Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and his wife, Nicole, announced today that they are separating. “After 10 years of marriage that brought us tremendous joy and two beautiful children, we have decided to separate,” the Stantons announced through the mayor’s public Facebook page. “This is a difficult but amicable decision.” The…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has confirmed through his top flack Lisa Allen that the sheriff’s wife of 58 years, Ava, is sick. He did not identify her illness, but sources say it is serious. Nor did he deny persistent rumors that she is suffering from some form of cancer. “Sheriff Arpaio…
Turns out some rumors are true. New data shows that more than a thousand young women at Arizona State University will spend their college years living in luxury, receiving pretty little monthly allowances, and getting wined and dinned or taken on extravagant vacations by wealthy businessmen. Oh, and did we…
Shamelessness will get you far in life. Just ask Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his campaign money-man Chad Willems, who also is pimping the statewide legalize-pot initiative in this cycle. On Wednesday, Arpaio filed his first campaign finance report with Maricopa County Elections, showing him in possession of a $3.2 million…
With two weeks until payday, Shefik Tallmadge, then 29, used his last $5 in his pocket to purchase a lottery ticket at a Circle K in Yuma. When he checked his ticket the following day, he learned he’d won Arizona’s largest jackpot in the Pick lottery at the time —…
Okay, so we know the militiamen holed up in a federal building in eastern Oregon were not pleased with the “bag of dicks,” the dildos, or other generous gifts they received. Fair enough. After all, um, serious times call for serious measures. Come’on, people, just look at their wish list…
An Arizona State University junior attending college on scholarship committed suicide on the first day of the spring semester by jumping off the roof of a building on campus. Thomas Wagoner, a 20-year-old economics student, jumped from an unknown building on the Tempe campus at about 2 a.m. His body…
Occupying a federal building and starting a revolution is tough and very serious work, explains Arizona militant Jon Ritzheimer in his latest Facebook video, which is why he doesn’t appreciate the dildos, phallic-shaped candies, and other hate mail he and the other armed patriots holed up in a federal building…
Oscar Vazquez, who grew up in Arizona as an undocumented immigrant and went on to serve in the U.S. Army, was a special guest at President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday night. He sat in the guest box of First Lady Michelle Obama along with 22…
Hours before President Barack Obama was scheduled to deliver his final State of the Union Address, one of the president’s most vocal national critics, Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar, endorsed the man who arguably is Obama’s biggest critic: Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. In a statement released today, Gosar says he…
As soon as the family and friends of 34-year-old Tempe resident Sean Mould learned that he had been fatally shot in the abdomen by a police officer for allegedly wielding a pocket knife, they were skeptical of the officer’s story. Multiple family members told New Times in the days after…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office conducted an untimely and unfair probe of a fatal crash caused by Sean Pearce, a county hearing officer ruled, resulting in further leniency for the deputy. Pearce, son of recalled state Senator Russell Pearce, an Arpaio crony, avoided criminal charges in the 2013 crash with…
Qualified Arizonans legally bought and consumed more than 19 tons of medical-marijuana products in 2015, spending about $215 million. The Arizona Department of Health Services keeps a running total of dispensary sales and released its December report this week, allowing New Times to calculate last year’s totals. The DHS released…
Striking Phoenix bus drivers admit that they’re starting to worry about how the strike is affecting their lives, but they say they’re not willing to give up. “Even though I don’t have money, I couldn’t face my fellow workers knowing I let them down,” said Vanessa Washington, a driver and…
Under the first sunny skies Phoenix has seen in about a week, hundreds of people marked the opening day of the 2016 Arizona legislative session with a giant rally outside the state capitol building. Some carried large colorful signs and wore tee-shirts for their cause du jour, while other marched…
You could call it the end of an era. The woman who for the past 23 years has served as Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top flack, spin guru Lisa Allen, is resigning from the MCSO effective February 2. In an e-mail exchange with New Times, Allen confirmed her resignation, saying she’s…
Get the popcorn ready because mere days after a physical fight broke out between rival Arizona “patriots” at the site of an armed militia takeover in Burns, Oregon, both sides are back at it, continuously accusing the other of, as one man put it, “bull-crap,” and of instigating the pettiness…
Tony Bouie, the former NFL player appointed by Governor Doug Ducey to run the Arizona Lottery, is making numerous changes to his agency that he thinks will be beneficial. One of them is a new training program to make sure employees don’t violate the law on using state vehicles —…
Among Arizona’s biggest cities, Phoenix, Tempe, and Tucson are doing the best job protecting the rights of the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender communities, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The nonprofit advocacy group, which puts out an annual index rating cities’ LGBT policies on…
The smell of marijuana was ubiquitous at The Errl Cup over the weekend in Tempe. Patients came to Tempe from around the state to sample flower and concentrates from local dispensaries and caregivers, to enjoy live music and an onsite glass-blowing demonstration, and to see awards presented for best products…
Yell if you love photo-radar cameras! (Crickets.) Anyone driving around metro Phoenix has been caught by surprise by these speed cameras. We’re here to help, by identifying the worst speed traps in the Valley of the Sun. 10.) Near Phoenix Schools According to documents on the city’s website, police use…
Arizona Senator John Kavanagh, a former officer with the New York Police Department and ardent pro-law enforcement advocate, filed a bill this week that critics say is patently unconstitutional and just another example of how Kavanagh “panders to the cops.” Senate Bill 1054 would restrict the public’s ability to record…
