“The Governor has not proposed any such reimbursement, and it is not currently in the budget that she and legislative leaders have agreed upon.”Of course, that’s not a commitment to oppose it, should an amendment be tacked on.In any case, Pearce clearly believes he deserves the cash. Last night, Pearce was…
Fresh-faced rookie pitcher Patrick Corbin made his major league debut this afternoon for the Arizona Diamondbacks during the finale of their four-game series with the Miami Marlins. And the 23-year-old, who was called up from Double-A Mobile last week, was a little shaky at first. During the opening inning, Corbin…
Dominic Chagolla was described as a bit of a mama’s boy in court documents obtained by New Times detailing the death of his mother, Maria Chagolla, in December 2010.Turns out, he wasn’t that much of a mama’s boy, as a jury found Dominic Chagolla guilty today of first-degree murder in…
Believe it or not, sneaking into a house and stripping down to your underwear to hop in bed with a random 14-year-old girl could lead to prison time.Four-and-a-half years in prison, in Jacob Nelson’s case.In July, Phoenix police said that Nelson, 35, waited for a father of two to leave…
At this point, the Phoenix Coyotes’ playoff run doesn’t appear to be a fluke.The Coyotes, fresh off their first playoff-series win since moving to Phoenix, are now up 2-0 in the team’s second-round series against the Nashville Predators after a 5-3 win last night in Glendale.In the team’s first seven…
For those who are struggling to find differences between Congressmen David Schweikert and Ben Quayle in their impending primary election in CD6, House activity late last week brought another division between the two.Despite the popular belief, there actually are differences in the House records of Schweikert and Quayle, and the…
Two main things can be taken away from the first three games of a four-game series for the Arizona Diamondbacks against the Miami Marlins: The Marlins’ new park in Little Havana is hideous, and being a relief pitcher is the worst job in Major League Baseball.The color scheme around the…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Governor Jan Brewer, in honor of her trip to Washington for SB 1070’s day before the Supreme Court.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve…
A crowd assembled at the Arizona Capitol today to put legislators on notice that they’re pissed. About 500 people voiced outrage toward recent laws passed in Arizona and around the county that restrict women’s health and reproductive rights. AZ Unite Women organized the event in response to what’s been coined “the war on women.”…
Remember when I informed you of the trial balloon being floated by toadies of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, lickspittles who long to give their lord and master more than $260,000 of taxpayer funds because he had to endure a recall election, one he lost by a humiliating 12…
In 2002, Scottsdale resident Steven Dyer was to face charges of molesting two boys. He said no thanks and went to Canada instead.While he was gone, a court convicted him on a dozen counts of sexual conduct with a minor, which didn’t mean much until he was caught in Canada…
U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon is liked by thousands of people.Unfortunately, most of those people are in Bangladesh, according to the campaign of his primary opponent Jeff Flake, which is thinking Cardon’s the latest politician to fudge the numbers on a social media website in the name of popularity.Similar to…
If Warren Jeffs — pedophile/leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — had any marbles left when he was sent to prison, he just lost the rest of them.Jeffs, who’s in prison for sexually assaulting two underage “brides,” wrote a petition to the Texas Court…
Lots of response to this week’s cover story on Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, including a bunch of e-mails from folks who were appalled that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu failed to “man up” and return a phone call from his then-close colleague, Dever, in late February after the proverbial…
If you trust public-opinion polling, then Arizonans aren’t the hard-asses about illegal immigration that they’re portrayed to be.According to a new poll from the Merrill/Morrison Institute — which found earlier in the week that the race between President Obama and eventual GOP nominee Mitt Romney is a “toss up” in…
Back in 1993, Mark Mitchell — who’s running for mayor of Tempe — was involved in an incident with police at a Mill Avenue bar.Mitchell’s opponent in the mayoral race, Michael Monti, is now making it a campaign issue (in 2012), claiming Mitchell’s “distort[ing] the truth” about what happened.It boils…
Governor Jan Brewer was in Washington this week to defend the controversial immigration law known as SB 1070 — or as Brewer called it, a trip to “defend our state against President Obama, Eric Holder and the Justice Department.”Brewer’s been taking full advantage of 1070’s date with the Supreme Court,…
With the 13th overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, the Arizona Cardinals selected Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd.Now that we presume everyone’s done bitching about Peyton Manning, the Valley can scrutinize its new wide receiver for the annual way-before-the-season football banter.Floyd was the second receiver taken in the…
While recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce was away in D.C. (likely on Judicial Watch’s dime) preparing for his big day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and, later, to hear oral arguments on Senate Bill 1070 before the U.S. Supreme Court, a different court here in Sand Land was…
Less than four hours after Congressman Ben Quayle let New Times know he’d be introducing an amendment to address privacy concerns in the latest controversial Internet-related bill, he did — and it passed less than an hour ago.Quayle’s amendment to address privacy concerns in the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection…
UPDATE 4/26: The settlement has been approved, according to the AP.UPDATE: Judge Wake issued an order saying the parties will meet on Monday to discuss moving the trial date to the week after the board of supervisors meeting.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced today that lawyers agreed to a $175,000…
This caught our attention on a recent visit to downtown Phoenix locales. Several of the signs were taped to a wall on West Adams Street, just north of the Wells Fargo Plaza…
