The co-founders of Phoenix New Times are giving a $2 million gift to Arizona State University’s journalism school to support a new program focused on coverage of Latino and borderlands issues. Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin, the New Times founders, are using proceeds from their lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff…
Legal marijuana could be a reality in the Phoenix area even if pot remains illegal under Arizona law. News broke last week that the Justice Department is advising federal prosecutors not to stop tribes from growing or selling marijuana on their lands, even in states where marijuana remains illegal. According…
The United States Supreme Court won’t take up a case involving an Arizona law that severely restricts medicated abortions in the state. This means that enforcement of that law remains blocked while Planned Parenthood Arizona and the Tucson Women’s Clinic continue to fight the law in federal court, as they…
Phoenix’s TV news crews certainly have a lot of on-air talent. Below, we give you our picks for the 10 hottest TV news ladies of Phoenix:…
UPDATE 12:17 p.m.: Coach Bruce Arians says Stanton “does not need surgery — just rest.” Read more from Arians at the bottom of this post. Arizona Cardinals quarterback Drew Stanton was knocked out of last night’s game against the St. Louis Rams with a knee injury, but Stanton’s not necessarily…
The marijuana legalization movement has several foes in Arizona, and Merilee Fowler, executive director of MATFORCE in Yavapai County, is one of the biggies. Both sides are getting an early start on the campaign to pass or defeat a likely ballot initiative planned to be put before Arizona voters in…
A serial Walmart shoplifter was caught this week, and he turned out to be a corrections officer, according to authorities. Hugo Rivera, 34, shoplifted from Walmart stores at least five times, according to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, and had already been banned from entering any Walmart store when he…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we take a walk on…
The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that Debbie Milke, the mother who spent more than two decades on death row for her son’s murder, can’t be retried in the case. Milke’s conviction was tossed out by a federal appeals court last year after it held that the state unconstitutionally…
The federal judge in the racial-profiling case against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has expanded the investigative powers of the monitor assigned to the agency. Over concerns that MCSO employees “may continue to be engaged in efforts to frustrate the implementation of this Court’s Orders, and may in fact be…
I’m a third-year university student, a liberal studies and Spanish major. My family, extended and immediate, always like the chisme. During a family carne asada, we were all talking when one of my tías asked me what I was doing with my life — she and the rest of my…
It hasn’t been a very happy holiday season for Sony Pictures, which was hacked recently and had sensitive internal files compromised. Five movies — four of them unreleased — were leaked along with 11 terabytes of personal data, including executive salaries, release schedules, employee criminal background checks, and passwords (kept…
The Phoenix Police Department has identified the police officer who fatally shot 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon at an apartment complex last week. Phoenix PD identified the officer as Mark Rine, a 7-year veteran of the department. “He has been reassigned to a non-enforcement duty pending the outcome of the investigation,” Phoenix…
Governor Jan Brewer’s executive order that prevents certain immigrants from getting driver’s licenses is running on fumes after a series of court losses. A federal appellate court decision earlier this year called for a temporary end to Brewer’s order, and after a series of appeals by the Brewer administration, immigrants…
As another NFL team with a Native American-inspired mascot came to town last weekend, some Native American groups banded together to protest the Kansas City Chiefs. Although the groups have gotten a lot of attention for their protests of a certain Washington NFL team’s name, they’re also protesting what they…
A former spokesman for Maricopa County Animal Care and Control was arrested on charges including stalking for harassing his former co-workers, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The Sheriff’s Office says Audie Greybear posed as his former co-workers on Craigslist, leading to the employees receiving sexually explicit text messages…
A viral video of alleged police brutality by a Mesa police officer doesn’t show the entire encounter between the officer and a teenage girl. The video, which has been shared on Facebook more than 120,000 times at the time of this post, appears to show the officer throwing a blow…
Protests are continuing to take place over the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon by a Phoenix police officer last week. Brisbon was fatally shot Tuesday night at an apartment complex after a scuffle with a Phoenix police officer who was investigating a drug-dealing complaint. Police say the officer thought…
Police killings across the country sparked a large protest at First Friday in Phoenix this weekend. With police in riot gear at the ready, the demonstrators protested against the killing of Michael Brown in Missouri, the killing of Eric Garner in New York, and last week’s killing of Rumain Brisbon…
Like you needed additional evidence that we live in a sick society, we now have “Mickey cam,” a 24-7 camera fixed on a vicious pit bull that mauled the face of a little boy, leaving him with permanent, painful injuries. Who’s responsible for this obscenity? Who else? Sheriff Joe Arpaio,…
What would I do without Republicans in this state? Their Jerry Springer-esque antics are a hoot, and would make for an excellent reality show, which I propose calling, with a hat tip to Snoop Dogg, “Deez Nutz.” Thursday night, the Maricopa County Republicans’ Executive Guidance Committee — under the leadership…
Arizona’s home to the most political corruption in America. That’s according to a survey of reporters nationwide, done by researchers at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics…
