After Arizona lawmakers passed SB1070, calls for action by immigration activists were heard loudly in California.San Francisco and Los Angeles announced boycotts against the state — but reality quickly set in when city leaders realized such plans might come back to hurt them. As L.A. Weekly writer Gene Maddaus points…
This is one of the upsides to mobile phones:An astute witness’ prompt call to 911 early yesterday morning after seeing some punks breaking into a car resulted in the arrest of three teenagers.The caller told police that the men had broken out the window of a parked car in the…
County prosecutors will be reviewing Wednesday’s case of a boy left in a hot van for more than an hour. It’s your time to beat them to the punch — would you charge staff members of a school for intellectually disabled kids?Everyone’s so busy these days — it’s easy to…
The city of Phoenix is spending $6.8 million to add flashing beacons and alter signs to its reverse lane program — even though stats show the so-called “suicide lanes” aren’t really dangerous.True, we usually avoid the darned things out of fear of using them incorrectly. The program, begun 30 years…
A driver and an aide for a school for a Phoenix school for intellectually disabled kids left a 6-year-old in a hot van yesterday for more than an hour, police say.”We think it’s extremely lucky for this kid,” says Phoenix police Sergeant Steve Martos. “It was over 100 degrees yesterday…
Hey, buddy, can you spare $18.7 million?Actually, the feds can. And, as announced today by Shaun Donovan, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary, they’re giving that amount to Arizona’s poor in the way of grants for affordable housing projects.Nationwide, though, the Community Development Block Grants and HOME Investment Partnerships…
The federal government is moving ahead with a forfeiture proceeding for a 105 mm Howitzer from a Globe company that illegally tried to sell it three years ago, court records show. The modern cannon doesn’t work and was being used as a front yard “lawn ornament” at the home of partner in…
Three hoodlums whose SUV ran out of gas during a June robbery forced one of their victims at gunpoint to use his car to push the vehicle to a gas station, police say. Cops released surveillance photos today of one of the robbers with the hope of developing some leads in what a Phoenix police…
A man who accidentally shot himself in the penis while walking through the parking lot of a Chandler grocery store last week was under the influence of prescription drugs, police believe. Cops who responded to the August 2 incident reported that Joshua Seto, 27, seemed too calm and oblivious to pain, says Chandler Sergeant Joe Favazzo. The officers thought the…
After a U.S. District Court judge stripped key provisions out of Arizona’s SB1070 law, Governor Jan Brewer appealed. Like the district court, the Ninth Circuit Court found unconstitutional the parts of the law that allowed police officers to hassle suspected illegal immigrants and made it a state crime for immigrants to leave home…
Another day, another 6-year-old Valley kid beaten by a parent with a belt.On Sunday, the day before the horrific incident we reported earlier involving a 6-year-old and a belt, Scottsdale mom Gabriela Barraza, 23, left “numerous” bruises on her 6-year-old son’s butt and thighs by beating him with a belt.The…
Hundreds of thousands of impoverished Arizonans with health problems apparently will have to tough it out following a court ruling today that upholds healthcare cuts.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Mark Brain ruled that a group of people suing the state can’t forced Arizona lawmakers to keep funding their free health care.Proposition 204,…
Governor Jan Brewer wants to the U.S. Supreme Court to take a look at Arizona’s contested immigration law, SB1070, following the law’s shoot-downs in lower courts. “I am hopeful that the U.S. Supreme Court will choose to take this case and issue much-needed clarity for states, such as Arizona, that…
A 6-year-old boy is on the verge of death after a severe beating by his parents, Phoenix police say. The parents, Benny Gibson, 49 and Jennifer Paul, 37, were arrested in connection with possible child abuse charges. Police and paramedics raced to the home near 7100 North 19th Avenue just…
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton let Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne file his extra-long response in Governor Jan Brewer’s federal marijuana lawsuit after all.So much for Horne’s quip that the response, made to refute the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, would get better if it got shorter.The ruling…
The $102,000 bill for the job of rooting out high-level corruption at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office included $351 for a five-and-a-half-hour meeting in January between an investigator and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But New Times has learned that a transcript of the interview is nowhere to be found among more…
Police put out an all-points correction this morning on incorrect news reports that Kiowa Gordon of Twilight series fame was arrested for suspicion of DUI.He wasn’t even driving. But he was busted on Monday — for an outstanding warrant.Mesa police, in a news release this morning, blamed Channel 12 News…
Give me the short version, a federal judge told Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today in a ruling on the state’s lawsuit against medical marijuana.Yesterday, Horne had asked U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton if he could exceed the 17-page limit for his arguments on why the lawsuit shouldn’t be dismissed…
Al Sobol, a prominent medical marijuana marketer, says he’s “happy” that state Attorney General Tom Horne seeks to have a court review the legality of cannabis clubs.Sobol is the manager of the 2811 Club, LLC, one of the businesses named in the legal actions filed in the Maricopa County Superior…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne asked a court today to shut down cannabis clubs, claiming they’re “blatantly illegal” under Arizona’s medical marijuana law.The motion, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, names four clubs and an individual: “The 2811 Club, The Arizona Compassion Association, Yoki A Ma’ Club, the Arizona Compassion…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s lawsuit against the state’s voter-approved medical marijuana law should be dismissed by the court, says the U.S. Justice Department.In a motion filed in U.S. District Court today, lawyers for the United States government argue that the legal action filed by Brewer in May against her own…
Back in January, longtime Ford engineer and proving grounds manager Mike Stoeckler flew to from Dearborn, Michigan to deliver an urgent request to Maricopa County planning officials.The automaker had one 2.1-mile-long track at its Arizona Proving Grounds in Wittman, a small town off the U.S. 60 just northwest of Sun…
