After releasing two not-so-scathing statements through his campaign last week about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s Mexican ex-lover problems, Congressman Paul Gosar now sounds pretty peeved off with Babeu (he is one of his Republican primary opponents in the congressional race, after all).Instead of the tone last week — where…
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer yesterday, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070.According to a release from Schumer’s office, the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law…
Ammandea Stoltzmann, a cousin of Ame Deal — the 10-year-old girl who died after her family members admittedly stuffed the girl in a footlocker for taking a Popsicle — has now become the fifth member of the family arrested for horrifically abusing the girl before her death.Read the tragic detail’s…
Cab driver Joseph Goldmeer was convicted by a jury yesterday on three counts of aggravated assault, stemming from a July incident in which Goldmeer ended an argument at a Phoenix gas station by running a guy over in his cab, according to a court spokesperson.Police weren’t even sure the 45-year-old…
We didn’t go by the Wells Fargo Arena last night for Arizona State’s 66-57 loss to UCLA, but we know a few diehards who tells us that the announced attendance of 5,477 was exaggerated by a whole lot. The game itself was a microcosm of ASU’s lost season–a nice effort…
Late last week, Fox 10 put out a story based on the fact that a horse ate a carrot out of the hand of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the middle of an interview.The rest of the segment just involves the anchors talking over video of Arpaio shaking a…
If you’ve ever wanted to start an argument based off nothing but the opinions of 743 random Arizona voters, we’ve got some material for you.Public Policy Polling often releases “Odds and Ends” surveys along with its political polls, asking voters about some off-the-wall things like whether they approve of God’s…
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), but a Valley teacher is accused with having sex with a student.In fact, with 23-year-old Andrew Islas — a Tempe High School assistant band director — being arrested yesterday after admitting to sexing…
Nogales charter school teacher Ricardo Siqueiros took a ride on Interstate 10 toward Phoenix Tuesday evening.According to the Arizona Department of Public Safety, he took his 19.5 pounds of meth and 12 pounds of cocaine along for the ride.Siqueiros, 32, was stopped by the cops around 7 p.m. while driving…
The results show for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation into President Obama’s eligibility is apparently so important that it’s going to be steamed live on a conspiracy-theory website.That’s right — World Net Daily, which has been the mouthpiece for the latest inquiry into the repeatedly debunked conspiracy theory,…
Specifically, Babeu claims that Jose Orozco stole his identity and hacked into the sheriff’s web accounts — accounts that Babeu had asked his longtime flame to maintain. Indeed, A.D. Horan, an attorney representing Orozco, said his client was a campaign volunteer and an “authorized administrator who … created and maintained websites for…
UPDATE: The Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar now says one of the Marines killed was based out of Yuma.A collision of two helicopters during training exercises last night along the Arizona/California border killed seven Marines, according to a Marine Corps spokeswoman.Lieutenant Maureen Dooley tells New Times that as of now, the…
The Phoenix Suns were a bit like Rick Santorum at the Republican debate in Mesa last night: They started terribly, got way behind, made a late comeback, but faded at the end in a stinging 106-104 home loss last night to the Golden State Warriors. The last game before the…
Last night, the four remaining candidates for the Republican presidential nomination took the stage in Mesa for the party’s 20th presidential debate of the election cycle.There’s less than a week to go before Arizona’s presidential primary, and according to the pollsters, the race is tight — likely to be taken…
I’ve tried and failed to learn the Spanish language for the past two years. During high school and college, I took both Spanish I and Spanish II, but nothing really stuck with me. Last year, I visited a Spanish-speaking church to help immerse myself in the language, but only understood…
Sitting in the living room of a modest apartment in a working-class section of North Phoenix, Adolfo recounts in rough English his most moving experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For two years, the now-21-year-old pounded pavement in Las Vegas and other parts…
Calls for an investigation were mounting following New Times’ web exclusive about allegations that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and his attorney threatened the sheriff’s ex-boyfriend with deportation after their relationship ended. Finally, Babeu announced that the Gila County Attorney’s Office and the Gila County Sheriff’s Office would conduct an…
Cost $6,000 and worth every penny… For years, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has successfully peddled the myth that he’s “America’s toughest sheriff,” but his record of wasting taxpayer money, pursuing his political enemies and, worst of all, bungling the investigations of sex crimes on a massive, unprecedented scale, seems to finally…
The Republican Presidential debate in Mesa just wrapped up a few minutes ago, and in the mid-debate words of Mitt Romney, “I didn’t follow all of that, but I can tell you this…” Among the few Arizona-related topics discussed included, unsurprisingly, immigration and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. CNN moderator…
A new survey of Arizona voters by Public Policy Polling shows that President Barack Obama stands an even chance of turning Arizona blue in November.The poll shows Obama surging in our redder than red state, tying Republican Mitt Romney at 47 percent. Against GOPer Rick Santorum he does one point…
According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, the gentleman pictured above is 35-year-old Clifton Dawayne Brooks — the guy the sheriff’s office says “threatened to kill” Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Arpaio and the FBI announced yesterday that the FBI’s Portland, Oregon office raided the house Brooks was living in, after it was…
A Scottsdale woman was kidnapped from her garage yesterday and driven to a bank, where she was told by her kidnapper to empty her account or he’d harm her and her mother. A bank teller tipped off the cops, who came and arrested their suspect — 40-year-old Thanh Andrew Harlan.Scottsdale…
