In the interest of fairness, we can only follow up a list of Phoenix’s 10 hottest newsmen with a catalog of Phoenix’s hottest newswomen.Now, the following rankings have nothing to do with any supposed journalistic abilities, but rather only their abilities to visually captivate their audiences. Enjoy…
The activists from Citizens for a Better Arizona are all over Child Protective Services and the agency’s failure to investigate 6,000 claims of neglect and abuse.In addition to making frequent made-for-TV trips to the Department of Economic Security (the parent agency of CPS) and Governor Jan Brewer’s office, CBA’s also…
An employee of the Tilted Kilt restaurant in Downtown Phoenix was killed at work this morning.Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times the killing is apparently the result of a fight between two members of the kitchen staff…
The Arizona Republic published a TKO of its editorial board this weekend, after the writers declared that the state’s voter-approved medical-marijuana program was “one of the biggest cons around.”Dr. Gina Mecagni, a local emergency physician, simply annihilated the Republic’s assertion that most medical-pot patients probably are fakers…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown of goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, Cordell Jude convicted in alleged “self-defense” killing, a sexual encounter gone wrong lands a woman in prison, and more:…
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:…
Several activists and Democratic lawmakers are demanding that Arizona Department of Economic Security Director Clarence Carter resign amid the revelation that 6,000 allegations of child abuse weren’t investigated.Carter revealed Thursday that investigators for Child Protective Services (a division of the Department of Economic Security) that the allegations — many of…
In the Town of Florence, criminal investigations and public safety have taken a backseat to police department politics.This week, you can read part two of New Times reporters Monica Alonzo and Stephen Lemons’ three-part series, “Florence Exposed.”…
Despite the rain, around a dozen residents of the affluent North Phoenix neighborhood of Moon Valley showed up to protest the grand opening of a Goodwill store in their neighborhood.In addition to some residents believing that the store is not “compatible” with the neighborhood, the picketers are upset that the…
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, our alleged offenders show the ups…
Thousands of allegations of child abuse phoned into Child Protective Services were not investigated.Department of Economic Security Director Clarence Carter, whose department includes CPS, disclosed the fact Thursday morning…
As police knocked on his door with a search warrant, 20-year-old Christopher Cruz made a last-ditch attempt to get rid of a stash of weed at his Casa Grande home, according to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office.PCSO says Cruz tried to flush his pot — four pounds of it…
Some residents of Moon Valley, a well-to-do North Phoenix neighborhood, are not giving up their fight against a Goodwill retail store that’s opening there, in their neighborhood.With the store’s grand opening scheduled for tomorrow, some residents are actually planning to picket outside the store.UPDATE November 22: Click here for photos…
For Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 75th workplace raid, deputies knocked over the Mesa headquarters of a company that repairs damaged homes.The result: Three arrests…
Only two other states in the nation have a higher rate of children without health insurance than Arizona.Georgetown University’s Health Policy Institute purposely did the study before coverage expansions are rolled out under Obamacare, finding that more than 200,000, or 13.2 percent, of Arizona kids are uninsured…
A Glendale man who apparently threatened people with an assault rifle at a party last month was shot and killed by an armed partygoer.We checked back in on the case after discovering that gun enthusiasts have hailed the shooter, whom police have identified as 39-year-old James Rakes, as a hero…
The American Civil Liberties Union is standing up for the Scottsdale-based gossip website TheDirty.com, and its founder Nik Richie.The ACLU and other legal organizations are going to bat for Richie after he lost a defamation lawsuit over comments someone else made, which were posted on TheDirty.com. An ACLU staff attorney…
The City of Phoenix earned a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign’s measure of how inclusive city governments are of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.Phoenix is one of just 25 cities nationwide that earned a perfect score, of a few hundred surveyed, and one of just eight cities…
One of two men who pulled off a “beer run” at a Phoenix AM/PM convenience store repeatedly smacked the store clerk with a case of beer when he tried to intervene.Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch, the Silent Witness Coordinator, announced today that there’s a reward of up to $1,000 for…
The state incentives for Apple to open a manufacturing facility in Mesa could total more than $10 million.An Arizona Commerce Authority spokeswoman says there’s an agreement for a $10 million grant to Apple from the “Arizona Competes Fund,” plus possible grants and tax credits for the company that’s actually going…
It seems there’s no time like the present to learn a thing or two about what’s going on in the Town of Florence.While New Times writers Monica Alonzo and Stephen Lemons are working on a three-part series, “Florence Exposed,” we heard from a filmmaker who’s directing a documentary on life…
Former MCSO Commander Bob Rampy, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s onetime IT boss, was indicted by a grand jury on 14 felony charges, related to computer tampering.According to MCSO Lieutenant Brandon Jones, “The indictment alleged Rampy wrongfully released/accessed criminal history records, committed computer tampering on the Sheriff’s Office information system and committed…
