state government — scandal-plagued Attorney General Tom Horne lost his primary…
Three of the four competitive primary elections among Arizona’s congressional districts have been decided early. Former state Representative Ruben Gallego has defeated Mary Rose Wilcox in Congressional District 7’s Democratic primary, to replace retiring Democratic Congressman Ed Pastor. While votes are still coming in, retired Air Force pilot Wendy Rogers…
Below, you can find live results of today’s Arizona primary election. The first results will be posted around 8 p.m., and the Secretary of State’s office will update the live feed throughout the night…
New Times reporters are all around the Phoenix area covering today’s primary election. Below, find a live Twitter feed of race results and reactions:…
A police task force in Tempe focused on alcohol-related crimes made 392 arrests over the weekend, which was the first weekend since the fall semester started at Arizona State University. This is the second year that the Tempe Police Department has organized its “Safe and Sober” campaign at the start…
Today is Arizona’s primary election, and there are plenty of races to keep an eye on. Below, check out our picks of the top 10 races to watch as the results roll in tonight:…
A Phoenix police officer’s fatal shooting of Phoenix resident Michelle Cusseaux will be investigated by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Cusseaux, 50, was fatally shot August 14 by Phoenix Police Officer Percy Dupra after, police say, she threatened officers with a hammer when they went to serve a court…
There are certain phrases people from Phoenix always use (“It’s a dry heat!”) but there are also some things people from Phoenix never say. Check out 10 things no one from Phoenix ever says:…
The body of a mentally ill black woman who was shot and killed by police was brought to Phoenix City Hall today by community activists and the slain woman’s family, who demanded an external investigation into her death. Michelle Cusseaux, 50, was fatally shot by Phoenix Police Officer Percy Dupra…
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, we’ve got a bit of…
A Maricopa County judge has ordered the state to fund public school districts to the levels mandated by voters, meaning Arizona has to pay up about $300 million this year. The courts have sided with school districts that argued the Legislature was under-funding schools, based on a 2000 voter-approved law…
Campaign signs are the absolute worst — any claims made on them are typically irrelevant or false to a certain extent, and nobody wants the signs littering their neighborhood. Even worse, the signs seem to turn politicians and their staffers into juvenile delinquents every single election cycle, with sign theft…
In response to a letter-writing campaign promoted by an anti-abortion organization, Democratic congressional candidate James Woods is mailing back condoms — campaign condoms. The form-letters sent to Woods, who’s running for the Congressional District 5 seat currently occupied by Republican Congressman Matt Salmon, asked him to sign a pledge to…
Tonopah residents who are fighting a new Hickman’s Family Farms facility in the town are taking the fight to Clint Hickman, a co-owner of the company and Maricopa County Supervisor. A lawsuit filed against Hickman alleges that some of the signs used by Hickman in his re-election campaign — featuring…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office last year initiated an intense traffic stop on an innocent Prescott Valley family while deputies were helping Major League Baseball chase a suspect in an alleged game-fixing scandal. Plainclothes MCSO deputies went to Prescott Valley — in Yavapai County — at the request of the…
As if there wasn’t enough traffic on Phoenix-area highways from people crashing into each other, there are also some weirder things that land on the highways and ruin your commute. Thanks to the Arizona Department of Transportation’s traffic cameras, we can show you the most bizarre things that have messed…
