A group of automotive enthusiasts is trying to prevent any roads and highways in the state from becoming toll roads.Additionally, the proposed ballot initiative submitted by the group targets plans for potential toll lanes on highways, which would allow solo drivers to pay to use the carpool lane…
A whole lot of Alaskans seem to think that Sarah Palin is now an Arizonan, according to poll results.Nice try, Alaskans…
The leader of the Granite Mountain Hotshots crew apparently violated several wildfire-fighting safety protocols in the moments before 19 of the crew’s 20 members were killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire.Eric Marsh, the superintendent of the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew, was one of the 19 firefighters killed in the fire…
A Phoenix man dropped off his wife at the hospital and drove off after what can only be described as weird stuff went down in the couple’s bedroom.Perhaps a list of the items in the couple’s bedroom will give you a better idea of what was going in inside: a…
When police finally arrested Antonio Julio Sanchez after 10 years on the lam, he was cleaning his car in a posh Miami neighborhood by the beach, living under a false name. Sanchez, 40, pleaded guilty in 2002 to drugging at least one Arizona woman with Ketamine and filming him and…
Frank Castillo, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who spent much of his career with the Chicago Cubs, drowned in Bartlett Lake on Sunday.According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Castillo, 44, was on a boat with his friends and got in the lake to go swimming…
Equality Arizona is endorsing efforts to let voters decide whether to keep a recently approved law that makes sweeping changes to the election process. Protect Your Right to Vote, a political committee, is backing the referendum of HB 2305, a law opponents say suppresses voters ability to get on the…
Amid reports of a tour bus with 33 people aboard essentially being washed off a Kingman road and being flipped on its side, there are mentions of Arizona’s “stupid motorist law.”In many, many cases, drivers like that who decide to roll on into the flooded area don’t get charged, because…
Animal-rights activists are blowing the whistle on Arizona Cardinals defensive lineman Darnell Dockett, who claims he recently purchased a pet tiger.The Animal Rights Foundation of Florida informed us about a few potential issues with Dockett’s purchase, including some laws about tiger ownership…
Though it feels like a decade or more, it’s only been three years since Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s ethnic cleansing legislation, went into effect, stoking the fires of ethnic discord, clobbering an already weak state economy, and putting Sand Land in the running for the most racist state west of…
Dr. Paul Holden — the Scottsdale plastic surgeon recently arrested in a theft of medicinal cocaine from another surgery outlet — is currently prohibited from practicing medicine in Arizona.This temporary order, made effective last week by the Arizona Medical Board, says there was “no finding of unprofessional conduct” against Holden…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s claim that he was the last person to be interviewed by conservative writer Andrew Breitbart is not true.The claim came out during the height of Arpaio’s media attention for his “birther” investigation, and like many of Arpaio’s sensational claims — like arresting Elvis or being kidnapped during…
Police say that a Mesa man scaring people at a gas station was carrying several bags of (surprise!) meth with him at the time.The man, 38-year-old Nakia Laye, insisted to police that he had a permit for all that meth, according to court documents obtained by New Times…
Welcome to another installment of Most Wanted — New Times’ weekly post featuring scofflaws, including suspects in robberies, homicides and assault cases, sex offenders who’ve absconded, and even “dead beat” parents who aren’t shelling out court-ordered child support. Suspects featured here are presumed innocent — until a judge or jury…
For a guy who’s obsessed with media attention, Sheriff Joe Arpaio sure ain’t photogenic.Indeed, as New Times has been covering Arpaio’s deplorable brand of law enforcement over the past couple decades, there have been a lot of photos of the sheriff to come along with that. Check out 10 of…
For the station that claims to be “telling it like it is,” CBS 5 really seems to be the station we notice most often telling it like it isn’t.Recently, it’s been “investigative reporter” Morgan Loew, apparently the self-appointed anti-pot zealot of local media, who has produced two very misleading medical-marijuana…
As promised in a previous blog post, here’s videographer Dennis Gilman’s take on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s anti-immigration worksite raids on two locations of the local Uncle Sam’s restaurant chain. The video includes interviews we did with two of the workers arrested by the MCSO. These were two of five men,…
About twice a month, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery holds a press conference at his office. I didn’t make it to the one this past week, but the MCAO has a YouTube account, where it posts videos of these events from start to finish. During the presser, Montgomery opened by…
Phoenix police have busted marijuana activist Billy Hayes for the second time in two years in connection with running an unauthorized medical-marijuana dispensary.Hayes seems to have more lives than a cat, so we’re not betting yet on whether Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery will be able to secure a successful…
It looks like the feds don’t really trust their “trusted travelers.”U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a Mexican woman in the trunk of a “trusted traveler’s” car while he was trying to re-enter the United States through Nogales…
CBS 5 — the local news station that claims to be “telling it like it is” — isn’t stopping its anti-medical-marijuana crusade.Take this “investigative” report from a few weeks ago, for example. “Investigative reporter” Morgan Loew claims doctors “are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of young children overdosing…
A Phoenix man was hospitalized earlier this week after his wife allegedly yanked on his testicles during an apparent argument, causing his scrotum to tear open.Sylvia Yazzie, 39, faces two felony charges for the alleged attack…
