Ex-Phoenix Police Sergeant Paul Penzone, the man running as a Democrat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, recently announced a slew of new endorsements via his campaign website, the most prominent of which comes from former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton, a Republican and stalwart critic of Sheriff Joe.Other…
Police say 32-year-old Mesa resident Gerald Gonzales was selling heroin to an undercover cop.Gonzales wasn’t alone, though, as police say Gonzales had a sidekick with him on a couple occasions — a 3-year-old kid.According to court documents obtained by New Times, the officer first picked up a half-gram of heroin…
Southpaws Joe Saunders and Cory Luebke went toe-to-toe yesterday afternoon at San Diego’s sprawling Petco Park, giving up but one run between them in 12 combined innings of work. Saunders, who was starting his first game of the new season for the Arizona Diamondbacks’, turned things over to set-up man…
State Representative Daniel Patterson resigned from the House yesterday, before a vote on his expulsion could take place.The House Ethics Committee unanimously voted earlier yesterday to boot Patterson, which was apparently enough of an indication for Patterson to just take off early.”I have been forced to resign due to the…
On a sunny, late-winter day in the southeast Arizona desert, a dozen people gathered on a dusty piece of land off Interstate 10 to celebrate the “ground-breaking” of a major green-energy project. Excitement was in the air as the Asian representatives of Matinee Energy, a relatively unknown firm, made its…
BAGHDAD RUSSELL Tea Party echo chamber: Russell Pearce reminds me of Saddam Hussein’s information director, Baghdad Bob. [The recalled state Senate president’s] completely delusional about the desperate situation unfolding around him (“Burnin’ Britches,” Stephen Lemons, March 29). [Pearce] still believes that his recall was the work of leftists, labor unions,…
Why do Hispanics deny that George Zimmerman is Hispanic? He did nothing wrong and has been crucified in the media — La Raza cannot bow down to the race baiters and race traitors that call themselves African-American leaders! Brown and Down This column is ¡Ask a Mexican!, not ¡Ask a…
When I heard Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery tell the federal government recently to “put up or shut up” in its wide-ranging allegations against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of racial profiling, systemic abuse of Latinos, and retaliation against Joe’s critics, I was bewildered — for a second. Montgomery’s Clint Eastwood moment…
This has been a week of good news for Mary Rose Wilcox. She’s either received a settlement award of $1 million from Maricopa County, for which she serves as one of five County Supervisors, or she’s close to a settlement. The county’s not saying which just yet. The rumors of…
It looks like sympathizers to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” movement are still looking for politicians to support the Obama’s-from-Africa conspiracy theory, and it’s still not working.That’s really not all that surprising, but the way Arizona politicians are issuing their awkward responses to “birther” inquiries makes you wonder why anyone would…
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton delivered his first State of the City address today — a day that marked his 100th day in office. He spoke to a crowd at the Phoenix Convention Center this afternoon about the need for regional cooperation in attracting technology, bioscience and healthcare jobs, improving Arizona…
Disbarred, disgraced and unrepentant, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas compared himself to such men of conscience as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as he addressed reporters this morning in downtown Phoenix, one day after being stripped of his license to practice law by a three-man disciplinary…
State Representative Daniel Patterson resigned from the House today, before a vote on his expulsion could take place.The House Ethics Committee unanimously voted this morning to boot Patterson, which was apparently enough of an indication for Patterson to just take off early.”I have been forced to resign due to the…
There are a few reasons why it’s not a good idea to run from or fight with police officers, attempt to out-drive them, or try to reach for a gun while cops are trying to handcuff you.The photo to the right, of 18-year-old Bobby White, may be one of those…
Arizona Bike Week is geared more toward the casual motorcyclist, but that doesn’t mean the gangsters are absent.A Scottsdale police spokesman tells New Times just two alleged motorcycle gangsters were arrested during this year’s Arizona Bike Week, which ran during the last week of March.According to police, one member of…
With his office already under fire over allegations that it improperly deleted e-mails and himself under fire for allegedly threatening his gay ex-lover with deportation, it appears that a member of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s command staff asked that an arrest record be scrubbed from a DPS database. The arrest record belongs…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have now won all four of the team’s first games, with the latest victory coming after 11 innings last night against the San Diego Padres in southern California.The game winning play — a Chris Young two-run home run in the top of the 11th off former D’Backs…
In case you’re just now emerging from under a rock, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas was disbarred yesterday.An Arizona State Supreme Court disciplinary panel found that Thomas — as well as his former deputy, Lisa Aubuchon — were attempting prosecutions in the name of politics.Thomas and his comrades can…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas were blasted in a court ruling on Monday, the day before Thomas found himself disbarred. As we pointed out earlier today, the 247-page opinion by the state Supreme Court panel that disbarred Thomas made it clear that Arpaio had…
Republican candidate for state Senate Robert Worsley, a conservative Mesa entrepreneur with a track record of success in the private sector (unlike his government-mooching opponent in Legislative District 25, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, natch) is speaking out in opposition to Pearce’s boycott against local businesses that advertise with New…
If the state Supreme Court had a disciplinary panel for sheriffs, Joe Arpaio would in all likelihood be stripped of his ability to practice law enforcement.Yet Arpaio continues to skate toward potential re-election despite his role in many of the same actions that got his former ally, ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas,…
When can fetuses start to feel pain? Nobody knows for sure, but the chief scientists at the Arizona Legislature would like to declare that it’s 20 weeks.According to some actual scientists, the concept of fetal pain can occur at 24 weeks, 26 weeks, between 29 or 30 weeks, or more…
