Instead of waiting for the understaffed Child Protective Services to get around to looking into the ignored cases of abuse in Scottsdale, the police department announced that it’s going to help out.Of the 6,554 ignored reports to the CPS hotline, 143 occurred in Scottsdale, and the police department’s making a…
If you’re the type of person who still has faith in humanity, you probably haven’t seen the list of 27,438 custom license plates that have been rejected in Arizona.This list includes people who wanted to drive around every day with their license plates reading “BBYDCK,” “HOTNUTZ,” “VAGKING,” or one of…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has scheduled “community outreach meetings,” as ordered by a federal judge in the Melendres v. Arpaio civil rights case.According to the judge’s order, “The MCSO shall clarify for the public at these meetings that it does not enforce immigration laws except to the extent that…
Just because Arizona’s major sports teams haven’t made postseason runs this year doesn’t mean their weren’t some amazing moments.Between the Diamondbacks, Suns, Coyotes, Cardinals, and ASU, we have the top 10 moments in Arizona sports this year:…
While the National Security Agency has become the subject of public controversy this year, state Senator Kelli Ward, a Republican, plans on proposing legislation to keep the agency out of Arizona.The Tenth Amendment Center announced today that Ward plans on introducing model legislation “to stop her state from supporting the…
An 18-year-old shot two people at a Christmas party in Tempe yesterday, killing one, after getting kicked out of the party twice, police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Daniel Taylor was asked to leave the party because he wasn’t invited, but returned wearing a clown mask, and…
There are just four states where guns are so popular that they have an official state gun — and you bet Arizona’s one of them.From gun laws, crimes, statistics, accidents, and trends, there’s been a lot of gun-related news around Arizona this year. We bring you our top 10 gun…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown of goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, a Valley attorney gets some jail time for a deadly DUI crash, a former Scottsdale CPA gets a lengthy prison sentence, Jodi Arias gets her news on Twitter, and more:…
Arizona State University fell well short of its bid to appear in the team’s first appearance in the Rose Bowl game since 1997.Stanford beat ASU 38-14, in a classic case of déjà vu…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered.Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
Arizona State University is playing for the Pac-12 championship trophy tomorrow, in a rematch with a Stanford team that just about blew up the Sun Devils earlier this year.In anticipation of tomorrow’s game, we have 10 (almost-serious) ways ASU can beat Stanford this time around:…
Congressman Raul Grijalva, a Democrat from southern Arizona, got 27 other congressional Democrats to sign on to a letter urging President Obama suspend deportations.Grijalva and the other Dems want the Obama Administration’s deferred-action program expanded, from just some young people brought to the country when they were younger, to all…
All season, New Times has been documenting the tailgate parties outside Sun Devil Stadium before the football games at Arizona State University.In advance of this weekend’s Pac-12 Championship Game in Tempe, we bring you the 30 best ASU tailgating photos of the year:…
Drunk driving is bad.With that out of the way, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest.This week, we find the happiest group of…
Following up with Wednesday’s news that a $559,000 penalty was assessed against the Arizona State Forestry Division for “serious” safety violations in the Yarnell Hill Fire, the agency in charge of assessing that fine says it’s one of the biggest ever.A couple of points about that fine: The forestry division…
Arizona State University and the city of Phoenix showed off the design of a proposed 260,000-square-foot home for the ASU law school.The $129 million center, which still needs final approval from the Arizona Board of Regents, is scheduled to open in 2016…
An Arizona State University student was running a “significant Ecstasy manufacturing operation” out of his Tempe apartment, police say.According to an Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman, the discovery stemmed from the student — whose name hasn’t been released at this point — getting pulled over by Highway Patrol for…
More than a half-million dollars in fines against the Arizona State Forestry Division for safety violations during the deadly Yarnell Hill Fire were approved yesterday by a state commission.Included in the information the Arizona Division of Occupational Safety and Health compiled during its investigation were dozens of photos of the…
State investigators have proposed a $559,000 penalty against the Arizona State Forestry Division for “serious” safety violations in the Yarnell Hill Fire.Most of those proposed penalties are a result of the deaths of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots, who died in the fire on June 30…
Here’s a guy who’s not ashamed to let everyone know how he feels about penises.This truck with the “NOCIRCM” license plate was spotted this morning in Phoenix, along the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway…
The Arizona Technology Council, a trade organization that you might expect to push for laws related to things like job training and tax credits, announced that it’s adding lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality issues to its lobbying agenda.Consider that just five years ago, a clear majority of Arizona voters…
