The man who police say shot his ex-wife in a church parking lot on Tuesday was found dead in the desert from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.We hate to say it, but we kinda had a feeling this was how this story would end.The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office found the…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s panties are in a bunch over a t-shirt that’s being distributed by Arizona’s “Weed Party.” The t-shirt is pro-prop-203, shows a picture of a pot leaf, and pictures Arpaio suckin’ on a weed pipe.We have one in our office — it’s very hip.The sheriff took…
Remember the story about the 11-year-old girl who said someone tried to abduct her this morning? About that…We just spoke with Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal and it turns out the girl made the whole thing up.To avoid humiliating an 11-year-old girl, Carbajal wouldn’t say why the girl made up…
Police in Pinal County are looking for a man they believe shot and killed his ex-wife in the parking lot of a church last night.The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office got a call around 7 p.m. yesterday from a man at the Christ the Victor church in Florence saying shots had…
Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt is smack-dab in the middle of a game of musical quarterbacks — and he loses almost every time the music stops.Whisenhunt announced this morning that Derek Anderson will make the start at quarterback for the Cards when they head to Minnesota to take on the…
Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd got trampled in the District Three Congressional race by Congressman-elect Ben Quayle last night. But he wasn’t a dick about it, which is more than we can say about former TV pitchman — and one-time candidate for U.S. Senate — J.D. Hayworth.By about 9 p.m…
Mesa voters essentially gave the Chicago Cubs a blank check on Tuesday, approving a measure that gives the team a boat-load of cash to build a new spring training facility.Yesterday, voters approved Proposition 420 (we know what you’re probably thinking, but the medical weed proposition was Prop 203), which gives…
The Tempe Police Department is looking for a guy who tried to kidnap an 11-year-old girl this morning. He failed, and now police need your help finding him.Police say the girl was riding her bike to Fees Middle School near Baseline Road and Lakeshore Drive just before 7 a.m. today,…
A judge in Mojave County has scheduled a trial date for one of the three Arizona prison inmates who escaped from the Kingman Prison earlier this year.John McCluskey will go to trial in Arizona on February 15, for prison escape, kidnapping, armed robbery, and aggravated assault.McCluskey, one of his fellow…
As predicted, the U.S. Senate race between Senator John McCain and his Democratic opponent, Rodney Glassman, was a blowout.McCain clobbered Glassman by roughly 25 percent of the vote, which wasn’t even enough to make him the star of the show at the GOP election night party at the Hyatt in…
Despite only winning the GOP primary with about 20 percent of the Republican vote — meaning about 80 percent of the Republicans in his district didn’t vote for him — some of the loudest applause at the GOP election night party was for Congressman-elect Ben Quayle, who has unofficially defeated…
Tonight is election night, and chances are you want the inside scoop on the results before anyone else. Well, you’re in luck — New Times staffers will be camped out at election headquarters, as well as at various election night parties, to make sure our readers get the results — and…
Today is the day we find out if all the bickering between candidates running for public office — and the far-reaching attack ads they produce — have paid off. Today is election day, and we’re pumped.The 2010 general election in Arizona hasn’t been nearly as entertaining as the primary season…
Trying to steal a stop sign is a good way to find yourself in a world of somewhat-serious legal shit, but a Prescott man didn’t stop there. While trying to steal a stop sign, 19-year-old Christopher McCollom managed to hit the trifecta in terms of criminal stupidity.Ya see, not only…
Things just when from really (really) bad to even worse for the wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, who is currently in jail after being charged with molesting a boy when he was as young as 14-years-old.In addition to the original two counts of child molestation and two counts…
A Pinal County mom let her 14-year-old son use her car to go joyriding with a group of friends, and it didn’t go well — he crashed the car, and a fence pole impaled the him and one of his friends.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, Griselda R. Figueroa…
We just got word from the Maricopa County Superior Court that the long-awaited trial of the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson finally is scheduled.The trial of Elizabeth Johnson is set for May 9 and is expected to last three weeks.Johnson’s been charged with kidnapping, child abuse, and custodial interference in…
Attention, Andrei Cherny: we’re hip to you.As we’ve seen throughout the 2010 election season, family values matters to Arizona voters, and in a final push to drum up support for his campaign for state Treasurer, Democratic candidate Andrei Cherny ordered his wife to have a baby last night — just in…
An Arizona prison inmate convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter and one of his daughter’s friends is believed to have killed himself at the Eyman Prison last week.James Galloway, 54, was serving 18 life sentences for multiple acts of sexual abuse. He was found dead in his cell last Tuesday.Galloway…
A Phoenix man is behind bars after police say he murdered the 2-year-old son of his girlfriend by beating him — and biting him — repeatedly over the weekend.The kid was so badly beaten, police say, he had bruises covering 80 percent of his body.According to court documents obtained by…
A hiker found a dead body on Camelback Mountain on Sunday, which is where it remained until this morning — even though police were called to the scene yesterday afternoon.Phoenix Police Department spokesman Trent Crump tells New Times the body was left on the mountain overnight because it became too…
[jump] The marshals had been looking for Gray, who sports dental implants that make his teeth look like fangs, for several months before his arrest on Thursday.Gray’s criminal past includes a conviction of molesting a young girl. He had failed to register as a sex offender, which is the reason he was sought…
