A national atheist organization wants Republican State Representative Steve Smith to apologize for his prayer of “repentance,” which Smith apparently led for the purpose of spiting a non-Christian colleague.David Silverman, the president of American Atheists, said Smith’s stunt was “one of the most un-American remarks I have ever heard from…
Yet again, a body has been pulled from Tempe Town Lake.Gerrick Begay, a 21-year-old Tempe resident and former student at the nearby Arizona State University, was found floating in the lake around 5:30 a.m. yesterday.See also:-ASU Freshman Jack Culolias’ Death Plays Out Very Similar to 2011 Death-Body Found Near Tempe…
A Valley mother has been sitting in jail in Nogales, Sonora, since last week, accused of trying to smuggle a dozen pounds of marijuana on her way back from a family funeral.Yanira Maldonado’s family has a seemingly credible account of the U.S. citizen being framed and subjected to corrupt Mexican…
Today in Found at the Border: A 34-year-old Mexican national tried to come into the United States through Nogales yesterday with thousands of jalapeño cans.The problem was that 2,000 of those cans were light on the jalapeños, but heavy on the marijuana — more than 3,000 pounds of it, in…
With just 18 months and change left until the 2014 election, the National Republican Congressional Committee is heating up its campaigns against Democratic Congressmen Ron Barber and Ann Kirkpatrick.The NRCC’s been actively campaigning against the two since at least April, a whole four months into the two-year term, but they’re…
Usually, Customs and Border Protection officers are catching ever-creative drug smugglers as they attempt to get their product through a port at the border.This time, though, the Office of Air and Marine — part of Customs and Border Protection — caught the stash in the air, as a pilot took…
A voicemail left on our phone this morning from the racist individual who comments on New Times’ blogs with the handle “Joe Arpaio Fan” is the millionth reason (that’s an estimate) people should sign the petition to recall the elderly sheriff.Of course, a federal judge’s ruling last week stating that…
A Phoenix man turned himself into police headquarters this morning and admitted he was involved in the hit-and-run collision that killed an 11-year-old boy this weekend.Mabior Ding, 32, had an anti-theft device on his vehicle that he failed to remove before putting the car in reverse, thus being unable to…
A Phoenix Police Department report says a yet-unnamed DPS officer’s fatal shooting of 16-year-old Alexander Wilson in April was justified.Those who have checked out the facts of the case may feel inclined to disagree with that finding.See also:-Report: Shooting of Alexander Wilson Justified-Family Buries Alexander Wilson, 16-Year-Old Shot by DPS…
No one’s currently willing to blow a minimum of $50,000 on a plane that acted as Air Force One at at least one occasion, and has been sitting at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport for a while.The General Services Administration auction was supposed to last for two weeks, but the auction…
The actions of Republican State Representative Steve Smith have provided us with the reason why Democratic Representative Juan Mendez’s God-free invocation at the House Representatives yesterday was such an unlikely event.Today, Smith led the House in a second prayer, apparently his way of saying sorry to the man upstairs about…
A 78-year-old woman who thought she put her Toyota SUV into park outside a Mesa fabric store yesterday was incorrect, and ended up driving quite a distance into the store, hitting three people…
Democratic State Representative Juan Mendez’s God-free invocation at the House Representatives yesterday, as first reported by New Times, is attracting nationwide attention.If you want to see the video of Mendez’s invocation, check it out after the jump:See also:-Atheist Lawmaker Quotes Carl Sagan Instead of Doing Prayer Before House Session…
The jury in the Jodi Arias trial will continue deliberating this morning about whether the murderer should be executed.Arias, always the drama queen, changed her talking points while addressing the jury yesterday, as she pleaded with the jury to let her live — despite previously saying she would “prefer to…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery has given his response to a federal appeals court ruling Arizona’s 20-week abortion ban, and it’s about as dramatic as the programming for the Lifetime TV network.”The ruling is disappointing in that it permits the Kermit Gosnells of the country to continue their grisly operations…
An atheist state lawmaker tasked with delivering the opening prayer for this afternoon’s session of the House of Representatives asked that people not bow their heads.Democratic Representative Juan Mendez, of Tempe, instead spoke about his “secular humanist tradition” and even quoted author Carl Sagan…
A Mexican national was busted trying to smuggle more than $100,000 from the United States into Mexico, and he may have been caught only because he either lied or is bad at counting.See, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says 54-year-old Gamaliel Gonzales De Dios declared $1,000 in cash when he…
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says Arizona’s law banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy is unconstitutional, citing just about every Supreme Court case on the subject since Roe v. Wade.”The 20-week law is [an] unconstitutional under an unbroken stream of Supreme Court authority, beginning with Roe and…
Arizona Diamondbacks lefty Patrick Corbin is no joke.Corb, now 7-0, tossed a complete game last night against the Colorado Rockies (at Coors Field), allowing just one run on three hits in the D-backs’ 5-1 win in the first game of a three-game series…
With the May 30 deadline looming, the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio has stopped its paid petition-gathering, for the second time, due to donors’ unwillingness to cough up the cash.Stephen Lemons reported last week that Respect Arizona found “the sticking point [for donors] was the lack of a definite…
Today in Found at the border: A Mexican national tried to smuggle 2,000 pounds of weed into the United States by hiding the stash in bricks of charcoal.Thanks to Wilhelm Röntgen’s 1895 discovery of the X-ray, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers were able to see late last week that…
While everyone’s caught up in the hype of the Jodi Arias trial, we’ll point out a quieter case that ended on Friday with a Scottsdale woman being sentenced to life in prison.Shari Tobyne shot her husband of 35 years, Dwight, then chopped up his body, and left most of his…
