Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is taking stand this morning in a disciplinary proceeding that could result in his disbarment.Click here to access the state Supreme Court’s Web site, then click on today’s live proceeding.Thomas was elected in 2004 on a platform of illegal immigration reform, then re-elected in…
Lisa Aubuchon lives in an alternative universe.True, we may have watched too many Star Trek episodes as a kid, but after watching the former deputy county attorney’s performance on the stand in the State Bar’s disciplinary hearings yesterday, we could come to no other conclusion. From the way she connected…
Cheerleaders at Gilbert High School planned to wear breast cancer awareness T-shirts that featured the slogan “Feel For Lumps, Save Your Bumps” to home football games in October.The cheerleaders planned to wear the shirts while collecting money for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization — a foundation setup…
Jason Alistair Lowery, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer who was busted in a marijuana smuggling sting last week — and then led authorities on a high-speed chase through the desert while throwing bundles of weed out of his ICE-owned vehicle — is to be held without bail,…
No matter what a stripper tells you when you’re shaking a handful of dollar bills at her, chances are she doesn’t want you to force oral sex on her. We’d venture further and assume a stripper really doesn’t want you to force oral sex on her while she has her…
An unrepentant Lisa Aubuchon is testifying at the moment before a hearing panel that is considering serious disciplinary action against her, her ex-boss County Attorney Andrew Thomas and another attorney.L Aubuchon has been trying to explain the litany of oft-told events that led to the ongoing hearings at the Arizona…
A cat had 22-year-old Freyando Bizardie so “depressed” Sunday afternoon that he tried to choke it to death. He also tried to stab it with a pen before he bit two of his sisters.According to court documents obtained by New Times, police were dispatched to Bizardie’s Phoenix home Sunday afternoon…
Wanna see a video of a Scottsdale chick brawl and a guy getting Tasered by police? Of course you do — who doesn’t?Our friend Pete over at Scottsdale Arizona News sent us a link to a brawl that apparently went down in a Scottsdale parking garage.The video is pretty brutal…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Vic, 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 shamed former Maricopa County…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced yesterday that he’s considering running for a currently non-existent Congressional seat.As you can see in the comment section of our story on the matter (which you can see by clicking here), Babeu’s potential candidacy hasn’t been well received by New Times readers. As we…
To hear Barnett Lotstein tell it, ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas was willing to sacrifice his political career in order to do the right thing by going after alleged “corruption” in county government Lotstein spun, um, testified this morning at the ongoing disciplinary hearings regarding his former boss, Thomas,…
When a baby’s teeth are coming in, parents will often rub a little rum on the baby’s gums to dull the pain. A Phoenix mom is suspected of opting for a different remedy — police suspect she gave her 2-year-old baby methadone to treat a toothache.Phoenix police haven’t revealed the…
The Glendale Police Department tells New Times its investigation into the disappearance of 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley is its “number one priority.” But that’s not enough for the girl’s mother, Jerice Hunter, who continues to publicly bash the police, claiming they’re not doing enough to find her daughter.Hunter and other members…
So what do you call an independent expenditure committee where the chairman scores around 72 percent of all the committee’s expenditures?You call that a nice payday for Constantin Querard. In February of this year, the slippery GOP consultant, alleged by some to be the ultimate shot-caller behind the sham candidacy of…
A former Maricopa County constable was arrested over the weekend after police say he conspired to burn his house down so he could collect an insurance payout.According to the Tempe Police Department, former Kyrene Justice Court Constable Jonathan Harold Irwin Levenson, who is Jewish, planned to make the blaze look…
Blake Obadiah Adams, the Phoenix man who fatally shot his girlfriend’s cousin on Valentine’s day after celebrating the day of romance by smoking PCP, was sentenced to prison time today after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge William Brotherton sentenced Adams to 16 years in prison for…
With just two weeks before Election Day, Phoenix’s two mayoral candidates aren’t letting up — taking political swings and slinging mud at each other. Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett says that if his opponent, Greg Stanton, is so adverse to lobbyists’ influence in city government, then why did he take…
After months of speculation that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu planned on seeking higher office, he announced this morning that he’s considering running for Congress.”I believe the real deficit in Washington is one of leadership,” Babeu says in a statement issued this morning. “Almost three years after the 800 billion…
A friend just pointed out a little question-and-answer interview that the New York TImes published over the weekend with Shaquille O’Neal. …
The jury in the Mark Goudeau serial murder/rape case resumes deliberations this morning in downtown Phoenix at the Maricopa County Superior Court…
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Mike Wallace is friggin’ fast — as the Arizona Cardinals learned the hard way in yesterdays 32-20 loss to “Big Ben” Roethlisberger’s boys at University of Phoenix Stadium.The Cards are now 1-5 after getting stomped by the Steelers for their fifth straight loss, and are now…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of shamed former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and one of his henchwomen, Rachel Alexander (who’s apparently dressed as former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin) for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption…
