Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, posted a new blog about the “dramatic reversal in the definition” of the term “anchor baby.”In their initial definition, executives for American Heritage Dictionary didn’t include any notation that the phrase was offensive or disparaging. But they have since corrected their…
The National Hockey League announced yesterday its plan to divide the league into four conferences rather than six divisions, as the league is currently arranged.Under the new organization, the Stanley Cup Playoffs will begin inside each conference, with the top four teams squaring off in divisional playoffs (see how the…
There’s good news and bad news about the transformer that caught fire in Phoenix last night.The good news: the enormous plume of smoke that is currently drifting West over downtown Phoenix is non-toxic.The bad news: the smoke could be here for a while — Phoenix fire crews are going to…
Last week, in honor of the Scottsdale Gun Club’s celebrating the holidays by giving people the chance to have holiday photos taken of their children holding machine guns, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo for this week’s New Times’ You Write…
Maricopa County Sheriff is again under fire over hundreds of admittedly botched investigations into sex crimes over a three-year period ending in 2007.One of his biggest critics: Congressman Raul Grijalva, who is calling for Arpaio to resign over the bungled investigations.See our story on Arpaio’s oopsies here.Grijalva, whose Congressional district…
Here’s what we know: 38-year-old Jose Jesse Olmos broke into an office at the Mesa apartment complex where he lives, stole a power drill, and looked at porn on a computer in the office — as captured on the office’s surveillance camera.What we — and, more importantly, people who work…
A Mesa woman has been charged with second-degree murder after admitting to police that she fatally shot her boyfriend after he accused her of infidelity.Police say Donna Diaz called police about 11 p.m. yesterday to report that she shot her boyfriend, Thomas Mark Wakeman, three times after he accused her…
Taking a cab from the airport this weekend would have been cheaper — and a whole lot less frightening — for a Florida visitor who was robbed of $5,000.The victim, who wasn’t named in court records, was picked up at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Saturday at about 3:45…
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be in the Valley tomorrow, where he’s likely to announce that former Vice President Dan Quayle is endorsing his bid for the presidency.Romney, as you may recall, is one of several GOPers who planted his lips on the arse of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apologized today to the victims of El Mirage sex-crimes cases that went uninvestigated due to incompetent police work under his watch.”Sometimes these kinds of things occur in big departments like (the Maricopa sheriff’s office),” Arpaio said during a press conference today, as tweeted by Arizona…
Mark Goudeau, who already is on his way to death row after nine murder convictions, heard the rest of his prison sentence today–more than 1,100 years on 58 felonies ranging from sexual assault to armed robbery. Unrepentant to the end, the 47-year-old Phoenix man again blamed the world–specifically, his defense…
As an elected official, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne could make himself as relatively unseen as, well, Governor Jan Brewer.But Horne likes to get his hands dirty every now and then in the legal field, arguing the law in person before judges. Did Terry Goddard ever do that? Tomorrow at…
Steven Kleinedler, executive director of the American Heritage Dictionary, took note when Immigration Policy Center criticized its definition of “anchor baby.”Kleinedler says American heritage will tweak the definition of the phrase for the third printing of the dictionary’s Fifth Edition by noting that it is an offensive and derogatory term. He…
A Mesa 19-year-old and his 6-year-old brother were injured severely on Friday after their scooter slammed into a full-size pickup truck.Cops say that Elias Redden, while trying to make a left-hand turn onto Horne as he traveled west on University Drive at about 7:15 p.m., turned the 2008 Shanghai Meitian…
You may be having a better Monday morning than Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was slammed yesterday in a damning story about how his agency bungled hundreds of sex-crime cases.The Associated Press story by Jacques Billeaud presented news that’s familiar to local observers of the five-term sheriff of Maricopa County –…
The Arizona Cardinals have life — in the form of tiny wide receiver LaRod Stephens-Howling, who caught a screen pass from quarterback Kevin Kolb and took it 52 yards to paydirt for a 19-13 overtime win over obnoxious owner Jerry Jones and his Dallas Cowboys. More than half of the…
A year-long child-porn investigation led FBI agents this summer to a Maricopa teenager with a personal stash of 500 videos and pictures of sexually exploited children.The case was outlined in court records filed yesterday by the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office, which requests the forfeiture of computer equipment seized from the…
Something’s gotta be up.Glendale City Manager Ed Beasley — the architect for the city’s now flailing Phoenix Coyotes Arena and mega-city projects such Westgate City Center and Main Street — has announced his plans to retire in 2012 to spend more time with his family.He’s been with the city for…
Usually, Arpaio loves a good probe. The list of questionable investigations the five-term sheriff has launched against his political foes includes county Supervisors, judges, bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists and political activists. (See “Enemies List,”, “Joe Knew,” for starters.) But he won’t investigate his deputy chief’s alleged threat against a reporter and…
A Hells Angels hanger-on who helped alleged murderous biker Paul Eischeid flee the country in 2004 has been sentenced to prison time for supplying Eischeid with a false passport before he skipped town.Eischeid — a former Charles Schwab stockbroker with a “relatively clean criminal record” — is accused of the…
The wordsmiths over at New American Heritage Dictionary usually point out when a word or phrase is offensive or disparaging, particularly when it comes to terms loaded with racist sentiments.You know them: the n-word, “spic,” “white trash.”When you look up those words you get a little extra — and useful…
If you happen to run into the parents of accused murderer Paul Giovante Jones, do him a favor and let them know he’s a killer and he’s “proud of it.”That’s the message Jones, 26, asked Scottsdale police to relay to his parents after he fatally shot his boyfriend, Colton Scharge,…
