Picture this: you wake up to find a man with no pants on — wearing nothing but a condom and a tee-shirt — carrying your 4-year-old daughter out of your house at about 6 a.m. That nightmare scenario was a reality for a Phoenix family yesterday morning, compliments of 21-year-old…
Prosecutors have decided not to pursue charges for now against Pamela Haas, the 63-year-old Chandler woman who sliced her husband’s arm with a two-foot-long sword.Both Pamela and her husband, Louis, agree that she took the sword from a wall mounting on November 13 and cut him with it, leaving a…
Maybe one reason marijuana prohibition is still in effect is this:Law officers face being fired merely for stating publicly their views on legalization.That was the case for Joe Miller, a former Mohave County probation officer whose supervisors terminated him after his name appeared on a letter — with 31 other…
Former state Senate President Russell Pearce is history. Tomorrow, Jerry Lewis, his victorious challenger in the Legislative District 18 recall race is scheduled to be sworn in as LD 18’s new state Senator.Today, Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group that forced the recall in LD 18 will announce its…
The mother of a 5-year-old Glendale girl who’s been missing for over a month reportedly has been arrested.Jerice Hunter, the mother of Jhessye Shockley — who was last seen on October 11– was taken into custody this morning, family members have told various news outlets.Glendale Sergeant Brent Coombs did not…
The odds were definitely against the Arizona Cardinals in their lopsided 23-7 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday at Candlestick Park. The hometown team was in enemy territory, playing in the rain, and were facing the current NFC West leaders (and one of the top 10 defenses in…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of presidential candidate Herman Cain in the midst of a rather epic brain-fart for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest.If you missed Cain’s cranial flatulence, click here to watch the…
A video of Arizona Department of Public Safety officers chasing a Yorkshire terrier on a Phoenix freeway is making the rounds on the Internet, and seems to be quite popular with the British.”Who let the dog out! Terrier on the run leads police on frantic OJ Simpson-style highway chase,” screams…
Mary Rose Wilcox says she’ll announce plans on Monday to run for re-election as Maricopa County’s District 5 Supervisor.Name recognition shouldn’t be a problem.When voters decide which Supervisors to elect in 2012, (all five seats are up for grabs), it’s a safe bet they’ll know Wilcox is a senior member…
Yuma Border Patrol agents on Wednesday found about 220 pounds of marijuana in the desert south of Dateland — we’ll bet some of you wish you did, too.But Agent Ken Quillan advises against going on your own “treasure” hunt, despite the fact that smugglers do occasionally drop loads of dope…
For the second time this month, a Valley teacher is accused of feeling up a student. The latest: Richardo Moreno, a teacher at Basha High School in Chandler.According to Chandler police, a 16-year-old female student told school administrators that Moreno, 51, inappropriately touched her and another girl while the three…
Oprah-approved snake-oil salesman James Arthur Ray is going to prison.Ray, who was found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide, was sentenced this afternoon to two years in prison for each of the three people who died during a 2009 “self-helf” sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona.The sentences, however, will run…
The parents of a 10-year-old girl — who blamed their daughter for getting raped by a group of Liberian boys when she was only 8 — have been granted competency hearings in their child abuse cases.The Liberian girl’s brutal 2009 rape made national headlines — click here for all the…
About a year ago, Buckeye resident Lloyd Smithey fatally shot a 17-year-old kid after he saw him and his two friends burglarize a neighbor’s home. This morning, the two friends were each sentenced to some lengthy prison time for the boy’s death.Matthew Peters, 21, and Joseph Metcalf, 19, each were…
If you happen to be someone other than Mesa businessman Wil Cardon, you probably would beat Cardon in the GOP Senate primary, according to a recently released poll.Cardon, who is running to replace retiring Senator Jon Kyl — and subscribes to immigration policies similar to those of ousted Arizona Senate…
Consider this the first anti-Arpaio ad for 2012, ironically produced by Arpaio’s goons, and censored heavily by them as well….He’s cost taxpayers $100 million in swiped county funds, has the blood of unfortunates such as Juan Farias Mendoza on his hands, was forced to settle to the tune of $1…
In the end, Joel Fox couldn’t make his bosses believe he wasn’t lying. The former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office captain, who was fired in October for “egregious” ethical violations related to his work on a secret campaign-fundraising scheme on behalf of Sheriff Arpaio, tried out nearly all of his illogical…
In honor of presidential candidate Herman Cain’s brain fart earlier this week, we’ve chosen the above photo of the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO — mid-brain-fart — for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.If you missed Cain’s cranial flatulence when he was asked whether he agreed with the…
Oprah-approved “self-help” guru James Arthur Ray will be sentenced today after a jury found him responsible for the deaths of three people during a 2009 sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona.Ray, who in September was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide, faces anything from probation to nine years in prison…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s incompetent overreach of power in removing the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission’s chairwoman Colleen Mathis — one aided and abetted by former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s “Tea Party Senate” — has been overturned by the Arizona Supreme Court, which today reinstated Mathis as chair.You’ll recall that…
There’s good news for Wall Street — the “occupiers” who have been protesting corporate greed (or whatever it is they’re protesting) for the past several months have a new target for their rage: Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.That, of course, is according to the sheriff’s bloated ego.”The ‘Occupy Wall Street’…
A Mesa woman was kind enough to pay for her 41-year-old alcoholic nephew’s carton of cigarettes. He allegedly expressed his gratitude by brutally beating her to death with a stick.According to court records obtained by New Times, about 1 a.m. Tuesday, Mesa police were dispatched to a home at 5844…
