Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” squad continues to add to the absolute embarrassment of an “investigation” that the sheriff has ordered in his name.This time around, Arpaio’s conspiracy-nut buddies have released a signed affidavit from a retired mailman claiming the legitimacy of the Bill Ayers aspect of the “birther”…
Sergio Velderrain has an excuse for peeing on his 4-month-old kid early Sunday morning — he could’ve sworn the baby was a toilet.The kid’s mom says that’s not exactly how she remembered it happening, but they’re both agreeing that Velderrain, 31, peed on a baby.According to court documents obtained by…
As you may know, one of the men behind the “Kony 2012” viral video, Jason Russell, was nabbed in San Diego last week for allegedly masturbating in public and generally acting like a weirdo, which he isn’t being charged for.On the other hand, here in Phoenix, 40-year-old Daniel Delaney allegedly…
A Gilbert lawyer’s State Bar license will be suspended for 30 days because of her bad behavior as a defendant in a lawsuit.Angela Wilson-Goodman, who started her own firm in 1997, specializes in commercial litigation and “general business advice,” according to her Web site.If she gives good advice, though, she…
A 13-year-old girl whose molestation claims were ignored by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t want to pursue her case, the girl’s mother tells New Times.We’re not disclosing their names. But we mentioned the Chicago-area mother and daughter in our February 16 feature article about how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s misguided…
Kevin Skinner, the 22-year-old Phoenix man who called the cops earlier in the month to let them know he’d just murdered his mother by suffocating her with a grocery bag, pleaded not guilty this morning.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Skinner and his mom got into an argument…
If you were watching KTVK (Channel 3) this morning, you may have heard anchor Kaley O’Kelley shout a four-letter word that ends in “uck” when she found out quarterback Peyton Manning was headed for the Denver Broncos.While many people in the Valley have probably dropped an F-bomb or two over…
Though he can’t boast much in the way of contributions, Scottsdale Police Lieutenant and sheriff’s office hopeful Mike Stauffer may have earned his place on the November general election ballot as an Independent.According to a press release issued today by the Stauffer camp, which you can read below, Stauffer has…
David Denton did not want to talk to the cops this weekend while staying at the Arizona Grand Resort.This urge to avoid the cops was so bad that police say Denton, 33, left his meth and heroin stash with his 6-year-old kid and jumped off the third-floor balcony to hide…
Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just encountered his first major obstacle in his revenge campaign for state Senate from Legislative District 25: Republican businessman Robert Worsley.Today, the wealthy Mesa executive has announced that he’ll be Pearce’s rival in the Republican primary for LD 25, effectively upstaging Pearce’s planned announcement…
We usually don’t call DDS of the year this early — or at all, really — but we’ll give the honorary title to the Phoenix dentist who chased down the guy who decided to show off his penis in his waiting room.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 40-year-old…
Tempe’s Luna Fitness can keep its name and logo, thanks to a settlement last week in a federal trademark lawsuit against the small gym by Clif Bar, the maker of Luna Bar energy snacks.The gym’s been fighting the energy-bar giant in court for almost a year. As we reported last…
By turning a two-game win streak into a four-game win streak with a pair of wins over the weekend, the Phoenix Suns are currently half a game back of the last playoff spot in the Western Conference, and one game over .500.The Suns’ win on Friday night wasn’t too unexpected…
UPDATE: Denver!The Arizona Cardinals and Ken Whisenhunt delivered the news on Friday, saying free-agent quarterback Peyton Manning is “no longer an option for us.”Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7 million roster bonus, and Manning’s still shopping around for a team to play for.According to the sports rumor mill, the…
Former Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens will not go gently into that good night, like he should.Rather, Bivens seems hell-bent on an ugly contest in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate this year. Already, he’s going negative on former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, the guy President Barack Obama and…
Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, isn’t a lesbian.That’s about the most important fact we derived from her new Q&A with Playboy, in which she mostly talked about dudes and some politics.McCain was asked to expand upon her recollection of a girls trip to Sedona after her father’s unsuccessful…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County won a lawsuit this week filed by former County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling over the 2005 raid of her home and subsequent prosecution.Dowling launched the lawsuit in 2009, alleging she’d been the target of a conspiracy by Arpaio and members of the Board of…
First Solar, the Tempe-based solar-panel manufacturing company, is being targeted by a class-action lawsuit alleging its principals hid negative facts to mislead investors.The federal complaint (see below) comes about a week after the company revealed that it was being investigated by the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission for alleged problems with…
Republicans. I know some of them are sane here in Sand Land, but you wouldn’t know it by their wingnutty hijinks in the state Legislature this year, where they’ve placed a birther-bill, a late-term abortion ban and a state-funded border militia ahead of doing anything to aid the economy, bring…
New York Senator Charles Schumer has been trying to get Governor Jan Brewer to show up to his Senate subcommittee hearing on immigration in April, and gave the governor a few general questions that would be asked.The governor’s spokesman has said on a few occasions that Brewer isn’t planning on…
State Senator Steve Gallardo, D-Phoenix, says he’s “suspicious” that funds may have been misappropriated from another foundation run by corrupt former lawmaker Richard Miranda. Miranda, a Democrat from Tolleson who resigned abruptly on February 16 after 13 years in the Arizona Legislature, pleaded guilty March 14 to stealing $144,577 from…
UPDATE: The Arizona Cardinals released a statement from coach Ken Whisenhunt saying Manning “is no longer an option for us.”You can throw that Arizona Cardinals Peyton Manning jersey you prematurely ordered straight in the garbage — the Cardinals won’t be landing Manning, and Cards quarterback Kevin Kolb got his $7…
