There’s a new candidate for the world’s dumbest, alleged criminal: 37-year-old Honandez Simmons.Simmons was arrested early this morning after he was found in the parking lot of a Mesa shopping center picking up change.Picking up change in a parking lot is not illegal, as far as we know, but the…
Leave it to PETA to turn a debate over the lives of millions of HUMAN BEINGS into a ploy to save a few dogs.PETA is running a billboard in Arizona — playing off the state’s controversial, new immigration law — urging people to adopt “undocumented” dogs.The group contends that “dogs…
If you’re a political candidate considering taking a ride on Jan Brewer’s recently acquired, Greta-Van-Susteren-fueled coattails, you may want to reconsider — two candidates with Brewer’s stamp of approval lost their primary elections Tuesday.Not to say it’s Jan’s fault they lost, but it seems her super-star status after signing SB…
Senate Hopeful J.D. Hayworth is firing back after reports that he believes the country would be worse off if John McCain had won the 2008 presidential election.Check out our story on the matter here.At a campaign stop Tuesday night, Hayworth said “don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the guy…
The now-infamous tale of the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job in grand fashion earlier this week didn’t occur in Phoenix, or even in Arizona, but that hasn’t stopped some area news outlets from trying to turn it into a local story.We figured we’d follow suit.If you’re unfamiliar…
It’s a shame Senator John McCain lost the 2008 presidential election. If he’d won he would have the power to grant a pardon to a certain 4-foot-9 “guidette” whose perpetual orange hue “The Maverick” finds “too good looking” for jail.The “guidette” that seems to have caught McCain’s eye is none…
John McCain’s campaign spokesman, Brian Rogers, says “The Maverick’s GOP primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, has “clearly lost it.” That would suggest at one point Hayworth had “it,” which we would say is a stretch, but Rogers’ comment was in response to something Hayworth said that, on the J.D. Hayworth scale…
An escaped Arizona prison inmate and his fiancee have reportedly compared themselves to Bonny and Clyde, and they seem to be living up to the comparison. We’d argue a better comparison would be to the Hapsburgs — because the two are cousins…and they’re engaged…which is gross.So where better than the…
Congressional candidate Ben Quayle apparently decided to tell the world how he really feels about President Barack Obama in a new Web ad posted on his Web site this morning. In the ad, Quayle says, in no uncertain terms, that “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.” He goes…
The “Overtime Bandit” is at it again — for the second time in three months he’s robbed the same Mesa bank.The bandit, dubbed the “Overtime Bandit” because he tends to strike on weekends or at the end of the work day, robbed the Desert Schools Federal Credit Union at 2355…
The murder of Chandler Detective Carlos Ledesma wasn’t the result of a legit drug-deal-gone-wrong as was previously thought. Rather, an ambush planned by the alleged killers to rip off Ledesma and other undercover officers for the 500 pounds of weed they brought to the buy.At the time of the shootout,…
A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has been asked to intervene in a spat between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and two candidates running for political office this yearYou see, Arpaio’s started running TV ads he claims are in support of his re-election campaign — a lofty claim for a guy who…
A former NFL linebacker found himself smack-dab in the middle of some baby-mama drama Sunday night, which apparently turned physical and came to end when he was arrested by police.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Mark Fields, a former linebacker for the Carolina Panthers, was arrested Sunday night…
One look at Jason Rose’s Twitter page and you’ll realize the dude’s got a hard on for Congressional candidate Ben Quayle.In the past few days, Rose’s Twitter page has been bash-Ben-Quayle central, and with the latest news that Quayle may have been involved in the early stages of The Dirty,…
A Prescott Valley man was caught on camera with his hand in the cookie jar. Only it wasn’t an actual cookie jar — it was a coffee can collecting donations for the family of 2-year-old Emmett Trapp, the boy found dead last week after going missing from his home two…
The hunt is still on for Casslyn Welch and her would-be cous-band, escaped Arizona prison inmate John McCluskey. The first cousins are apparently engaged, despite McCluskey’s lengthy prison term, and are currently on the run somewhere in the American Northwest or Canada, authorities believe.We came across an interview a woman –…
Props to Congressmen Jeff Flake and (as much as it pains us) John Shadegg. The two were recently named “taxpayer super heroes” by a government-waste watchdog group.The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste honored the two Arizona congressmen for scoring a perfect 100 on the group’s 2009 Congressional Ratings…
There’s an argument to be made that violence on TV leads to violence in the real world. A Glendale man may have contributed to this argument.Police say 32-year-old Kemonte Tremayne Wesson was arrested early Sunday morning for shooting a 37-year-old man with whom he had an argument.The argument, as dumb…
It’s no secret that we at New Times are no fans of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but even we have to ask: is depicting America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” as Adolf Hitler over the line?A painting at the “Footprints” art show, featuring anti-SB 1070 art, depicts Arpaio as Hitler. Check it…
As if the story of an Oklahoma couple — who authorities believe were murdered in New Mexico by escapees from an Arizona prison — couldn’t get any worse… Turns out the couple was about to have a grandchild.Authorities believe escapees Tracy Province — who was taken into custody this morning…
Well that certainly didn’t take long. Just hours after Senator John McCain’s campaign called “The Maverick’s” GOP primary opponent J.D. Hayworth “corrupt,” Hayworth’s campaign has fired back, claiming McCain tried to blackmail Hayworth into supporting his “amnesty bill” by threatening to discuss his alleged corruption with the media.Hayworth’s campaign released…
Flagstaff police have identified the man who died after he was hit by a train last week.The victim: 47-year-old Johnnie Augustine.Witnesses told police that Augustine probably was drunk when he tried to run across train tracks as a train was approaching. The Flagstaff Police Department says Augustine was walking southbound near…
