At 5 a.m. Monday morning, Chandler police finally nabbed a guy they’d been looking for since May. Jose Salvador Rodriguez, the 19-year-old serial online dating app burglar, was caught shortly after robbing a Circle K in Chandler. Police had been looking for a young guy who was known to contact…
On the bright Sunday afternoon of March 18, 1984, Randy Johnson took the mound for the University of Southern California at Arizona State University’s Packard Stadium. He was among the most interesting collection of sports figures ever assembled on a college baseball field. The game featured two players who would…
At 21, Grant Ronnebeck, a bright, friendly young man with an “infectious smile,” was just beginning to map out his life dreams. But, his uncle testified during an emotional U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, because of the country’s lax immigration policies, he won’t ever get to “follow his heart.”…
The Arizona American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court this morning alleging that Arizona’s Civil Asset Forfeiture laws are unconstitutional. These statutes give law enforcement agencies the power to seize personal property if they suspect it was used in criminal activity, and then either to keep it…
LifeLock, the Tempe-based company that claims it can protect customers from identify theft, saw its stock value cut in half on Tuesday after the Federal Trade Commission accused it of violating terms of a 2010 settlement agreement. LifeLock has a history of deceiving the public and its customers, starting with…
Cindy Craig is overwhelmed when she hears the news. Six months after Kayla Mueller, a close friend and protégée, was killed in the custody of the Islamic State terrorist group, federal prosecutors are preparing criminal charges against an Iraqi woman suspected of aiding in holding her hostage. “Oh, my gosh!”…
Jon Ritzheimer, organizer of the anti-Islam “Rally for Free Speech” that took place outside of the Phoenix Islamic Cultural Center in late May, has a new message for all Muslims in the United States: “Game on, mother fuckers. Game on.” Ritzheimer, a former marine, catapulted himself into the public eye…
Anshantia “Tia” Oso, one of the protesters who interrupted a Town Hall event with presidential candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders on Saturday, writes in a in a high-profile column today that she was the “right person” to lead the halting of the program. Oso touts her many activist qualifications…
Governor Doug Ducey announced in a public statement this week that he is directing “the [Arizona] Department of Health Services to conduct a thorough review of [state] law and immediately promulgate emergency rules designed to prohibit the illegal sale of any tissue from an unborn child.” A spokesman for the Governor’s…
During an hour-long status conference Monday in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s never-ending contempt case, federal Judge G. Murray Snow granted a request by the U.S. Department of Justice to review documents from Arpaio’s confidential informant Dennis Montgomery in the MCSO’s so-called “Seattle investigation.” That investigation, as first revealed in June of…
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came to Phoenix this weekend and spoke to a crowd of 11,000 people. The gathering was not only the largest turnout to date for his campaign, but it was the largest turnout so far for the 2016 presidential campaign season. Sanders is known for his…
During what was intended to be a town hall style discussion featuring two Democratic presidential candidates, quickly shifted gears when two women from the #BlackLivesMatter campaign got up on stage and tried to get former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to address “structural racism” in this…
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stood in front of 11,000-plus people in downtown Phoenix Saturday night and talked about the political transformation he believes the country so desperately needs. “I’m the only presidential candidate who will tell you this,” he said to a roaring crowd, “no president, no matter how…
Between 500 and 600 people marched from the downtown Convention Center to the 4th Avenue Jail, and then to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s headquarters, as part of protest with two demands: that Sheriff Joe Arpaio resign, and that Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation agents stay out of the county jail…
Ersula Ore, the Arizona State University assistant professor whose controversial, videotaped arrest last year was perceived widely as possible police brutality, has missed her deadline to sue the university. Ore submitted a $2 million notice of claim to her employer back in January that accused officials — including Stewart Ferrin,…
A federal appellate judge accused Arizona of being racist Thursday for attempting to deny driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants covered by President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. “What is the problem?” Judge Harry Pregerson demanded during a tense hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in…
An anti-Islam, pro-freedom of speech rally scheduled for Saturday July 18 outside of the Islamic Center of Tucson has been canceled. Dean Remington, a U.S. military veteran and organizer of the event, announced the news on Facebook last night. “The reasoning behind an immediate cancellation has many fronts, as well…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is putting the infamous 4th Avenue Jail on lockdown for an indeterminate amount of time on Friday because of a scheduled protest against him and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Phoenix-based grassroots organization for migrant rights, Puente Arizona, is organizing a rally for an “Arpaio-Free…
Once again, the U.S. Department of Justice has disappointed us when it comes to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s abuses of power, this time with a Neville Chamberlain-esque settlement that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved on Wednesday. The board unanimously agreed to settle on three areas of dispute in United…
Phoenix New Times has an immediate opening for an experienced editorial art director. The art director is responsible for all visual components of both digital and print publications, overseeing photography, videography and illustration as well as maintaining the overall design quality and integrity of the print publication. He/she must be…
Revenge is a dish best served on video, as a short, helmet-cam film from a Yuma road-rage incident shows. In the video, which has gone viral with more than five million views on YouTube since being uploaded on Sunday, a motorcyclist gets punched in the head by an angry, middle-aged man…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the Fourth Avenue Jail in downtown Phoenix. To be considered for Mugshots of the Week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week: Disney movie casting call 10. Booked on…
