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Now more than a week into Spring, we’ve developed a conspiracy theory — Spring doesn’t actually exist in Phoenix. Here are 10 pieces of evidence that we don’t have a Spring season:…

A woman cited recently on suspicion of biting her husband at work claims he cheated on her with Amanda Stanford, the new Pinal County Superior Court clerk. Heather Ojeda, a facilities maintenance painter for Pinal County, tells New Times that she wants her husband, a Pinal County court bailiff, “humiliated”…

Republican Arizona Senator Sylvia Allen suggested this week that lawmakers should debate forcing people to attend church services once a week. Allen acknowledged such a law would never be allowed, but floated as an idea to create what she described as a much-needed “moral rebirth of this country.” “How we…

Why are we put down by our own people for being educated and articulate (I’ve been called gabacho, and I’m as brown as the next guy) while the Anglos accept us for being smart? I work in Santa Ana as a high school teacher and am considered very good at…

A 3-year-old Phoenix boy fired a gun on Sunday while playing with his siblings in their parents’ bedroom, police say. The kids, ages 3, 4, and 9, were playing in the bedroom when a handgun fell off the bed and onto the floor. Phoenix Police Officer James Holmes says the…

Arizona could be one of the first states in the nation to close the gender pay gap, according to a new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Women in the United States are paid about 78 cents on the dollar compared with men, which is about 16 cents…

Debra Milke spoke publicly for the first time yesterday after more than two decades on Arizona’s death row for her son’s murder. A federal court overturned Milke’s conviction after finding that the state unconstitutionally withheld information about the key witness in the case, a former Phoenix cop who claimed Milke…

For any Phoenix residents expecting an evening of lip service by the city’s Aviation Department, last night’s Community Outreach Meeting was a pleasant surprise. After six months of disruptive, and at times, constant airplane noise, Chad Makovsky, Assistant Aviation Director at Sky Harbor, assured the room that his department is…

Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill that gives a new tax break for certain religious groups. House Bill 2128, being pushed by the Center for Arizona Policy, was vetoed by Governor Jan Brewer after it was passed by lawmakers last year, but it got a better reception from Ducey…

An organization is working on a proposal to cap in-state tuition rates at Arizona’s universities. The group, Save Our Students, is hoping to gather enough signatures to get the proposal on 2016 ballots. “A large number of students get priced out for every increase there is,” Save Our Students president…

Former NFL safety Darren Sharper was sentenced today in Maricopa County to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to two sex crimes. Sharper was accused of drugging drinks and sexually assaulting two women in a Tempe apartment in late 2013, and this morning pleaded guilty to sexual assault and…