Statistically, most people who are summoned for jury duty in Maricopa County just don’t show up.Maricopa County Superior Court officials say they’re enacting a “get tough policy” for the people who get a jury summons in the mail and promptly toss it in the garbage…
Despite New Times’ discovery last month that Phoenix police are routinely using Craigslist to bust people offering to sell “medical marijuana” for the price of a “donation,” the busts continue.Even though some people post lengthy disclaimers in their ads, claiming that there’s no pot sale going on, it’s just a…
Aside from the clueless driving that ruins the commute for the rest of us every single day, highway backups are sometimes caused by some weird things.Unfortunately, some of these weird things aren’t captured on the Arizona Department of Transportation’s highway cameras — like recent episodes of goats and a hot…
Gavin Macfarlane, the gunman who opened fire at a Phoenix strip club in 2010, leaving two dead and two others injured, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Unless, that is, the Psychiatric Security Review Board at the Arizona State Hospital someday finds that his mental illness is…
According to some people, Phoenix is home to the “other George Zimmerman,” a label created by people who believe a Phoenix shooting last year was race-related.The admitted shooter in this case, Cordell Jude, is black. According to one opinion from the Newsweek-owned Daily Beast, this is a “reverse Trayvon Martin”…
Some media reports contend that a “reverse Trayvon Martin” case is about to be tried in Phoenix.The thought is that national media outlets are ignoring the Phoenix case because the shooter, Cordell Jude, is black — and that doesn’t fit some sort of media plot. In reality, there’s hardly anything…
The Arizona State Forestry Division has released an outline of the events surrounding the June 30 deaths of 19 firefighters in the Yarnell Hill Fire.The timeline includes orders for resources to fight the fire — orders that weren’t necessarily filled — and also mentions how people on the ground were…
The effort by some right-wingers to repeal the Medicaid expansion championed by Governor Jan Brewer does not seem to be going well.The group trying to gather signatures to put the repeal on the ballot, which calls itself United Republican Alliance of Principled Conservatives, seems to be hoping to gain support…
From the big book of bad excuses, a Phoenix man caught lighting trash cans on fire told police he was just trying to keep warm.The main problem with his excuse was that he dropped it on one of the hottest days of the year — when temperatures hit 115 degrees…
APS isn’t funding a campaign by a Virginia conservative group that attacks solar-power installers, a utility spokesman says. But that doesn’t mean the company doesn’t appreciate the hard-hitting ad that has generated 145,000 views on YouTube. “We’re happy they support our point of view,” says Jim McDonald of APS about…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio seems to have an obsession with trying to get the public to believe that his life is in constant danger.And no matter how many times Arpaio cries wolf about the latest “death threat,” there never seems to be any intent of legitimate harm against the elderly, publicity-hungry…
Here at the all-star break, the Arizona Diamondbacks have a record of 50-45, which puts them 2 1/2 games ahead of the second-place Los Angeles Dodgers.It’s already been a weird season for the D-backs, with injuries and surprisingly poor — or, in rare cases, good — performances from players, and…
Oy vey. A Jewish pro-gun group is raffling off some of the strangest AR-15 rifles we’ve ever seen.The rifles from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership come engraved with a Star of David, fashioned like an American flag with rifles on either side, as well as the phrase, “Gun…
Phoenix police are searching for a man who doused his girlfriend in gasoline and set her on fire this weekend.Police Sergeant Trent Crump says the woman, who was heard “screaming for help,” was burned over 30 percent of her body…
Somehow, the Arizona Diamondbacks find themselves at the top of the NL West at the all-star break.Arizona has had its difficulties this year, including injuries to multiple starters, 24 games without a win by a starting pitcher, and bipolar play, in which the team will follow up a terrible series…
A detention officer at one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails is accused of violating a woman with a baseball bat, pepper-spraying her vagina, sticking a gun in her mouth, and more.According to court documents obtained by New Times, William Glen Edmond — identified in court filings as an employee of…
At what point do you just toss your keys to the cops after getting pulled over for DUI?Apparently when it’s the seventh time you’ve been pulled over for DUI, and the third time this year…
Here’s your “Moment of Zen” for the day: Elderly Sheriff Joe Arpaio wonders if President Obama will call him for the Department of Homeland Security post being vacated by Janet Napolitano.It seems a bit strange that Arpaio has a desire to collude with a president he claims has a fake…
Police say a Phoenix couple cited “religious beliefs” as the reason they didn’t bring their malnourished 15-month-old baby to a doctor before she died on Wednesday.Ernest Ingram and Denise Snow-Ingram didn’t get into too much detail about their religious beliefs, but those reliefs are the apparent reason that the 15-month-old…
The recent acquittal of George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin is of particular relevance to Arizona. In many ways, Florida is as racist and as gun crazy as Arizona, though here in Sand Land, the divide is Latino/Anglo more than anything else. Like a lot of folks, I’ve…
Local black leaders will be heading up a “Justice for Trayvon Martin Rally” in Phoenix today.Activist Revered Jarrett Maupin says the rally, to protest the not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, will start at 6 p.m. by the federal courthouse in Downtown Phoenix…
Among other things a Phoenix family learned this week, police say stashing a bunch of guns next to a 4-year-old kid is not acceptable, neither is running a drug house, nor is a stash of four pounds of marijuana considered “personal use.” Police arrested Jonathan Ramon, Veronica Ramon, and Michael…
