Tempe police announced over the weekend that an arrest was made in last week’s hit-and-run that left a Mesa bicyclist dead. Cody Ryan Davis, 22, was arrested Saturday night at his home in Mesa after police say he was the man behind the wheel of the car that hit and killed 32-year-old Jason…
Jim Deakin nearly crying in a Glenn Beck sort of way and John McCain quoting Bob Dole, there weren’t too many standout moments in The Maverick’s debates with J.D. Hayworth on Saturday. Check them out in their entirety after the jump…
Get out the tin-foil, Rachel Alexander needs a new hat.Alexander, the former leader of the Andrew Thomas cheer squad, seems to think there’s a conspiracy among Rocky Mountain pollsters who “doctored” the numbers in a recent poll to give John McCain a huge lead over his GOP Senate primary opponent…
John McCain’s latest I’m-tough-on-border-security campaign ad was released today, and it features several Arizona sheriffs standing in solidarity to show their support for “The Maverick.”Absent from the bunch: America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff,” Joe Arpaio.A tough-on-immigration ad just doesn’t seem like a tough-on-immigration ad without Arpaio’s jowly mug hoggin’ the camera,…
The story about the Glendale man who apparently dug a tunnel leading to a secret, underground room in his backyard just got even creepier.The guy, 45-year-old William Willis, apparently is a cross-dresser with a porn addiction, too.So, of course, we cued up the infamous Buffalo Bill dance scene from Silence of…
Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, and congressional candidate in Arizona’s third district, announced last night that his campaign has exceeded its fund-raising goals this quarter.It may come as no shock to anyone, the dude’s got a shit-load of money…
A New Mexico man seems to have thought to himself “hmm, how can I make my meth lab even more dangerous than it already is.” That might be why police say he packed it into a stolen pickup truck and took his meth-making show on the road. Police in Kingman stopped a Ford…
Since our story yesterday about country music star Jimmy Wayne using the name of a candidate for Arizona Corporation Commission as a stage name while he sabotaged during karaoke night at a Show Low bar, that candidate contacted us to say he’s cool with the country star stealing his identity…
Attorney General Terry Goddard, the one-time front-runner in the Arizona governor’s race, got some bad news yesterday: Governor Jan Brewer’s poll numbers are lookin’ pretty awesome. A poll released yesterday shows that Brewer holds a 20-point lead over Goddard in a head-to-head showdown for governor…
Are the Hells Angels still scary?Sure, there’s the occasional murder or bar fight — and once in a while you’ll find a few slangin’ meth to hillbillies — but it seems the Sonny Barger/ Altamont days of busting up bars and running amok wherever they see fit have come to an…
Five months ago, you could’ve sneaked up and hit us up-side the face with a two-by-four and we wouldn’t have been half as shocked as if you’d said Jan Brewer was leading the polls for governor.That was five months ago — meantime, Jan signed SB 1070, and needless to say, things changed.According…
There’s a new clue in the death of Kyleigh Sousa, the ASU student killed during a robbery-gone-wrong this past May, and the Tempe Police Department needs the public’s help to answer a few questions the clues have raised.Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal tells New Times a driver’s license that was taken…
Frequent New Times readers may remember Jimmy Wayne, the country music star currently walking from Nashville to Phoenix to raise awareness for homeless kids.You may also remember that back in February we managed to piss off a few (probably all) of his fans by saying their hero had wimped out…
The trial for James Arthur Ray, the Oprah-approved “self-help” guru who organized a deadly sweat-lodge retreat in Sedona last year, won’t begin on August 31, as originally scheduled.Court docs released yesterday show Ray’s trial has been vacated and that no new date has yet been set.The reason for the delay is…
Well, the sun came up yesterday, which seems to mean one thing lately here in Sand Land: somebody robbed a bank — or at least tried to. For those in the news biz, you’ve probably noticed lately that about once a day a cop from some Valley city wants your help in finding someone…
The day has finally arrived, Arizona: The state’s much-loathed photo-radar speed-enforcement program comes to an end tonight. At 11:59 p.m. today, the plug will be pulled on all the state’s speed-cams, and anyone caught speeding past one will no longer have to fear a process server dropping off a nasty-gram…
The trend this week among Arizona politicos locked in primary campaigns they have no chance of winning is that, once the reality sets in that their chances at victory are slim-to-none, they suspend their campaign. In the last seven days, both Owen “Buz” Mills and state Treasurer Dean Martin have bailed on…
Tempe police today released video footage of the biker who was hit and killed by a car over the weekend. It’s pretty graphic.The worst part is the driver of the car just took off after hitting the victim, and now police want your help in tracking down the person behind…
There’s speculation that the 3-year-old boy who was found dead in his family’s car yesterday was left in the car by his mother, which goes against her claim that she took her eye off of him for a few minutes and he wandered into the car on his own.Today, the…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth may want to get out the forks because if you believe the latest poll numbers, the dude’s done.Poll numbers released today by Phoenix-based Behavior Research Center show that McCain now has a 45-point lead over the former conservative radio host turned “free government money” pitchman…
The Mesa doctor accused of sexually assaulting and abusing several of his patients was in a Maricopa County Superior Court today where he pleaded not guilty to all charges.Gabriel Ogbonnaya’s charged with 14 counts of sexual abuse and sexual assault stemming from incidents dating back to 2007…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office seems to have a little egg on its face after one of its deputies crashed a police cruiser into a guy’s yard for — as far as we can tell — no reason other than he was driving recklessly. The officer and a passenger — in the car for…
