With almost 97 percent of precincts reporting, the race for Superintendent of Public Instruction remains tight, and neither camp is ready to give up. Republican Diane Douglas currently has 51.08 percent of the votes, while Democrat David Garcia holds 48.79 percent. That 2.29 point margin represents a difference of 25,632…
“What happened: I blame myself. I fell.” That’s what Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said from his hospital bed last year in an official video he posted about breaking his arm. As usual, the six-term politician (who vowed back in the 1990s to only serve one term) wasn’t exactly telling…
As you now know, Tuesday night was a stunning upset for Democrats across the country. In a burst of mid-term politician fatigue, Americans put majority power in the hands of the U.S. Senate and firmed up the GOP stronghold in the House. Arizona’s Republican victory shouldn’t have been as shocking…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery seems to enjoy playing Let’s Make a Deal, even if he gets burned now and then. In his latest move of seeming leniency, Montgomery’s letting AR-15-toting brain scientist Peter Steinmetz escape serious penalties as long as he promises to, among other things, keep his weapons…
By the time you read this Wednesday morning, Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Ducey will be Arizona’s governor-elect. In October, The Center for Investigative Reporting and Phoenix New Times collaborated on an article revealing Ducey to be the scion of an infamous Ohio organized-crime family named Scott, whose illegal deeds have…
Some Democrats thought the party was on its way to taking back control of the Arizona Legislature from the Republican majority. In 2012, Arizona Democrats won enough seats to break up the super-majority that Republicans had won in 2010. But in 2014, it’s possible that zero Republican seats flip to…
At midnight on Election Day, there were no surprise winners for Arizona’s major political offices. Republicans held on to most offices — Doug Ducey is the new governor-elect, Jeff DeWit was elected treasurer, Michele Reagan is projected to be the new secretary of state, Mark Brnovich is on pace to…
Republican Doug Ducey will be the next governor of Arizona, having beaten Democratic candiate Fred DuVal soundly in unofficial results Tuesday evening. It was a landslide, with the ice cream mogul beating the Democratic lobbyist by about 12 points…
Democrat and former state lawmaker Kyrsten Sinema has kept her seat in Congress, easily besting her Republican competitor, Air Force vet Wendy Rogers. Sinema’s victory in Arizona’s CD9 flew against the prevailing winds nationally in a heavily Republican election night. So did the apparent victory of Ann Kirkpatrick in CD1…
Republican Mark Brnovich led the race for attorney general by more than 70,000 votes about 11 p.m. tonight, but Democrat Felecia Rotellini didn’t throw in the towel. Rotellini acknowledged that she was not prepared to concede, wanting to wait for more votes to trickle in. At the time of this…
Terminally ill patients will have the “right to try” experimental drugs and treatments under an Arizona ballot proposition that won in a landslide on Tuesday. Proposition 300 seems like common sense to some, but it’s a remarkable proposal in some ways: If a patient, doctor and experimental drug maker agree…
Update, 8:30 a.m.: With 96.9 percent of precincts reporting, Garcia still trails Douglas by more than two points–over 25,000 votes–in the race for Superintendent. In the Secretary of State race, Reagan is ahead of Goddard by almost five points, representing almost 55,000 votes. With over 70 percent of precincts reporting,…
New Times reporters are all around the Phoenix area covering today’s election. Below, find a live Twitter feed of race results and reactions:…
Tim Casey, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s longtime lawyer, wants out of the hot-potato Melendres racial-profiling case now that it’s in a “compliance phase.” Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona don’t want him to leave so fast, though — not with questions and things left to discover…
Fred DuVal was forced to distance his campaign from a local Democratic gay-rights group last month after the leader called a Democratic lawmaker a “cunt.” Robert Rowley of the Stonewall Democrats of Arizona had put the dreaded c-word under a Facebook picture of State Representative (and soon to be State…
The judge in the Jodi Arias penalty-phase re-trial can’t prevent the public and news media from watching the show, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens, who oversaw the lascivious first-degree murder trial that ended in May with Arias’ conviction, kicked members…
The State Bar of Arizona has created a short video to remind Tuesday’s general-election voters not to blow off the decisions on all those judges on the ballot. The “Finish the Ballot” cartoon (below) comes at a time when at least two judges in Arizona, including one in Maricopa County,…
Jermeel Reeves doesn’t seem to think you watch enough porn. At least, that’s one possible explanation for why the 28-year-old Phoenix man was driving around west Phoenix just before 9 p.m. on Saturday night with a porn movie playing in his car’s rear window. Reeves, a wanna-be rapper from Detroit…
A Mesa woman says gave trick-or-treaters a special prize on Halloween — her own wedding ring. Since then, the story of Brooklin Yazzie’s lost ring, reported on Saturday by ABC-15 News (KNXV-TV) has been picked up by news outlets around the world. Any ghouls and goblins who hit the Yazzie…
News on Friday that the election for president of the Navajo Nation will be postponed was clearly not what Democrats in northern Arizona wanted to hear. Poor turnout in Tuesday’s election by Navajos would likely impact the close race between Congressional District One candidates Ann Kirkpatrick and Andy Tobin…
Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
A police officer in Chandler who specialized in DUI enforcement was killed early this morning after being rear-ended by an alleged drunk driver. Officer David Payne, a seven-year veteran of the department, was stopped at a red light on his patrol motorcycle around 12:40 a.m. today when he was rear-ended…
