The word “suck” is apparently too offensive for Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman to utter — at least in the middle of a city council meeting.At last night’s meeting of the Tempe City Council, Hallman presented two Phoenix New Times “Best of Phoenix” awards to the city-owned Ken McDonald Golf Course…
The judge overseeing the case of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner ordered yesterday that his trial is to take place by September 20.So far, Loughner’s been charged with two counts of attempted murder, and one count of attempted assassination for the January 8, shooting rampage outside of a Tucson Safeway…
The jurors deciding the fate of convicted murderer Jonathan Burns have hit a snag.The Maricopa County Superior Court announced this afternoon that the jury was having “issues” in agreeing on a sentence for Burns, who was convicted in December for the 2007 murder of Jackie Hartman, and could be sentenced…
What do a little girl, a workout bench, nylon restraints, and a tan Labrador Retriever have in common? They were all featured in images of kiddy porn found on the computer of a Mesa pervert yesterday.Police arrested 60-year-old Frank Morgan Foster, an old pro in the world of pervs, after…
If you live in Arizona and get pissed off every time you look at your bank statement, you may want to consider re-locating — a recent study finds that Arizona has the emptiest bank accounts of any state in the entire country.According to the study, conducted by Pitney Bowes Business…
Arizona State University, in collaboration with the daughter of world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, wants to know what Valley youths would say to space aliens “when” they contact earthlings.As part of the university’s Origins Project, ASU is holding a contest for Maricopa County grade school students called the “Dear Aliens…
During the 2010 Senate primary against former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth, Senator John McCain insisted he wasn’t “the Maverick” — willing to cross party lines for crucial votes — he once was. According to a study by the National Journal, he wasn’t kidding.The study finds that McCain, once considered a…
Authorities from the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma say a Marine who’s been missing for nearly two weeks has returned to the base and turned himself in. The Yuma base says Sergeant Jonathan Kyle Ferguson returned to the base about 10:30 p.m. yesterday, after calling his family.Ferguson has been missing…
A Phoenix man upset with the quality of the work being done by a man he hired to fix his roof let the roofer know about it…with a bullet to the back.According to court records obtained by New Times, about 1:30 p.m. yesterday, police were called to a home near…
A Phoenix man has two problems: his neighbor, and throwing like a girl.According to court records obtained by New Times, 51-year-old Bruce Mueller had a dispute with his neighbor at an apartment complex at 1625 East Glendale Avenue in Phoenix. He responded by trying to set burn the neighbor’s house…
An employee at a Phoenix Safeway was arrested yesterday for allegedly setting fire to the store last week, causing more than $100,000 in damages.Eli Rabago, 18, was arrested yesterday for starting last Wednesday’s blaze at the Safeway near 32nd Street and Thunderbird Road.Rabago has reportedly worked at the store since…
The City of Avondale announced this morning that it will be naming a street after a man who is worshiped in trailer parks from Phoenix to Daytona: Dale Earnhardt.City officials announced this morning that the north entrance to the new Avondale City Center will be called “Dale Earnhardt Drive” in…
A bill that could potentially make Arizona the first state in the entire country to have an official “state gun” is one step closer to becoming law (that sound you just heard is the collective chuckle of the rest of the country).As we noted yesterday, more than 40 Arizona state…
Announcing that you’re considering running for U.S. Senate after telling a story about fatsos and their love of cream cheese is an interesting campaign tactic — and it’s one Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods pulled out this morning on live TV.Woods, a.k.a. the best “Twitterer” in Phoenix, said this…
Attention Valley residents: Stop driving around shitfaced with your kids in the car.For the second time this morning, we’ve been hit with a story about a person driving drunk with a child in the car. The latest: 34-year-old Carla Flanagan.Flanagan was arrested Saturday after drunkenly crashing her car near 45th…
The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office announced this morning that multiple law enforcement agencies are responsible for the arrests of 102 people and the recovery of more than 3,200 pounds of weed in the Vekol Valley during a four-day operation aimed at cleaning up the drug-plagued smuggling corridor.The operation, which was…
A story about a Mesa man getting a DUI Monday night probably wouldn’t be news worthy… unless at the time he had three kids in the trunk of his car, which he did.Robert Soto, 23, was stopped by police Monday night after a police helicopter responding to a road rage…
The U.S. Marshals Service released today another mugshot of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner. In it, as you can see below, he looks far-less maniacal than he does in the now-infamous photo taken by the Pima County sheriff’s deputies shortly after the shooting.Loughner’s attorneys had fought to keep the unreleased…
Police found two dead bodies in Phoenix over the weekend, and today announced the deaths have been ruled a murder/suicide.About 2 a.m. Saturday, Phoenix police responded to a shooting near 26th Street and Clarendon Avenue in Phoenix.Witnesses told the officers they’d heard people arguing and then gunshots…
We haven’t heard much from former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth since Senator John McCain mopped the floor with him in the 2010 GOP Senate primary, but there’s a Senate seat opening up in Arizona — so “free government money’s” number one fan has crawled out of the woodwork to bash…
A Pima County jury decided this morning that Shawna Forde, the kid-killing minutewoman responsible for the deaths of a 9-year-old Arivaca girl and her father in May of 2009, will pay for the murders with her life.Earlier this month, Forde was convicted of murdering 29-year-old Raul Flores, and his 9-year-old…
A mentally ill Scottsdale man police say is responsible for a deadly car wreck that left an 11-year-old girl dead, and several others injured, was ranting and raving about Jesus and Satan following the crash. Then, during his initial appearance in front of a judge, he shifted the blame to…
