Planned parenthood today formally filed paperwork to dismiss its lawsuit challenging several abortion laws that took effect in September. The laws, most of which were passed by the Arizona Legislature in 2009, place new restrictions on abortion procedures and make it far more difficult for women to end a pregnancy…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been given a proposal that would revamp the MCSO’s disciplinary policies after promising last summer to hire an outside consultant to examine the sheriff’s current disciplinary practices.The sheriff’s promise was in response to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office’s investigation into the MCSO, which led…
U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon apparently didn’t get the message when ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce got a voter-assisted boot from office last week.Pearce’s historic downfall — combined with a recent poll showing that the vast majority of Arizonans support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants — seems…
Cary Dolego, a former Green Party write-in candidate for the 2010 Arizona governor’s race, was found among homeless people in a Ukrainian town last week following a failed quest for love. A Youtube video (see below) shows Dolego, 53, sitting on a bed in a hospital ward, explaining to an…
A 29-year-old man from Scottsdale was found dead last night in the bathroom of a bus bound for Boston, but authorities don’t suspect foul pay.The man, whose name hasn’t been released, boarded the Boston Express bus in Londenderry, New Hampshire, about 50 miles north of Boston. He entered the bathroom…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Andrew Thom Ass, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of ousted Arizona…
Presidential candidate Herman Cain is the latest politico to join the campaign brain-fart club thanks to comments made to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s editorial board — which include “[I] got all this stuff twirling around in my head” — when asked whether he agrees with how President Barack Obama handled the…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords tonight gave her first interview since being shot “through the brain” during the January 8 Tucson shooting rampage that took the lives of six people, and wounded 13 others.When asked if she was angry at Jared Loughner, the man who shot her and 18 others, Giffords answers…
Uncle Russ needs him some free gub’mint cheese. He ain’t got a job no more because of them dang liberals, and that cheese will only cost y’all taxpayers $230,000. Plus, the Constitution promises it to him. Such are the pathetic trial balloons being floated by ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s sycophants in…
Presidential candidate Herman Cain is the latest politico to suffer a public bout with brain flatulence — an affliction with which Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is all too familiar.Cain recently met with the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s editorial board. He was asked whether he agrees with how President Barack Obama handled the…
Detectives from the Peoria Police Department’s Special Victims Unit arrested Jose Sanchez Figueroa, a 37-year-old Colorado man, for allegedly engaging in sexual contact with a minor.The accused perv faces multiple felony counts of luring a minor for sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, sexual conduct with a minor, and molestation.And he apparently…
New Times snagged a 2011 Stylos Awards for Publication of the Year.We beat out La Voz and Que Magazine for Best Publication in the contest that focuses on the Valley Latino community.Stylos Awards are presented by the Isac Amaya Foundation to honor local, talented musicians, artists, models, and fashion designers, as…
Arizona Senator John McCain — who spent the better part of five years getting tortured by North Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War — took to Twitter this morning to let some of his fellow GOPers know that he’s “very disappointed” in their positions on waterboarding, a controversial CIA interrogation…
David Appleton, a Scottsdale defense attorney who once served as the president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer’s Association, fatally shot a motorist last week during an apparent road-rage incident. Turns out, Appleton’s got a bit of a history in the road-rage department.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Appleton’s…
Jonathan Knight, a children’s Tae Kwon Do instructor in Glendale, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he sent photos of his penis to one of his 12-year-old female students.Knight was arrested last month and faces four counts of furnishing obscene material…
Heroin’s not good for anyone — especially an 11-month-old baby, like the one found in a Scottsdale hotel room that her mother baked out with heroin smoke yesterday afternoon.According to court records obtained by New Times, 25-year-old Matthew Nakihei and his baby-mama, Stefanie Bindes, 34, were arrested yesterday after police were called the…
The Kevin Kolb-less Arizona Cardinals stunned Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles with a 21-17 road victory in the city of brotherly love yesterday — which never would have happened if wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald wasn’t straight-up nasty.Aside from Fitzgerald’s two touchdowns — making him the franchise’s touchdown leader with…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of former Senate President Russell Pearce throwin’ in the towel for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest..We had nearly 60 responses in the comment section of the post, which you…
“Inconsistencies” in his story about fatally shooting a man during an apparent road-rage incident last night has led to the arrest of Scottsdale attorney David Appleton, who once served as the president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer’s Association.. About 7 p.m. yesterday, Appleton called police to report that he’d shot…
Just-defeated state Senate President Russell Pearce doesn’t know when to keep his redneck trap shut. First he’s soundly defeated by challenger Jerry Lewis in the Legislative District 18 recall, then he’s removed as Senate President by the Republican caucus, and now Pearce’s margin of loss has widened to nearly 12 percent,…
The much anticipated interview with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — her first interview since getting shot in the head during the January 8 Tucson shooting — is set to air Monday night on ABC.It remains unclear how much viewers will see of Giffords in her current state — her staff says…
State Senator Steve Pierce was pegged by his Republican Senate colleagues to replace ousted former Senator Russell Pearce as the president of the Senate — and Arizona Democrats aren’t thrilled with the GOP’s pick.We commented yesterday that Pierce’s taking over as Senate president seems like a standard case of “meet…
