Former United States Congressman Matt Salmon and former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams are both eying the Congressional seat getting vacated by Congressman Jeff Flake, who is running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.The two are both Republicans, both Mormon, and both have some big names…
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Cantaloupes containing a potentially deadly bacteria that has killed 13 people were shipped to Arizona, but aren’t known to have caused problems here, health officials said Tuesday.Dozens of people have been sickened by listeria in at least 14 of the 25 other states to which the killer melons were shipped…
Neo-Nazi Jeffery Harbin of Apache Junction will received up to five years in prison after pleading guilty in federal court yesterday to making and transporting bombs.Court records show that an FBI informant who knew Harbin’s girlfriend heard that Harbin had been building pipe bombs and invited him out for a…
A 22-year-old suspect in three armed robberies burst through the glass door of a Phoenix apartment at about 3 a.m. on Monday and shot a man who’d dated his ex-girlfriend. Ryan Foote was armed with a .357 Magnum when he crashed through the door at 3228 West Glendale Avenue, Apartment 122, and was confronted by…
Here’s the latest video from the Jerry Lewis for state Senate campaign, with those that recruited Lewis to run, including Mesa lawyer and Republican Dea Montague, who is first on the left, no pun intended. In it, Lewis repeats his no-gift pledge, which is a pledge I’d like to see…
According to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the man responsible for the hit-and-run death of Daniel Pollack, the son of Valley real estate mogul Michael Pollack, is an illegal immigrant.Arpaio says Cristino Torres Romero was arrested in Tempe by Scottsdale police on Friday in connection with the September 11 hit-and-run.Torres…
Rosanna Brown, a former teacher at Ed Pastor Elementary School in Phoenix, was sentenced to some pretty lengthy prison time today after pleading guilty to charges that she tricked one of her 14-year-old students into having sex with her back in 2009.As part her plea agreement, Brown pleaded guilty to…
A massive gang/drug bust called “Operation OGSTYLE” went down in south Phoenix this morning, resulting in the arrests of dozens of gang members, the Phoenix Police Department announced today.”Operation OGSTYLE” was headed by the Phoenix P.D. but included law enforcement agents from several other agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration…
Tom Liddy, a deputy prosecutor who also happens to be son of infamous Watergate villain G. Gordon Liddy, played Deep Throat for a county supervisor under siege by corrupt lawmen.The setting of the crucial tip-off, described at the Andrew Thomas discipline hearings yesterday by Andy Kunasek, chair of the Maricopa…
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner is back in Arizona today after spending the past several months in a federal prison in Missouri where he’s undergoing psychiatric treatment to hopefully make him mentally fit to stand trial.Loughner has a court hearing in Tucson tomorrow, where U.S. District Judge Larry Burns will…
Congressional candidate Kirk Adams got a political tip-of-the-cap from Congressman Ben Quayle yesterday. Meanwhile, his opponent in the GOP primary for the District 6 Congressional seat, former Congressman Matt Salmon, boasts the support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a man he doesn’t like, doesn’t respect, and compares to Barney…
If the Arizona Diamondbacks have any hope of surviving the upcoming postseason, they’re got to be firing on all cylinders. That includes displaying the sort of stellar pitching that got them to the playoffs in the first place, and not the poor performance put on by Daniel Hudson on Monday night…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle R Russell73, 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 the Internet’s…
Former Arizona Democratic Party Chairman Don Bivens announced yesterday that he’s running for the United States Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl…as a Democrat.Aside from the obvious challenges Bivens faces by being a Democrat in a “red state” like Arizona, he’s also likely to have to face Congressman…
Adding insult to injury, Olivia Cortes, the “sham” recall candidate whose paid petition gatherers admitted she was a pro-Russell Pearce plant meant to “dilute” the vote, is playing the race card in a press release published on the right wing Sonoran Alliance Web site.Titled, “Olivia Cortes: Racism is Alive and…
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UPDATE 7:11PM IN A DISAPPOINTING DEVELOPMENT, TOM RYAN INFORMS ME THAT HE’S RETHINKING WHAT TO DO WITH THE LAWSUIT IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE BALLOTS HAVE BEEN PRINTED AND SOME HAVE ALREADY GONE OUT, AS IS MENTIONED BELOW. WHETHER OR NOT HE’LL CONTINUE TO PURSUE IT IN ANY…
When a Glendale woman awoke from a vodka and Xanax-inspired nap Thursday night, 56-year-old Michael Thorson was in the town house she’s sharing with a friend — and his fingers were in her vagina.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the 53-year-old victim and her female roommate were at the…
Merry Shaydak went to work as usual at the Mexico border on a very chilly March day in 2010. Cute dog photo #6,432 She was a waitress at the Turquoise Valley Golf and RV Park in Naco, which sits right on the line a few miles south of Bisbee. …
A Federal appeals court today upheld the death sentence for kid-killing rapist Richard Stokley. No execution date has been set, but Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne doesn’t want to see Stokley’s date with death delayed any further.”The date for Stokley’s sentence to be carried out has not been set, but…
Wes Gullett, a Phoenix mayoral candidate, doesn’t mince words when it comes to his opposition to the most recent water rate increase in Phoenix.”I opposed it,” he said during the first mayoral debate in the runoff election between him and his opponent, Greg Stanton. “We didn’t need it … It…
