As the Tempe Police Department got verification earlier this month that the five burned bodies found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley were identified as James and Yafit Butwin and their three children, another group of five people was still apparently missing.Pinal County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tim Gaffney tells…
Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards pleaded not guilty this morning to charges related to the death of Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter, who died after horrific alleged abuse.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on May 30, after what Edwards told police was…
Congressman David Schweikert, not to be outdone by his primary opponent, Congressman Ben Quayle, introduced his own bill to block the implementation of the Obama administration’s new immigration policy.This move by Schweikert may seem familiar, since Quayle did just about the same thing yesterday too.The bills don’t appear to have…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as knotanes, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, with his cake from Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz.We picked…
It appears Congressman Ben Quayle does not find the Obama administration’s new immigration policy “something that’s intriguing,” as he did with the plan of Senator Marco Rubio.So much so, it seems, that Quayle just introduced the “Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act of 2012” to block its implementation.The Obama administration’s policy, announced…
Senator John McCain is not pleased about boxing judges scoring a decision for Timothy Bradley over Manny Pacquiao in the welterweight title match earlier this month.That said, now might finally be the time his legislation to regulate boxing — which he’s tried over and over again — sees some success.McCain…
Despite what you may have heard — and how Joe Arpaio-ish it sounds — Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies did not arrest a 6-year-old on Friday.MCSO spokesman Chris Hegstrom tells New Times deputies arrested 16 people during a human-smuggling operation, but the 6-year-old found in the van wasn’t one of them.”We’re…
Last month, Congressman Ben Quayle was talking about an idea for immigration policy that was being floated around, calling it “something that’s intriguing, that we should be looking at.”Quayle was on 12News explaining the idea of a “blue card,” a way for people who were brought to the United States…
Folks at Tempe City Hall weren’t the only ones to meet with representatives of the apparently fake company believed to be set up by the FBI in its bust of state Representative/former Tempe Councilman Ben Arredondo.According to lobbyist filings with the Secretary of State’s office, Mike Williams met with four…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, with his cake from Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve narrowed it…
Former Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano’s giving the tell-all (maybe the tell-most) story of his life in a book released this month, and the man’s got some stories to tell.Giuliano faced some tough times in his decade-long stint as mayor — from being openly gay to the unsuccessful recall election against…
Starting today, feeding birds in Scottsdale’s public parks can land you in jail.Like, an actual misdemeanor that would lead to a really awkward conversation in a job interview.The city recently passed the ordinance, which goes into effect today, makes it a class-two misdemeanor if you get caught being a total…
Governor Jan Brewer called for a press conference this morning shortly after news broke of the Obama administration’s plan to stop deporting young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country when they were kids.Brewer apparently forgot that she’d actually have to articulate a response to the policy change, because…
Archaeologists have discovered Maricopa County Joe Arpaio’s birthday was yesterday, and in typical Arpaio fashion, he shouted it from the rooftops.For Arpaio’s birthday, Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz brought the sheriff a cake. The purpose, according to one of Parraz’s e-mail blasts, was to put 80 candles on…
Yesterday, we informed you that it took eight law enforcement agencies to track down a guy who stole a first-edition book of Mormon.Jay Linford’s been pegged by Mesa police as the guy who lifted the 182-year-old Book of Mormon from the Rare and Out of Print Books and Art store,…
At least Republican Jesse Kelly’s being honest about why he’s not going to try for a third shot at running for Congress — he wasn’t very close this time.Democrat Ron Barber beat Kelly by about 6.5 percentage points this week, in the special election to finish out the term of…
There were no blind people around to ruin Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s birthday this year, so he sent the boys in beige to round up some brown folks, then went to race go-karts.Illegal-immigrant roundup/”employer sanctions operation” number 61 took place this mornings at a car parts store in Phoenix…
Talking Points Memo uncovered some details yesterday about the FBI allegedly using lobbyist Mike Williams as the middle-man between Tempe City Council members and a fake corporation in its bust of former city councilman and current state Representative Ben Arredondo.The question people may have is, “Who the f**k is Mike…
Have you ever been so upset about a quiz in Cosmo magazine that you just wanted someone to stab you?We’re not sure what the answer to that is, but police say that’s what Noelle Clough’s husband did on Sunday.Sure enough, Clough, 22, complied with her husband’s request and stabbed him,…
The theft of a first-edition Book of Mormon, we have discovered, is some serious shit.At least, it was to the eight law enforcement agencies investigating the matter.Jay Linford’s been pegged by Mesa police as the guy who lifted the 182-year-old Book of Mormon from the Rare and Out of Print…
Not long after the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office decided Marty Atencio — the Army vet who died in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Fourth Avenue Jail in December — died from “law enforcement subdual” and other causes, MCSO has another dead inmate.The Feathered Bastard has the information on Raymond Farinas, whose…
As has happened numerous times before, we wrote about another ridiculous aspect of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation earlier in the day, and it’s gotten more ridiculous just hours later.We told you just before noon about Arpaio submitting an affidavit to a Florida court to support an attorney’s…
