Tyson Langley, the 15-year-old accused of gunning down two people at a Peoria smoke shop last week, is being held on $2 million bond after he was arrested in Los Angeles over the weekend and extradited back to the Valley.Langley, court records obtained by New Times show, was arrested on…
Republican state Representative Judy Burges has a new title: state Senator Judy Burges.Burges was chosen this morning by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to fill the state Senate seat made vacant when former Senator Scott Bundgaard.Bundgaard, as you know, called it quits just minutes before he was scheduled to…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced this morning that it will seek the death penalty for two people accused of murdering 10-year-old Ame Deal last summer by locking her in a tiny footlocker and leaving her there overnight. Sammantha Allen — Ame’s cousin — and her husband, John Allen, have…
Last week, we asked readers to come up with their own captions for the above photo of Congressional candidate “Marlboro Macho Man” Matt Salmon’s transformation from lobbyist to cowboy for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.The photo was taken a couple of weeks ago when Salmon headed…
More than a year after getting shot in the head during last year’s Tucson shooting rampage, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this morning announced via-the Youtube video embedded above that she will step down from Congress.See New Times’ coverage of the Tucson shooting — and Giffords’ miraculous recovery — here…
Anyone who’s been to the Dumpster…er, “Waste Management” Open golf tournament knows that one of the more irritating parts of the experience is figuring out what to do with your cell phone — more specifically, how to sneak it in.Starting this year, however, the tournament’s no cell-phone policy is no…
A U.S. Border Patrol agent and a corrections officer with the Arizona Department of Correction were arrested yesterday on charges that they helped a drug trafficking organization (DTO) smuggle drugs into the United States.Ivhan Herrera-Chiang, 29, a U.S. Border Patrol agent stationed in Yuma, and Michael Lopez-Garcia, 28, a corrections…
Remember when on Wednesday the Internet search engine Google protested Congress’ attempt to “censor the web” via-the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by participating in a purely symbolic “black out” with several other big-time websites?About that…We’ve come to find out that on the same day Google was (ahem) fighting for…
Former Congressman Matt Salmon wants to be a congressman again. He’s currently running in District 6 — and apparently is in the process of transforming from lobbyist to cowboy to appeal to the District’s far-right-wing electorate as he fights his way through a GOP primary with former Arizona House Speaker…
Former presidential candidate Rick Perry pulled the plug on his failed campaign yesterday, which is the second time in two presidential elections that a candidate with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s backing failed to make it out of a GOP primary.As Valley attorney Chad Snow commented on our post yesterday…
There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but 24-year-old Russell Hofstad only needed one — with a butcher’s knife…in a warehouse/concert venue…that he broke into. Similarly, there could be several reasons to skin a cat. Hofstad’s: he was hungry.According to court records obtained by New Times, police…
Fagala-phobic Arizona Congressman Trent Franks is obnoxiously conservative. Aside from thinking race/gender-based abortions are a legitimate problem in the United States (which it’s not), he thinks letting gay people tie the knot “literally is a threat to the nation’s survival” because it threatens the sanctity of traditional marriage.Cheating on your…
Get ready, Arizona: another John McCain-esque “build the danged fence” campaign ad is apparently on the horizon –this time, compliments of Congressional candidate Matt Salmon.GOP sources tell New Times Salmon headed down to the border last week to shoot an ad for his District 6 Congressional campaign. Apparently, he found…
If you happen to be running for president, do yourself a favor and avoid Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio like grim death — for the second time in two presidential elections, Arpaio’s horse in the race has crashed and burned.Just two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary, Texas Governor…
President Barack Obama will be in Arizona on January 25 as part of a five-state swing across states Democrats feel are in play for the president in this year’s election.During his three-day, post-State of the Union trip, Obama also will visit Michigan, Colorado, Iowa, and Nevada — all states Dems…
Detectives from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office are heading to Santa Clara, California this afternoon, where they plan to serve a search warrant at Google headquarters to try and determine who’s responsible for death threats made against Sheriff Joe Arpaio on a website that glorifies killing cops.It’s a pretty tasteless…
As you may know, the Internet is “on strike” today. Well, not the entire Internet — just Wikipedia. Several other big-name, high-traffic websites — including Google and Craigslist — have “blacked out” their websites today in protest of a bill currently making its way through Congress that they say would…
We’re not sure what’s more disturbing: the fact that Anjelica Jimenez allowed her boyfriend to use a 4-month-old as an ashtray, or the fact that the baby was placed in Jimenez’s care by Child Protective Services.Regardless, Jimenez, 25, was in a Maricopa County court this morning where she pleaded guilty…
Fred Knadler, the owner of Phoenix-based Arizona Shower Door, is looking at a pretty pricey divorce from his wife of 17 years. So, police say, he concocted a scheme to make her “go away.”Things didn’t quite work out as planned — a man he enlisted to help carry out the…
The Department of Justice’s investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s alleged racial-profiling practices officially has become a PR showdown — in response to the the DOJ’s response to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s response to the DOJ’s investigation, the MCSO has now issued (you guessed it) its response…kinda.The MCSO’s response: it…
State Senate Minority Leader David Schapira, a Democrat, announced yesterday that he’s running for Congress in Arizona’s newly formed District 9.Much to the minority leader’s chagrin, we’re sure, he’s not the only lefty with his eye on the seat — former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema also has announced that she…
Police in Mesa have a problem: a man was fatally stabbed and authorities have no idea who did it.About 11:30 p.m. Friday, police responded to a call about a car that crashed into a home on East McLellan Road.The person who called 9-1-1 told dispatchers that the driver of the…
