Spike Lee, film director and prolific NBA pest, was in Flagstaff last week, where he spoke to students at Northern Arizona University about education and race. Lee, who is responsible for “joints” like Get on the Bus, Do the Right Thing, and Bamboozled, told students that Latino and African-American students…
If it were up to John McCain, professional baseball players like Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez, and Jose Canseco, should have an asterisk next to their names in baseball record books because they admitted to, or were busted for, taking steroids.The comments came when McCain appeared on Sports 600 (KTAR) this morning.The…
State and county budget cuts have forced the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office to suspend the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program for students in the county’s elementary schools.The D.A.R.E. program started nationally in 1983, and the CCSO has participated in the it for more than 20 years.For anyone unfamiliar with D.A.R.E.,…
It turns out New Times isn’t the only media outlet on Joe Arpaio’s radar.Arpaio turned to his Twitter page and his propaganda ministers last week to bash CBS 5 for its coverage of the Sheriff’s Office, and the MCSO may have a point on this one.After its unflattering coverage of the…
A 25-year-old Tempe man got trounced by 47-year-old former NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker on Saturday night in a mixed-martial-arts fight in Sunrise, Florida (a shot from the fight is at left).We’re not huge fans of these sort of fights — there’s just something a little unsettling…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office today announced charges against the Mesa mom who left her 2-year-old son locked in a closet while she went to work.Corrina Davis, 21, faces two counts of felony child abuse after her son was found in the closet by a county constable, who entered her apartment to evict…
It seems that new Valley bandits keep emerging whom the FBI sees fit to dub with some dopey name.The latest group of bandits the federal fuzz needs help tracking down has one of the dopiest names to date: the “Average at Best Bandits.”This is even worse than last week’s “Deja vu Bandit.”The name, apparently, stems…
What we feared has finally happened: Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner today announced his retirement from football.There’s some good news and some bad news following Warner’s press conference to announce his departure. The bad (obviously) is that the Cardinals must say goodbye to a great quarterback, a future Hall-of-Famer. The good…
Two Valley residents, as well as a Florida man, have been named in a 28-count federal indictment for smuggling hundreds of thousands of pounds of seafood into the country illegally.Considering the possible penalty of 20 years in prison, they may have been better off smuggling cocaine.The indictment, which was handed down…
Get your “p-o-t-a-t-o-e” ready. Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, is rumored to be considering a run for Congress.Quayle, a Scottsdale-based attorney, is believed to have hired a campaign manager to lay the groundwork for a run at the congressional seat currently held by John Shadegg. As far as…
The Arizona House Judiciary Committee gave the green light yesterday to a bill that would allow Arizona residents to build and sell their own homemade guns and bullets without having to comply with federal law, paving the way for some highly entertaining experiments in some hillbilly’s shed. The bill, HB 2307, was introduced…
For the first time since 1994 — when he was recovering from the Keating Five scandal — John McCain’s approval rating has hit 40 percent. A poll conducted by the Behavior Research Center determined the figure, but while McCain’s numbers may be down, Arizona’s senior U.S. senator is far from out. Republicans, for…
The Mesa mom who police say locked her 2-year-old son in a closet when she went to work also happens to advertise herself as an escort.When she was arrested on Monday, we were under the impression that she was 21-year-old Corrina Davis. However, on the backpage.com Web site, Davis goes by…
Governor Jan Brewer announced today her nominee to fill a spot on the Arizona Board of Regents.Mark Killian, former speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, got the nod from Brewer and would replace Robert Bulla, whose term expires this year.”Mark is a well-known and highly regarded public leader who…
In the early days of what’s gearing up to be a tough primary battle for U.S. Senator John McCain — where he will need to appeal to some of Arizona’s most staunch, anti-gay marriage conservatives — he may want to tell his daughter to put a sock in it.Meghan McCain gave…
A New York “shim” is suing former Arizona Cardinals cornerback Eric Green for “forcible sodomy” and — in a separate suit — the city of New York after police officers allegedly made fun of her after a trespassing arrest.Transgendered Angelina Mavilia claims she met Green — who now plays for…
As you may recall, Arizona State University’s (ahem) prestigious “party school” image has been tarnished in recent years, as President Michael Crow continues his ruthless campaign against fun in his quest to create “The New American University.”As a result of Crow’s vicious blitzkrieg on students’ social lives, the Sun Devils…
The Chicago Cubs agreed to a deal yesterday that would keep their spring-training facilities in Mesa, but Florida Governor Charlie Crist is still clinging to the idea of bring the lovable losers to Naples. The deal, which includes Mesa building the Cubs an $84 million stadium, was accepted by the…
While the public seems to view Elizabeth Johnson, mother of missing 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson, as a couple of horns short of being the devil, Sherriff Joe Arpaio says she’s been a little angel while in his custody. Johnson has been in the Estrella Jail since early this month. She has pleaded not…
A Mexican national will be calling America home for a little while longer after being sentenced in a Phoenix federal court to some lengthy prison time for smuggling cocaine into Arizona.David Efrain Flores-Castro, 33, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison today for his role in a 2008 smuggling…
Arizona legislators played hooky from their legislative responsibilities at a troubling rate this year, and Representative Jerry Weiers is pissed. In response, he has proposed legislation that would dock legislators a day’s pay if they have an unexcused absence during a floor vote.However, we can think of a few legislators…
For those who want to be a responsible citizens and watch the President’s State of the Union speech — but who may get too bored to sit through the whole thing — there’s a solution: turn tonight’s remarks intgo a drinking game.The idea came to two Princeton University students, Marc Melzer and…
