Jury members in the Jodi Arias trial have begun deliberating whether to sentence the cold-blooded killer to execution. The jury was dismissed just after 3 p.m. to begin their decision-making. With nearly five months of their lives invested in this trial, jury members probably can’t wait to finish up. It’s…
An atheist state lawmaker tasked with delivering the opening prayer for this afternoon’s session of the House of Representatives asked that people not bow their heads.Democratic Representative Juan Mendez, of Tempe, instead spoke about his “secular humanist tradition” and even quoted author Carl Sagan…
A Mexican national was busted trying to smuggle more than $100,000 from the United States into Mexico, and he may have been caught only because he either lied or is bad at counting.See, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says 54-year-old Gamaliel Gonzales De Dios declared $1,000 in cash when he…
Jodi Arias asked the jury in her long-running murder trial to spare her life, contradicting previous statements that she preferred the death penalty to life in prison. She failed to apologize for killing ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in her highly anticipated statement to the jury today. See below for live blog…
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Arizona’s law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional, citing just about every Supreme Court case on the subject since Roe v. Wade.”The 20-week law is [an] unconstitutional under an unbroken stream of Supreme Court authority, beginning with Roe and…
Arizona Diamondbacks lefty Patrick Corbin is no joke.Corb, now 7-0, tossed a complete game last night against the Colorado Rockies (at Coors Field), allowing just one run on three hits in the D-backs’ 5-1 win in the first game of a three-game series…
With the May 30 deadline looming, the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio has stopped its paid petition-gathering, for the second time, due to donors’ unwillingness to cough up the cash.Stephen Lemons reported last week that Respect Arizona found “the sticking point [for donors] was the lack of a definite…
The nativists are a parasitic lot. They gloat when someone is murdered by an “illegal immigrant,” or any kind of immigrant, actually. In the Boston bombings, they made a feast of the two brothers, the alleged terrorists: one a naturalized U.S. citizen, the other granted asylum. Suddenly, the brothers Tsarnaev…
If you’re keeping score in the Tohono O’odham Nation’s epic — and seemingly endless — battle against state and local officials to build a resort-style casino in the West Valley, chalk up another point for the Nation. The Nation unveiled in 2009 plans to build the West Valley Resort and…
Twenty-year-old Caleb Everett plead not guilt Monday for his alleged involvement in a fight with ASU frat boys that involved baseball bats and shots fired into the air. Police arrested four other suspects in the fight last month, which took place just blocks away from the Tempe campus. (Check out the surveillance video at the link…
Today in Found at the border: A Mexican national tried to smuggle 2,000 pounds of weed into the United States by hiding the stash in bricks of charcoal.Thanks to Wilhelm Röntgen’s 1895 discovery of the X-ray, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were able to see late last week that…
While everyone’s caught up in the hype of the Jodi Arias trial, we’ll point out a quieter case that ended on Friday with a Scottsdale woman being sentenced to life in prison.Shari Tobyne shot her husband of 35 years, Dwight, then chopped up his body, and left most of his…
Police have identified the owner of the SUV that hit and killed Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz on Sunday.The problem is, at the time of this post, neither the owner of that SUV, 24-year-old Jesus Cabrera Molina, nor anyone else has been charged in Raetz’s death.See also:-Phoenix Cop Daryl Raetz…
The day after a high-ranking Justice Department official blasted former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke for lying about one memo leaked to a reporter, Burke committed an even worse leak. That’s just one damning finding in a U.S. Inspector General report about the actions of Burke in the Fast &…
Arizona Cardinals Pro Bowl linebacker Daryl Washington pleaded not guilty this morning to charges related to allegedly choking and breaking the collarbone of his baby’s mother.Washington was arrested on May 3, two days after he got in a fight with the child’s mother, Ciera MacDonald, while Washington visited his child…
Rushing to the defense of CBS 5’s severely flawed “investigation” of the state’s medical-marijuana program is Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles, who wants to add to the disinformation campaign.In fact, Voyles sent out a press release including a public thank-you note to CBS 5, thanking them for the “investigation” and…
New Times received top honors for its design and illustrations, arts criticism, and news, features and opinion blogs on Saturday during the Arizona Press Club’s Best Journalism in Arizona awards reception at The Duce. New Times also was represented in the Virg Hill Arizona Journalist of the Year category by…
The jury in the sensational trial of boyfriend-slayer Jodi Arias is expected to hear testimony today from Arias’ defense attorneys, who’ll try to argue that Arias doesn’t deserve execution. Arias has said she prefers life in prison. As we reported last week, state officials say Arias could be executed in…
This gun-buyback program in Phoenix appears to be pretty popular.After taking in almost 1,000 guns in exchange for grocery-store gift cards in the first two weeks, the program’s $100,000 donation ran dry, but another anonymous $100,000 donation came in, and it was exhausted again this weekend.See also:-Phoenix Gun-Buyback Program Lives,…
Like many of their fellow National League teams have done in abundance this season, the Arizona Diamondbacks traveled to Florida over the weekend and handily won a series against the long-suffering Miami Marlins. Although the D-backs weren’t able to complete the weekend sweep of The Fish, falling 2-1 in Sunday’s…
Is Republican Congresxsman Trent Franks addressing the issues most important to this country?Of the eight bills he’s proposed this session, three are abortion-related, one prevents the Tohono O’odham Nation from building a casino, one would “celebrat[e] the life of President Ronald Wilson Reagan on the anniversary of his birth,” and…
***Please see update below.*** There should be a special ring of Hell devoted to hit-and-run drivers, if there isn’t already. Not to mention that it must take a special kind of SOB to hit a cop and keep rolling. Authorities currently are looking for the driver of a dark gray…
