Two Valley women — Maritza Miranda Saenz and Celia Carbajal — are hosting Ben Miranda Boxing Promotions’ inaugural match up on Friday in downtown Phoenix. “Phoenix Fight Night” is slated for the Phoenix Convention Center at 7 p.m. Saenz, the daughter of the late lawmaker and attorney Ben Miranda, and…
Recalled ex-Senate President Russell Pearce still has his taxpayer-funded $85,000-a-year job with the Maricopa County Treasurer’s Office, and the protesters have not gone away. Activists with Citizens for a Better Arizona, plus elected officials and representatives of other groups showed up to Treasurer “Hos” Hoskins’ office yesterday to continue demanding…
Arizona’s so-called “revenge porn” law criminalizes much more than sharing an ex-lover’s nude photos, states a lawsuit filed by several publishing and media organizations. The law, passed earlier this year, essentially makes it a felony to share a nude photo of someone without the person’s consent. According to the plaintiffs,…
A bloody fight between fans at Sunday’s Arizona Cardinals game was caught on video. The Cards beat the San Francisco 49ers 23-14 at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Plenty of action also took place in the stands, as the video shows…
Convicted killer Jodi Arias won’t be the center of attention again in the sentencing phase of her trial. Arias was convicted of the 2008 killing of ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in last year’s nationally televised trial, but the jury couldn’t come to a conclusion on whether to sentence Arias to death…
The Arizona Democratic Party is comparing the way Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey ran Cold Stone Creamery to a Ponzi scheme. To push the point, the party held a bit of an ice cream party at its Phoenix headquarters today, showing off gallons of ice cream labeled: “Doug Ducey’s Pistachio…
Details released in the Rex Chapman shoplifting case show that North Scottsdale Loan and Gold paid the ex-NBA star thousands for the brand-new goods he brought in. Alfonso Larriva, owner of the Scottsdale store as well as other Valley pawn shops, tells New Times that the store’s employees didn’t find…
Immigrant-rights protesters held a demonstration outside the Arizona Democratic Party headquarters in Phoenix last week, blasting the Dems for being the “deportation party.” Videographer Dennis Gilman was there to capture the action, as protesters were particularly upset with recent news that President Obama would delay taking executive action on the…
Here it is: The definitive ranking of every single city and town in Maricopa County. We factored in things like livability, location, attractions for visitors, and any number of X-factors in ranking all 24 cities in towns in the county from worst to first…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered. Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
Rex Everett Chapman, a former star Phoenix Suns player, was arrested today by Scottsdale police in connection with an Apple Store shoplifting scheme. Chapman was transported to the Maricopa County Jail, suspected of nine counts of organized retail theft and five counts of trafficking in stolen property, all felonies…
Proponents of a 2016 citizens’ initiative in Arizona that aims to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and older filed paperwork with the state on Thursday, the first step in their campaign. The Marijuana Policy Project of Arizona initiative still has a long way to go before becoming a law. But…
A Kingman couple is fighting to keep the children they adopted in 2012. “It’s a hot mess,” says Tracie Hirz, the children’s foster mother…
A marijuana deal gone bad at a Tempe gas station eventually led to a three-hour lock-down of a terminal and 25 flight cancellations at Sky Harbor airport yesterday. A group of three people showed up to a Shell gas station near Broadway Road and Price Road in Tempe around 2:45…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we take our best guesses…
Please see the updates at the end of this post, which include comments from John Guandolo, the Phoenix Police Department, and the MCSO. The backlash is building against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s upcoming anti-Muslim training session, featuring Islamaphobic ex-FBI agent John Guandolo, who believes that CIA Director John Brennan…
The owners of 23 dogs found dead on June 19 at a home-boarding business in Gilbert are suing the four suspects in the related criminal case, including the son of Senator Jeff Flake. Twenty-one people, represented by four local lawyers, filed a 23-page complaint today in Maricopa County Superior Court…
Sherman Unkefer, the Scottsdale gold-and-juice scamster targeted in a $54 million RICO suit, supposedly sold $5.4 million in gold and silver in 2013 to stop it from going to his victims. Marc Olivieri, who worked with one of Unkefer’s associates, detailed the alleged sale in an affidavit filed in Maricopa…
The First Amendment Coalition of Arizona filed an amended complaint on Thursday to join a lawsuit by Federal Public Defenders seeking information about execution drugs. The public defenders filed their lawsuit on June 26 on behalf of Arizona’s condemned prisoners, hoping to find out more about the drug Midazolam and…
Arizona State University police obtained 70 semi-automatic M-16s from a military program in 2013 that the force doesn’t actually need. The ASU police department has 71 sworn officers, according to its website, meaning the junior-league offshoot of the state Department of Public Safety has upped its firepower potential considerably. But…
Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer was arrested yesterday on felony and misdemeanor assault charges for a pair of domestic-violence incidents. Court documents released this morning detail the altercations between Dwyer and his wife at their Phoenix apartment in July. According to the documents, Dwyer, 25, head-butted his wife during…
Representative Trent Franks, Arizona’s abortion obsessed Congressman, got a failing grade from an atheist coalition for, basically, draping himself and his political office with a robe of Christianity and proposing legislation based on his religious views. As one would figure, that wouldn’t go over well with the Secular Coalition for…
