There’s a new candidate for the Valley’s dumbest social media sensation: Glendale’s Keanu Yazzi.Yazzi got his ass handed to him in a street fight Saturday night, and video of the brawl (if you could even call it that) is currently trending on Youtube.It now seems Yazzi’s a bit embarrassed about…
As Oprah-approved “self-help” guru James Arthur Ray prepares for sentencing after getting convicted of negligent homicide for the deaths of three people at a sweat lodge ceremony, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are trying to capitalize on the publicity his case received — by comparing the victims of…
Darnell Dockett, the Arizona Cardinals oft out-tweeted defensive lineman, apparently was pulled over by police this morning. It seems they wanted to search his car. They must not have known that cops never search Darnell Dockett’s car without a warrant. Never.Dockett, well-known for landing himself in trouble in Twitter-town (lest…
A Phoenix man is charged with first-degree murder after police say he beat his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter to death over the weekend. In addition to blunt force trauma to the girl’s head and torso, police also noticed bite marks on the young girl, which were admittedly caused by her mother’s…
A 45-year-old man is in a Valley hospital in “extremely critical” condition after he was run over by a cab yesterday afternoon.After running the man over, the cab driver just took off — and there might be a reason: he was seen arguing with the man who was run over…
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this morning that the matching funds portion of Arizona’s “Clean Elections” system is unconstitutional, meaning candidates in next year’s election will not be given taxpayer money to match funds raised by their opponents.Under the matching funds system, publicly funded candidates are given lump sums for…
Disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas already has blown through $100,000 in taxpayer money he was granted to defend himself in his upcoming state Bar ethics hearing, and he’s getting more.On Friday, the county agreed to continue funding his defense after his attorney, Don Wilson, threatened to quit if…
Adam Hollingshead, 32, of Glendale, found a shirtless 15-year-old boy he saw as he was driving near Thunderbird Park last week to be “kinda cute,” an observation he felt he need to tell the boy — several times.Not much harm in that, right? However, Hollingshead also asked the boy “do…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas already has blown through the $100,000 in taxpayer money he was granted to defend himself in his upcoming state Bar ethics hearing, and now he’s getting even more of your moolah for his defense.The county has agreed to continue paying Thomas’ attorney, Don Wilson,…
Alleged Phoenix scammer Donald Lapre, who skipped his court date on Wednesday, was apprehended last night in Tempe.United States marshals busted Lapre in the area of Warner Road and Priest Drive in Tempe. Lapre, the owner of the company The Best Vitamin in the World, was indicted last week for…
Scottsdale-based Go Daddy, the largest registrar for domain names in the world, is reportedly about to be sold for $2.5 billion.The Wall Street Journal cites “people familiar with the matter” as saying the company is close to a deal with private equity firms KKR & Co., Silver Lake Partners, and…
Earlier this morning, we commented that a 95-year-old man charged with aggravated assault was too adorable for anyone to be mad at. Then we got our hands on his arrest report.Turns out, he has a history of domestic violence and his wife is currently in a shelter for battered women…
Johnson Lester’s wife recently moved out of the home the two shared in the 3000 block of East Desert Cove Drive in Phoenix. A Department of Public Safety officer who lives across the street from the 95-year-old man helped his wife move — which appears to be the only reason…
The cyber-pests at LulzSec, a computer-hacker organization that recently hacked its way into the websites Fox.com and PBS.org, announced yesterday that its latest victim is right here in Arizona: the state’s Department of Public Safety.See our story on the hacking here.The organization says it’s “releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins,…
If your husband has a history of perving on young girls, perhaps a daycare business at the home the two of you share isn’t the best idea.That said, it didn’t stop the wife of convicted sex criminal Carlos Parra, who’s, yet again, accused of sexually abusing children.According to court records…
The case of the missing leg has been solved.Mesa police say that the once-missing leg of a man who was killed during a hit-and-run accident early Sunday morning has been recovered — on top of a roof 160 feet away from the point of impact. “We believe this is the…
According to the United States Attorney’s Office, a Tucson man went to some extraordinary lengths to gain access to an Air Force base earlier this year. Once inside, he bought stuff from the base’s commissary in what a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman tells New Times was “part of a larger…
Alleged Phoenix scammer Donald Lapre, owner of the company The Best Vitamin in the World, was indicted last week for allegedly swindling thousands of people out of more than $50 million by having them buy his essentially “worthless” franchises.His arraignment was scheduled for yesterday, but Lapre never showed up, according…
Court officials tell New Times that a Tempe cop accused of stealing evidence from one of the department’s evidence rooms has pleaded not guilty to charges of theft and evidence tampering. In total, Officer Elliot Campbell’s charged with two counts of theft of a credit card, 10 counts of tampering…
[jump] Dear Mr. Arpaio, In reading your press release dated June 21, 2011, regarding the “exceptional times” MCSO is experiencing, I noticed that you neglected to mention numerous and significant details: To begin, you failed to mention the approximately 500 sex crime cases that your office failed to…
Arizona, as you probably know, esta en fuego.And John McCain (among others) is pretty sure — based on no known evidence — that illegal immigrants are to blame.Even Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever presumes the following to Fox News:”The bottom line is, there was nobody in the park [which is currently…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be more aggressive when it comes to questioning illegal immigrants about wildfires, echoing Senator John McCain’s baseless claim that immigrants started fires currently burning in southern Arizona.Arpaio made the announcement in a press release this afternoon. New Times, however, did not get a copy…
