Fagala-phobic abortion bully Trent Franks today introduced a bill into Congress that, if it becomes law, would dictate when people in Washington D.C. are allowed to end a pregnancy.Franks, just to be clear, is a congressman from Arizona — but that’s not stopping him from playing morality cop in Washington…
Tyson Langley, the 15-year-old accused of gunning down two people at a Peoria smoke shop last week, is being held on $2 million bond after he was arrested in Los Angeles over the weekend and extradited back to the Valley.Langley, court records obtained by New Times show, was arrested on…
Republican state Representative Judy Burges has a new title: state Senator Judy Burges.Burges was chosen this morning by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to fill the state Senate seat made vacant when former Senator Scott Bundgaard.Bundgaard, as you know, called it quits just minutes before he was scheduled to…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced this morning that it will seek the death penalty for two people accused of murdering 10-year-old Ame Deal last summer by locking her in a tiny footlocker and leaving her there overnight. Sammantha Allen — Ame’s cousin — and her husband, John Allen, have…
Last week, we asked readers to come up with their own captions for the above photo of Congressional candidate “Marlboro Macho Man” Matt Salmon’s transformation from lobbyist to cowboy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.The photo was taken a couple of weeks ago when Salmon headed…
The problem with the opposition to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, as I see it, is that the loudest voices calling for Arpaio’s resignation are perceived to be those of leftists.In reality, there are many GOPers that I hear from who are weary of fellow Republican Arpaio, his wasteful spending,…
More than a year after getting shot in the head during last year’s Tucson shooting rampage, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning announced via-the Youtube video embedded above that she will step down from Congress.See New Times’ coverage of the Tucson shooting — and Giffords’ miraculous recovery — here…
Tom Ryan, the crusading Chandler attorney who in 2011 exposed the shenanigans behind the diversionary candidacy of Russell Pearce’s fave Latina Olivia Cortes, is calling foul on news that Cortes-attorney Anthony Tsontakis has just scored a plum gig working as a legal beagle for the Republican-led state Legislature.Tsontakis defended the…
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton appointed two new members this week to the Board of Adjustment, a body that weighs development-related cases with significant impact on neighborhoods and developers. Stanton replaced Bob Ford and Alex Tauber, both serving on terms that had expired more than a year ago. In their stead,…
Anyone who’s been to the Dumpster…er, “Waste Management” Open golf tournament knows that one of the more irritating parts of the experience is figuring out what to do with your cell phone — more specifically, how to sneak it in.Starting this year, however, the tournament’s no cell-phone policy is no…
Late last year, we published a story about a guy known as “Raven,” a mentally ill man who had been living for more than a year in a central Phoenix park. The piece described how several of Raven’s “neighbors,” folks who live in the area around the big park, had…
The Dysart Unified School District has been slapped with a lawsuit by a local evangelical group over a policy that bans the distribution of fliers with a religious message.Dysart, which serves Surprise and El Mirage, allows other community groups to pass out fliers to students while unconstitutionally discriminating against religious…
A U.S. Border Patrol agent and a corrections officer with the Arizona Department of Correction were arrested yesterday on charges that they helped a drug trafficking organization (DTO) smuggle drugs into the United States.Ivhan Herrera-Chiang, 29, a U.S. Border Patrol agent stationed in Yuma, and Michael Lopez-Garcia, 28, a corrections…
Remember when on Wednesday the Internet search engine Google protested Congress’ attempt to “censor the web” via-the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by participating in a purely symbolic “black out” with several other big-time websites?About that…We’ve come to find out that on the same day Google was (ahem) fighting for…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his campaign guru Chad Willems have done their best to suggest Arpaio has $6 million in the bank, ready to go for the sheriff’s 2012 re-election campaign.In September, Arizona Republic columnist E.J. Montini reported that, “Arpaio says that he has collected $6 million for his own…
Pierre Newton may have had a “career” game last night up in Boulder, hitting a late three-pointer for the ASU men’s basketball team near the end of a Pac-12 contest against Colorado. The problem for the Sun Devils was that Newton was in the game at all. He is a…
Former Congressman Matt Salmon wants to be a congressman again. He’s currently running in District 6 — and apparently is in the process of transforming from lobbyist to cowboy to appeal to the District’s far-right-wing electorate as he fights his way through a GOP primary with former Arizona House Speaker…
Former presidential candidate Rick Perry pulled the plug on his failed campaign yesterday, which is the second time in two presidential elections that a candidate with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s backing failed to make it out of a GOP primary.As Valley attorney Chad Snow commented on our post yesterday…
Phoenix police officials should have more closely examined allegations made by police Sergeant Phil Roberts about falsified border-related kidnapping statistics before deciding to investigate him for making those claims, according to a federal investigative report obtained by New Times. That message, found in a 33-page report by the U.S. Office…
He supports legalizing marijuana, considers himself a civil libertarian, has had nice things to say about the Occupy movement, and recently filed paperwork in Pinal County to run for Sheriff as a Democrat.One little speed bump: He also happens to be the best known neo-Nazi in Arizona and has referred…
There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but 24-year-old Russell Hofstad only needed one — with a butcher’s knife…in a warehouse/concert venue…that he broke into. Similarly, there could be several reasons to skin a cat. Hofstad’s: he was hungry.According to court records obtained by New Times, police…
Fagala-phobic Arizona Congressman Trent Franks is obnoxiously conservative. Aside from thinking race/gender-based abortions are a legitimate problem in the United States (which it’s not), he thinks letting gay people tie the knot “literally is a threat to the nation’s survival” because it threatens the sanctity of traditional marriage.Cheating on your…
