As New Times reported on January 29, there were rumors floating around that Ben Quayle, the son of former Vice-President Dan Quayle, was planning on running for Congress. Those rumors, we find out today, were true. Ben Quayle didn’t make the announcement himself, though. His pops let the cat out…
If you’re planning on cruisin’ around town with about 200 pounds of weed in the backseat of your car, there are a few things you should do, in case you get stopped by the police: Get a valid driver’s license, make sure the car you’re driving doesn’t have cracks in the windshield,…
The president of the Conservative group Americans for Tax Reform gave Senator John McCain a ringing endorsement this week in his primary bid to fend off his GOP opponent, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth.Grover Norquist says McCain is best suited to not raise taxes and that he “consistently votes against tax increases…
State Senator Jim Waring holds a double-digit lead over any of his potential GOP opponents for the District 3 Congressional seat now held by John Shadegg, a poll released this morning finds.Conducted by the right-leaning Summit Consulting Group, Inc, the polls finds that Waring would get 50 percent of the Republican…
“Wish they all could be California girls?” Make sure they’re old enough to vote, first.A Phoenix man, who worked as a church camp counselor, has been arrested for sexually exploiting an 11-year-old California girl.Garrett Allan Baker, 21, was sending the girl sexually charged text-messages, police say.Apparently Baker met the girl two summers…
For many people, there is nothing more painful than a complicated, drawn-out divorce, and one Arizona legislator hopes to extend that pain and misery by a few more months.State Representative Nancy Barto has sponsored legislation that would make the wait-time for a divorce to finalize longer than it already is.Currently,…
“Hump smarter, save the snail darter,” is one of six, um, catchy slogans that will appear on condoms to be distributed by the Tucson-based endangered species advocacy group, Center for Biological Diversity, on Valentine’s Day.No, “don’t be a whore, save a condor,” is not one of the slogans, although we…
After getting chewed up and spit out as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, “The Great One” could be getting a little love from the Vancouver Olympic Committee. Wayne Gretzky, the Coyotes former coach, is under consideration to be the final torchbearer at the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver.Gretzky, canned by the Coyotes…
Country Music star Jimmy Wayne’s sycophants (yeah, we said it again) are all butt-hurt over a story we posted on Monday, where we pointed out some of the hypocrisy in Wayne’s homeless march from Nashville to Phoenix.While hawking Wayne’s worthy cause, we said was he wasn’t entirely living up to the expectations he…
“Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase’s arrogant claims throughout the 1980s and 90s that he could buy his way into professional wrestling immortality may have come true. It was announced the other day that the bad-guy wrestler will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the…
Welfare recipients may want to hurry up and buy that Bentley they’ve been saving up for because — if state Representative Frank Antenori has his way — there soon will be restrictions on how much money people receiving government assistance can spend on cars and other items.Antenori introduced HB 2770, which would prohibit welfare recipients…
The Phoenix Coyotes, a team that has struggled to put butts in the seats and was nearly relocated to Canada last year, got some encouraging news from Nielsen Media Research: More people are watching games on television.What a difference a winning season makes…
Federal agents, acting on a tip, searched a semi-trailer delivering squash at a Rio Rico warehouse Tuesday night, and guess what they found? A whole lotta weed. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement got a tip that the trailer looked out of place at the warehouse. After agents established surveillance of…
A Yavapai County woman was arrested Monday after police say she used a stolen credit card to pay — among other things — two court fines.On Sunday, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office got a call from a woman who said she’d had her purse stolen from her unlocked car the…
Robert Halliday, Governor Jan Brewer’s appointee to become the next director of the Department of Public Safety, came under fire at his confirmation hearing today over an incident at a golf course, where the probable director claims he “acted unprofessionally.”During the hearing, senators raised questions about e-mails several of them…
Scottsdale resident Beau MacMillan, star of Worst Cook in America, may want to change the name of his show to Worst Traffic Enforcement in America and set it in Maricopa County after his arrest in Scottsdale on Sunday night.MacMillan was pulled over after he failed to come to a complete stop…
Fans of country music star Jimmy Wayne — from California to Connecticut — are furious over a Valley Fever post that mildly criticized Wayne’s charity walk for the homeless from Nashville to Phoenix. We would like to take the opportunity to, um, apologize.Check out the post that caused all the commotion here.As was noted,…
A South Carolina senator, arguably the biggest tea-bag in the conservative “Tea Party” movement, says he will remain neutral in the Arizona Senate race, where John McCain is squaring off with conservative darling J.D. Hayworth.Senator Jim Demint told Fox News’ Gregg Jarrett this morning that he is not taking a…
The parents of a 14-year-old Phoenix girl have been arrested after the girl escaped from a bathroom-turned-dungeon, where she was kept for nearly two months.The girl was kept in the dungeon as punishment for stealing food, according to Phoenix’s Fox affiliate, KSAZ.The details of the girl’s captivity are pretty gruesome,…
The Arizona Legislature’s resident redneck, Senator Russell Pearce, is under fire for an offensive e-mail he sent to his legislative colleagues last week, and the director of the Anti-Defamation League thinks the senator should be more sensitive.The e-mail in question tells the story of an illegal immigrant in California awarded millions of…
A pizza delivery man was attacked for his pies early Saturday morning, but the suspected thieves didn’t make as clean a getaway as they had hoped — the idiots left a Hansel-and-Gretel-like trail of pizza and chicken wing sauce right to their front door.About 4 a.m. Saturday, two men lured the…
Police in San Antonio, Texas, today began searching a landfill, where they think the remains of missing Gabriel Johnson, the Tempe boy missing since December, may be. A couple of weeks ago, police cordoned off a 45-foot section of the landfill. They believe garbage will be found in the section that…
