Ladies and gentlemen, the world will go on. Meghan McCain has promised to keep her Twitter account up and tweeting. …

As always, we would never encourage anyone to drive drunk under any circumstance — especially in this county — but if you do and your drunk route home doesn’t run through Mesa, maybe it should. Mesa Police Sergeant Fabian Cota says budget cuts and processing time in the Mesa Police Department…

Above is a new photo sent to New Times by the Arizona Department of Health Services of the violent sex offender who escaped from the state hospital on Saturday and is currently still on the loose. Jorge Murillo is considered dangerous, and anyone with information as to his whereabouts is…

Did you hear the one about the violent sex offender who escaped from a state hospital by scaling two 16-foot razor-wire fences without anyone even noticing? If you haven’t, it’s probably because it’s no joke; it really happened Saturday night in Phoenix, and the suspect is still on the loose.Health Department…

Governor Jan Brewer told state agencies last month to submit budget plans that would incorporate a 15 percent cut in current funding.Brewer says the cuts are not necessarily going to happen but wants to use the plans to determine the impact they would have on each agency, if and when the…

The Mormon Church has an interesting voice in a new television ad being aired in Arizona and Utah — a seven-foot tall transvestite hooker.Well, he’s not an actual transvestite hooker (as far as we know) but he played one on TV. …

More than a week after a sweat lodge “spiritual warrior” self-help retreat took the lives of two people, the sweat tent has claimed another victim. A Minnesota woman, 49-year-old Liz Neuman, died Saturday after more than a week in a coma. Authorities say Neuman suffered multiple organ damage before dying…

Whether spoken in Spanish or English, the answer to Andy Thomas’ request to have the ruling in his Spanish DUI Court lawsuit reviewed is the same: NO!On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused Thomas’ request to have the suit against the Maricopa County Superior Court reheard with a…

Scottsdale police arrested a Phoenix man Wednesday after they found more than 1,000 pairs of stolen sunglasses in a storage locker  rented in his name.Gojko Pivac, 33, stole the shades from the Scottsdale warehouse of sunglass designer and distributor Marcolin USA over the course of several months, the cops say.These weren’t…

Senator John McCain isn’t pulling punches in his effort to have former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson pardoned for a 1913 conviction.The Galveston Giant, as Johnson was called, died in 1946, so trying to get a guy who’s been dead for more than 60 years pardoned seems like a marvelous use of…

Sheriff Joe Arpaio took to Fox News this morning to discuss his first so-called crime-suppression sweep since a change in his agreement with the feds regarding his authority to question and arrest illegal immigrants. After a fairly standard Arpaio rant about his unconditional authority, the sheriff told John Skinner he thinks the Obama Administration ought…

The Arizona Coalition for a State and National Healthcare Plan held a “die-in” this afternoon in front of the United Healthcare offices in Phoenix.The group is protesting the “needless deaths of 123 uninsured and under-insured Americans each day” and brought an army of supporters to the corner of 24th Street…

The two deaths that occurred at a sweat lodge retreat near Sedona last week are now officially being investigated as homicides.Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh confirmed to reporters today that the deaths were not an accident and the leader of the group, “spiritual warrior” James Arthur Ray, is the prime…

Anyone looking for a last-minute Halloween costume? Well, if you don’t mind dressing as a rabid-looking, sadistic clown from hell, the folks at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have got the mask for you.As part of its “McCruelty” campaign, PETA is distributing “Evil Ronald” masks for Halloween, which…

Meghan McCain posted a picture of herself (above) on Twitter last night that is certain to get your average Republican male to go from six to midnight pretty quickly, if ya know what we mean?Normally we’d list the daughter of our “maverick” senator at about a seven –maybe an eight…

[jump] Flake was describing his “Cast Away”-esque trip to the Marshall Islands, when he said something that some people (not us) found offensive. When asked about why he decided to go on this grueling trip, Flake had this to say: “I did it mostly for physical exertion. I love Teddy…

For anyone who has the idiotic urge to fire guns into the air for no apparent reason, don’t do it in Glendale — or at least get the hell out of there after you do. The city of Glendale is monitored 24/7 by a device called “ShotSpotter,” an acoustic monitoring system…

Phoenix police released a sketch today of the man they believe beat and robbed a 90-year-old woman in her Phoenix home over the weekend.On October 10, police say a man broke into the woman’s South 12th Street home by going through an unlocked kitchen window. The man grabbed the woman…