A little more than a year after one of the recruiters for the Scottsdale-based porn website Backroom Casting Couch was arrested on child-pornography charges, another associate of the website has gotten himself in trouble with law enforcement.Kevin Kelsch, 30, was arrested in Paradise Valley in late August after his ex-girlfriend…
The following post was written by Sam Levin, an editorial fellow at New Times’ Denver-based sister paper, Westword. Although Senator John McCain easily won Arizona in the 2008 election, team Obama believes Arizona is in play this time around. Read on for observation and analysis from last night’s debate. President…
Joe practically begs viewers to let him keep his job in this new ad Sheriff Joe looks like a worried old man in his new TV commercial, the latest in a series of pricey ads that his re-election campaign has been inundating county boob tubes with. “Despite all the criticism,”…
After a woman complained that the City of Phoenix was trampling on her religious rights by not letting her hand out free water without a permit, the city council has decided to create an exemption for water.Dana Crow-Smith complained after she, along with some of her Christian friends, gathered at…
It’s all over but the crying down at Chase Field as the Arizona Diamondbacks ended their dreadful year in dreadful fashion with a 2-1 defeat by the Colorado Rockies. While there’s much joy in cities with playoff-bound teams like San Francisco, Detroit, and Cincinnati, there’s nothing but disappointment and frustration…
Mark Bosworth, a former Valley real-estate maverick who once boasted he owned $50 million in property, claims he was conned into trying to cash a bogus, $4,500 check. The felony forgery charge he’s fighting could result in jail time. It’s an ignominious — though somewhat expected — turn of events…
Why do so many Chicanos claim to be Aztec? Chicano Stuck in Leavenworth You’re right. The beaner love for everything Aztec mostly stems from the Chicano Movement, which appropriated various Mexican iconography (the stylized United Farm Workers black eagle, the concept of Aztlán, the airbrushed paintings of warriors and scantily…
Former Phoenix police sergeant and onetime Silent Witness frontman Paul Penzone rarely shows any doubt that he will be successful in his bid to deny Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio an unprecedented sixth term in office. He sometimes begins sentences with the phrase, “After I’m elected,” and Penzone, 45, has…
Chris Martin had an idea for a business in Arizona, where voters passed a law that legalizes medical-marijuana “edibles” under certain conditions. Last year, the Zonka Bar was born, available in flavors including chocolate and sugar-free peanut butter and infused with marijuana extract. Like other edibles, it was perfect for…
Last night’s presidential debate was allegedly held for the purpose of getting the “undecided” voters to pick either President Obama or former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.However, here’s a conversation we have yet to hear in public, in private, or even on the Internet:…
LifeLock launched its new persona as a publicly traded company on Wednesday — then watched as its initial stock price fell by several percent. LifeLock, the Tempe-based anti-identity-theft company founded in 2005 by Robert Maynard Jr. and Todd Davis, had expected to sell shares at $9 apiece, but the price…
As much as Congressman Jeff Flake and his supporters want voters to believe his Democratic opponent, Rich Carmona, is BFFs with President Barack Obama — Carmona hasn’t shot hoops with the prez like Flake has. Here’s a photo of Flake and Obama sharing sweat on the court…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” probe is such an important issue for the nation that he would not like to see the two men running for President of the United States talk about it in front of the country.We’re not sure why this thought ever popped into the head…
Remember Elias Bermudez? He one of the stranger critics of Sheriff Joe Arpaio who practically disappeared a few years ago after being ordered by a county judge to stop charging immigrants for his legal advice, since he’s not a lawyer.Well, he’s popped up again — the New Mexico Attorney General’s…
The media’s been hot for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s head over allegations that during the 2010 campaign he was improperly involved in supporter-turned-staffer Kathleen Winn’s independent expenditure committee Business Leaders for Arizona. See also: -Tom Horne’s Alleged Hit-and-Run at an Address Listed for Carmen Chenal (w/UPDATE) -Bill Montgomery Takes…
In May, a 13-year-old girl told her friend that her father’s girlfriend had smacked her in the face with a spatula.Police in Surprise got word of this and investigated it as a child-abuse case, but eventually found out that the girl and her sister were victims of horrific alleged molestations,…
Qui Tu Truong got fired from a market in Phoenix last year.For this, he did what any rational person would not do — attack his former colleagues with a meat cleaver…
Aaron Hill proved once again why he’s one of the best sluggers on the Arizona Diamondbacks’ roster last night as he smacked a walk-off homer to give his team the 5-3 win over the Colorado Rockies. His 385-foot, three-run dinger came in the bottom of the ninth inning during the…
The FBI has broken up a spy network based in Houston that “enhanced” the capabilities of the Russian military by exporting sensitive, U.S.-made electronics. Alexander Fishenko and 11 others have been charged with falsifying documents and generally fooling the U.S. Department of Commerce in the last few years by running…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants the local media to stop talking about the “FIVE YEAR OLD story” that involves the MCSO’s bungled sex-crime investigations.The Arpaio ad, as our colleague Ray Stern debunked yesterday, would like you to just forget about the whole sex-crime thing.See also:Sheriff Arpaio Distorts Truth in Ad About…
It was just a couple weeks ago that Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate Richard Carmona’s campaign was boasting about raising $51,000 in his bid to upset Republican Congressman Jeff Flake.That had been Carmona’s biggest haul of U.S. currency in one week, until now — Carmona’s campaign says they took in more…
You probably could’ve seen this coming, but Governor Jan Brewer just couldn’t issue a comment on the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie without mentioning President Obama or his administration.While most public officials remained cordial with their remarks (for example, Attorney General Tom Horne and Senator John McCain),…
