Last week, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery shipped off a letter to the Justice Department, demanding the department’s evidence of botched sex crimes by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.Montgomery wrote that withholding that evidence “may needlessly jeopardize prosecutions,” and also asked for any evidence of racial profiling by the MCSO.The…
Anyone who knows award-winning Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez knows that for four years now she and her collaborator, filmmaker Dan DeVivo, have been working on a documentary about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s reign of terror and error in Maricopa County, a film ultimately titled Two Americans.Fernandez and DeVivo’s film is finally…
The video above is probably the only community-college baseball highlight that’s going to be news outside the state of Arizona this year.That’s Yavapai College left fielder Austin O’Such that’s heading full-speed over to a scuffle between his team and Scottsdale Community College’s squad, and makes a pit stop to blindside…
The Phoenix Suns won one and lost one this weekend, with a six-point loss to the Denver Nuggets in Colorado on Friday, and a 20-point whooping of the Kobe Bryant-less Los Angeles Lakers in the desert Saturday night.Friday’s game was a gradual loss for the Suns after finishing the first…
The Arizona Diamondbacks got a roaring start to the new baseball season this past weekend as they swept the San Francisco Giants right out of Chase Field in their opening series. The D-Backs beat their Bay Area rivals 5-4 on Friday night, followed by another 5-4 win on Saturday afternoon,…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio rounding up the “birther” brigade at church for another explanation of why he believes President Obama is from Africa.That expedition took the sheriff’s “Cold Case Posse” to a church in Sun…
Two weeks ago, I reported on a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow in the ACLU’s big racial-profiling lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Melendres v. Arpaio. During that hearing, Snow scheduled the seven-day trial to begin on July 19.After the hearing, outside the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S…
According to voters for a TIME magazine poll, Shakira and Lady Gaga are more influential than Governor Jan Brewer.Brewer, or more likely, her flak, even took to social media today asking people to vote for her as one of the world’s most influential people, saying “liberal websites, media and bloggers…
Cab driver Joseph Goldmeer was sentenced to five years in prison today for a June incident in which Goldmeer ended an argument at a Phoenix gas station by running a guy over with his cab.Goldmeer was convicted by a jury in February of three counts of aggravated assault, and received…
Representatives of the “meth lab of democracy” are apparently comedy gold for The Daily Show, as U.S. Senator John McCain was featured in one of the show’s segments earlier this week.McCain’s appearance was actually in the same episode as Michael Hicks, a Tucson Unified School District governing board member, who…
El Mirage police were informed yesterday that Albert Arias stabbed his father, possibly to death, after Arias allegedly came into the police station and told them about it.Pete Arias, 76, was pronounced dead at a hospital, and his son is in jail for his murder.According to court documents obtained by…
Stories about pedophile Catholic priests have become de rigueur in recent years, in Phoenix and around the rest of the world. But some of us “oldsters” remember some of the very first detailed accounts of the disgusting diddlers and how those in charge–Bishop Thomas O’Brien here in the Phoenix area–were going…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is still trying to battle the feds, but in his free time over the weekend, the sheriff rounded up the “birther” brigade for another explanation of why he believes President Obama is from Africa.This weekend’s expedition took the sheriff’s “Cold Case Posse” to a church…
It’s officially baseball season for the Arizona Diamondbacks starting at 4 p.m. today, as the Snakes start a three-game series against the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field.The D’Backs won the National League West division title last year, but lost in five games against the Milwaukee Brewers in the National…
According to a recent item in the Washington Post’s Election 2012 Blog, recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary, more than a month after Romney won Sand Land’s GOP contest. As a result, Romney immediately called a press conference and conceded the general election…
Know what the best part of this new poll released by Arizona Working Families is? The lowest ranked legislator of those mentioned in the survey was none other than crackpot Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen.Allen, who currently represents Legislative District 5, scored a measly 22 percent favorable rating in the…
In Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s first Congressional campaign video — a 30-second spot posted on YouTube — he tells viewers that he is “still the conservative fighter who stood up to Obama over border security. And I’m still the pro-life candidate who will fight for new jobs and against…
Julian Titcomb, a former volunteer basketball coach at a Valley elementary school, was sentenced today to six months in jail for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl.Titcomb, 22, was booked into jail on eight counts of sexual conduct with a minor in March 2011, but pleaded guilty in February to three…
Police say 21-year-old Martin Garcia crashed into one officer’s motorcycle, another officer’s car, got shot at by police, then managed to crash his car into a guardrail, leaving it hanging over the edge about 15 feet above a highway and running away.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Garcia…
Sometimes it’s hard for people to realize the potential effects of all the anti-abortion bills that are always being tossed around at the Capitol until after they’re passed into law.That’s why a Nebraska woman has written a letter to Governor Jan Brewer, imploring her to veto House Bill 2036 if…
“Chasing girls” is supposed to be a colloquialism, not an actual game plan to pull off at a Tempe park.Curtis Earl Mann apparently missed that memo, as Tempe police say the 19-year-old was literally chasing a pair of 13-year-old girls through Harelson Park on Monday.According to police, Mann approached the…
Don’t want to jinx it, but the Phoenix Suns have turned themselves into a pretty good little team. Last night’s thrilling 107-105 win over the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City proved that this squad is hellbent on making the NBA playoffs, a thought seemingly absurd not so long ago…
