Well, it’s not every day we get an e-mail from someone defending the man accused of drugging his then-girlfriend and branding her vagina with his initials while she was passed out.A man from North Miami Beach, Florida, tells New Times that people do this kind of thing all the time…
There seems to be an especially high number of people who get caught having sex with animals in Arizona.
Last year, when Governor Jan Brewer announced that the DREAMers who qualified for deferred action would not be allowed to obtain Arizona driver’s licenses, the ACLU and other groups shot a hole right through it — Arizona’s been giving out licenses to everyone else the feds have granted deferred action…
People are very slow to catch on to Phoenix resident Paul Horner’s antics.Horner has used fake news articles to convince people of many things, including street-artist Banksy being arrested, Governor Jan Brewer putting gay-to-straight programs in Arizona schools, and Bill Murray going on a nationwide party-crashing tour. Now, Horner apparently…
There’s never been a summer in Phoenix hotter than this one.The average temperature of 95.1 degrees from July to August is the highest on record, according to the National Weather Service…
Chad Campbell, the state House Minority Leader, has decided that he’s not running for governor in 2014.Unless someone else with the ability to raise some money decides to get in the race, it looks like Fred DuVal is going to be the Democratic nominee in 2014…
A jury found former Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman guilty of aggravated assault, but the jurors couldn’t decide on two other charges, including second-degree murder.Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery says he has not ruled out a retrial on charges of murdering Phoenix resident Daniel Rodriguez in 2010, and killing his…
A 10-year-old Phoenix boy recently had what’s probably the crappiest day of his young life, after some creep exposed his penis to the boy, and proceeded to steal his bike.Police say 40-year-old Anthony Gerard Vigil is the alleged pervert/bike thief, who said he was too drunk to remember anything, according…
Yesterday, we brought you our picks for the 10 worst-named towns in Arizona.In many cases, the story behind the name is even worse than the name itself, like the town of Bagdad…
Former Phoenix homicide detective Armando Saldate might be the only reason Debra Milke was on death row for more than two decades for killing her son — a conviction that has since been overturned by a federal appeals court.Upon hearing that Saldate was planning to refuse testifying in Milke’s retrial,…
The Chandler man accused of branding his initials into his girlfriend’s vagina has been arrested again, this time for allegedly having sex with a dog.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says detectives served a warrant on 47-year-old Christopher Lynn Jackson’s house yesterday, and recovered videos that “clearly show” Jackson and two…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office certainly didn’t shut down the Arizona State University party scene in Tempe this weekend, but the alcohol task-force did come away with 405 arrests.That was the fourth weekend of Tempe PD’s “Safe and Sober” campaign, which notched 1,367 arrests over the three previous weekends…
Tea party activists are celebrating as one of their own successfully got a book banned from a southern Arizona school district.Debbie Stoner, a tea party organizer in the small community of Palominas, near Sierra Vista, alleged that her son, a sophomore at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, was told…
If your engine was ripped out of your car, would you be able to spot your engine if you ever saw it?For one Peoria man, the answer to that question is “yes,” and a chop-shop owner was busted after the victim recognized the engine from his stolen Ford Mustang had…
If you stopped watching the Arizona Diamondbacks and their mediocre season, we can’t blame you.But allow us to point something out — this morning, Paul Goldschmidt is hitting .301, and is first in the National League in home runs, RBI, slugging percentage, and OPS, and is third in the NL…
Arizona State University beat 20th-ranked Wisconsin in extraordinarily strange fashion on Saturday at Sun Devil Stadium.New Times was there to capture the festivities…
Arizona Highways magazine won’t be hitting the newsstands this month, after it wrongly identified a certain mushroom as being edible.Let’s just say that while most people wouldn’t consider the fly agaric mushroom to be edible, hippies at a Phish concert might…
Phoenix resident Hector Olalde does not like being called gay.He dislikes the accusation so much that police say Olalde, 28, pulled a gun on his girlfriend, and fired that gun all around his neighborhood after she called him gay, according to court documents obtained by New Times…
The Arizona Cardinals earned their first win of the season yesterday, in a 25-21 win at home over the Detroit Lions.Larry Fitzgerald hardly played, while Calvin Johnson had 116 receiving yards and two touchdowns against the Cardinals defense, Carson Palmer threw a pick-six, and the Cardinals still managed to win…
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, two now-deceased children get their justice, jurors continue deliberations in the murder trial of former Phoenix cop Richard Chrisman, and more:…
If we had to pick the two best (and by “best” we mean “worst,” of course) moments in the last five years of local TV news, we know exactly which two moments we’d go two.One would be the C-bomb Fox 10’s Kari Lake dropped on the air last week, and…
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:…
