Cheerleaders at Gilbert High School planned to wear breast cancer awareness T-shirts that featured the slogan “Feel For Lumps, Save Your Bumps” to home football games in October.The cheerleaders planned to wear the shirts while collecting money for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization — a foundation setup…
Jason Alistair Lowery, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer who was busted in a marijuana smuggling sting last week — and then led authorities on a high-speed chase through the desert while throwing bundles of weed out of his ICE-owned vehicle — is to be held without bail,…
No matter what a stripper tells you when you’re shaking a handful of dollar bills at her, chances are she doesn’t want you to force oral sex on her. We’d venture further and assume a stripper really doesn’t want you to force oral sex on her while she has her…
A cat had 22-year-old Freyando Bizardie so “depressed” Sunday afternoon that he tried to choke it to death. He also tried to stab it with a pen before he bit two of his sisters.According to court documents obtained by New Times, police were dispatched to Bizardie’s Phoenix home Sunday afternoon…
Wanna see a video of a Scottsdale chick brawl and a guy getting Tasered by police? Of course you do — who doesn’t?Our friend Pete over at Scottsdale Arizona News sent us a link to a brawl that apparently went down in a Scottsdale parking garage.The video is pretty brutal…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Vic, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of shamed former Maricopa County…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced yesterday that he’s considering running for a currently non-existent Congressional seat.As you can see in the comment section of our story on the matter (which you can see by clicking here), Babeu’s potential candidacy hasn’t been well received by New Times readers. As we…
When a baby’s teeth are coming in, parents will often rub a little rum on the baby’s gums to dull the pain. A Phoenix mom is suspected of opting for a different remedy — police suspect she gave her 2-year-old baby methadone to treat a toothache.Phoenix police haven’t revealed the…
The Glendale Police Department tells New Times its investigation into the disappearance of 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley is its “number one priority.” But that’s not enough for the girl’s mother, Jerice Hunter, who continues to publicly bash the police, claiming they’re not doing enough to find her daughter.Hunter and other members…
A former Maricopa County constable was arrested over the weekend after police say he conspired to burn his house down so he could collect an insurance payout.According to the Tempe Police Department, former Kyrene Justice Court Constable Jonathan Harold Irwin Levenson, who is Jewish, planned to make the blaze look…
Blake Obadiah Adams, the Phoenix man who fatally shot his girlfriend’s cousin on Valentine’s day after celebrating the day of romance by smoking PCP, was sentenced to prison time today after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge William Brotherton sentenced Adams to 16 years in prison for…
After months of speculation that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu planned on seeking higher office, he announced this morning that he’s considering running for Congress.”I believe the real deficit in Washington is one of leadership,” Babeu says in a statement issued this morning. “Almost three years after the 800 billion…
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Mike Wallace is friggin’ fast — as the Arizona Cardinals learned the hard way in yesterdays 32-20 loss to “Big Ben” Roethlisberger’s boys at University of Phoenix Stadium.The Cards are now 1-5 after getting stomped by the Steelers for their fifth straight loss, and are now…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of shamed former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and one of his henchwomen, Rachel Alexander (who’s apparently dressed as former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin) for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption…
A man in Colorado died earlier this year after police zapped him with a Taser after he claimed to be a lion, tackled a guard at the Denver Zoo, and then bit a police officer. If you ask Scottsdale-based Taser, or the Denver coroner, though, the July 18 zapping wasn’t…
If there was a pervert hall of shame, “Uncle Jerry” Morrow would certainly be a first ballot inductee — he admitted to being a pedophile, and police suspect he’s molested nearly 20 kids dating as far back as 1976.Morrow was arrested last night at his home at 4807 South 339th…
Former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Detention Officer Kevin Gerster is heading back to jail — only this time as an inmate.Gerster initially was charged with five counts of aggravated assault for beating up inmates on at least two separate occasions (see the video below), and two counts of computer tampering for allegedly…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirms to New Times that shamed former Captain Joel Fox has been given the boot following a long-running internal investigation that already has resulted in the resignations of two other top deputies.Former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott and Deputy Chief Larry Black — with whom Fox…
In honor of the Arizona Bar disciplinary hearings that could potentially conclude with disbarments of disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon and the law-license suspension of ex-county lawyer Rachel Alexander, we’ve opted to go with a picture of the Alexander and Thomas for this week’s You Write…
The disappearance of 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley is now officially a race issue following some comments made by her grandmother, Shirley Johnson, yesterday.Johnson’s upset by the lack of coverage Shockley’s disappearance has received in the national media — all while the disappearance of a missing Kansas City girl, Lisa Irwin, is…
It’s day six of the “Occupy Phoenix” demonstration in Cesar Chavez Plaza, and there are now officially more protest signs than there are actual protesters.We dropped by this afternoon to see how the occupation was going — we weren’t shocked to find the crowd dwindled from about 1,000 when the occupation…
