Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent his boys out on the 58th illegal-immigrant roundup “employer sanctions operation” today, and get a load of this — a grand total of zero employers were arrested, while 31 non-employers were arrested.According to our math, there have been two employers sanctioned through 58 “employer…
David Ybarra found out yesterday that throwing chunks of concrete at Gilbert police officers is an awful idea.Ybarra, 36, was shot by two officers yesterday after he tossed concrete their way and a responding Taser blast didn’t work.Gilbert police Sergeant Bill Balafas tells New Times that Ybarra’s family phoned up…
Remember the Sacagawea dollar? Remember how reverse-awesome that was? Susan B. Anthony, anyone? Eisenhower?! Well, Arizona Republican Congressman David Schweikert’s trying to bring back the dollar coin, and according to a recent poll, Schweikert’s own constituents aren’t fans of the idea — by a pretty healthy margin.The poll — which…
On Saturday night, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office raided a Phoenix cockfight, arresting 40 people — 17 of them alleged to be illegal immigrants.One of those alleged illegal immigrants, 43-year-old Pedro Reyes-Lopez, was identified as the owner of the house, which earned him a big mugshot in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s…
Phoenix gave Veolia Transportation executives what they wanted today, a steep reduction in poor-performance fees and a reimbursement of nearly $800,000 worth of fees to the French-based transit company. And now, Veolia is giving the union what it wants. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton brokered the tit-for-tat deal, effectively ending the…
Republican state Representative Carl Seel and Senator Judy Burges are still trying to keep Americans they somehow believe are Kenyans — well, at least one — from being on the state’s ballot in presidential elections.Last year, a “birther” bill was approved by the Legislature and passed on to Governor Jan…
That the Arizona Wildcats won 23 games this season with what they had is a testament to head coach Sean Miller’s ability to get the most of his players. That they came one missed shot against Colorado and a devastating loss in Tempe to ASU from a berth in NCAA March…
Wendy Rogel-Pagasa pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges of second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of her 2-year-old son, Jorge Zamora-Rogel.Phoenix police say the 18-year-old mother called 9-1-1 more than three hours after the boy went unconscious — and eventually died — due to being badly beaten by…
I work for a major news organization and often have heard the figure of 10 million illegal Mexicans. Unofficially, I have been quoted the number 20 million to 25 million illegals, most of them not Mexican. From experience with the government, I would say these numbers are low. Why the…
Better chug a Red Bull before you walk into “Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century,” currently taking up Steele Gallery at Phoenix Art Museum. You’ll need it. Yes, Phoenix Art Museum has done it yet again, only this time it had help from the Milwaukee Art Museum…
Mike Terribile and Treasure Van Dreumel made lots of money defending recently convicted murderer Jeff Martinson on the taxpayer’s dime. The actual sum is almost $1 million per attorney over the past 28 months for work in the tragic and highly controversial case. New Times wrote about State of Arizona…
The threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio from some guy with a keyboard in Tennessee was apparently so serious that the sheriff’s office says he was sentenced to probation.Arpaio has claimed Adam Eugene Cox is an “Obama fanatic” — intel the sheriff says came from evident from what he…
Phoenix’s R&S Mattress company just wanted to show it was excited about the prospect of free-agent quarterback Peyton Manning coming to play for the Arizona Cardinals.As you can see in the video above, Manning’s marketing company didn’t think it was cute…
Wendy Rogel-Pagasa* pleaded not guilty today to charges of second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of her 2-year-old son, Jorge Zamora-Rogel.Phoenix police say the 18-year-old mother called 9-1-1 more than three hours after the boy went unconscious due to being badly beaten by her boyfriend Juan Garcia –…
Phoenix police say there was a guy standing in the middle of the street this morning trying to flag down motorists.He shot two people who decided to go around him instead.Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times this happened around 4:30 a.m. today on 16th Street, between Southern Avenue…
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton announced today that a bus strike that has disrupted service throughout the Valley will likely come to a close on Friday. Both sides — the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433, which represents bus drivers in Phoenix and Tempe, and Veolia Transportation, the transit company that employs…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery sent out a gentle reminder yesterday that anyone paid to appear in a porno flick “may be guilty” of prostitution.He’s not saying the County Attorney’s Office is going after the porno industry — or that it isn’t — but with rumors of California-based porno companies…
Hupp goes all Hannibal on the MAS crowd, 6:34 onWhat I like about Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal is his consistency. You know when he opens his mouth, he’s bound to say something stupid. It’s just a matter of how stupid.His latest round of revelatory idiocies — at…
The Arizona Legislature is moving ahead with a bill that aims to take the state’s federal lands and give them to the people of Arizona, despite exactly zero chance such a plan could work.If the nation isn’t laughing at Arizona, state lawmakers obviously wouldn’t be happy.Not content to be the…
Columnist James Fenton called Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu “Republicans’ latest nightmare” in a piece for the London Evening Standard. Fentons’ column hit the presses about a week after New Times reported that Babeu’s Mexican ex-boyfriend lobbed allegations that the sheriff threatened him and that the sheriff’s attorney raised threats…
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley announced today that he won’t be running for Congress, after all.Stapley, who has seen his share of ups and downs in his 15-year run on the five-member Board of Supervisors, filed paperwork last month to run for Arizona’s newly created Ninth Congressional District.The East Valley…
Wil Cardon has been trailing Congressman Jeff Flake by a consistent near-50 point margin in the GOP Senate primary, and his latest ad can be placed on that campaign mantel next to his poll results.Someone misspelled “Tucson” in the ad that’s hitting TV tomorrow.It’s since been corrected, but we’re hardly…
