Prosecutors are still reviewing whether a U.S. Airways employee who stabbed a co-worker to death in July acted in self-defense. George Hayes Jr., 52, plunged a long screwdriver into the side of fellow flight-simulator technician Eric Kunins, 34, in the early morning of July 15 as the two were at…
Dozens of signs going up in Phoenix this week warn bicyclists to “ride with traffic” to reduce the many collisions between bikes and motor vehicles. In the majority such accidents, officials say, most bicyclists rode against the flow of traffic. The signage scheme comes after last month’s successful passage in…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s former mouthpiece Tim Casey sang like an Irish tenor in federal court Tuesday, rolling on his onetime client and implicating him in criminal contempt of the court’s orders. Casey was instructed to testify by federal Judge G. Murray Snow over the continuing objections of his ethics attorney…
Roger Scott watched the press conference in a windowless 8-by-12 cell in the maximum-security wing of Arizona State Prison-Eyman on a clear, plastic television specially designed to prevent inmates from hiding contraband amid its internal wires. Frail at 67, with hollow cheeks and a perpetually trembling right arm, he sat…
Across Arizona, hundreds of Planned Parenthood supporters gathered in front of health clinics, politicians’ offices, and on college campuses in defiance of those threatening to shut down the federal government and defund Planned Parenthood. Their rallies Tuesday were part of a nationwide movement called Pink Out Day, in which more than a…
Presidential candidate and Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who has ridden a wave of pubic support after the most recent Republican primary debate, announced this week that he’s tapping state Attorney General Mark Brnovich to head his ground campaign in Arizona. Brnovich feels that ”Marco’s positive vision for the 21st Century will…
Given current events, Sheriff Joe Arpaio should consider changing his theme song from Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” to The Beatles’ “Yesterday.” Two subpoenas issued by lawyers for the plaintiffs in the federal contempt trial of Arpaio, his chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, and three other current and former MCSO big shots,…
A Phoenix man held in connection with the attack on the “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” in Garland, Texas, claims that he’s been denied proper medical care in the Maricopa County Jail and demands immediate access to a doctor. Prosecutors accuse Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, a 44-year-old carpet cleaner, of…
Tempe-based multi-level marketing company Vemma Nutrition duped impressionable college-student sales people out of millions of dollars by paying them little or nothing, according to a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit that has has led to severe restrictions on the business.. The FTC filed suit against Vemma after receiving complaints that the company…
With the possibility of a government shutdown looming in the very near future, supporters of Planned Parenthood in Arizona will gather in at least a dozen locations throughout the state Tuesday afternoon as part of a national movement called Pink Out Day. “We’re going to demonstrate just how many people…
Crystal Jane McElroy is a 30-year-old Arizona woman who is apparently unqualified for a criminal career, iif her recent antics outside the restaurant where she worked are any indication. Apparently unaware of a police vehicle that coincidentally was parked a few yards away, McElroy called 911 from the parking lot…
Round two of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s federal contempt trial began last Thursday. Yet revelations from the testimony of Arpaio’s chief deputy, Jerry Sheridan, and from portions of deposition transcripts made public already have been damning. Here are the 10 of the most eyebrow-raising: 10. According to Sheridan, the Maricopa County…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s absurd Seattle investigation cost taxpayers at least $250,000, improperly dipped into federal grant money, and nearly depleted the MCSO’s RICO fund. This, according to Arpaio’s Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan, who spent yesterday on the stand in federal court, much of it being skewered by ACLU attorney Cecillia…
A Virginia woman told the sports-news website Deadspin that Kevin Johnson, current Sacramento mayor and ex-Phoenix Suns superstar, paid her $230,000 in 1997 to keep quiet about their inappropriate physical relationship when she was 15. Mandi Koba, 36, told writer Dave McKenna in the article published today that a contract…
Arizona Republicans were quick to celebrate after U.S. Speaker of the House, Ohio Republican John Boehner, announced this morning that he would resign at the end of October. Whether through tweets or formal statements, the general gist of their statements was: “Thanks for your service, but step aside and make…
An Arizona State University student and qualified patient under Arizona’s medical-marijuana law has been found guilty of possessing marijuana under a disputed law that altered the state’s voter-approved, 2010 Medical Marijuana Act by banning the plant from public college campuses. The 2010 law already had prohibited possession even by qualified…
Former Arizona State University Police Chief John Pickens has been in his new job as director of University Security Initiatives for more than a year now, but it’s unclear what he and the mysterious department he heads have accomplished. In a time of extreme budget cuts among Arizona universities, ASU…
ACLU attorney Cecillia Wang played hammer to Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan’s nail in federal court Thursday, as Sheridan was the first to take the stand in the contempt trial of Sheridan, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and three current and former MCSO bigwigs. The multi-day hearing, with dates scheduled in September, October…
Jon Ritzheimer, the face of Arizona’s anti-Islam movement, wrote an open letter to the American people earlier this week in which he declared his intention to drive around the county with other militiamen and systematically arrest and detain U.S. Senators who support President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. The group…
On last night’s episode of the Late Show, host Stephen Colbert ripped into Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar for boycotting Pope Francis’ address to a joint session of Congress. “As a Catholic, I’m a total Francis fan-boy, but not everyone likes what he’s doing,” Colbert told the audience. “Anger at the…
Recruiters at the University of Phoenix deceived prospective students and surreptitiously recruited military veterans to enroll at the school, a new lawsuit filed by two former employees alleges. Marlena Aldrich and Kristen Nolan worked as military liaisons at a U of P learning center in Louisville, Kentucky, where they were…
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Pearce wasn’t following a murder suspect when he hit and killed a citizen in his vehicle, as was previously reported. A police report obtained by New Times shows that about the time of crash, other deputies had stopped the taxi believed to contain murder suspect…
