Any story about someone fondling a sleeping passenger on public transportation is amusing. When it turns out to be a dude-on-dude sexual assault it’s even better. When one of the dudes happens to be a transient train rider, it’s just the icing on the cake.Under said criteria, it appears we’ve…
Earlier this year the Peoria Police Department began noticing a trend in “beer runs” at area convenience stores by underage kids and decided to fight back.For anyone unfamiliar with the term “beer run” in the criminal sense, allow us to explain: someone walks into a convenience store, grabs as much…
Attention Arizona Capitol Times, KTAR, ABC 15, The Huffington Post, and all the other media outlets who ran with Cap Times reporter Jeremy Duda’s claim last week that Ben Quayle had fallen from frontrunner status in the District 3 Congressional primary: we hate to say we told ya so, but…
As of early this morning, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne was clinging to a 373-vote lead over former Maricopa County Attorney Tom Horne in the GOP primary for attorney general.The shocking results came late last night after Horne appeared to have lost the race — at one point…
The voters of Maricopa County have spoken and it appears another Joe Arpaio lap-dog will be the next county attorney.Former Assistant County Attorney Bill Montgomery pulled out a win against former, and interim, County Attorney Rick Romley.Montgomery has the support of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the two appear…
As of about 30 minutes ago, Ben Quayle holds a 5-point lead over his closest opponent in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary, Steve Moak, with about 80 percent of all precincts reporting.Quayle leads Moak by about 3,000 votes on a day with a surprisingly low voter turnout.Vernon Parker and…
Not even 10 minutes into our time at J.D. Hayworth’s election night festivities — at the posh Marriott Mountain View Hotel in north Scottsdale — did we run into an old friend. We were walking down the stairs into the less-than-packed ballroom when a man passed us. We instantly said…
Campaign ads are horrible. Nobody wants to have their living room invaded by local politicos who want nothing more than to talk about how great they are — or how much the other guy sucks.We would argue that all political ads are awful but this primary season has been exceptional…
Less than 24 hours before primary voters took to the polls, former Vice President Dan Quayle weighed in on attacks on his son Ben, who, in case you didn’t know, is running for Congress in Arizona’s Third District.In an email sent last night to supporters, the elder Quayle made a…
We’ve heard of some stupid places to stash weed but a Mesa mom’s stash spot might be the dumbest. She hid it under her baby’s bassinet.Not only is there the dangerous risk that the baby gets into the weed and possibly ingests some, but if cops find weed hidden near…
Primary day is finally upon us, folks, and we’re a little bummed out. The daily bickering between candidates and the cruel-but-entertaining political attacks will be coming to an end.We’ve been blessed with some fairly ugly campaigns this primary season, which have only been made better by the fact that those…
In order to give candidates equal time following our earlier post, Five Reasons to Vote for J.D. Hayworth for Senate, we thought we’d share a few things about John McCain that may be helpful to know when you go to the polls tomorrow.In our Hayworth post, we said we wouldn’t…
After months of watching J.D. Hayworth make a complete ass out of himself soul searching, we at New Times feel we’ve been a little hard on the Senate hopeful. Sure, he’s a little brash, slightly arrogant, and every time he opens his mouth we feel like were being lied to,…
For the second time in less than a month a person was hit by a train in Flagstaff. And, for the second time in less than a month, a person has died after being hit by a train in Flagstaff.The latest casualty of the Flagstaff railroad tracks is 57-year-old John…
It seemed only a matter of time before authorities in New Mexico charged two Arizona prison escapees, and the woman who helped them escape, with the murder of an Oklahoma couple who were found murdered in a camper in earlier this month. Today, it happened.Federal prosecutors in New Mexico have…
As more and more media outlets continue to write the political obituary of Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, the political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) continues to hit the phones in support of Hayworth.A little background: ALIPAC got some heat earlier this year for having the words “wetback,” “taco…
Disclaimer: the intention of this post is not to create a forum for biker gangs and their enemies to bicker about who the bigger pedophile/ meth heads are — as has almost always been the case whenever we post anything about the Hells Angels.Check it out here…and here…and once again…
Congressional candidate Steve Moak has finally responded to questions posed to him last week by one of his opponents in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary.In short, Moak never disclosed a conflict of interest to the IRS when a not-for-profit anti-drug charity he founded was pushing the drug tests produced…
Here we are: It’s a day before the 10 candidates in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary will learn their fate and it seems, barring some late-round uppercut, all the big punches have been thrown.In particular, two candidates, who are arguably leading the race, have received the brunt of the…
Score one for the good guys — Phoenix police, responding to a possible fight at a Phoenix home, stumbled upon 400 pounds of weed and enough guns to arm a small drug cartel. The Phoenix Police Department got a call on Wednesday morning about the fight that was going on…
Given: Clothing, for a dude, serves one purpose when placed on a woman: to hide the things us men spend 99 percent of our time trying to see. It’s a sick game you ladies seem hell-bent on playing. In other words, guys shouldn’t give a shit about women’s clothes because…
The Phoenix woman who stole more than 1,000 pieces of luggage from Sky Harbor Airport last year was in court this morning, where she was sentenced to prison time and probation for the thefts.Maricopa Superior Court Judge Paul McMurdie sentenced 39-year-old Stacy King to three-and-a-half years in prison and five…
