The Phoenix Coyotes will officially become the Arizona Coyotes on Friday, more than 10 years after the team left Phoenix.The name-change comes along with the new owners, and the change will take place as the Coyotes select their first-round draft pick on Friday, with the 12th overall pick…
The Obama Administration sent out a warning in Spanish-language news media over the weekend that undocumented children entering the country would receive no “permisos.” In the open letter to parents in other countries, Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, describes the horrors that some unaccompanied minors risk…
Republican Senator Kelli Ward of Lake Havasu City has organized a forum in her district to address concerns about “chemtrails.””Chemtrails” are them white trails left behind by them there aero-planes up in the sky, used by the gubmint to poison us common folk, conspiracy theorists say.The trails of condensation formed…
Shanesha Taylor, the Valley mother who achieved fame by leaving her kids in a hot car, sheds tears and blames the economy in an exclusive interview the New York Times published Sunday. Taylor’s facing felony prosecution for her decision to leave her 2-year-old and 6-month-old kids in a car for…
Downtown Phoenix has changed quite a bit over the last seven years.Since Google first sent its Street View cameras through the streets of downtown Phoenix in 2007, buildings have gone up, others have come down, and other areas have completely changed. Now that the Street View car came back through…
What does an aged blowhard like Sheriff Joe Arpaio know about the humanitarian crisis involving thousands of children from Central America crossing the border into the United States? Not a damn thing. Arpaio proved this categorically on the conservative site Newsmax TV in a recent interview with washed-up former Republican…
I officially take back everything bad I’ve said about this state’s Clean Elections laws. Well, almost. Because there’s no way in hell that a loser like disbarred ex-county attorney Andrew Thomas should be awarded three-quarters of a million dollars in public cash, as could happen during this election cycle. Still,…
A Glendale man facing felony charges of running an illegal poker room claims he “never made a penny” off the operation. Mike Talerico, 42, is one of several local men facing serious charges in separate cases since the state began a fresh crackdown on poker rooms in December. The legal…
Andrew Thomas, the disgraced, ex-Maricopa County Attorney running for Arizona governor, has come up 113 five-dollar contributions short for Clean Elections cash. Thomas and other gubernatorial candidates need 4,500 contributions of five dollars each to qualify for about three-quarters of a million dollars of public funds under the state’s clean…
Daniel Gray, the Phoenix dad who left his 3-month-old baby to die in a hot car last year, received a four-year prison sentence. On August 28, Gray drove with little James in the car to the sports bar where he worked. A manager, Gray had the day off that Wednesday…
Kyle Yocom’s detention-officer job for the Arizona U.S. Marshal’s Service didn’t pay enough — for him, anyway. The once-supervisor for a detention unit at a federal courthouse pawned body armor worth about a thousand bucks and other gear, netting $90. He was was given five years’ probation this week after…
Arizona State University President Michael Crow hopes his tuition-discount deal with Starbucks boosts online enrollment by 15,000 students, toward a goal of 100,000. Just fewer than 10,000 were enrolled for the fall 2013 semester, with about two-thirds of those undergraduate, and another third graduate students. The free advertising ASU and…
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.Summer doesn’t even start until tomorrow, but this…
It turns out that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Cold Case Posse can use the Sheriff’s Office headquarters address in corporate filings, even though the posse’s based somewhere else. Rebecca Wilder, spokeswoman for the Arizona Corporation Commission, checked in with the agency’s staff this morning at the request of New Times…
Phoenix truly is a good place to be a driver. Well, compared to everywhere else.Yet another look at driving-related statistics has placed Phoenix among the top American cities to drive…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection finally allowed reporters to tour the facilities that have been designated for processing the sudden surge of children from Central America showing up at the U.S. border.There had been reports early on that these facilities were completely unprepared to have suitable conditions for the children,…
The Phoenix City Council approved changes to the parking-meter enforcement to help cover the city’s budget deficit.Parking meters will be active on nights and weekends in the near future and could cost up to $4 an hour if there’s an event going on nearby…
The ultimate Obama birthers, the members of the county’s Cold Case Posse, listed a bogus address in filings with the state and now may have their corporation dissolved. Arizona Corporation Commission online records show the Cold Case Posse corporation, a nonprofit, is in “delinquent” status. It has 60 days to…
The Junipine Fire that broke out north of Sedona earlier this week — the second wildfire in the area in the last month — didn’t turn into anything to worry about.The Forest Service announced yesterday that the small fire, initially estimated at 12 acres, had been 100 percent contained…
If dark-skinned people are so “undesirable,” unwelcome, and put down by you gringos, how come you bake in the sun like zopilotes to get dark? Summer is fantasy time for all of you, when you can actually get some color in that white skin of yours. Maybe the whole deal…
Jared Diamond, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, is surrounded by a few academics and fans at a wine-and-cheese reception on the north patio of Tempe Center for the Arts. It’s November 5, the weather’s gorgeous, and the dark blue of twilight reflects…
What did Arizona’s political leaders learn from the debacle over Arizona’s ethnic-cleansing legislation, Senate Bill 1070? They learned that hysteria, misinformation, and grandstanding work, as far as garnering attention, and that saying the dumbest thing you can is often surest route to getting your mug on Fox News. But wait,…
