Following a weekend series fraught with losses and angst, the Arizona Diamondbacks returned home to Chase Field on Monday night for a good ol’ fashioned stomping of a Pittsburgh Pirates.Fueled by a hailstorm of hits and homers, the D-Backs overcame some early stumbling by starting pitcher Joe Saunders and thumped…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as Tommy Collins, 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 former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas holding a press conference after his disbarment.We picked the five…
Score a triumph for redistricting a little more than a half-year ahead of the November elections. The Payson Roundup reports that Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen has turned yellower than an egg-sucking cur at the prospect of running in the newly formed Legislative District 6, where a recent poll showed…
Former Mayor Phil Gordon Phil Gordon, Paul Charlton, Rick Romley and Terry Goddard sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today asking him to have Sheriff Joe Arpaio charged for abusing his power. Gordon’s a former Phoenix mayor; Charlton’s a former Arizona U.S. Attorney; Romley’s a former Maricopa…
Next week’s U.S. Senate immigration subcommittee hearing on Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070 is shaping up to be more exciting than initially billed — at least as “exciting” as something aired on C-SPAN can get.Ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce, the author of the bill, has already committed to being in…
U.S. District Judge Neil Wake moved the start-date of a potential defamation trial against Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio to May 1, after County Supervisors have the chance to approve a settlement. The trial for the lawsuit launched by Thomas Lovejoy, a Chandler police officer who accidentally let his dog die in…
Lisa Aubuchon, the former Maricopa deputy county attorney disbarred last week along with her former boss, Andrew Thomas, has filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court. This afternoon, the county Board of Supervisors is in executive session to decide — among other things — whether Thomas and suspended lawyer Rachel Alexander could have any…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a new excuse for his “employer sanctions operations,” after the boys in beige ran the 59th immigrant roundup this morning, and we’ll give you a hint — it still has little or nothing to do with sanctioning employers.Arpaio says deputies raided Circle B Grading…
Glendale resident Antoin Thurman — a man who once made an educational video describing his prostitute-management skills (more on that later) — was booked into jail Friday night after surviving gunshots from as many as four police officers.Thurman, 26, was allegedly in a domestic-violence situation with a woman on April…
The public first saw a transcript of a secret recording made of one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s staff meetings after New Times published it online.Last week, we noticed that Channel 5 News (KPHO-TV) had obtained the actual audio recording and aired pieces of it in a broadcast. That…
There aren’t many consistencies in the case of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, except for the boy’s pops lengthening his rap sheet, and Gabriel’s mom not showing up to court.Both of those happened again this morning.Logan McQueary, who had moved out of the state, was in a Maricopa County courtroom this…
After dominating their first two series of the year, the Arizona Diamondbacks were humbled slightly in a chilly weekend series that saw the Colorado Rockies take two of three games in Denver. It was the D-Backs’ vaunted bullpen that coughed up Friday and Saturday’s one-run losses, 7-6 and 8-7, respectively…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas holding a press conference after his disbarment.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve narrowed it down to five…
Four members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club were found not guilty of charges of “rioting” and assisting in a criminal street gang.The four acquitted, Rudolfo “Rudy” Martinez, Gerald Smith, Dale Hormut, and Stephen Helland, were among seven bikers arrested by an Arizona Department of Public Safety task force in…
Sinema’s statement on Iran starts 2:48 in, her comments on health care at around 6:03The flap over center-left talking head Hilary Rosen and her perceived insult of Mitt Romney’s wife Ann offers a perfect example of how mere verbal flubs can offer ammunition to right-wingers in the highly-charged partisan discourse…
CORRECTION: The original version of this item reported that Pinal County Sheriff’s Lieutenant Blake King “apparently is ‘friends’ with some of the Tucson cops who were at Camp Titties and Beer.'” King’s attorney has informed New Times that King was not “friends” with any of these individuals. New Times regrets the error…
Last year, people were creating a stink after it was discovered that some Arizona legislators got tickets and trips to sporting events thanks to the Fiesta Bowl.Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery explained in December that none of the politicos would face charges, saying prosecutors were unable to “find evidence leading to…
Joel Fox, a former captain in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, was “floored” when state criminal investigators showed up with a search warrant at his house on March 31, 2009. “I couldn’t believe it,” Fox said on the stand this morning, testifying in his attempt to get his job back…
While writing this morning about a Skull Valley family that went home a couple weeks ago and found a naked guy in their house, it seemed like a rare incident.That’s apparently not the case since a very similar incident happened again last night, this time in California.In the incident up north,…
Two sweet moments last night for Phoenix professional sports fans, both within a few minutes of each other: First, the Phoenix Coyotes nipped the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in overtime out at the Jobing.com Arena, taking a 1-0 lead in the first round of the interminable Stanley Cup playoffs.It was an…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas held a press conference on Wednesday to complain about the decision by an Arizona Supreme Court disciplinary panel to strip him of his license to practice law.The Feathered Bastard Stephen Lemons was there, as Thomas compared himself to Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King…
Any of the following facts may be surprising to people around the Valley: Phoenix still has a hockey team, that hockey team made the playoffs by winning its division, and that team won its first playoff game of the year last night.The team, for those unaware, is called the Phoenix…
