The Scottsdale-based “The Dirty” website has received plenty of attention for its gossip-mongering since Nik Richie founded it in 2007. But Richie, (whose real name is Hooman Karamian), has never had a summer like this. After posting the latest penis pics and sexting threads of New York mayoral candidate Anthony…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne wants the Keystone XL Pipeline project approved ASAP, citing its supposed benefits in a petition to the Obama Administration. Horne and 20 other state attorneys general have sent a petition to Secretary of State John Kerry urging the project’s approval. But the move seems to…
Buckeye will pay $30,000 to police-brutality victim and California resident Jerald Newman in a much-publicized 2011 case of Black Friday mayhem at a Walmart. The payoff is less than the $500,000 sought originally by Newman. But it still provides some justice in a case that saw the Maricopa County Attorney’s…
Arizona prison escapee John McCluskey’s murder trial gets under way today in Albuquerque for the slaying of an Oklahoma couple during a three-week crime spree in 2010. Linda and Gary Haas, both 61, were General Motors plant workers on their annual trip to Colorado in August 2010 when they’re believed…
Rumors have floated for years that Sheriff Arpaio’s office ignored suspicious employment activity at Danny’s Family Car Wash while targeting other companies for alleged immigration violations. One fact fueling the gossip is that the Valley chain, founded by Danny Hendon, is the biggest supporter of the MCSO Memorial Fund, which…
Scottsdale-based Go Daddy wouldn’t be the world’s largest seller of Internet domain names — by far — without its stable of scantily clad sex kittens. Now that Christine Jones, former general counsel for the company, is running for governor, we can’t help wondering how she’d look in some of the…
The Adrienne Salinas death investigation isn’t necessarily a homicide case, as police had indicated yesterday, Tempe police say this afternoon. Investigators saw no obvious signs of foul play during their preliminary look at the 19-year-old Tempe woman’s remains, which were found in Apache Junction last week, says Sergeant Mike Pooley,…
Ricardo Torres Marquez, the creep who broke into a westside home in 2011 and molested a 4-year-old girl, was sentenced to 24 years in prison today. He’s 22 now. When he gets out, he’ll be on lifetime probation…
Maricopa County’s most famous disbarred lawyers, Andrew Thomas and Lisa Aubuchon, were slapped down by the Ninth U.S. Circuit of Appeals today in a bid for immunity from a lawsuit. The ruling allows former Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley to proceed with his lawsuit against the former County Attorney, his…
Andre Rison, a former NFL player who blew a fortune trying to look rich, escaped a prison term last week when a federal judge went soft on him for violating probation. Prosecutors with the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office wanted Rison behind bars for at least 15 months for failing to…
Andrew Thomas finally has found the perfect home for his quasi-intellectual, right-wing screeds: The pro-national-sovereignty Selous Foundation. This little-known, Washington-based think-tank, founded by a former Marine turned mercenary/pundit, operates from a hippie-ish office on Pennsylvania Avenue above a wig shop and sandwiched between a bar and a liquor store…
Life is off to a fresh start for the 70-something sons of Arizona legend Barry Goldwater, with Barry Jr.’s divorce and Michael’s bankruptcy wrapping up last month. The Chapter 7 bankruptcy of Michael Prescott Goldwater and wife, Constance, was discharged on July 1, leaving credit-card companies, department stores, and other…
The planned merger between American Airlines and US Airways won’t get off the ground if Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne gets his way. Horne has joined a coalition of five other states, Washington DC and the US Department of Justice in a lawsuit that labels the airlines’ plan to become…
Deputy Chief Brian Sands, longtime aide to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has retired after nearly 30 years on the force. The high-ranking deputy’s departure comes just ahead of a showdown between Sands’ boss and federal authorities over a racial-profiling mess that Sands helped create…
Barry Jordan, the accused pervert whose red-light-running spree in 2011 resulted in a crash that killed an 11-year-old girl, has been found guilty but insane. The decision by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dawn Bergin means that Jordan will be incarcerated at the Arizona State Prison for a term yet…
How do you submit a My Turn column or letter to the editor to the Arizona Republic’s community opinion pages? Trick question. Don’t bother to submit anything. As of this week, the Republic’s community opinion sections no longer exist…
Lyndon Rive, CEO of SolarCity, apologized to the Arizona Corporation Commission this week after one of his employees spread misinformation to customers. The flap began about 11 p.m. on July 31, records show, when SolarCity sales consultant Doyle Dreesen sent a breathless email to an unknown number of customers that…
Google tells New Times it’s trying to fix the weird appearance of the phrase “Jew York Times” in certain Google News search returns. We’d emailed the tech giant while reporting the quirk, which a Google spokeswoman told us is a “technical issue.”…
A new sign and more safety warnings are coming from the Bureau of Land Management following the deaths of three hikers this summer near “The Wave” formation near the Arizona-Utah border. Following an analysis of the tragedies, the BLM says today in a news release that several steps will be…
If you’ve driven past the Phoenix VA hospital at Indian School Road and Seventh Street in the past couple of years, you couldn’t help but notice its large solar-panel project. Yet most of the panels have been sitting idle, New Times has learned, collecting sunlight but not transmitting electricity anywhere…
Someone at Google apparently has a twisted and most decidedly un-PC sense of humor. Several New York Times articles that are part of an archived-newspaper service Google provided until 2011, contain the phrase “Jew York Times” in search returns…
Dozens of medical-pot dispensaries dot the state from nearly every corner since the first one, Arizona Organix of Glendale, opened in November. A recent newsletter to patients released by the state Department of Health and obtained by New Times shows the addresses of 48 of these pioneering businesses, which teeter…
