There’s a good old-fashioned quarterback battle going on in the Arizona Cardinals’ training camp, and according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, John Skelton is “now considered the favorite.”Kevin Kolb came to Arizona as the presumptive starter before the start of last year’s season — by dealing Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie and a second-round…
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See also President Obama Approves Version of the DREAM Act, Grants Immunity from Deportation for Certain Young Undocumented Immigrants See also DREAM Act Has Support From 73 Percent of Arizonans, According to Poll The Department of Homeland Security has released the forms undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children,…
Scottsdale police used excessive force in 2008 when they shot a man in the back without a warning, rendering him a paraplegic, a judge has ruled. David Hulstedt, who was 35 at the time of the shooting, filed a $40 million lawsuit against the city in 2009. An August 6…
A man who declined to show up to an agreed-upon fight at a Walmart store near Anthem was run over and killed by the man he was supposed to fight after he didn’t show up, police say.Anthony “Tony” Parrinello, 31, is accused of running over 42-year-old Carmelo D’Alessandro on Monday,…
See also: Two Men (One of Whom is a Teacher) Arrested Trying to Have Sex with Dogs See also: Craigslist Used To Find A Dog To “Fornicate” With Woman Yet again, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says detectives found someone on Craigslist ready and willing to have sex with a…
Arizona shook from the tremors of nearly 1,000 earthquakes between 2006 and 2009, according to data recently published by Arizona State University researchers. New data from a National Science Foundation program recorded the seismic activity, which has scientists excited because of the unexpected frequency of quakes and the fact that…
A Maricopa County judge has ruled that Governor Jan Brewer did not injure atheists during her “Day of Prayer” in March.The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed several lawsuits to challenge state prayer days, which worked in its favor in Wisconsin, but has now failed twice in Arizona…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as ecardferret, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest…
For whatever reason, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton really wanted to play basketball with the Phoenix Mercury, the two-time WNBA champions. He tried, and based on the 22 seconds of footage here, he didn’t do so well…
See also: AZCentral.com Shake-Down: Online Content to Cost $10 a Month If you don’t subscribe to the dead-tree version of the Arizona Republic, you’ll have to pony up $10 a month if you want to read a “significant number” of articles on its website, azcentral.com.If you do have an old-school…
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Brian Bizzell — a former band teacher at Estrella Foothills High School in Goodyear — has earned himself the title of “sex offender” for life and was sentenced to a year in jail for a sexual relationship with one of his students.Because the 17-year-old student lost her cell phone, another…
A man who calls himself a plumber told people attending a fundraiser for state Senator Lori Klein that he’s got the solution for the country’s immigration issues, and he’s been saying it for years: “Put a damn fence on the border going to Mexico and start shootin’.”…
An oil company owned by the family of Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is being sued for alleged wage violations and retaliation against a former employee.Bennett’s Oil Company — of which the Secretary of State is the former CEO and a current director — is being accused by a…
According to a lawsuit filed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervisory agent, a couple of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s lady-friends at ICE don’t like men.The lawsuit, filed by James Hayes Jr. — the special agent in charge of New York City investigations for ICE — says two women…
The team with the best record in baseball took two out of three games at Chase Field over the weekend. The Washington Nationals overmatched the Arizona Diamondbacks in their Friday and Saturday wins before being shut down on Sunday by D-backs rookie Patrick Corbin. In Friday’s 9-1 loss, there was…
In 2002, Arizona State University was named Playboy’s top party school in the nation, dethroning Chico State — which held the top spot in the nation for 15 years after becoming the first party school crowned by Playboy.ASU’s reign among the party schools ended in 2006, when it dropped to…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Sheriff Joe Arpaio wearing some sort of floral-print shirt, and standing next to a guy in a dog suit.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others –…
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