The fun begins around 6:55 inWhat in tarnation is wrong with Ken Bennett? Before he drank the birther Kool-Aid, then publicly spat it up, Arizona’s Secretary of State was regarded as a moderate Republican with a lick of common sense.But a month after the flap over Bennett’s asking the state of Hawaii to…
Unlike some people, Ramon Carrillo remembered to put his kids inside his car.The problem is, cops say he passed out drunk in the driver’s seat, leaving his kids — ages 1 and 2 — with nothing but 120-degree heat, a handgun, and a passed-out dad.According to court documents obtained by…
Yesterday, former Chandler City Councilman Martin Sepulveda announced he has the endorsement of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock in his bid for Congress.Brock has been known in more recent days for his family’s sex scandal, as his wife and adult daughter were both convicted of sexually abusing the same kid.Brock…
At age 93, Julius Elmer Grosso of Scottsdale is one of those senior citizens who doesn’t want to give up his car keys — even after a two-hour drinking binge. Cops say the stubborn nonagenerian gave them a hard time during a DUI investigation over the weekend, resulting in Grosso…
Martin Sepulveda — one of seven Republican candidates running to represent Arizona’s Ninth Congressional District — claims he’s “honored” to have the endorsement of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock.Brock’s probably best known for his supporting role in his family’s sex scandal, which included his now-estranged wife, Susan Brock, repeatedly sexually…
Rachel Alexander, the right-wing blogger and ex-prosecutor under former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, has blown her chance to appeal her law-license suspension by failing to file her opening brief on time. The former deputy county attorney had her license suspended in April for six months and a day because…
Another example of how not to be a parent was in a Maricopa County courtroom this morning, as 19-year-old Catalina Clouser pleaded not guilty to driving about 12 miles before realizing she had left her baby on the roof of her car.That incident, which occurred on June 1, came a…
As the Tempe Police Department got verification earlier this month that the five burned bodies found in an SUV in the Vekol Valley were identified as James and Yafit Butwin and their three children, another group of five people was still apparently missing.Pinal County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tim Gaffney tells…
In a pretty improbable turn of events, the Arizona Wildcats baseball team is but one win away from a berth in the best-of-three NCAA College World Series championship round this weekend. The Wildcats await the winner of tonight’s elimination game in Omaha between the powerful Florida State Seminoles and the…
Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards pleaded not guilty this morning to charges related to the death of Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter, who died after horrific alleged abuse.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on May 30, after what Edwards told police was…
Anyone, and I mean anyone, who tells you with certainty the precise day that the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its opinion on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, is full of something that rhymes with the word “twit.”I wish I had a dime for every journo, TV talking head…
Congressman David Schweikert, not to be outdone by his primary opponent, Congressman Ben Quayle, introduced his own bill to block the implementation of the Obama administration’s new immigration policy.This move by Schweikert may seem familiar, since Quayle did just about the same thing yesterday too.The bills don’t appear to have…
Like the old saying says, there’s no place like home. Just ask the Arizona Diamondbacks, who returned to Chase Field on Monday night after a six-game roadtrip filled with frustration and kicked the crap out of the Seattle Mariners 7-1 after much-needed explosion of offense. And it was due in…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as knotanes, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, with his cake from Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz.We picked…
It appears Congressman Ben Quayle does not find the Obama administration’s new immigration policy “something that’s intriguing,” as he did with the plan of Senator Marco Rubio.So much so, it seems, that Quayle just introduced the “Prohibiting Back-door Amnesty Act of 2012” to block its implementation.The Obama administration’s policy, announced…
Senator John McCain is not pleased about boxing judges scoring a decision for Timothy Bradley over Manny Pacquiao in the welterweight title match earlier this month.That said, now might finally be the time his legislation to regulate boxing — which he’s tried over and over again — sees some success.McCain…
Despite what you may have heard — and how Joe Arpaio-ish it sounds — Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies did not arrest a 6-year-old on Friday.MCSO spokesman Chris Hegstrom tells New Times deputies arrested 16 people during a human-smuggling operation, but the 6-year-old found in the van wasn’t one of them.”We’re…
Last month, Congressman Ben Quayle was talking about an idea for immigration policy that was being floated around, calling it “something that’s intriguing, that we should be looking at.”Quayle was on 12News explaining the idea of a “blue card,” a way for people who were brought to the United States…
Folks at Tempe City Hall weren’t the only ones to meet with representatives of the apparently fake company believed to be set up by the FBI in its bust of state Representative/former Tempe Councilman Ben Arredondo.According to lobbyist filings with the Secretary of State’s office, Mike Williams met with four…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ three-game series with the Los Angeles Angels this past week ran the emotional gamut, including both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The D-Back got to partake in the triumph of Trevor Cahill’s awesome pitching performance on Friday, the frustration of getting shutdown by…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, with his cake from Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve narrowed it…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu apparently forgot that he quit his Congressional race, because he again spewed tired talking points from that campaign — this time blasting President Barack Obama for granting temporary deportation immunity and work permits to certain undocumented immigrants. Babeu seems to be upset because Obama is not strictly enforcing…
