One Arizona school may need to hire guards to protect itself — not from gang violence or fear of school shootings, but from Yuma Republican State Senator and advocate of guns in schools, Don Shooter. Yuma PD says that Shooter burst into a charter school for troubled teens that his…
Cesar Chavez Day is upon us, and one way of honoring the spirit of the famed labor leader locally is by helping the organization LUCHA, Living United for Change in Arizona, by participating in its Cesar Chavez Day Raffle. See also: -Four MCSA/ACORN Members Freed after Being Arrested for Applauding…
It seems like if the Legislature were to “ban” something, it wouldn’t have to keep passing bills session after session to “ban” that same thing.Yet, here we are again, more than a year after Governor Jan Brewer claimed she outlawed the sale and use of the substances known as “bath…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery says today that mercy killing, or euthanasia, “is not an excuse for murder,” as 86-year-old George Sanders was sentenced today on a manslaughter charge for fatally shooting his wife.Apparently, Montgomery finds two years of unsupervised probation an acceptable sentence for “murder.”See also:-Death Wish…
Michael Cohn, a 61-year-old Scottsdale resident, called the Scottsdale Police Department Wednesday morning to alert the authorities that he had just killed his wife of more than 26 years, Linda.The way events are described in court documents obtained by New Times, Cohn sounds like one of the most nonchalant murder…
Courtesy of the conservative Western Free Press, we finally have state Representative Eddie Farnsworth’s lame attempt to justify not allowing a bill that would have cracked down on pimps selling teenage prostitutes to have a hearing in the Judiciary Committee, which Farnsworth chairs. See also: -Eddie Farnsworth Blocked Hearing for…
Republican Representative John Kavanagh’s newest effort to regulate toilet usage in Arizona, by proposing that businesses can dictate which bathroom transgender people can use, cleared its first hurdle at the Legislature on Wednesday.With that, the scores of people who spent nearly two hours testifying on Kavanagh’s proposal — all but…
The Arizona Supreme Court has been asked to review a precedent-setting state Court of Appeals ruling that upholds the state’s law against marijuana in a motorist’s bloodstream. The appellate court ruled last month that the State Legislature intended to criminalize the presence of any metabolite of marijuana in a motorist’s…
If ABC 15 is doing something right these days, it’s having local athletes do the weather report.First, it was Charles Barkley — who asked, “When the rain gon’ stop?” — but now it’s Phoenix Coyotes forward Mikkel Boedker, who provided perhaps the best weather report in Phoenix history, starting off…
Arizona State University is gettin’ a Walmart.Walmart is apparently becoming a part of the American higher-education experience, as ASU is the third university to get a smaller Walmart store plopped right on its campus.See also:-Walmart on Campus Coming Soon to Arizona State University…
The thousands of pages of documents recently released in the case of Jared Loughner’s murderous rampage, which left six people dead and injured 13, make one thing certain — Loughner exhibited some very strange behavior.In another example of this, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department detective wrote in his report that…
Imagine my surprise, when checking the website of the venerable Valley organization Chicanos por la Causa, to see a photo of a beaming Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on a page advertising the group’s 44th anniversary dinner, coming up on April 4. See also: -County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s Endorsement Rejected…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery apparently either was asked for his endorsement or offered it — depending on whom you ask — to Pastor Warren Stewart’s District 8 campaign. We asked Stewart’s campaign, and we didn’t get a straight answer at first, other than getting informed that Stewart and Montgomery…
A 72-year-old man was shot and killed by Scottsdale police Wednesday in the department’s second fatal officer-involved shooting this month.Preston Phillips Jr. was shot by the officer around 6 p.m. after, police say, Phillips drove up next to the officer, pulled a handgun out of his holster, and “display[ed] it…
Jared Loughner kept photos of President Bill Clinton and Congressman Raul Grijalva and possibly a photograph of Congressman Ed Pastor, according to newly released documents.The detail is included is a report from a Pima County Sheriff’s Department detective in the thousands of pages of documents just released in the case…
The number of people getting Valley Fever is “skyrocketing,” which, unfortunately for everyone, is not a reference to the readership of the New Times news blog.The Arizona Department of Health Services passed along the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention news explaining that Valley Fever cases “dramatically increased,” in…
Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old former U.S. soldier raised in Phoenix, has been charged with conspiring to use a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) while fighting in Syria with an Al-Qaeda group. The charge, which carries a potential sentence of life in prison, comes a couple of weeks after a video surfaced on…
Former Republican legislator David Burnell Smith, a birther and DUI attorney recently arrested for alleged DUI, is doing Larry Klayman’s bidding in the fight against the recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.As many people pointed out as Klayman continued to claim that he’d try to get the recall effort shut down,…
Down in Tucson, some folks will soon be getting free shotguns.A group called the Armed Citizen Project, funded by donations, plans to give away shotguns to people in certain areas of Tucson — “for free!” — in what’s being touted as a crime-fighting measure.See also:-Tucson Group Giving Out Free Shotguns…
About six years ago, my wife and I adopted a little baby boy. He is “pure” mestizo and we are complete wabs. I’m a little dark because of my mixed Arab heritage, but my wife is a major-league blanca. He is a sweet little gabacho growing up in wab world…
Kevin Towers poses the question that baseball fans have asked for months. “What’s the method to his madness?” the Arizona Diamondbacks general manager asks of himself before a recent spring training game at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. After the D-backs finished a perfectly mediocre season last year — 81…
Police in riot gear guard the dugouts, preparing for the worst with German shepherds at heel. This is Philadelphia in 1980, after all. It’s the bottom of the ninth. Two strikes. Two out. Bases loaded. Human rocket Willie Wilson of the Kansas City Royals hugs the plate, curiously dressed in…
