Interim Phoenix Police Chief Joe Yahner was appointed as the city’s permanent police chief. Yahner, who’s been with the department for nearly 30 years, was tapped as interim chief late last year after city management fired Daniel Garcia after just a few years on the job. Yahner won’t hang on…
If you believe the stereotypes about Arizona, then pigs are flying around the state Legislature. Republican and Democratic lawmakers are coming together to form a science and technology caucus to work with the scientific community in promoting research in the state. “We should do a lot of work with the…
The mother of a mentally ill woman who was fatally shot last year by a Phoenix police officer is seeking $7 million from the city. A notice of claim filed by attorneys for Frances Garrett contends that the officer who shot her daughter, 50-year-old Michelle Cusseaux, mishandled the situation leading…
Some Arizona lawmakers want to take a statewide inventory of untested sexual-assault kits collected by law enforcement agencies. In late 2012, an investigation by ABC 15 found that there were at least 3,000 such untested kits just in the Phoenix area, half of which were from the Phoenix Police Department…
Two members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club were shot while riding their motorcycles in Phoenix on Saturday night. One man died as a result of his injuries, while the other was hospitalized with serious injuries. The bikers apparently didn’t see who fired the shots, police say. “We don’t know…
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, we can watch more than 80 years of development take place in about five seconds. Maricopa County keeps aerial maps dating back to 1930, and we’ve combined some into time-lapse images to show you how the greater Phoenix area has changed over the…
A new tax break for some religious groups was passed yesterday by the Arizona House of Representatives. The bill, which is being pushed by the notorious Center for Arizona Policy, was vetoed by Governor Jan Brewer after it was passed by lawmakers last year…
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 found some fantastic –…
Advocates for LGBT immigrants are again trying to bring attention to a case of a transgender woman being mistreated in immigration detention. After an alleged rape of a transgender woman at an immigrant detention facility in Eloy last year, advocates are rallying behind another trans woman who’s claiming to have…
Two more people have been arrested in a 2014 ax murder Phoenix police say was carried out by members of the white-supremacist Aryan Brotherhood gang. Christopher Paul Mason, 31, was arrested for the crime in December, but court documents obtained by New Times indicate police have arrested two more people…
Arizona lawmakers are discovering that it costs a lot of money to be “tough on crime.” Just as Governor Doug Ducey was elected under a promise of getting the state in fiscal shape, he’s proposing new spending of more than $70 million a year for more space in private prisons…
A group of Republican Arizona lawmakers are proposing a law that would force police agencies to significantly delay the release the identity of officers involved in deadly shootings. Senate Bill 1445 would keep the officer’s identity under wraps for 90 days following any incident “that involves the use of deadly…
A Phoenix-area doctor who’s received national media attention for his stance against vaccinating children, is under investigation by one of the state’s medical boards. Dr. Jack Wolfson, a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, is under investigation by the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners for several recent complaints, the agency confirmed to…
Governor Doug Ducey is the headliner of an event at the Arizona capitol next week sponsored by the organization behind the state’s infamous Senate Bill 1062. Flyers for the Center for Arizona Policy’s “Day at the Capitol” prominently feature Ducey as the organization’s “special guest.”…
An Arizona lawmaker is again proposing a registry of convicted animal abusers. The bill proposed by Democratic Senator Steve Farley would lead to the creation of a website that would operate similarly to the state’s sex-offender registry, allowing the public to search for convicted animal abusers by name or location…
Phoenix is often thought of as a land of sunshine, but that’s not always the case. Although Phoenix has better weather than most American cities, here are the less-than-ideal weather conditions we deal with:…
With seven confirmed cases of measles in Arizona, and perhaps 1,000 people in the state exposed to the disease, health officials are urging everyone to get vaccinated against the disease if they haven’t already done so. At the same time, other individuals and groups are using the outbreak as an…
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 found some folks who…
With seven measles cases now identified in Arizona, health officials estimate that more than 1,000 people in the state may have been exposed to the highly contagious disease. Five of those confirmed cases, including a family of four who lives in Pinal County, were linked to the December measles outbreak…
In the future, your Arizona driver’s license could be kept in an app on your smartphone. A bill proposed by Republican Senator Jeff Dial would allow the testing and implementation of an electronic driver’s license system, which is under development already in Iowa. “I think government shouldn’t be in the…
UPDATE January 29: The state health department estimates more than 1,000 people could have been exposed to measles statewide. Click here for details. A second case of measles stemming from the outbreak at Disneyland has been confirmed in Maricopa County. County health officials say the infected, a woman, may have…
A proposed tax break for some religious groups could be the first test of Governor Doug Ducey’s allegiance to the state’s powerful Religious Right forces. Former Governor Jan Brewer last year vetoed a bill that would have made a property-tax exemption for religious groups that lease their places of worship…
