The Glendale Police Department today released video of MCSO Deputy Sean Pearce’s December 16, car crash, which killed 63-year-old Glendale resident John Harding. A local businesswoman provided the video to police, and there are two angles. The first is from the southbound side of North 59th Avenue and shows Harding’s…
An ABC 15 reporter told viewers a story earlier this month about two former Florence detectives who’d botched cases so badly that the Pinal County Attorney’s Office couldn’t prosecute them. Only no one has been able to cite what the cases were about…
If you’d like to make your blood boil, crack open the opinion pages of the Arizona Republic.You know the people who like to camp out in the left-hand lane of the highway, impeding people who’d like to drive faster than them? This guy writing to the Republic admits that he…
A Phoenix police officer shot and killed a man Tuesday outside CityScape.According to court documents obtained by New Times, detectives near 21st Avenue and Dunlap ran a records check Tuesday on the license plate of a truck listed as stolen. The detectives started following the truck, occupied by Craig Uran,…
The 8th Annual Border Security Expo kicked off yesterday, with 125 companies gathering in the Phoenix Convention Center to show off their latest technologies. Environmentally friendly products like solar powered drones and electric cars seemed to be the big trend this year, enabling border officials to simultaneously crack down on…
All nine U.S. Representatives from Arizona signed on to a letter to Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, asking that the company open its new factory in Arizona.Telsa plans on opening its “Gigafactory” to mass-produce batteries for its electric vehicles, and Arizona’s one of four states the company’s considering. Arizona’s nine…
From Friday through St. Patrick’s Day on Monday, DUI task forces around the state made 413 DUI arrests.Although you might expect most of the arrests to have come Monday, the majority of the arrests (233) were made on Friday and Saturday…
Neither Sheriff Joe Arpaio nor his Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan have been playing by the rules federal Judge G. Murray Snow laid down in the ACLU’s big racial profiling lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio. And Judge Snow is not amused. That’s the gist of a 17-page order issued Monday by Snow,…
Next time you complain about taxes, remember that people in most other states have it worse.According to one analysis of various state and local taxes, Arizona’s the 13th-best state to be a taxpayer…
Budget bills were introduced in the Arizona Senate yesterday, with a spending plan that’s roughly $150 million less than Governor Jan Brewer’s proposal.One of Brewer’s priorities in her budget proposal, more than $73 million in new spending for Child Protective Services, is cut down in Senate President Andy Biggs’ proposal…
Since the beginning of Arizona’s medical-marijuana program, people have petitioned the state health department to add post-traumatic stress disorder as a qualifying condition for medical pot.However, PTSD and other conditions aren’t added to the list, due to a lack of scientific research on the risks and benefits of using marijuana…
MCSO Deputy Sean Pearce was clocked at 81 mph just seconds before a December 16 crash that killed Glendale resident John Edward Harding, 63. Pearce was traveling north on North 59th Avenue a little after 1 p.m. in an unmarked black Chevy Tahoe when he collided with Harding’s Nissan Cube,…
Former Arizona lawmaker Scott Bundgaard has dropped the $10 million lawsuit he filed against the city of Phoenix following his 2011 fight with an ex-girlfriend. In a statement released to New Times and other media outlets, Bundgaard says that dropping the lawsuit without being awarded a dime is, somehow, “vindication.”…
Independent voters now outnumber Republicans in Arizona.According to voter registration statistics released today, more than 10,000 people have registered as independents since January. The total number of Arizona independents is 1,134,243, surpassing the 1,130,170 Republicans…
Maps made by a Georgia Tech grad student show where the highest concentrations of people without health insurance live in America’s biggest cities, including Phoenix.The maps are based on data collected from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, and the map of Phoenix isn’t entirely surprising…
The DUI task forces around the state made a total of 233 arrests for driving under the influence this weekend.The task forces were out for the St. Patrick’s Day weekend, and since St. Patrick’s Day is today, the total number of DUI arrests obviously will go up…
Lawyers for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne have hit upon yet another less-than-ingenious strategy to save him and his outreach director, Kathleen Winn, from being found guilty of campaign finance violations and possibly fined $1.2 million. That is, to accuse FBI agent Brian Grehoski — one of the federal investigators…
Dolores Huerta, the woman who co-founded the United Farm Workers alongside Cesar Chavez, says that state former Representative Ruben Gallego is “one of the brightest and most effective young Latino leaders” that she’s ever worked with. And that’s why she’s endorsing his campaign for the seat of retiring Congressman Ed…
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:…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend, including St. Patrick’s Day:…
The thousands of ignored allegations of neglect and abuse that went uninvestigated isn’t the only crisis Arizona’s Child Protective Services is dealing with.This morning, the CPS oversight committee at the Legislature brought in a child-welfare expert to explain some statistics surrounding the number of Arizona kids that are placed in…
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 can only say what it…
