Congratulations to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University, which has just been named the “most out-of-control” frat in the United States of America.Rolling Stone magazine gave SAE (ΣΑΕ) the honor for its two high-profile incidents last year — the death of a pledge, and an extremely intoxicated…
A 5-year-old Mesa boy will be Arizona’s 40th medical-marijuana patient under the age of 18.Zander Welton has cortical dysplasia, a brain abnormality, which causes him to have seizures, which several medications, two brain surgeries, and an implant haven’t solved, according to his parents…
Reporter John Dougherty made an appearance on Southern California Public Radio yesterday to answer questions about his report on the increasing evidence that the Granite Mountain Hotshots never should have been deployed.Although some people have decried Dougherty’s report for whatever reasons, Dougherty has a pretty good explanation for the necessity…
A naked meth-head in a Phoenix park told police he had a good reason he was walking around completely naked.Steve Charow, a 47-year-old Phoenix resident who just happens to be a registered sex offender (surprise!) tried to explain that a Good Samaritan he met in the park offered to wash…
If you trust Allstate’s data, then there’s no big city in the United States with safer drivers than Phoenix.The statistics don’t take into account someone driving like a complete jackass, but just relies on accident statistics, naturally…
More than a year ago, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced his team had developed “probable cause” to believe President Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery.Most people just laughed their rear-ends off and got on with their lives. Others, however, have spent a considerable amount of time proving that every allegation –…
Researchers at Arizona State University estimate that about 1-in-20 men in Phoenix solicits online sex ads.ASU researchers made similar estimates in other large U.S. cities, estimating that perhaps more than 20 percent of men in Houston call sex ads, whereas less than 1 percent do in San Francisco…
This might be hard to believe if you’re a Phoenix commuter, but a study says Phoenix has the safest drivers among all the big cities in the United States — for the ninth year in a row.Phoenix drivers, on average, go nearly a decade between collisions, according to a study…
Reporter John Dougherty will be on Southern California Public Radio this morning to talk about his report on the increasing evidence that the Granite Mountain Hotshots never should have been deployed.The men were deployed to the Yarnell Hill Fire in late June, and 19 of the crew’s 20 members were…
It seems kind of rude to ask a random parent whether their 4-year-old child is a boy or a girl.It’s certainly rude to ask that question, then call the parent a liar, and stuff your hand down the 4-year-old’s pants to check for yourself — which is exactly what police…
Yesterday, Janet Napolitano gave her farewell speech as the Secretary of Homeland Security, as she moves on to run the University of California system.It’s kind of hard to see the reward (for the rest of us) for her abandoning Arizona in the first place…
In the name of science, we now know what kind of porn people from Arizona are into.The website PornHub released the top-three search terms used on the website, as well as the average duration of a visit to the website, all broken down by state…
Stand With Arizona, one of the largest anti-“amnesty” organizations in existence, gives its followers three talking points to use today as Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake are in Mesa touting immigration reform.One: McCain and Flake abandoned border security. Two: The Senators should stand with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Three: Tell…
A pregnant 17-year-old and another woman were hit by a car moments after the driver stole that car, police say.The alleged driver, 25-year-old Guadalupe Castaneda, denied hitting anyone or anything with the car, police say. However, according to court documents obtained by New Times, Castaneda did admit to throwing back…
Seráh Blain is fighting homelessness with homelessness.Blain, the executive director of a local political-advocacy group, the Secular Coalition for Arizona, has been voluntarily living on the streets of Phoenix for more than a week now…
The weekend before classes started at Arizona State University, a task force focused on alcohol-related crimes in Tempe arrested 371 people in just three days.In the first weekend after classes started, the same task force went out and nabbed 486 people in a three-day stretch, which seems to mean that…
An 18-year-old from Apache Junction who’s been missing since last week was found dead in southern Oregon yesterday.The Douglas County, Oregon Sheriff’s Office says Johnathan Croom’s death appears to be a suicide…
For some reason(s), Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk believes that the autopsy reports of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, which are public records, should not be released.The Associated Press, one of the media organizations that requested the documents, reports that Polk’s response claimed the privacy interests of the Hotshots’ families override…
Phoenix, and Arizona in general, may always seem to be on the crappier side of rankings (see: high suicide rates, low levels of freedom) but we’ve found a good one — according to one analysis, Phoenix is one of the top 10 big cities in the country for small business.Well,…
Police believe a 25-year-old Tempe resident fatally shot his 3-month-old son before committing suicide.Rajneesh Saini was at a family gathering at a home in Chandler when he went out to his vehicle and committed the murder/suicide, police believe…
It turns out that there were actually two topless protests in the Valley this weekend.Last year marked the first time a Phoenix “Go Topless Day” protest was organized to demonstrate against gender inequality, and the organizer of that event decided to move it to Tempe this year. At the same…
Following John Dougherty’s report on the growing evidence that the Granite Mountain Hotshots never should have been deployed to the fire that killed almost the entire crew, some interesting responses to the story showed up in New Times’ mailbag.A former Prescott mayor, a former hotshot, and others sent us their…
