Rapper DMX, fresh off completing a four-month jail sentence in Maricopa County, is headed back to the clink. “X’s” latest stop on his tour of southwestern slammers: Los Angeles.The legally challenged rapper has 90 days to turn himself in to authorities to begin serving time for a probation violation stemming…
The Arizona Department of Public Safety issued apologies yesterday to the families of the two girls involved in the dead body mix-up following a car accident on Interstate 10 last week.If you’re not familiar with the snafu, the two girls (pictured) were in a car wreck. One died and the other is in…
MCSO Joshua Larsen a.k.a. “Cowboy Cowboy.” There’s good news and bad news from the front lines of the war on perverts. The bad news: they’re out there. The good news: a lot of them are idiots willing to believe that a child they met in an Internet chat room is…
If Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth doesn’t already want to deliver a firm kick to the balls of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff’, he should. Hayworth’s entire campaign’s been marred with — among other things — his ties to Abramoff and the corruption-based hits just keep on comin’.The group Citizens for Responsibility…
It was Chad George’s party, and he’ll cry hit you in the head with a bat if he wants to.The 22-year-old George hosted a party at his Maricopa home over the weekend that ended when police say he hit one of his guests in the head with an aluminum baseball…
Over the weekend, the family of 19-year-old Abby Guerra held a carwash to try to raise money for a funeral. Guerra was in a car wreck about a week ago while driving home from Disneyland with some friends, and her family was told she was killed in the accident.Only, she…
About two weeks ago, the former head of the Andrew Thomas rah-rah squad, and current director of social media for the J.D. Hayworth Senate campaign, claimed that a poll putting John McCain ahead by 45 points in the race was “doctored.”After making the accusation on her blog, Intellectual Conservative, Rachel Alexander…
A fire gutted a downtown Tempe home over the weekend, injuring three firefighters and blowing the front door of the house about 25 feet onto Mill Avenue.The blaze started around 10:40 p.m. Saturday at 1204 South Mill Avenue — across from ASU and just south of the bars. We happened to…
Last Wednesday, someone described by witnesses as an old lady robbed a Pima County bank with a handgun.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office, a woman believed to be between the ages of 60 and 70 went into the Bank of the West in the 3,000 block of South Kinney…
A female inmate at an Arizona prison won’t be serving the remainder of her sentence behind bars. That’s because she’s dead — and it seems she did it to herself.Prison officials announced this afternoon that 28-year-old Geshell Fernandez was found dead in her cell just after noon today.Prison medical staff…
If you’re a pederast, you don’t have to watch To Catch a Predator to know that if you want to get caught being a pervert, your best bet is to try to pick up a kid for sex via the Internet.And yet people do it over and over (and over)…
Everybody loves a good cold-case file, and the Phoenix Police Department is happy to oblige whenever it can.Yesterday afternoon, Phoenix cops arrested a man in connection with the 2005 murder of 24-year-old Vester Freeman.Freeman’s body was found stabbed to death on May 3, 2005, in front of a business at…
A Mesa man was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he molested his 6-year-old step-granddaughter on several occasions at her Chandler home. In at least one case, police say he used pieces of pool equipment.According to court documents obtained by New Times, on July 20, the girl’s mother reported to police…
www.bestteeshirtsever.com Get over it, Canada. The Winnipeg Jets are now the Phoenix Coyotes, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. Furthermore, there is absolutely nothing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police can do to bring your team back — no matter how many times you get hopped up on crappy,…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth released his latest John-McCain-amnesty ad this morning, and he’s pulled out the big guns to bash “The Maverick.”Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, and, of course, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio each make a cameo in the ad.Check it out after the jump…
All eyes were on Arizona — again — yesterday as protesters for and against Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law flooded the streets outside of the federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix.As seven people were arrested outside, inside a federal judge heard arguments about why she should or shouldn’t grant an injunction…
Once you hit a certain age, it’s important to stay active. While many of those in the twilight of their lives often opt for things like BINGO, bird watching, and knitting, a Pima County woman has taken up a different hobby: armed bank robbery.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office,…
J.D. Hayworth’s criticism of John McCain over a TV ad featuring Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu seems to have backfired.Since calling on McCain to pull the ad because Babeu called in to a white-supremacist radio show — apparently without knowing it was a show for racists — Hayworth’s now taking…
Kerby Young Having pictures of your nude, female neighbor isn’t the strangest thing in the world — assuming she gave them to you. However, when you get the images by sneakin’ around outside her bathroom window with a camera — without her knowing — not only is it super-creepy, it’s…
Tempe officials released surveillance footage of Tuesday night’s dam burst, and if you were expecting some awesome, apocalyptic wave overtaking the dry riverbed, don’t get your hopes up — the video sucks.The quality of the video resembles that of the Paris Hilton sex tape, and the content is far less…
The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public’s help in tracking down the person who stabbed a man to death yesterday morning.Sergeant Steve Martos of the Phoenix PD tells New Times that, just before noon, cops responded to a call saying someone was hurt at 8822 North 1st Street in…
If you’re wanted on a felony warrant, hanging out at a county jail that’s swarming with cops seems like a great place to get yourself caught.That didn’t stop a Phoenix man, though, who paid a visit to a friend in the county clink. The visit resulted in a high-speed chase…
