If you’re an Arizonan, you may have had a better chance at avoiding a cold than people from the other 49 states.According to a Gallup survey, they called 500 Americans every night for a year to asked whether they had colds or the flu a day earlier (among other questions)…
Not long after taking office, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery formed a special panel of prosecutors to review cases of claimed self-defense. The Republican politician stated in a news release at the time that the panel was designed to ensure people claiming self-defense would not have their Second Amendment rights…
Well before the controversy over Senate Bill 1062, there were complaints that Center for Arizona Policy lobbyist Cathi Herrod’s power at the Capitol essentially made her an unelected lawmaker.In recent weeks, activists have protested at Herrod’s office, complaining that it certainly appears that Herrod, an unelected lobbyist, has too much…
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:…
A Tempe police officer accidentally discharged the probes from his Taser while showing it to a middle school class, police say.One of the probes hit a 14-year-old girl in the arm, while the other probe struck a wall. The girl was not hit with the electrical current, since both probes…
Krokodil may be the scariest drug on the planet, but there’s scant evidence so far that the flesh-eating heroin substitute has ever left Russia. Why anyone would inject or otherwise consume krokodil is also uncertain, given that experts say it literally rots flesh off the bone. News reports last year…
Former Arizona Attorney General investigator Meg Hinchey today settled her claim against the state, Attorney General Tom Horne, and Horne chief deputy Rick Bistrow for nearly $100,000. Hinchey filed suit in January 2013, claiming Horne and Bistrow retaliated against her in response to her blowing the whistle to the FBI…
A group claiming an association to the hacking collective Anonymous says it plans to “expose” the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in the coming weeks.There are Twitter and Youtube accounts associated with the group, which claims to be doing a “tactical investigation” on the plant, located about 50 miles west…
In a case of life imitating art, methamphetamine with a tint of blue, just like Walter White’s “Blue Sky” product, is turning up routinely on the streets of Phoenix, cops say. Meth dealers tell their customers the blue powder will get them higher, says Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson, but…
A former member of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s posse was arrested by MCSO deputies on child-pornography charges.According to the Sheriff’s Office, 73-year-old Roger Byg was a posse member in the old-folks community of Sun City and even had served on the posse’s board before resigning early last year. MCSO’s computer crimes…
A humorous brief to the U.S. Supreme Court filed last week invokes Stephen Colbert’s concept of “truthiness” in a defense of the right to tell fibs about elected leaders. Penned by lawyer Ilya Shapiro on behalf of the Cato Institute and satirist P.J. O’Rourke, the amicus brief, written to defend…
Members of the Phoenix Police Department’s Major Offender Unit, who worked alongside slain Detective John Hobbs, described him as a man who deeply loved his wife and three children, and well as a detective who fought until the end.”John was one of the best [detectives] we had,” Sergeant Doug McBride…
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.People tend to look pretty glum in mugshots…
After a week of allowing voters in Congressional District 9 believe that she didn’t want to serve them any more, Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema has finally made a Sherman-esque statement about the prospect of running in CD 7, where Congressman Ed Pastor recently announced he would not seek re-election. The following…
The “rebound” of home prices in the Phoenix area might be over, according to the monthly real estate report from Arizona State University’s Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice.According to the report, “the market conditions suggest prices will struggle to make any further upward progress in 2014.”…
Update: Sadly, since this list was published, Sinema has decided not to commit political seppuku and parachute into CD 7. Sigh. Looks like we may have her to kick around a la Dick Nixon for a while longer. One week after Democratic Congressman Ed Pastor announced that he would not…
No U.S. Senator gets worse reviews from his constituents than Senator John McCain, according to poll results.About 30 percent of the Arizonans polled by Public Policy Polling said they approve of McCain’s job performance, whereas 54 percent said they disapprove…
Yes, horse and dog massages are real services offered by real people who operate businesses in Arizona.However, according to two women who have filed a lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court, the state veterinary board has told them to stop providing their services, insisting that they need to be licensed…
The Chandler Police Department has released the surveillance footage of a shooting at a 7-Eleven store last week.Two customers pulled guns on each other inside the store, and one man got a shot off, hitting the other man in the face. The injury wasn’t life threatening…
My dad says that when he was a kid growing up in Downey, California, they used to open the local plunge (pool) to mexicanos and negritos on Thursdays only because the pool was cleaned once a week on Friday mornings. Is this an accurate account of racism in the 1940s…
To read all the fake outrage spewed by schoolmarmish lefties over state Representative John Kavanagh’s skewering of Sheriff Joe Arpaio during a recent roast of the aged autocrat, you’d think Kavanagh had shot a Mexican man in Reno just to watch him die. Don’t get me wrong, I take a…
As governor of the Gila River Indian Community, I write to register our strong condemnation of your publication’s insensitive cover of February 6, 2014 (for the story “Broken Arrow,” Monica Alonzo). While our community supports New Times’ First Amendment right, we must draw the line at illustrations that convey age-old,…
