Congratulations to the New Times reader known as A Cunning Linguist, 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 Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who dropped his congressional bid earlier this week to…
Just over a year after stating she could probably run for a third term as governor if she wanted to, Governor Jan Brewer did it again.Again, Brewer and her staff point to the section of the Arizona Constitution intended to prevent governors from getting a third term to justify the…
As we write this, the attorneys litigating the arson case of State of Arizona v. Michael Marin are presenting their opening statements to a Maricopa County jury in downtown Phoenix. We planned on blogging about the opposing sides’ hope to show in their efforts to win a conviction of the…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office arrested Lee Charles Lubonne after two alleged sexual-assault suspects described his house, vehicle, and identified him from a photo lineup.Judging from what sex-crime detectives found in his house, the Sheriff’s Office is thinking there’s a “possibility” there may be more victims, and Lubonne, a 44-year-old…
Adding to the list of illogical things surrounding the aura of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Kansas cop is accused of stealing a framed poster of the sheriff from an office belonging to a former lawyer convicted on meth charges.Really, the only thing better about this than the fact…
Last week, Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett raised some eyebrows after saying he’s not a “birther,” but due to constituent concerns, he’s just checking with Hawaii to make sure President Obama wasn’t born in Kenya.”They have yet to respond,” Bennett’s spokesman Matthew Roberts told New Times.Turns out, officials in…
Mike Kiefer, a longtime colleague of ours and (more important) a longtime friend, writes these days for the Arizona Republic, mostly about bad guys in trouble down at the Maricopa County Superior Court and elsewhere. Mike is a fine reporter and a true wordsmith (we know one when we read one,…
Big day for local women’s college sports yesterday, specifically fastpitch softball, a sport near and dear to our heart.First, the big-time (i.e. Division I) news: Arizona State moved on to the Super-Regionals as the solar eclipse faded into the night, beating scrappy Syracuse 4-0 in the elimination “if” game in Tempe.Sophomore…
The Phoenix Coyotes live to play another game this season, after shutting out the Los Angeles Kings 2-0 at the Staples Center yesterday.Captain Shane Doan scored two goals, and goaltender Mike Smith recorded his third shutout of the playoffs in the Coyotes’ first win of the Western Conference finals.The Coyotes…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who dropped his congressional bid earlier this week to run for sheriff again — and his Chief Deputy Steve Henry, whom Babeu pushed out of his own bid for sheriff.After…
Phoenix New Times won 30 journalism awards, including first-place awards for investigative reporting, immigration coverage, news and opinion blogging and design, from the Arizona Press Club on Saturday night.Staff writer Paul Rubin received a first place Don Bolles Award for Investigative Reporting for “Hell Hole,” (September 1, 2011), described by…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, a relatively moderate Republican, wants to be Governor. But to have any kind of shot at the 9th floor, he figures he must placate the activist base of Sand Land’s GOP, which is deeply, rabidly insane. Hence, the predicament he finds himself in, having to…
Karl “Jack” Frost admits he tried to make a citizen’s arrest of a man who was jogging in a bike lane, but that Gilbert police got most of the story wrong.Frost, 47, says the main notion he wants to dispel is that he was in illegal possession of a .40-caliber…
Remember the quirky case of onetime Wall Street broker, Yale Law School-educated attorney, art collector and man about town Michael Marin, who was accused in 2009 of criminally torching his Biltmore Estates mansion? Trial time for Michael Marin–finally. The highly publicized case perhaps was most notable for how Marin said…
On Wednesday, we told you about U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy asking Attorney General Eric Holder asking if Maricopa County could be on the hook for repaying up to $25 million in federal taxpayer coin, thanks to the Justice Department’s civil-rights case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Turns out, alleged civil-rights violations by…
It can only be described as a massive violation of human rights, what this country has done to deny a future to an entire generation of individuals, who for all intents and purposes are Americans.I’m talking about the hundreds of thousands of bright, undocumented youth who would qualify for a…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett just found out the reason why you’re putting yourself in a difficult position when you appeal to “birthers” — people are going to think you’re a “birther.”After people caught on to the fact that Bennett told the “birthers” that he was taking the “extra…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks’ work for his constituents currently includes pushing a bill for (of course) tighter abortion regulations.Problem is, the Arizona Congressman’s bill only applies to D.C., as Congress has supreme authority over the city’s laws, and Franks has taken it upon himself to tell the District what its…
A 2010 “suicide” in Queen Creek has now been determined to have been a staged suicide, and Orange County, California divorce lawyer Robert Fischer is the one accused of doing the killing.Fischer — not to be confused with the Scottsdale man of a similar name who blew up his family…
The Phoenix Coyotes’ incredible run this year is one loss away from being over.The Coyotes lost 2-1 to the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center last night, in what was probably the closest shot for the Coyotes to win a game over this three-game stretch in the Western Conference…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s dropped his congressional bid earlier this week to run for sheriff again, pushing his Chief Deputy, Steve Henry, out of his bid for sheriff.This must have been a real awkward conversation Babeu decided (in his own best interests) he had to have with Henry, with Babeu explaining why…
Mark Mitchell’s going to be the new Tempe mayor.According to the unofficial results, Mitchell beat Michael Monti by 139 votes, and the City of Tempe put out an announcement declaring Mitchell as the winner.Election officials still haven’t finished counting write-in votes or the three votes cast by people who didn’t…
