By Ray Stern John McCain becomes an Obama transition buddy. That ought to put to rest the whole “pals around with terrorists” thing McCain’s campaign pushed, shouldn’t it? Arizona Cardinals score another win – ya excited yet? Tyke found in drophouse will be reunited with worried parents in Mexico in…
By Michael Lacey State checks that finance aid for the severely disabled have gone missing for months. Hanky panky or a sign of the economic times and a harbinger of things to come? Since the answer involves some of the largest corporate names in philanthropy, the government will not be…
Jesse Curnow, organizer of the local chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition. Ever want to shake hands with your friendly, neighborhood neo-Nazi? Well, here’s your chance. This Saturday afternoon, November 15 at the main branch of the Mesa library, the local chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition will be meeting…
By John Dickerson The sheriff gave New Times an additional video today of inmate Juan Mendoza Farias’ short-but-fatal stint in jail, but the new video – like the previous one – stops before showing what a gang of jail guards did to Farias prior to his death. On Wednesday the…
The two struggled, at which point Saridakis — who was armed at the time — says he could have shot and killed Jones, but didn’t want to.
Beatie is legally a man, but no medical or chemical procedure has changed the fact that she’s still a woman — as her pregnancy proves beyond all doubt.
Whether the new slayings involve similar breakdowns in security or procedures at the prisons will be answered in investigative reports still being prepared, says Department of Corrections spokesman Nolberto Machiche.
By Ray Stern Parent-of-the-year story in the Repub: Wasted mommy shows up at a daycare to pick up her 4-year-old daughter, but she had already driven the kid home hours before. Back at home, a neighbor finds the girl alone, eating Ovaltine powder from a can. Other news today: A…
Anything to get the boob on the boob tube, eh, Joe? Say you’re sick of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s aged, authoritarian blowhole? So much so that the mere sight of his flaccid turkey neck and oily pate causes the sudden need to blow chunks and an insatiable desire to kick a…
By John Dickerson Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s attorney has turned over part of a video of a jail inmate’s death at the hands of county jailers. But the video, which New Times has been seeking for four months, stops about 10 minutes before the suspicious death of Juan Mendoza Farias. The…
“I can tell you with absolute certainty that every breath test result on an Intoxilyzer 8000 is inaccurate,” Nesci says.
It’s a groundbreaking moment in the search for other planets and possibly other life in the universe.
FOX News regular Michelle Dallacroche says she’s shutting down MAIA due to lack of funds. I owe nativist firebrand Michelle Dallacroce a wiener. And I mean that in the sweetest way possible. Ever since the utra-right urban cougar sent out a surprising mass e-mail October 28 announcing that her Phoenix-based…
For sure, I found a new admiration for the nuts who are going to swim 2.4 miles in the lake this weekend.
The possibility that Faylene died accidently or committed suicide seems every bit as likely as her husband murdered her.
By Ray Stern Fooled you: MSNBC is taking hits for running with fake a news story about the source of the Palin-doesn’t-know-what-Africa-is story. Seems someone at the cable news network got suckered in by a hoax Internet report and e-mailed it to a colleague who took it as Gospel and…
In a column some time ago, you mentioned the Aztec prophecy claiming that “their descendants would reclaim ancestral lands in the southwest U.S., and guess what.” I’d appreciate it if you shed a little light on this statement. This is the mythical state of Aztlán you’re referring to, right? What…
ICE BREAKER ICE’s new boss is full of it: The Bird’s reaming of new ICE boss Matthew Allen was a breath of fresh air in this banana republic, where Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his wife, County Attorney Candy Thomas, reign with the blue-hairs and crackers who make up (as we…
LOCAL LOSERS A bucket of warm spit. That’s the phrase Franklin D. Roosevelt’s veep, John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner once famously coined to describe the institution of the vice presidency. He actually called it “a bucket of warm piss,” but the G-rated version is more familiar to most. The phrase…
It has all the ingredients of a good mystery novel. An elderly widow who donates $1 million, hoping to turn a beloved book into a movie. A glamorous author, determined to make a shoot happen in the scorching Arizona desert, despite squabbling between local talent and Hollywood pros. The startling…
South has been at the center of at least two high-profile libel lawsuits involving the Enquirer.
It seems almost ludicrous the high-profile wife of a U.S. Senator would be openly smooching with some dude at this well-attended event as onlookers snapped photos.
