Big ups to Representative Ann Kirkpatrick, who reaffirmed her commitment to a Congressional pay cut today by writing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter demanding a floor vote on a resolution she introduced in March.The United States government is $13.5 trillion in the hole, unemployment looms around 10 percent, and even…
Rabbi Bryan Bramly’s had a nightmarish few months. Since March, he was suspected of raping a 7-year-old girl, publicly asked by his temple to resign, and considered by many to be just another religious leader to have a thing for little kids.On Wednesday, Rabbi Bramly was vindicated. The rape charge…
We hear stories about bank robberies almost every day in the Valley, but it’s not too often that the suspect in the robberies is a former bank teller. Almost as infrequently is the suspect a woman.Danyelle Gerrie, 25, allegedly is the exception to the apparent rule.Gerrie was arrested yesterday for a string of…
The Arizona Cardinals got political yesterday and gave $10,000 to an organization devoted to defeating Prop 203.Prop 203 will be on the November ballot and would allow chronically ill or severe-pain patients to buy marijuana from state-licensed clinics with a doctor’s approval.The group to which the Cards gave the money…
When a Mesa woman had a cup of acid thrown in her face by an unidentified woman earlier this month — just days after an almost identical attack in Vancouver — we have to admit that the idea of a traveling, serial acid-tosser crossed our minds.That, it now seems, would…
Like the Phoenix Suns, the Arizona Cardinals have decided to get political.Don’t expect to see any Los Cardinals jerseys, or anything immigration related — the Cards sat out the whole SB 1070 debate (it was the off-season). The Cardinals are throwing their political weight (and cash) behind an initiative to…
The Phoenix Police Department received a call the other day. It was a Gaylord Barnes, a 22-year-old Phoenix resident, who alerted cops that he’d just gotten done masturbating in front of a 2-year-old girl.Officers responded to the house where Barnes did the deed — which belonged to his neighbor, who…
Gay-rights advocates spiced things up at a meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning by protesting Senator John McCain and his vow to filibuster a vote on a bill that includes the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” — the United States military’s subtle hint to homosexual soldiers…
www.imdb.com Former Suns big man, and star of the film Kazaam, Shaquille O’Neal. Framing someone for possession of kiddy porn seems like a drastic way to get revenge. But former Phoenix Suns big-man Shaquille O’Neal — a former member of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “posse” — is getting sued by a…
Jan Brewer’s bumbling performance during the gubernatorial debate earlier this month, which instantly became a Youtube blockbuster, seems to have made Jan even more famous (or infamous) than she became after signing SB 1070.Jan’s hit the big time, and people are noticing, which is why she’s made the Huffington Post’s list…
The state of Arizona managed to snag about 40 million Obama bucks to improve Internet access across the state as part of the federal stimulus package.GovNET Inc., a Scottsdale-based company, has the task of improving broadband access across the state with an emphasis on improving government services.Governor Jan Brewer says…
The Mesa Police Department needs the public’s help in tracking down a missing man with mental-health problems.Mesa Police Detective Steve Berry tells New Times that 42-year-old Carlos Polanco was dropped off by his sister at his doctor’s office on Monday morning. When the sister returned to pick him up, he…
It’s now been about three hours since the news broke that charges against the Gilbert rabbi accused of raping a 7-year-old girl have been dropped, and we’re still yet to see any other news outlets — many of which were quick to publicize his arrest in March — reporting on…
Let the name-clearing begin.Charges have been dropped against a Gilbert rabbi accused of raping a 7-year-old girl a decade ago.Bryan Bramly, rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom Synagogue in Chandler, was accused of raping the girl in 2000. However, the rape allegations didn’t come until March of this year…
A Mesa woman escaped the clutches of her abusive ex-boyfriend early this morning only to be captured by the man as she tried to call police to tell them he held a razor to her neck.Mesa cops say, just after midnight, the victim ran into the Circle K convenience store…
If you’ve never heard of animal “crush” videos, you’re lucky. They’re sick, cruel, and depraved. Yet people watch them — legally.”Crush” films are videos of people stepping on animals — usually larger and arguably more pain-susceptible animals — until they crush them to death.Again, we’re not card-carrying members of PETA,…
Trying to tell your parents the cocaine they found in your room is baking soda might work. Trying to pass that cocaine off as baking soda to cops is another story.A Pinal County man learned that lesson the hard way after cops found him in possession of the (ahem) baking…
In the past week, two judges have ruled against the Green and Democratic parties’ requests to have several Green Party candidates removed from the November ballot.The two parties feel the candidates are “sham” candidates getting used by Republicans to lure liberal voters away from voting for Democrats.Some of those candidates reportedly…
The game of “he started it” has come to an end, and it turns out that the Hells Angels are the ones who started a gunfight with a rival motorcycle gang last month. The gunfight netted precisely zero deaths, despite more than 50 shots fired.A recently released police report about the shootout…
Earlier this month, New Times ran a story about Jan Brewer’s criminally insane son, questioning why his criminal record was sealed just days before his mother was sworn in as governor.Jan’s opponent in the governor’s race, Attorney General Terry Goddard, pretended he didn’t like it.Within hours of the article’s publication,…
Steve May, a now-former Republican candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives — best known for recruiting homeless people to run as Green Party candidates in several local elections and driving down Interstate17 shitfaced — is calling it quits following the outing of his DUI conviction.May issued a press release…
There is no joy in Mudville — again — for Arizona’s Green and Democratic parties.For the second time in a week, a judge ruled today to allow several Green Party candidates, dubbed by the two parties as “sham” candidates, to remain on the November ballot.This morning, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dean Fink ruled…
