A pilot crashed his plane at the Scottsdale Municipal Airport this morning, while he was getting a flight lesson from Scottsdale City Councilman Bob Littlefield.According to a spokeswoman for the airport, the single-engine plane ran off the runway around 9 a.m. today during a “touch-and-go” landing, which involves landing the…
UPDATE: Mohave County Sheriff’s Office investigatingSee also: New Times special report: Polygamy in Arizona See also: Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to Patrol Colorado City See also: Colorado City Sued by Justice DepartmentDepending on how many depressing things you’re exposed to on a daily basis, this could be the most depressing…
Cody Slaughter seems like a pretty honest guy, as he offered up some personal information about his personal history in a job interview last week.Slaughter may have been a little too honest during his interview with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as the cops say he admitted to the agency…
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The Arizona Diamondbacks salvaged the first half of the season over the weekend, winning three straight games against the Los Angeles Dodgers heading into the All-Star break.The D’Backs lost a Thursday game against the Dodgers, but were able to win the rest of the games of the four-games set, taking…
If the signatures check out, Arizona voters will vote on a ballot initiative in November that would change how primary elections operate.Instead of Republicans voting for a Republican and Democrats voting for a Democrat to appear on the general election ballot, the proposal offers for everybody to vote for anybody…
Sharon Holmes — the state GOP delegate accused of pulling a gun on a repo man before losing a police chase to the Kingman cops last week — offered the Kingman Daily Miner an extremely poor denial to the accusations.Holmes, 68, reportedly wrote in an email that she didn’t run…
There are many things Sheriff Joe Arpaio could fully explain to us here at New Times. Many of them can be found under our “Investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio” file.That said, Arpaio opted to defend himself from the assumption that he was a horrible basketball player in high school.Let’s just say…
See also: New Times special report: Polygamy in ArizonaSee also: Tom Horne Sending Cash to Mohave County Sheriff’s Office to Patrol Colorado CitySee also: Colorado City Sued by Justice Department; Child Rapist Warren Jeffs Still Running the JointMohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan and his deputies are now patrolling Colorado City,…
The former charter school bus driver who liked to be called “Mr. Bill” pleaded guilty this morning to charges related to luring a 9-year-old girl to his car and molesting her.”Mr. Bill,” known to the court system as Billy Bryant, pleaded guilty this morning to three counts child molestation and…
PCP makes rare appearances in the Valley crime blotters, but when it does turn up, there’s usually a story behind it.Take the most alleged case of Valley PCP craziness, in which the cops say John Brigham was found to have the drug in his system after being arrested for running…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probably the only person who could convince his faithful fans to watch him open Al Capone’s empty vault over and over again.That’s pretty much what Arpaio’s set to do in a couple of weeks, as the sheriff announced through his other PR team (WorldNetDaily) that he’s holding…
If you watch Fox News, you may have been led to believe that drugs known as “bath salts” are causing people in Arizona to get naked and steal cars, like in the case of John Brigham’s alleged carjacking/car-crashing spree last week.If you’re trusting the cops on this one, it was…
Buzzfeed posted a list earlier this week of “69 Politicians As They Were In High School,” including some vintage yearbook shots of Governor Jan Brewer, Senator John McCain, and former Governor Janet Napolitano.That prompted us to check out the Museum of Natural History 1950 yearbook from Commerce High School in…
People around the country reacted differently to last week’s Supreme Court decision to uphold the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.”Amber Leah Gardner sure had a unique reaction.Gardner’s apparent response was to go to a Mesa deli with a stone hammer, rant about Obama and shout…
Kenneth Robert Evans apparently would like his ex-wife to be in bed when he drops by her place for a visit.That seems to be the case because when his ex-wife’s not in bed, Evans, 38, has a tendency to light the bed on fire.Evans was arrested Monday for the latest…
Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash is now former Suns point guard Steve Nash, as he’s headed to Los Angeles to play for the Lakers.According to ESPN, it was Nash’s decision to join the team he’s been battling for years — the same team that denied the Suns a spot…
We weren’t sure how the meeting would turn out between Reverend Jarrett Maupin II — once considered the protégé to Al Sharpton — and state House Speaker Andy Tobin, who called a black Democrat “very ghetto” yesterday.Maupin had invited us to the meeting this morning at Tobin’s, while Tobin (politely)…
Dominic Chagolla will be spending the rest of his life in prison for murdering his mother in December 2010.A jury convicted Chagolla of first-degree murder in late April for stabbing Maria Chagolla to death, and Judge Sherry Stephens sentenced him this morning to natural life in prison.Maria Chagolla’s body was…
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Maria Rivera, the 21-year-old woman accused of shaking her 11-month-old daughter Stormi to near-death, had two prior run-ins with Child Protective Services involving allegations of abuse against the girl.Rivera claims she only shook Stormi because she fell unconscious after falling down some stairs, although Phoenix police detectives say hospital staff…
The thought that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — also known as “Obamacare” — is a “government takeover” of health care has been repeated over, and over, and over again since the spring of 2009.That thought earned the label of “Lie of the Year” by PolitiFact, a fact-checking…
