UPDATE: An ADC spokesman tells New Times that Castro’s a corrections officer.An Arizona Department of Corrections worker is accused of ramming into an SUV with six passengers — five of them kids — on Interstate 10 last week, causing some of the children to be ejected from the vehicle.The reason…
The Arizona Cardinals will be keeping Ryan Lindley at quarterback on Sunday, a week after he threw zero touchdowns and four interceptions in his NFL debut.Cardinals writer Darren Urban says quarterback Kevin Kolb — who led the team to a 4-1 record before sustaining a rib/chest injury during week six…
A Mesa man spent his Thanksgiving managing to steal about $10,000 worth of stuff from a Fry’s grocery store.If you’re wondering how it was even possible for 48-year-old Robert Lheureux to allegedly grab $10,000 worth of loot from a grocery store, that’s because this particular store had a lot of…
Now that outgoing Republican Senator Jon Kyl doesn’t have to rely on votes from the anti-immigrant crowd, he and Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison have introduced a bill that’s kind of, sort of, similar to — but definitely isn’t — the DREAM Act.Whereas versions of the DREAM Act have…
Attention Charles Sheen, Tomás Cruz, Bartholomew Simpson, and other people with near-celebrity names: it’s time to run for public office.One example of why that may be a good idea is Bill Maher. No, not Bill Maher, but Bill Maher — the Green Party’s state House candidate in Legislative District 16,…
Above is a picture of Governor Jan Brewer in front of a Christmas tree inside the Capitol…
As you may know, or should know, Arizona State University beat the University of Arizona on Friday to win back college football’s oldest trophy, by a score of 41-34.Since you probably either saw the game, or heard about it, we’ll give you some of the finer points you may have…
A 14-year-old child is dead, and two other children were injured after being ejected from a vehicle that was rear-ended on Interstate 10 on Friday by a driver hopped up on anti-anxiety pills, police say.John Morken was driving the car that slammed into the SUV that had six occupants, and…
Seven state prison inmates in Florence are in intensive care, probably because they tried to get wasted this weekend.Of course, the prison doesn’t bring in bottles of pinot grigio for the inmates, so Pinal County officials are thinking it was the homemade “pruno” that did the inmates in, and landed…
David Goodrich told police in Tempe that he “accidentally” stepped on his roommate’s dog.The dog was “obviously dead” after this, Goodrich, 25, told the cops, but the fact that Goodrich was still wiping blood off the floor when his roommate got home — among other factors — has police thinking…
Rookie quarterback Ryan Lindley’s clearly not the Arizona Cardinals’ quarterback messiah, as evidenced by the 31-17 loss to the St. Louis Rams in Glendale yesterday, and Lindley’s four interceptions along the way.Lindley threw just two touchdown passes yesterday, and both of them were to Rams cornerback Janoris Jenkins, who ran…
Black Friday’s a great American pastime in which citizens storm retailers — most notably Walmart — fight with each other over low-quality and low-cost goods, and proceed to make YouTube videos of their fellow citizens fighting over the aforementioned goods.Between the local scene and the rest of the country, it…
Forget about the settlement approved by the county this week that sends $3.25 million to the family of a woman who died in one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails, the Sheriff is more concerned with bitching about the extra nickel it’s going to cost to feed the inmates tomorrow.The latest…
Rookie quarterback Ryan Lindley will be the Arizona Cardinals’ starting quarterback this weekend against the St. Louis Rams, according to the team’s official Twitter account.Although New Times readers preferred “whatever regular schmo from the Phoenix area can win an open tryout” to Lindley as their choice at quarterback by a…
The photo above was not taken outside the Maricopa County Elections Department at 5:53 p.m. yesterday, when County Recorder Helen Purcell announced that the last votes in the county — and indeed, the state — have been tabulated.See also:-Joe Arpaio Still Won, Arizona Vote Count Over…
After officially making President Obama upset over the finger-pointing related to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it turns out that Senator John McCain may not have been correct.McCain’s been blaming the White House for U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s initial comments that the September 11 attack on…
Danny Jackson, the 16-year-old Chaparral High School student accused of two sexual assaults in Scottsdale, pleaded not guilty this morning to the charges against him.Jackson was arrested nearly two weeks ago, thanks to an alleged DNA match, but his arrest came about a week after another man turned himself over…
Yesterday, the Department of State revised its travel advisory for U.S. citizens planning on traveling to Mexico, and while reminding the public that “millions” of Americans safely visit Mexico every year, the agency also reminds everyone that some scary stuff happens in Mexico.Of course, the safety level varies by state…
The Department of State revised its travel advisory for U.S. citizens planning on traveling to Mexico, and reminds the public that “millions” of Americans safely visit Mexico every year.With that fact out of the way, the State Department notes the transnational criminal organizations, drug-related violence, homicides, gun battles, kidnappings, carjackings,…
The photo above is of an MCSO deputy pulling the covers off 10 guys, who are in (a truck) bed together.These photos are included in a press release from the Sheriff’s Office, noting that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys are on a hot streak catching “illegal aliens” — 53 in the…
Republican state Senate President-elect Andy Biggs announced today who’s going to be heading up the Senate’s committees, and all we could think about was the strippers.As you may recall from a few months back, the lobbyists at the Center for Arizona Policy wanted anyone running for a seat in the…
Federal law-enforcement officers busted what was undoubtedly going to be a great fiesta, as officials say 425 pounds of marijuana was found hidden in a shipment full of “assorted piñatas.”U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a dog sniffed out something in 24-year-old Tucson resident Juan Marcelo Armstrong’s truck Friday afternoon…
