After a pair of Supreme Court decisions on same-sex marriage yesterday, the group trying to get the issue on Arizona ballots in 2014 says it’s “go time.”The group of Republicans and libertarians that started Equal Marriage Arizona want Arizona voters to decide whether marriage should be defined as a union…
I’m a U.S.-born Mexican who grew up part of my life in Tijuana. Why do Mexican-Americans from Santa Ana and South Gate always think they’re harder than the rest of us Mexicans, yet their neighborhoods are like a hundred times better than the colonia I grew up in? I mean, they…
Guadalupe Davila Jr. isn’t standing at the pulpit of his small church in El Mirage preaching to the congregation about living a godly life. He isn’t inside the baptismal font, waist-deep in water and immersing new members and cleansing them of their sins. And he’s not at the church’s learning…
State Senator Rich Crandall of Legislative District 16, a non-wacko conservative and one of the Republicans who backed Medicaid expansion this year, has been appointed by Governor Matt Mead of Wyoming to lead that state’s Department of Education. Mead’s office made the announcement in a press release late Wednesday, praising…
For the past several years, the city of Flagstaff has been arresting homeless panhandlers in what’s called “Operation 40” — named after 40-ounce bottles of malt liquor.After 135 arrests in one year for “loitering to beg,” including the arrest of a disabled 4-foot-8, 77-year-old woman asking an undercover cop for…
Word is, recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce wants back in the state Senate, and may run again in 2014, either in his current Legislative District 25, or in LD 16, which is just next door, further east, and in many ways, even nuttier. Since Pearce has lived in…
As the U.S. Supreme Court made a pair of decisions on same-sex marriage this morning, the Arizona group trying to get an “equal marriage” proposal on the ballot in 2014 is getting serious about its effort.”It’s go time,” Equal Marriage Arizona chairman Warren Meyer tells New Times…
Can someone get Councilman Sal DiCiccio a towel? The District 6 representative is dripping in irony after his latest call for “significant reforms” at Phoenix City Hall, including “ending lobbyist nepotism and implementing policies to end personal ties between elected officials and their staffs.”…
The typical daylong intake of sun and alcohol at the Salt River is bound to cause problems every summer.A weekday afternoon of tubing on the Salt River did not turn out as planned for two groups last week, as an argument between two tubing parties led to one man being…
A Phoenix man who went for a jog around a neighborhood completely naked last week tossed shards of glass at people, police say.The nude jog for 22-year-old Jose Antonio Rodriguez-Caro came to an end after he tossed a river rock “wider than his head” at a police car, which led…
This post was written by L.A. Weekly staff writer Dennis Romero.The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex marriage to resume in California today.In its ruling on the state’s anti-gay marriage law, the court essentially said that a “private party,” the conservative backers of the law, had no standing…
Black and Latino leaders in Phoenix think voting rights for minorities in Arizona are about to take a step back now that Arizona and eight other states no longer need federal approval on new voting laws.They may not want to hold their breath for what they’re demanding, though — that…
Trevor Cahill’s pitching hurt the Arizona Diamondbacks again during the team’s Tuesday night 7-5 loss to the Washington Nationals. Cahill (3-8, 3.92 ERA), who only pitched one inning last week because of injury, was batted around by the Nationals lineup. After pitching two scoreless innings, the D-backs starter unraveled in…
The woman whose body was found naked and beaten in a Tempe neighborhood last week has been identified as 23-year-old Annovedwin Begay-Barakzai, and police believe her live-in boyfriend, 27-year-old Douglas Ray George, killed her.He was arrested on a second-degree murder charge…
Federal authorities have charged two would-be Grand Canyon guides for taking 90 clients from the Valley on an unauthorized, rim-to-rim day hike.Duane Hager, a Litchfield Park real estate agent, and his business partner Michael Stephens, the principals of Rim to Rim Adventures, face four counts related to defrauding the government,…
Due to Governor Jan Brewer’s apparent inability to speak clearly, people were under the impression that she endorse the “Gang of Eight” immigration-reform bill, because she kind of, sort of, said she did.”I think that what we’re seeing taking place in the Senate is a victory for Arizona,” Brewer said…
Please see the update given at the end of this post. So what was former minuteman leader Chris Simcox doing for a living prior to being arrested June 19 for alleged child molestation? He was working at iMemories, a company in Scottsdale that converts home movies and photos into digital…
Major League Baseball has decided to lighten up on the horse manure of a suspension it gave to D-backs backup first baseman Eric Hinske, after the team’s scuffle with the Los Angeles Dodgers earlier this month.Hinske’s suspension is now one game, down from five, but the punk seen punching Hinske,…
U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell has shot down the State of Arizona’s contention that the state’s gaming compact bans new casinos in the Phoenix area.The ruling delivers the Tohono O’odham Nation yet another legal victory in their four-year battle to build a resort-style casino in the West Valley…
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which calls for Arizona and eight other states to get federal approval on new voting laws, is unconstitutional.The problem, however, was not that the states needed federal approval to ensure their voting laws aren’t…
An inmate at one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails attacked a detention officer Monday, biting part of her ear “completely off,” according to the MCSO.The officer was doing a cell-search Monday at the Lower Buckeye Jail when 21-year-old Bobby Ruiz jumped on her back and started attacking her, according to…
If you’ve ever wondered what’s most likely to put you in a body bag at the end of the day, then wonder no more.A recent report from the Arizona Department of Health Services includes a list of the top 10 killers for 10 age groups of people in Arizona, all…
