Democratic State Senator Steve Gallardo noticed something he was not a fan of when he moseyed on over to the House of Representatives for the swearing in of new legislator Martin Quezada — there were pictures of Latino kids on some Republicans’ desks.In the pictures, the kids are holding signs…
Matinee Energy, a company with plans to build several large solar-power plants in Arizona, says a founder who once ran a bogus gold-mining scheme no longer has a role in the firm. Yet many questions remain about the mystery company, which reportedly has contracts with Hyundai Heavy and KEPCO KDN,…
Kevin Skinner’s mom told her son she was leaving his apartment on Saturday night.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Skinner’s response was to murder his mother by suffocating her with a grocery bag.After going outside and laying on the grass for a while, Skinner decided to call 9-1-1…
The American Civil Liberties Union (and other public-service organizations and law firms) filed a monumental class-action lawsuit within the hour on behalf of 14 prisoners against the Arizona Department of Corrections and its current direct, Charles Ryan. The 78-page complaint was filed at the federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix. Among its…
Forcibly medicating Tucson mass-shooting suspect Jared Loughner got the approval from an appeals court yesterday, as two of the three judges on the panel approved of continuing Loughner’s drug regimen.This issue has been in the courts for a while, as doctors are trying to “restore his competency” to stand trial…
As far as lawsuits go, the Maricopa County Superior Court case of Alice and George Kaplan v. Chandler was anything but monumental. Heck, all it concerned was a broken water pipe at an unoccupied building that the couple own in the East Valley city. The Kaplans claimed that the city…
Yesterday, Arizona’s representatives defended your freedom to shoot off a quick text or two with one hand, while you’re controlling 4,000 pounds on the highway with the other.Well, after they actually figured out what they were voting for.The ban that would have been enacted under the passage of House Bill…
It’s been a while since I first wrote about Attorney General Tom Horne’s close friend Carmen Chenal’s problems with the State Bar of Arizona and her being hired by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as an attorney in the criminal division, at a salary of $108,000.Chenal is one of many cronies…
If you’re not a fan of looking out of the windshield while driving, we’ve got some good news — the Arizona House voted down a bill that would outlaw texting and driving.Municipal ordinances still apply — like Phoenix’s rarely used ordinance against texting and driving — but Arizona’s representatives have…
Republican Wendy Rogers — who lost her bid for a State Senate seat in 2010 — made it official today that she’s joining the Congressional race in Arizona’s newly formed Ninth District.Rogers joins what’s becoming an increasingly populated field of candidates, which already includes Republicans Don Stapley, Travis Grantham, and…
Three members of an Iraqi family living in Phoenix pleaded not guilty today to assault charges, stemming from allegedly beating another family member for reasons such as refusing an arranged marriage, or because she was talking to a boy.Yusra Farhan, 50, and Mohammed Altameemi, 45, both pleaded not guilty to…
Arizona State’s basketball team (the guy’s version) has been ranked in the lower realms of all Division I programs this season, and yesterday afternoon’s game in Tempe against the Arizona Wildcats had the makings of a butt-whipping–for the Cats. Most of those geeks who study the “Bubble” as if…
About a month ago, police arrested a sixth suspect in connection with the murders of Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro, as well as Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet, and with those arrests came a heavily redacted police report.Now, Jerry Cobb, spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, tells New…
For the low price of $9.99, you can obtain your own copy of an e-book that’s billed as “a law enforcement investigation” into President Obama’s birth certificate.The authors happen to be Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Posse “lead investigator” Mike Zullo and notorious “birther” Jerome Corsi.The forward, unsurprisingly, is…
Tea Party princess Michelle Ugenti has a mouth on her, that’s for sure. The Republican state House Representative and former real-estate peddler was elected to represent District 8 voters in 2010, largely with the assistance of Clean Elections funding and the campaign hackery of Clean Elections-parasite Constantin Querard.And what has Clean…
Tony Diaz, dropping some knowledge with the Libro-Traficante caravanArizona’s ethnic studies ban has resulted in the eradication of the successful and popular Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District, and a backward edict banning certain supposedly “dangerous” books by Latino authors from Tucson classrooms.This peculiar mix of…
A truckload of paperwork was filed today in the racial profiling lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office, including succinct accounts of the allegations and responses by both sides.The case involves several plaintiffs, including immigrant Jose Ortega Melendres, but was expanded in a ruling by federal judge…
The National Football League announced today that a couple dozen defensive players on the New Orleans Saints maintained a player-funded “bounty” system, which involved getting paid for injuring opposing players.Hits on former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner and former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre sparked the investigation, NFL Commissioner Roger…
According to a Glendale police officer, he found 10 grams of meth in a car being driven by the gentleman to our right.In court documents obtained by New Times, the officer says he was driving the opposite direction of a car on 59th Avenue being driven by 31-year-old Moses Ulloa.Police…
In less than a year, KPHO — always “Telling it Like it is” — has managed to run three stories about chupacabra sightings.Now the local news station is tackling bigger and badder mythical beasts, hooking up with the Navajo Nation Rangers to check out “investigative reports” of other creatures that…
As much as the late Andrew Breitbart was reviled by the left, I always found him to be an entertaining, if often inflammatory, media presence. Breitbart died Thursday of natural causes at the way-too-young age of 43, giving liberals everywhere less reason to assault their TV screens in apoplectic rage.Breitbart’s…
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer last week, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070. Schumer’s office said the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law to be…
