Planned Parenthood announced today that it’s filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of two abortion bills signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer earlier this year that make it more difficult for Arizona women to end a pregnancy.Aside from forcing abortion doctors to offer patients the opportunity to look at…
A Cave Creek man who stabbed a woman to death before setting her house on fire has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, Maricopa County Superior Court officials announced this afternoon.Justin Wade Lunsford pleaded guilty in to second-degree murder and arson of an occupied structure in the death of 29-year-old Mary Elisabeth…
Arizona Department of Corrections officials confirm to New Times that kid-killing child molester Richard Bible has been executed.Bible, DOC spokesman Barrett Marson says, was pronounced dead at 11:11 a.m.Bible was on Death Row for more than 20 years before his execution was carried out this morning.”The delay of over 20…
Starting July 1, if you use tobacco and live in Arizona, don’t even think about applying for a job at insurance giant Humana — it doesn’t want you.The company announced yesterday that it will begin testing potential employees at its five Arizona work locations for nicotine (yes…nicotine)…
Tick-tock…Kid-killing child molester Richard Bible is set to be put to death in just hours for the 1988 murder of a 9-year-old girl.Richard Bible is set to die at 11 a.m. after losing all of his appeals. He’s been on Death Row for more than 20 years.Bible was convicted in…
Maricopa County’s corrupt top cop felt the need yesterday to announce to the world that he’ll be trotting out his female chain gang to clean up garbage in the name of DUI awareness. Alerting the media to a played-out practice of archaic punishment — which he’s been using for nearly…
Christie Elliot, a now-former English teacher and cheerleading coach at Empire High School in Tucson, pleaded guilty last month to assault of sexual nature on a minor of 15 years or less after it was revealed that she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.Today, she was sentenced to three…
If you’re buying into Ashton Kutcher’s media blitz about underage sex trafficking, and think 100,000 to 300,000 children in America become prostitutes every year, you’ve been Punk’d.Kutcher’s stats are way off — which he’d know if he did a little research before taking up a cause and blindly throwing around…
The eyes of the baseball world will soon be on the Valley when the MLB All-Star Game comes to town next month — which, of course, means it’s time for America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” to smile for the cameras and entertain the out-of-towners with some fruitcake, wild west sheriffin’.Yee-ha!Sheriff Joe…
The Mesa Police Department has identified the two victims in this morning’s shootings, one of whom was a pre-med student at Arizona State University.They are 18-year-old Tyler Webster and Olek Wladyszewski, 19.Webster’s Facebook page lists him as a pre-med student majoring in bio-chemistry at ASU. Wladyszewski was a member of the…
Two men are dead after getting shot while sitting in a car in Mesa early this morning, and Mesa police tell New Times that the suspect in the shooting is still on the loose.About 1:15 this morning, Mesa police got a call from a man who said he and the guy…
Kid-killing child molester Richard Lynn Bible is running out of time. He’s set to be put to death tomorrow for murdering a 9-year-old girl, and today the United States Supreme Court denied him a stay of execution.See the court’s ruling here.Bible was convicted in the 1988 murder of 9-year-old Jennifer…
he horse herpes that has plagued Arizona equine for more than a month has been contained, according to the Arizona Department of Agriculture.In mid-May, the ADA announced that an Arizona horse tested positive for the Equine Herpes Virus…
U.S. District Judge Larry Burns ordered an emergency hearing yesterday to determine whether Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner should continue to be involuntarily medicated.Prosecutors filed a motion yesterday arguing that Loughner should be given anti-psychotic medication because he’s been diagnosed as schizophrenic and is a danger to others.His behavior while…
Soliciting a prostitute, as you probably know, is illegal. When the prostitute is only 15 years old, it becomes extra illegal — and when police watch a 15-year-old prostitute’s head “pop up” from your lap as you sit with the girl in your parked car, you’re in some serious trouble.That’s…
The man pictured above is responsible for three bank robberies over the past month, and cops need the public’s help tracking him down…
An Avondale woman was arrested yesterday after she claims her husband — with whom she’s had several documented domestic violence issues in the past — told her “shoot me bitch,” which she did, killing the man.Aimee Stensgaard, 27, admittedly killed her husband during a fight after the two came home…
Disgraced former Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia Von Borstel, and his father, were in Pima County Superior Court yesterday where they pleaded guilty to corruption charges stemming from a scam targeting Nogales businesses.Initially facing multiple charges of bribery, theft, fraud, and money laundering, Von Borstel pleaded guilty to one count of…
If you’re a washed up, ex-celebrity, and you spend even a second with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, expect the media to be there, too. Just ask Steven Seagal.The latest has-been to get some air time compliments of the sheriff: the “Motor City Madman” himself, Ted Nugent.Nugent’s been rolled out…
State Senator Scott Bundgaard’s attorney was in Phoenix Municipal Court yesterday where he pleaded not guilty on Bundgaard’s behalf to charges stemming from a February fracas with then gal-pal Aubry Ballard on the side of a Valley freeway.Bundgaard’s been charged with one count each of reckless assault and endangerment for…
The United States Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the matching funds provision of Arizona’s Clean Elections law is unconstitutional.The matching funds portion of the law was designed to give the little guy a fighting chance in state and local elections when faced against a candidate capable of raising a lot…
The victim of a hit and run yesterday afternoon remains in “extremely critical condition,” and the cab driver who allegedly ran him over faces assault charges, Phoenix police now say.Phoenix police confirm that they believe that when 41-year-old cab driver Joseph Goldmeer ran over the 45-year-old victim, he did so…
