Last night, the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination took the stage in Mesa for the party’s 20th presidential debate of the election cycle.There’s less than a week to go before Arizona’s presidential primary, and according to the pollsters, the race is tight — likely to be taken…
I’ve tried and failed to learn the Spanish language for the past two years. During high school and college, I took both Spanish I and Spanish II, but nothing really stuck with me. Last year, I visited a Spanish-speaking church to help immerse myself in the language, but only understood…
Sitting in the living room of a modest apartment in a working-class section of North Phoenix, Adolfo recounts in rough English his most moving experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For two years, the now-21-year-old pounded pavement in Las Vegas and other parts…
Calls for an investigation were mounting following New Times’ web exclusive about allegations that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and his attorney threatened the sheriff’s ex-boyfriend with deportation after their relationship ended. Finally, Babeu announced that the Gila County Attorney’s Office and the Gila County Sheriff’s Office would conduct an…
Cost $6,000 and worth every penny… For years, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has successfully peddled the myth that he’s “America’s toughest sheriff,” but his record of wasting taxpayer money, pursuing his political enemies and, worst of all, bungling the investigations of sex crimes on a massive, unprecedented scale, seems to finally…
The Republican Presidential debate in Mesa just wrapped up a few minutes ago, and in the mid-debate words of Mitt Romney, “I didn’t follow all of that, but I can tell you this…” Among the few Arizona-related topics discussed included, unsurprisingly, immigration and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. CNN moderator…
A new survey of Arizona voters by Public Policy Polling shows that President Barack Obama stands an even chance of turning Arizona blue in November.The poll shows Obama surging in our redder than red state, tying Republican Mitt Romney at 47 percent. Against GOPer Rick Santorum he does one point…
According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the gentleman pictured above is 35-year-old Clifton Dawayne Brooks — the guy the sheriff’s office says “threatened to kill” Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Arpaio and the FBI announced yesterday that the FBI’s Portland, Oregon office raided the house Brooks was living in, after it was…
A Scottsdale woman was kidnapped from her garage yesterday and driven to a bank, where she was told by her kidnapper to empty her account or he’d harm her and her mother. A bank teller tipped off the cops, who came and arrested their suspect — 40-year-old Thanh Andrew Harlan.Scottsdale…
The retirement of veteran Maricopa Superior Court Judge Michael D. Jones this year left a vacancy that’s seen no shortage of applicants. Thirty-five lawyers hope they’ll be the one Governor Jan Brewer selects to fill the job opening for a new judge. Before that crucial step, though, the Maricopa County…
For some reason, a few legislators weren’t fans of Arizona Congressman Trent Franks naming his bill for a federal ban on race/gender-based abortions after Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony.The bill was submitted by Franks under the name “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Non-discrimination Act of 2011,” but…
Paul Fischer is a “family and marriage counselor” in Downtown Phoenix.What allegedly assaulting a woman during a counseling session had to do with therapy is anyone’s guess.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the woman told the cops about the incident that occurred on February 3 at Fischer’s 7th…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as HermanKain, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Monday, we asked readers to write their own caption for the photo above, a self-portrait of Pinal County Sheriff Paul “studboi1” Babeu, which accompanied the New Times story Friday that…
GOPer and State House Speaker Andy Tobin’s turning into a regular Russell Pearce clone these days.Earlier in the year, there was his support of new restrictions on freedom of speech at the Arizona Capitol, and today, according to Channel 12 reporter Melissa Blasius, Tobin’s officious flack Rey Torres booted her…
Pearce telling his “scrotum” jokeDuring a Lincoln Day Luncheon today in Phoenix televised live by C-Span and featuring a keynote address by GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, recalled state Senator Russell Pearce regaled an audience of fellow Republicans with a weird tale about some fella’s “crushed scrotum.”Talking Points Memo posted…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu officially became part of late-night comedy TV yesterday, as The Tonight Show’s Jay Leno took up the sheriff’s situation as an opportunity for some Leno-esque jokes.Off the late-night laugh track, it looks like Babeu may have to deal with the state’s Public Integrity Task Force…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today that the FBI’s Portland, Oregon office raided a house belonging to the person they believe was running a website that glorified killing cops and “threatened to kill” the sheriff.The suspect, 35-year-old Clifton Dawayne Brooks, wasn’t arrested, but FBI Special Agent James Turgal said…
It looks like Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — along with allegations that he abused his power — is headed for the PITs, a state Public Integrity Task Force, that is. Read all about those allegations in New Times’ feature story. New Times has learned that Pinal County Attorney Jim…
Millions of people will tune in to the Republican presidential candidate debate in Mesa tomorrow, an event that could help decide the outcome of the upcoming primary election.Yet it’s possible (and just about as likely as a summer snowcap on Piestewa Peak) that voters have made up their minds based…
Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is reaching out to Gila County officials to conduct an independent investigation into abuse-of-power allegations that Jose Orozco, his Mexican ex-boyfriend, has leveled against him. Babeu claims that Orozco “hacked” his campaign websites and social media accounts and impersonated him. (More details on that later.)…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio took the stage today in an event hosted by the county’s Republican Party, saying — among other things — that President Obama should thank him every time the sheriff’s office goes on an illegal-immigrant roundup “employer sanctions operation.”Arpaio didn’t exactly stick with a topic during…
The old saw that he who represents himself in court has a fool for a client carries weight with us, having seen the usually sorry outcomes of such endeavors. But an Arizona Court of Appeals decision filed last week gives a local woman hope that her self-composed lawsuit against…
