Former Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman today posted a statement on his website, saying he’s considering a run for governor.”Over the next few months, I will be traveling the state of Arizona to speak with and listen to people from all walks of life about what’s really important to them in…
Despite claiming that his Tent City jail is a “concentration camp,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio sure seems accommodating.Not only do we get press releases from the Sheriff’s Office letting us know that Arpaio’s cooling off the inmates when it’s hot, but we now have a press release from MCSO letting us…
Andiola’s tearful account of the arrest of her mom and brother Nationally-known Arizona DREAM Activist Erika Andiola has reported that her mother and brother were arrested last night at their home by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Above is Andiola’s tearful recounting of the raid on her dwelling…
Arizona House Minority Leader, Democrat Chad Campbell, has offered up some legislative proposals that are supposed to target gun violence — one of the few plans we’ve heard of around here that doesn’t include more guns.As a whole, his plan’s chance of becoming law is zero percent, but let’s get…
Arpaio, howlin’ at the moon in his appearance on the Thom Hartmann radio show: The fun begins about 16:18 in Hat tip to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for letting me know about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s appearance Thursday on the uber-lefty Thom Hartmann radio show, where he howled at the moon,…
John Kavanagh, the Republican State Representative from Fountain Hills, doesn’t want any exceptions in a proposed medical-pot repeal for patients with cancer, AIDS, or any other serious disease. Verifiable illness or not, they would be booked into jail under Arizona’s felony possession law like any of the hundreds of people…
According to people attempting to calculate the gayest places in America, Scottsdale’s pretty gay.We’re not gayness assessors, but it would appear that Advocate magazine is totally making up this shit…
Although Phoenix’s chief of police wouldn’t go into detail about why Officer Pete Bennett approached the man who shot him several times on Sunday, court records state that 28-year-old Brandon McCabe was pulled over for riding a bicycle without a light.According to the court documents obtained by New Times, Bennett…
To the credit of the Arizona House Minority Leader, Democrat Chad Campbell, he unveiled a pretty wide-ranging plan to change laws related to school safety, mental health, and guns.Unfortunately for Campbell, he’s in the blood-red legislature in Arizona, so let’s just say it’s the thought that counts…
Noelle Clough, the Mesa woman who told police she stabbed her husband after an argument over a quiz in Cosmo magazine received a sentence of probation and a deferred jail term.Clough, 22, actually told police in June that she was actually complying with her husband’s request to stab him after…
The ultra-popular Echo Canyon Trail and its trailhead at Phoenix’s Camelback Mountain will be closed from January 28 until sometime this fall for renovations. Initial reports about the closure indicated that only the trailhead would be closed as workers built a new entrance to the mountain park, a larger parking…
“You play golf?” we ask 69-year-old John van Steinburg, as we roll past the entrance to Anthem’s country club, riding in a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office patrol car.He doesn’t, but since Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s PR staff let us hop in the car with Steinburg — one of Arpaio’s posse members…
Don’t you hate when you park near Mexico for a few minutes and end up with 35 pounds of weed in your car’s spare tire? That’s what Daren Rucker, 51, of Tucson says happened to him on Tuesday, according to federal court records. When Rucker pulled up at the northbound…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio rolled out some details of his response to the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, which involves armed, volunteer members of his posse patrolling some Valley schools.The power of the posse members is limited, as they’re not actual cops — a point illustrated in the late ’90s by…
Conservative blogger and disgraced Arizona lawyer Rachel Alexander announced on Monday that she’d raised enough money from her right-wing readers to save the life of her cat, Buckley. But a closer look at Alexander’s previous writings shows that Buckley’s life had already been saved. Alexander just needed to pay the…
What is it about Mexicans and collecting old cars? I have three Mexican neighbors with middle-class incomes but in each case, when the old car or truck wouldn’t run anymore, they would buy a nearly new replacement and then just let the old clunker sit in the driveway up close…
The video titled “Thank you, I will miss you guys” is barely more than a minute long — all one shaky handheld shot trained on the face of then-21-year-old Ben Vacas. Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a fauxhawk, a stubbly goatee, and a British accent, discernible…
Times are a bit tight in my world. No, I ain’t talkin’ about my post-holidays pants size. In 2012, I lost some of my favorite whippin’ boys. In May, neo-Nazi J.T. Ready pulled an Adolf and blew his brains out after he’d killed four innocent people. Former Maricopa County Attorney…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today released a list of schools that are going to be patrolled by armed, volunteer members of his posse — two days after those patrols started.Arpaio repeated a claim that the “only difference” between a sworn deputy and a posse member is that the posse…
Dejuan Donaldson, the man accused of raping three girls, between the ages of 10 and 17, who were walking to schools in south Phoenix neighborhoods in 2010 and 2011.Donaldson pleaded guilty today to six charges related to the rapes, a plea that is almost undoubtedly part of a plea agreement.See…
The man with the most rushing yards in all of major college football this year shoved his pregnant ex-girlfriend to the ground and was “threatening [her] pregnancy” last month, according to that ex-girlfriend.Reports out of Tucson state that University of Arizona running back Ka’Deem Carey is going to be charged…
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is proud to report that it has prevented 230 pounds of cheese from entering the United States of America.See also:-Drug Smugglers Now Shooting Weed Cannons Into United States-Border Crossing Gone Wrong: Jeep Gets Stuck on Top of 14-Foot Fence-Piñatas Used to Hide 425 Pounds of…
