While Arizona Senator John McCain is “pleased” that a federal judge in North Dakota issued an injunction against the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Rule, his critics – some of whom have their own, separate concerns about the ruling – say his reasoning is just another example of how he…
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday afternoon that 42-year-old Arizona resident Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal has been charged with four counts of “planning and perpetrating a Federal crime of terrorism against the United States.” From 2014 through August 2015, El Gammal, who went by Jammie Gammal, “did knowingly and…
On a March night 37 years ago, a young Glendale woman was gruesomely shot to death in her car on a secluded street after an evening of shopping at nearby mall. Her slumped over body and 1976 Toyota Celica were discovered around 8:30 p.m. by a local jogger on the…
About a month after a Federal District judge rejected a preliminary injunction intended to prevent the Arizona Department of Transportation from razing 200-plus properties to make way for the South Mountain Free pass, the initial demolition is set to begin this week. While some are celebrating, others are not so…
In what may turn out to be one of the least competitive citywide elections in Phoenix history, voters overwhelming reinstated Mayor Greg Stanton and four City Council members — Daniel Valenzuela, Thelda Williams, Bill Gates, and Michael Nowakowski — and passed all five ballot measures. It was not a very…
In the wake of both the recent Gold King Mine disaster that unleashed more than 3 million gallons of toxic mining waste into the Animas River earlier this month, and the impending resumption of uranium mining at Canyon Mine near the Grand Canyon, a coalition of 15 environmental organizations, three…
Remember that $2.5 million secured by state and county agencies earlier this year that was earmarked to house 250 homeless individuals? There are plenty of rumors floating around social media that the money is not being used properly or that no one has been placed. But Bruce Liggett, director of…
As part of a national day of action against Planned Parenthood this Saturday, hundreds of people will protest outside of six clinics throughout Arizona, including four in the greater-Phoenix area. Their plan is to draw attention to what organizers call “the heartless and even illegal activities of Planned Parenthood.” But…
Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson delivered his God-fearing, Constitution-loving message to about 6,000 people Tuesday night in the Phoenix Convention Center. The night began with prayer, the pledge of allegiance, a speech from a former patient, and a heartfelt musical performance from a pastor who wrote a song for…
“We’re in the ‘red zone’ right now. Today, tomorrow is probably it,” says Duane “Chili” Yazzie, chapter president of the Shiprock Community on the Navajo Nation Reservation. “We’re about to lose a lot of our crops.” Two weeks after an accident in an abandoned mine in Colorado caused more than 3…
As governor, what do you do if your state’s incarceration rate is 48 percent higher than the national average and is full of fourth-graders who can’t read? If you’re Governor Doug Ducey, you use tax dollars to launch a “rebranding” campaign, duh! Ever since Ducey asked the public to submit…
Puppy-mill breeders, beware — Tempe is the latest Arizona city to consider a ban on the commercial sale of dogs and cats in pet stores. The move is part of a national campaign to crack down on puppy mills — breeding facilities where animals are kept in crowded, inhumane conditions and…
After what’s being hailed as an “overwhelming response from the people of Arizona,” Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is moving the location of his rally Tuesday night. The event was originally going to be held in the Grace Community Church in Tempe, which can hold about 2,300 people, but…
Republican U.S. Senator John McCain did not exactly receive a warm welcome when he visited the Navajo Nation this weekend to commemorate the Navajo Code Talkers. Throughout the day he was confronted by activists waving banners painted with messages, such as: “McCain = Indian Killer” and “McCain’s not welcome here”…
Glendale Police Department Commander Andre Anderson, on loan to the Ferguson (Missouri) Police Department as acting chief, has a blemished personnel record, according to a recent news report. The report reveals, based on Anderson’s personnel file, that he was suspended three times in one year and had an order of protection filed against…
As more than 3 million gallons of heavy metal-laden sludge from a spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado has worked its way down the A nimas River and toward the San Juan River and Lake Powell, many are asking how something like this could happen and how we…
The main outreach and service provider for homeless veterans in the Valley, the Community Resource and Referral Center, recently moved out of its small office within the downtown Phoenix Lodestar Day Resource Center to a much larger and newly renovated facility. It’s a move its directors say will allow the…
18-year-old Jessica Burlew has been in jail for 571 days while her public defenders and the state of Arizona have waded through the complicated and drawn out process of preparing for a homicide trial. A sources close to the situation tells New Times that the attorneys and relevant parties have been…
You’d think a man trying to lock his girlfriend in a building and set it on fire would use more than shoelaces to tie the door shut. Much like you’d think he’d know better than to carry four lighters in his pocket when he returned to the scene of the…
Images of a mustard-orange river in Colorado shocked the nation last week after the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally released 3 million gallons of waste water and sludge from the inactive Gold King Mine into a tributary of the Animas River near Silverton, Colorado, on August 5. As of late Monday…
A new study comparing the best and worst states for underprivileged children ranks Arizona 49th in the nation. Only Mississippi and the District of Columbia received worse scores. (In sub-categories, we ranked 50th out of 51 in early-foundations and economic well-being, 37th in health, and 48th in education.) The study…
Phoenix resident and de facto leader of the Arizona anti-Islam movement, Jon Ritzheimer, is planning another big “protest against radical Islam” — so big, he claims, that it’s going to span the globe. “I got contacts in Canada, Australia, and all across Europe – everybody’s on board,” he says in…
