Steven Saldana took a plea agreement that sends him to prison for a little more than two years, stemming from the case of the 4-month-old baby found with a cigarette burn, 14 broken bones, and bruising all over her body.Angelica Jimenez — the Chandler woman designated by Child Protective Services as…
Fired Pinal County sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll’s closed-door attempt to win his job back continues this morning down in Florence. As we wrote yesterday afternoon, Puroll has chosen to keep the prying eyes and ears of the public out of the Merit Commission hearing room, which means we can’t tell…
Tempe police detectives are pretty sure the family of James and Yafit Butwin was killed in a murder/suicide, not “connected to the violent drug cartel,” as Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu suggests.The five charred, still-unidentified bodies were found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley this weekend, and the embattled…
The 4th Avenue Hotel (read: jail) had two visitors this weekend who just love their Valley hometowns.So much so, apparently, that they both got the cities’ respective logos tattooed on their friggin’ heads.Moses Ulloa, a fan of Glendale and “Murdercopa County,” and Vicente Valles — who’s a fan of Tempe…
I’ll give Sheriff Joe Arpaio one thing, the guy is a class-A schmoozer. The almost-octogenarian knows how to butter up his adversaries for public consumption, all while he’s plotting to have them arrested, investigated, tailed, or worse. Though Arpaio is nominally in law enforcement, this is a classic la cosa nostra…
Just back from a trip to Pinal County, where former sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll is seeking reinstatement to his job at a hearing of the county’s Merit Commission. Bottom line: Puroll this morning in Florence exercised his right to have the hearing closed to the public. This meant TV cameras had to…
According to the embattled sheriff, the burned bodies probably were the work of a “violent drug cartel.” Babeu added, “The border is NOT more secure than ever, Ms. Napolitano!”Tempe police have just informed us that the vehicle is registered to the address of a missing family from their city. Tempe police…
The fatal rollover of a Korean War-era truck at Canyon de Chelly over Memorial Day weekend is still under investigation, but the problem wasn’t the back-country road, the Park Service says.Tom Clark, superintendent for the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, tells New Times that it’s too early to say whether…
A 22-year-old mentally disabled man is dead after sustaining at least a dozen injuries, allegedly at the hands of family members.Joshua and Carlena Pinkerton, the man’s brother-in-law and sister, brought him to the hospital Friday after he collapsed in the bathtub, and a doctor called Phoenix police after noticing bruising, scrapes, puncture…
Browsing through the “Mugshot of the Day Leader Board” on the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office website always brings a surprise, like the Sunday booking of Vicente Valles, who has the City of Tempe logo tattooed on his chin, and an Arizona State University logo on his cheek.It kind of reminded…
A mostly online-based political-action committee is considering getting involved in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District primary between Republican Congressmen Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.Test PAC loves the Internet. Quayle, several of the PAC’s members believe, does not.”Quayle co-sponsored [the Stop Online Piracy Act] before he withdrew his co-sponsorship,” Test PAC treasurer…
Every other year, a commission is supposed to gather info and decide how much the state’s legislators should be paid, and they pass that recommendation on to the ballot to let voters decide if it’ll stick.(When you’re done laughing your ass off at the thought of giving Arizona’s legislators another…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as LD25 and not voting for Russ, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce — who’s actually trying to get…
Former state Representative Richard Miranda is going to prison for a couple years for treating his charity to help out the impoverished as the Richard Miranda Wants More Money Fund.Miranda, a 55-year-old Democrat, won a 27-month trip to prison this morning for stealing from his charity, and then evading the…
U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake’s final order in the proposed settlement by Maricopa County to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox: Pay the woman.In an order on Friday, Wake granted Wilcox’s motion to enforce the settlement order, stating that Wilcox “shall have judgment” in the amount agreed, plus an additional $28,000…
Turns out, the baby belonging to 19-year-old Catalina Clouser was allegedly put into harm’s way by two acts of moronic driving Friday night.As we told you this morning, Phoenix police say Clouser put her kid in a car seat late that night, but forgot to put the baby/car seat into…
This morning we found a series of blog posts about a fatal rollover crash in the Canyon de Chelly National Monument that has received little media coverage. The crash of the Korean War-era truck a week ago killed Hawaiian astronomy professor Richard Crowe and injured several others. Blogger Jim Jaillet…
New Times has come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass — and we’re all out of bubblegum.New Times writers and designers have been nominated sixfold for this year’s Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s AltWeekly Awards.This comes a month after raking in 30 journalism awards, including first places for investigative reporting,…
Richard Dawson, the acerbic, but playful host of Family Feud for so many years, died yesterday at the age of 79. Our connection to Dawson was this: He was best buddies with Bob Crane, star of the prisoner-of-war sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, on which Dawson played mouthy sidekick Corporal Peter Newkirk. And…
The Arizona Guardian political news site has disappeared into cyberspace’s black hole. The Arizona Guardian, a local political news site once held up as a possible model for a declining news industry, has gone belly-up. As of today, the Guardian’s site is off the air, sounding the death knell that…
Update: Catalina Clouser’s Baby Was Also in the Car During Boyfriend’s DUI, Before Getting Dumped in Phoenix Intersection Catalina Clouser put her 2-month-old baby in a car seat after smoking some weed with her boyfriend at a Phoenix park Friday night. The minor detail she missed was that the 19-year-old…
Women’s college softball is terrific these days — these girls can really play ball, and they all look so damn coachable. So, natch, it’s very hard to win a national championship, no matter the level, no matter the sport, and Division I fast-pitch definitely is no exception. The Arizona State…
