New Times has come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass — and we’re all out of bubblegum.New Times writers and designers have been nominated sixfold for this year’s Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s AltWeekly Awards.This comes a month after raking in 30 journalism awards, including first places for investigative reporting,…
Update: Catalina Clouser’s Baby Was Also in the Car During Boyfriend’s DUI, Before Getting Dumped in Phoenix Intersection Catalina Clouser put her 2-month-old baby in a car seat after smoking some weed with her boyfriend at a Phoenix park Friday night. The minor detail she missed was that the 19-year-old…
Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards — in jail after Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter died Thursday night — had no prior contact with Child Protective Services before their arrests last week.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain-dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on Wednesday night, after what Edwards told…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce — who’s actually trying to get elected again — with some baby.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett officially has become that kid no one wanted to play with because he just made up the rules to games as he went along.Bennett, as you may recall, decided to play ball with the “birther” crowd, taking the “extra step” to verify President Barack Obama’s…
Ashley Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter died last night, just one day after Buckman and her boyfriend, James Edwards, were arrested for horrific alleged abuses of the girl.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on Wednesday night, after what Edwards told police was five or…
UPDATE: 4-year-old Toryn Buckman has died.A 4-year-old girl is brain dead at Phoenix Children’s Hospital after an alleged series of abuses at the hands of her mother and her boyfriend.Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards, both 22 years old, were arrested yesterday after police were called to their apartment,…
Yesterday, we told you about Scottsdale gun-law author Alan Korwin, who claims to believe the word “birther” is a derogatory term “equivalent of the ‘N’ word.”This claim somehow made it onto the websites of both the East Valley Tribune and Arizona Republic.”‘Birther,’ used by the media with impunity, is a…
Ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce actually is trying to get elected again, this time in Senate District 25, where he’ll have to contend with fellow GOP hopeful Bob Worsley.We’re obviously looking at a picture of Pearce with a baby — taken from an invitation to join him for an “ice cream…
If you know the guy who decided to turn flashlights into IEDs that blow up when people try to turn them on, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering $10,000 for you to give him up.Three of these devices have been found in the last three weeks,…
The search of the landfill where police believe they may find the the body of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley will end, but police don’t yet know when.Glendale police spokeswoman Tracy Breeden tells New Times that news outlets saying the search is ending in June are “drawing the wrong conclusions.”There’s no…
Disgraced Democratic-turned-Independent ex-state Representative Daniel Patterson isn’t making an official end to his political career.Patterson took to Twitter to say he’s not running again for his former seat, based in Tucson, but ends with “2014?”That might be a tough one, since Patterson resigned a bit after an ethics committee report…
State Representative Ben Arredondo pleaded not guilty (as expected) yesterday to charges of bribery, fraud, attempted extortion and making false statements.A motion to keep evidence in the case secret — which revealed “other investigations,” which are “both closed and ongoing” — was denied.It’s likely that the protective order on the…
According to a Scottsdale gun-law author, the word “birther” is a derogatory term “equivalent of the ‘N’ word.” Perhaps it’s not surprising to hear something a bit nuts coming from the author of After You Shoot: Your Gun’s Hot. The Perp’s Not. Now What?, but Alan Korwin actually got this…
Yesterday, we brought you the letter from Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk, explaining to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery why no charges will be filed against Tempe Mayor-elect Mark Mitchell.Aside from the “absence of a reasonable belief of probable conviction,” Polk also notes Mitchell’s age at the time and the…
Arizona Senate Minority Leader David Schapira tried to address bullying in the state’s school districts this year. Schapira — an instructor at Arizona State University, a former high school teacher in the Paradise Valley School District, a member of Tempe Union High School District governing board, and a ranking member…
The Kingman Police Department wrapped up a three-month investigation into heroin trafficking last week, leading to the arrests of five people — two of them children of a state legislator.Michael Randolph Goodale, 27, and Stephanie Lynn Goodale, 31 — both of whom call Republican state Representative Doris Goodale “mom” –…
John Rocker, a former steroid-using homophobic relief pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and other teams, still exists — which is just about enough John Rocker news for one day.Unfortunately, he gave an interview to conspiracy theorists about his book and his love for Governor Jan Brewer, so we really couldn’t…
Ogden’s Own Distillery, based in Utah, has been making some big news lately after one of its products — Five Wives Vodka — was banned from being sold in Idaho by the state’s liquor division.In a letter to the company’s distributor in Idaho, the liquor board wrote that its members…
We got a copy of the letter from Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk, explaining to Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery why no charges will be filed against Tempe Mayor-elect Mark Mitchell.Aside from the “absence of a reasonable belief of probable conviction,” Polk also notes Mitchell’s age at the time and…
Here’s an odd advertisement from the Barack Obama campaign — why can’t Mitt Romney just be like Arizona’s own Senator John McCain?The video, as you can see above, shows McCain during the 2008 campaign trail, not hitting the meatballs served to him about Obama being the scariest man on the…
Geraldo Rivera reminded us yesterday that he’s still alive, after telling conspiracy-theorist Lord Christopher Monckton that he and the rest of the “birthers” are “all smoking crack together.”Monckton, not surprisingly, was just in Surprise on Monday to talk to the “Surprise Tea Party Patriots,” with donations going to Maricopa County…
