The Southern Poverty Law Center rolled out with its new round of “hate group” labels, adding the Arizona chapter of the charity/religious advocacy group United Families International to the list for being “anti-gay.”Republican state Representative Andy Biggs is the former policy adviser to the group, and his wife Cindy Biggs…
The Amalgamated Transit Union just called for a bus strike — a call that comes after nearly two years of Phoenix bus drivers transporting about 71,289 passengers daily without a contract. Veolia Transportation, the French-based company that nabbed a $388 million contract to operate city buses, has not reached any…
For the latest dive into the loony bin from Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “Birther” posse, they’ve concluded that President Obama — get this — “might be Kenyan.”Arpaio’s pals over at World Net Daily continue to release the latest conspiracy theories from the posse, and it’s not getting any more…
I have just intercepted the e-mail blast below from 12-point loser, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce. According to the communication, Arizona’s biggest bigot intends to make it official on March 19 regarding a run for state Senate in the newly-formed Legislative District 25.There’s no little irony in the fact…
We often attend the Pac-12 men’s basketball tournament in Los Angeles. It’s a few days in downtown LA, where we always visit the old city library (beautiful), walk everywhere (safer than you think), stay on the cheap (always good as long as the bedbugs don’t bite), and watch a whole…
When Grant Hill stepped to the foul line with seconds left in the game and the Phoenix Suns up by two points, we thought he’d be money. Hill shoots about 80 percent from the stripe, and the game on the line, Clunk and clunk. The usually reliable Duke grad probably…
Yesterday, the campaign for Republican Congressional candidate Wendy Rogers announced her house was vandalized the day she announced her candidacy, and one of her campaign staffers thinks “the Left” might have something to do with it.The campaign for Rogers — who’s running in the newly formed Ninth District — noted…
Robert Sparks, the hearing officer overseeing fired sheriff’s deputy Joel Fox’s appeal, is worried that he’s out of his league in the complex case. This isn’t an average appeal for the job of an average county worker who was fired, of course — it’s about a scandal and cover-up that…
One of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige was booked into jail on five felony charges today.According to the sheriff’s office, now-former Deputy Torrey McRae skimmed $5,000 out of the sheriff’s office that was meant for drug investigations.The internal investigation into McRae started in January, when one of…
Carrying signs depicting U.S. Representative Trent Franks of Arizona’s Second Congressional District as a hot dog with the slogan, “Congressman Franks, Don’t Be a Wiener,” around 25 protesters rallied on the sidewalk before Franks’ Glendale office this morning to oppose an anti-abortion measure proposed by the West Valley Republican.Franks’ legislation,…
Thirty-four-year-old Matthew Williams got cut off from the booze last night at a Chandler bar after getting into a verbal spat with another bar-goer.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Williams left the joint after the bartender said she was holding on to his credit card and calling the…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, action-movie star Steven Seagal, and others have been named in a lawsuit stemming from a raid last year where Arpaio and his boys brought the dog-and-pony show to arrest a single cockfighting suspect.Attorney Robert Campos — who filed the lawsuit on behalf…
Robert Towery, a 47-year-old Mesa man who spent the last two decades of his life on death, was executed late this morning at the state prison in Florence. Towery’s last-minute appeals didn’t pass muster, and prison officials injected the inmate with the poisonous chemicals that killed him.He was charged in…
Republican Congressional candidate Wendy Rogers says her house was vandalized the day she announced her candidacy, and one of her campaign staffers thinks “the Left” might have something to do with it.An email from the Rogers campaign says her Tempe home was vandalized on Saturday night, about 12 hours after…
Stick a pitchfork in the Arizona State men’s basketball team, which got thumped last night by Stanford in a first-round Pac-12 Conference tournament game. The 85-65 loss at LA’s Staples Center in front of about as many folks as watched the Sun Devils this year in Tempe at the Wells…
The Phoenix Suns managed to make three field goals in the fourth quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder last night, which — adding in the free-throws — made for a 16-point quarter.Unfortunately, the Suns earned zero points for the 14 shots they missed that quarter, and the game ended as…
Pinal County Supervisor Pete Rios has been calling for embattled Sheriff Paul Babeu to step down from his post as the county’s top cop. In the past few weeks, several individuals have lodged allegations against Babeu that he abused his power, was complicit in the abusive conditions at the DeSisto…
Peyton Manning’s no longer the quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, which means the frenzy is officially under way for NFL teams to make their attempts to sign him.The Arizona Cardinals have already reached out to Manning’s people, according to the ESPN-favorite “sources,” and their conclusion from their mass of “sources”…
MISERY DATE Not a gay thing — a lying, threatening thing: [Pinal County Sheriff Paul] Babeu is using whatever he can to do damage control (“Grave Digger,” Stephen Lemons, March 1; “Firestorm” and “Investigations Loom Into Paul Babeu’s Mexican Lover’s Allegations,” Monica Alonzo, February 17 and 23. Also see “Paul…
I’m so perplexed by my Mexican neighbor. For one, he already has four girls, and I just saw his wife — and she looks like she’s pregnant again! What really bothers me is that I live in an affordable-housing unit. The rent is cheap and based on our income. He…
The most riveting detail to come out of Paul Babeu’s three-year tenure as head of a private Massachusetts boarding school for troubled teens was his close relationship with a 17-year-old student there. Former students of the now-defunct school tell New Times that they often saw Babeu showering attention on fellow…
The 12 jurors filed solemnly into the downtown Phoenix courtroom after lunch last November 14, a Monday. It had been three long months since opening statements in the tragic murder case of Arizona vs. Jeffrey Martinson. For their troubles — and there were many — the jurors were paid all…
