That guy who thought politics makes strange bedfellows was really on to something.Especially in the case of Phoenix African-American activist Jarrett Maupin, who sent New Times a copy of a letter he sent to Republican State Representative Steve Smith, asking him not to apologize for his recent retaliatory prayer against…
The ACLU is suing to stop a 2011 Arizona law it says targets Black and Asian or Pacific Islander women for seeking abortions based on the race or sex of their baby.The lawsuit claims the law targets minority groups, and is a violation of the 14th Amendment and its equal…
Can someone check Joe for vitals? The MCSO’s beginning to resemble a re-make of Weekend at Bernie’s. Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently crawled out from under his rock in Fountain Hills where he’s been licking his wounds since his February slip and fall to do a YouTube video, in which he…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in Phoenix stole a car from a guy he believed owed him money, then turned around and tried to sell it to an undercover cop, police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, James Day, a 47-year-old Hells Angels biker with…
May has been quite the month for poor smuggling attempts at the U.S./Mexico border.Some have been gross, like the guy who stuffed a sack of heroin in his belly button, while others have been creative, like the fellow who stuffed thousands of pounds of weed inside 2,000 cans of jalapeños…
I went to a Los Angeles Dodgers game today and noticed that they now have Doyer Dogs, which are fucking disgusting and covered in nacho cheese, jalapeños, and chili. Not that it doesn’t have potential, but this is Dodger Stadium here, not a food truck. But my question: Do you…
In 1950, two upstart architects, Paolo Soleri and Mark Mills, finished their first commission — the Dome House — a model of which is included in the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Their glass dome-covered tour de force was built in rugged, barely accessible desert in…
Shortly after the release of U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow’s 142-page ruling in the 5 1/2-year-long civil rights lawsuit Melendres v. Arpaio, members of the Hispanic and activist communities gathered at Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox’s El Portal restaurant for an impromptu press conference. Essentially, Snow found that…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, guilty of racial profiling? You don’t say? Next thing, they’ll be telling us Zonies that we all live in a desert, or something. See Also: Judge Snow’s Decision Damns Not Just Arpaio, but All of Maricopa County Joe Arpaio’s Doomsday: Arpaio Loses ACLU Civil Rights Lawsuit, MCSO…
Arizona had the largest decrease of teenagers giving birth over the last few years than any other state, according to numbers released by the National Center for Health Statistics.That’s important, since teenagers have a higher risk of low birthweight, premature birth, babies dying in infancy, passing on high costs to…
The Arizona Supreme Court won’t be reviewing the Jodi Arias case based on her previous claim that prosecutors can’t use “especially cruel” as an aggravating factor for her sentencing. The ruling means that Arias, who was convicted on May 8 of premeditated first-degree murder, is still facing potential execution. See…
Comedian Doug Stanhope, a Bisbee resident, has helped raise more than $100,000 for a woman whose house was destroyed in the Oklahoma tornado last week.Stanhope tells New Times that he started raising funds for Rebecca Vitsmun after her widely-seen interview on CNN, in which anchor Wolf Blitzer asked her if…
Most Arizonans chose not to drive drunk over Memorial Day weekend, but those who did were pretty loaded.According to statistics from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, the average blood-alcohol level of people caught in statewide DUI enforcement this weekend was .153 — nearly twice the legal limit of .08,…
A national atheist organization wants Republican State Representative Steve Smith to apologize for his prayer of “repentance,” which Smith apparently led for the purpose of spiting a non-Christian colleague.David Silverman, the president of American Atheists, said Smith’s stunt was “one of the most un-American remarks I have ever heard from…
Yet again, a body has been pulled from Tempe Town Lake.Gerrick Begay, a 21-year-old Tempe resident and former student at the nearby Arizona State University, was found floating in the lake around 5:30 a.m. yesterday.See also:-ASU Freshman Jack Culolias’ Death Plays Out Very Similar to 2011 Death-Body Found Near Tempe…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who booted the Superstition Search and Rescue team to start his own search crew, has faced criticism over how his office has conducted searches. But now, the wife of one missing hiker who was found in 2009 by the all-volunteer-no-charge-to-the-county Superstition Search and Rescue (SSAR),…
A Valley mother has been sitting in jail in Nogales, Sonora, since last week, accused of trying to smuggle a dozen pounds of marijuana on her way back from a family funeral.Yanira Maldonado’s family has a seemingly credible account of the U.S. citizen being framed and subjected to corrupt Mexican…
Today in Found at the Border: A 34-year-old Mexican national tried to come into the United States through Nogales yesterday with thousands of jalapeño cans.The problem was that 2,000 of those cans were light on the jalapeños, but heavy on the marijuana — more than 3,000 pounds of it, in…
With just 18 months and change left until the 2014 election, the National Republican Congressional Committee is heating up its campaigns against Democratic Congressmen Ron Barber and Ann Kirkpatrick.The NRCC’s been actively campaigning against the two since at least April, a whole four months into the two-year term, but they’re…
Usually, Customs and Border Protection officers are catching ever-creative drug smugglers as they attempt to get their product through a port at the border.This time, though, the Office of Air and Marine — part of Customs and Border Protection — caught the stash in the air, as a pilot took…
Richard Wintory, the chief criminal deputy for Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles, is being investigated by the State Bar for possible ethical misconduct related to a murder case. Rick DeBruhl, spokesman for the Arizona State Bar, tells New Times this morning that the investigation concerns the allegations of possible impropriety…
A voicemail left on our phone this morning from the racist individual who comments on New Times’ blogs with the handle “Joe Arpaio Fan” is the millionth reason (that’s an estimate) people should sign the petition to recall the elderly sheriff.Of course, a federal judge’s ruling last week stating that…
