One of Arizona State University’s more prolific partyers says self-proclaimed tough-guy Sheriff Joe Arpaio won’t be putting the kibosh on ASU’s party scene this weekend.The Tempe Police Department is enlisting the help of Arpaio’s office for its “Safe and Sober” campaign, which already racked up nearly 1,400 arrests in three…
A Fox 10 anchor kind of dropped the C-bomb on air yesterday.Fox 10’s Kari Lake described in the segment how Tempe police shot a man on Mill Avenue yesterday, but only after that man lunged at officers with a box cutter. Lake accidentally inserted an “n” in the most inconvenient…
Arizonans kind of take cacti for granted, but the rest of the nation still seems to find them weird — weird enough that a 16-foot cactus landing on a man gets attention from “Ripley’s Believe It or Not!”William Mason, a worker with the city’s utilities department, was checking out a…
If a valid excuse exists for biting a 9-month-old kid, “he bit me first” certainly isn’t it.However, police say that’s the excuse 23-year-old Chandler resident Justin Hornketh gave his girlfriend after his girlfriend’s son was hospitalized with bruising, swelling to his face, and several adult bite marks on his body,…
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 are displaying a…
The group that was behind Arizona’s medical-marijuana law plans to push a marijuana-legalization initiative in Arizona in 2016.The national Marijuana Policy Project actually hopes that Arizona is one of 10 states where it can help pass marijuana-legalization laws, such as the one in Colorado, by 2017…
Two right-wing news websites, Breitbart and the Drudge Report, have riled up their followers with headlines about the Arizona GOP issuing a “formal rebuke” of Republican Senator John McCain.There’s one critical bit of information missing from the “news” there. When you read the story, you’ll see it’s actually the Republican…
Opponents to Arizona’s House Bill 2305, a Republican-supported omnibus elections law, turned more than enough signatures to block the bill from taking effect until voters can decide on it next year.The Protect Your Right to Vote Committee says it delivered approximately 146,000 signatures to the Secretary of State yesterday, and…
Prescott Wildland Division Chief Darrell Willis now claims the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots who died fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire “could have made it” if the feds sent air-tankers requested by state firefighting officials.Although firefighting officials made several requests for aircraft to fight the relatively small fire in Yarnell, the…
A Chandler man drugged his girlfriend and branded his initials into her vagina while she was passed out, police say.Christopher Lynn Jackson, the owner of a landscaping business called Lawn Tamers, “bragged” to his now-ex-girlfriend about doing the same thing to other girlfriends in the past, according to court documents…
While politicians like President Obama and Senator John McCain continue to call for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an Army veteran remains in jail for fighting against the same regime.Eric Harroun, a 30-year-old Phoenix native, faces life in prison for allegedly providing material support to…
Well, same-sex marriage probably won’t be legal in Arizona until 2016, at the earliest.A ballot initiative to put the issue on 2014 ballots stopped before it really got started, due to problems with funding…
A man from the Phoenix area was hit and pinned by a 30-ton boulder while he was trying to remove a different boulder from a dirt road near Flagstaff.The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office says the man, whose name hasn’t been released, was part of a crew that was going to…
We’ve been skeptical about a website that claims Arizona State University is among the top schools in the nation for female students seeking “sugar daddies” — old dudes who will pay for their things.After seeing a SeekingArrangement.com video of ASU students explaining what they want out of their “sugar daddies,”…
Now that the dust has settled from the “bloody diarrhea outbreak,” Federico’s Mexican Food will be offering free burritos on Monday.You can get your burrito at only one location — the one where Maricopa County health officials believe an E. coli outbreak sickened 74 people, who ended up with the…
A Phoenix meth addict locked himself inside a bathroom in the lobby of a Tempe hotel for nearly an hour in his quest to chase down two imaginary people, police say.Jason Meyers, 33, managed to crawl into the ceiling at one point, although court documents obtained by New Times don’t…
Did you know it’s against the law in Arizona to have sexual relations with a rodeo clown in an elevator on Tuesdays?No? That’s probably because that “dumb law,” like nearly every “dumb law” you’ve ever heard about Arizona, is complete horse shit. Check out 10 such laws that are attributed…
President Obama addressed the nation yesterday to explain why he’s pushing for some sort of military strike in Syria.While Arizona’s congressional delegation is split on striking Syria, the one local poll done on the issue showed that Arizonans really don’t want military action there…
The group that tried to gather signatures to get gay marriage on Arizona ballots in 2014 has called it quits.In recent weeks, it surfaced that major funding sources for Equal Marriage Arizona had pulled out. Now, it’s ending the campaign…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he’s going after the party scene at Arizona State University this weekend.Well, the old man himself won’t be out there scribbling minor-in-consumption tickets to the youngsters and telling them what life was like during the Civil War, but his staff warns of a “major…
A Glendale man is facing prison time thanks to being tagged in a photograph on Facebook.Augustine Escobar, 40, is a convicted felon, and is not allowed to have any firearms. According to court documents obtained by New Times, an officer cruising Escobar’s publicly viewable Facebook profile found a photo of…
Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox looks to be short a Corvette, after getting into a car accident this weekend.According to local activist Lydia Guzman, who posted the photos on Facebook, Wilcox was hit by a red-light-runner. Wilcox isn’t hurt, she says…
