The Utah/Arizona border towns of Colorado City and Hildale reportedly are swarming with security cameras operated by the polygamist cities’ government.Reporters from the Salt Lake Tribune counted 29 cameras across the two towns but then were told there probably were 60 operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of…
The 15-year-old Tolleson girl charged with murder, as an adult, for allegedly shooting and killing her sister’s 17-year-old boyfriend has pleaded not guilty.Ladajianna Mosely — who was born in 1997 — told police she thought she had unloaded the .45-caliber handgun she and two others had just recently stolen after…
It took a couple minutes short of forever for the Arizona Diamondbacks to beat the St. Louis Cardinals last night/this morning at Chase Field.D-backs shortstop Cliff Pennington, who was acquired in the trade that shipped Chris Young off to Oakland, got the walk-off hit that scored Jason Kubel in the…
More than a year after Governor Jan Brewer claimed she outlawed the sale and use of the substances known as “bath salts,” and two years after she said the same of “spice,” Brewer now takes credit for signing a bill that’s supposed to “combat” bath salts and spice.Brewer says this…
Only three other states in the U.S. of A. have higher “levels of gun violence” than Arizona, according to one report.Although magazines like Guns & Ammo congratulate Arizona for being “the best” state for gun owners — despite the fact that the magazine’s former editor shot and killed a man…
Kelly Wasko, one of three Valley women accused in the past few months of being a cancer faker, pleaded guilty to three charges related to her arrest.Wasko, a 41-year-old Gilbert resident, made about $12,000 after duping family and friends, who created a Facebook account to accept donations for Wasko’s imaginary…
Republicans seem to be getting VIP tours of the border lately to see how the border-crossing magic is made.First, Senator John McCain was on a tour of the border last week when he watched a woman hop right over that “danged” border fence, and now, a Republican congressman from Utah…
Among the things Arizona Diamondbacks general manager Kevin Towers took some heat for this off-season was trading for 35-year-old reliever Heath Bell (and the remainder of his gigantic contract) after a miserable season pitching for the Miami Marlins.Bell’s debut with the Diamondbacks Tuesday night could not have gotten much worse…
A retired Mesa cop accused of molesting two kids and sharing child porn with a man who recently was arrested in a Homeland Security investigation has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.Russell Millsaps, also known as Dean Millsaps, 66, was arrested by Mesa detectives a couple of weeks…
The Scottsdale Police Department’s second fatal officer-involved shooting this month was caught on camera, as a neighbor recorded the confrontation between the Scottsdale officer and 72-year-old Preston Phillips last month. Unfortunately, that 19-year-old neighbor released the video to KPHO Channel 5, which hacked up the video with some obnoxious editing,…
The Arizona Cardinals landed quarterback Carson Palmer in a trade, which sounds way, way better than the prospect of Drew Stanton being the Cards’ top QB.Though Palmer appears to be an improvement on the surface, he might not be the one who ends the Cards’ quarterback carnival.See also:-Cardinals Get Carson…
The 2013 Arizona Diamondbacks have won game one of 162. The D-backs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 at Chase Field last night, in the team’s first game in the post-Justin Upton era. See also: – Diamondbacks GM Kevin Towers’ “Moneyball” Strategy Isn’t Madness – Arizona Diamondbacks Opening Day at…
It seems like if the Legislature were to “ban” something, it wouldn’t have to keep passing bills session after session to “ban” that same thing.Yet, here we are again, more than a year after Governor Jan Brewer claimed she outlawed the sale and use of the substances known as “bath…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery says today that mercy killing, or euthanasia, “is not an excuse for murder,” as 86-year-old George Sanders was sentenced today on a manslaughter charge for fatally shooting his wife.Apparently, Montgomery finds two years of unsupervised probation an acceptable sentence for “murder.”See also:-Death Wish…
Michael Cohn, a 61-year-old Scottsdale resident, called the Scottsdale Police Department Wednesday morning to alert the authorities that he had just killed his wife of more than 26 years, Linda.The way events are described in court documents obtained by New Times, Cohn sounds like one of the most nonchalant murder…
Republican Representative John Kavanagh’s newest effort to regulate toilet usage in Arizona, by proposing that businesses can dictate which bathroom transgender people can use, cleared its first hurdle at the Legislature on Wednesday.With that, the scores of people who spent nearly two hours testifying on Kavanagh’s proposal — all but…
If ABC 15 is doing something right these days, it’s having local athletes do the weather report.First, it was Charles Barkley — who asked, “When the rain gon’ stop?” — but now it’s Phoenix Coyotes forward Mikkel Boedker, who provided perhaps the best weather report in Phoenix history, starting off…
Arizona State University is gettin’ a Walmart.Walmart is apparently becoming a part of the American higher-education experience, as ASU is the third university to get a smaller Walmart store plopped right on its campus.See also:-Walmart on Campus Coming Soon to Arizona State University…
The thousands of pages of documents recently released in the case of Jared Loughner’s murderous rampage, which left six people dead and injured 13, make one thing certain — Loughner exhibited some very strange behavior.In another example of this, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department detective wrote in his report that…
A 72-year-old man was shot and killed by Scottsdale police Wednesday in the department’s second fatal officer-involved shooting this month.Preston Phillips Jr. was shot by the officer around 6 p.m. after, police say, Phillips drove up next to the officer, pulled a handgun out of his holster, and “display[ed] it…
Jared Loughner kept photos of President Bill Clinton and Congressman Raul Grijalva and possibly a photograph of Congressman Ed Pastor, according to newly released documents.The detail is included is a report from a Pima County Sheriff’s Department detective in the thousands of pages of documents just released in the case…
The number of people getting Valley Fever is “skyrocketing,” which, unfortunately for everyone, is not a reference to the readership of the New Times news blog.The Arizona Department of Health Services passed along the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention news explaining that Valley Fever cases “dramatically increased,” in…
