Rachel Alexander, the right-wing blogger and ex-prosecutor under former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has blown her chance to appeal her law-license suspension by failing to file her opening brief on time. The former deputy county attorney had her license suspended in April for six months and a day because…
Sure, it’s hot as hell out there in the afternoons, but last week we thought we’d drive down Interstate 10 to Picacho Peak for a morning jaunt to one of the state’s best summits. Turns out, the whole park is now closed for four friggin’ months of the year! Starting…
In April, the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a portion of Arizona’s voter-approved voter-ID law, intended to keep non-citizens from voting. Because of that ruling, Arizona was supposed to stop enforcing the law. But a new order by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy permits the law…
Mapping the roadways of the world isn’t enough for Google, which announced its Street View program is headed for wilderness hiking trails. Like much about the Internet, this sounds like both a blessing and a curse. After all, Google Street View can be accessed equally by lost motorists and burglars…
People caught near the U.S.-Mexico border with backpacks bulging with marijuana are eligible for reduced sentences under a new policy by the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office. “Backpackers” with no prior history of drug offenses and no extenuating circumstances, like also packing a firearm, are receiving plea deals that reduce the…
An undercover video by pro-life activists released today shows clinic workers in Phoenix and Tucson agreeing to violate a year-old state law that prohibits gender-based abortions. In the video (below), an activist explains to “Barb” at the Camelback Family Planning clinic in Phoenix that she wants to terminate her…
The fatal rollover of a Korean War-era truck at Canyon de Chelly over Memorial Day weekend is still under investigation, but the problem wasn’t the back-country road, the Park Service says.Tom Clark, superintendent for the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, tells New Times that it’s too early to say whether…
U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake’s final order in the proposed settlement by Maricopa County to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox: Pay the woman.In an order on Friday, Wake granted Wilcox’s motion to enforce the settlement order, stating that Wilcox “shall have judgment” in the amount agreed, plus an additional $28,000…
This morning we found a series of blog posts about a fatal rollover crash in the Canyon de Chelly National Monument that has received little media coverage. The crash of the Korean War-era truck a week ago killed Hawaiian astronomy professor Richard Crowe and injured several others. Blogger Jim Jaillet…
The Arizona Guardian political news site has disappeared into cyberspace’s black hole. The Arizona Guardian, a local political news site once held up as a possible model for a declining news industry, has gone belly-up. As of today, the Guardian’s site is off the air, sounding the death knell that…
Image: azmmcaregivers.com The Arizona Patient Education Center’s Tempe and Phoenix locations were raided and shut down yesterday by Phoenix police. The Tempe and Phoenix locations of the Arizona Patient Education Center, which provided medical marijuana to state-registered patients, were raided on Thursday by Phoenix police. “These guys applied for…
A federal judge is being asked for a second time to order that records in the criminal case of Arizona Legislator Ben Arredondo that refer to other investigations will be kept secret.This seems to be more proof that while the feds probably were happy to nail Arredondo for his alleged corrupt acts, the…
Andrew Thomas is a failed politician in serious need of good publicity.After being disbarred in April for unethical acts as Maricopa County Attorney, Thomas also wants to strike back at the judiciary system, which he feels screwed him over.So now, he’s putting himself on public display as the face of…
Mark Dixon of Casa Grande is ticked off at Arizona Supreme Court Disciplinary Judge William O’Neil, that much is clear.O’Neil, former presiding judge for the Pinal County Superior Court, had the contractor come out to his property to do maintenance and they had a “very close friendship,” according to an…
Lisa Aubuchon’s law license will be canceled officially as of July 2, the state Supreme Court ruled today.Aubuchon and former boss, failed politician Andrew Thomas, were disbarred in April following weeks of testimony over the bad decisions they made in their fight with county leaders.Unlike Thomas, Aubuchon is choosing to…
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has denied the state of Arizona’s motions to dismiss a legal challenge to SB 1070 by Friendly House, a social-service agency for immigrants.The Friendly House lawsuit is a separate action from the challenge to SB 1070 by the U.S. Justice Department being considered by the…
Hundreds of applications for medical-marijuana dispensaries — along with their $5,000 application fees — poured into the state Department of Health Services last week. The latest update on the Arizona DHS Web site shows 484 applications received in 99 of the 126 districts (a.k.a., “CHAAs,”) around Arizona that are allowed…
Ed Moriarity has quit as Lisa Aubuchon’s pro-bono attorney, saying he and his law firm can no longer afford to work on her long-running case.The countrified, oft-combative Montana lawyer defended Aubuchon for free through the disciplinary hearings that resulted in the disbarment of his client and former Maricopa County Attorney…
Maricopa County has dumped Cave Creek Councilman Steven LaMar following his failure to convince a federal judge that a $975,000 payment to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox might need further authorization.LaMar was appointed to defend the county in late 2010 against the claims and subsequent lawsuits by county employees, former judges…
Yuma farmers Sally Nakasawa and Robert Nickerson have been major growers of poppies for years, selling them for use in floral decorations.Their flowers could be seen by the public off U.S. Highway 95, and in 2008 a photo of them were featured in a Yuma Daily Sun article that pegged…
Marijuana keeps Craig Rodgers alive. With his muscular physique and energetic, fast-talking personality, the 36-year-old Las Vegas resident seems the epitome of health — except for the banana-size scar on the left side of his head. Rodgers was on a good career track as a trade-show organizer until 2006, when…
Karl “Jack” Frost, who tried to make a “citizen’s arrest” of a jogger last week in Gilbert, told police he struggles with “inner demons” now that he’s no longer a police officer. Frost believes he was right to restrain the 52-year-old jogger, but police arrested him after the morning dust-up…
