No happy hours at topless clubs for you — not if State Rep. Steve Court, R-Mesa, has his way.Court, the Legislature’s majority leader, introduced a bill today that targets strip clubs and other adult-oriented businesses with a ban on alcohol and private rooms. The proposed law also aims to regulate…
Authorities have reportedly made an arrest in the murders of a Paradise Valley couple found bound in their burning home earlier this week.The Paradise Valley Police Department did not immediately return our call for confirmation, and authorities have refused to confirm the rumor to other publications, but KPHO is reporting…
Shamed former state Senator Scott Bundgaard has found himself in a new fight — and this time it isn’t taking place on the side of a Valley freeway.Bundgaard is smack-dab in the middle of a Twitter showdown with David Leibowitz, former Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s old PR flack/pal of Aubry…
A 30-year-old man was rushed to a hospital Thursday evening after a serious accident while jumping at the newly opened Skypark Indoor Trampoline Park in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood.”He was not breathing and had no pulse,” says Captain Scott Walker of the Phoenix Fire Department.Walker expects to get an update on…
The news that former state Senate President Russell Pearce is positioning himself to run again for the state Senate should surprise no one.To be clear, Pearce hasn’t yet announced his intention to seek that office. He’s merely filed paperwork with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office that would allow him…
The emerging Latino vote in Arizona is the focus of the Arizona Latino Research Enterprise and Raul H. Castro Institute’s annual Town Hall gathering at Phoenix College. Panels of experts and speakers at the Town Hall will examine the increasing influence of Latino voters at a national, state and local…
The Arizona Wildcats’ triple-overtime road win last year over California-Berkeley was one of the best college games we’ve seen in awhile, and not just because our alma mater came out on top by a score of 107-105 We were looking forward to last night’s rematch (the only time the two…
By popular demand, we submit to you the above photo of Governor Jan Brewer fingering Pinal County Sheriff/Congressional candidate Paul Babeu for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.Adding to the fun is the (ahem) hil-arious caption added by Fox News host/Brewer’s BFFF Greta Van Susteren, which is…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office admitted yesterday that it asked the Arizona Attorney General’s Office to “contact” Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer — Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s opponent in this year’s election — and ask him about “inside information” he received about the December death of Marty Atencio in one of Arpaio’s…
Jerald Newman, the grandpa whose bloody arrest at a Walmart on Black Friday made national headlines, hasn’t yet been charged on allegations of shoplifting and resisting arrest.Buckeye police Lieutenant Jared Griffiths tells New Times that his agency did submit the charges to prosecutors. But the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office sent…
Sorry, Lisa Aubuchon.Yesterday, we published a blog post stating — incorrectly, it turns out — that Aubuchon had filed a motion to stay her appeal to get her job back as a Maricopa deputy county attorney. We compounded the mistake by suggesting Aubuchon thought she might be disbarred when a…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s office demands — again — that the federal government turn over more proof of its claim that the office has practiced routine racial profiling. In a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Justice today (see below), a private attorney hired by the sheriff’s office says…
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office currently is investigating Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer at the directive of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office over last year’s jailhouse death of Marty Atencio (the MCSO disputes it’s an “investigation,” but we got our hands on a recording of a voicemail a special agent from…
Anti-union sentiments among Arizona’s conservative politicos aren’t letting up. Four anti-union bills aimed at thwarting unions’ existence in the public sector sailed out of the Senate’s Government Reform committee on Wednesday…
Nothing like a bad economy to get people to line up for those lottery tickets. State lottery officials say ticket sales in Arizona totaled $293 million between July 2011 to December 2011, nearly 9 percent over the same mid-term sales figures last year. Arizona lottery officials parceled out the $293…
Tyson Langley, the 15-year-old accused of murdering two people at a Peoria smoke shop last month, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder.Despite his young age, Langley’s being charged as an adult.Langley’s accused of murdering Melinda Bowen, 38,…
Fox News host/Governor Jan Brewer’s BFF Greta Van Susteren broadcasted a photo last night of the governor sticking her finger in the face of Pinal County Sheriff/Congressional candidate Paul Babeu.Brewer’s bestie even hams it up, noting that the governor is an “equal opportunity pointer.”The photo of Babeu, as you can…
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is one step closer to completing his team of advisors with the appointment of Phoenix College faculty member Trino Sandoval as Senior Policy Advisor on Education. Sandoval, who is “on loan” from Phoenix College, will take the lead on the Mayor’s education agenda, which includes strengthening…
Steve Nash is pushing 38, and he’s been taking a particularly brutal physical beat-down this year on what is a lousy Phoenix Suns team. Still, he’s one of the all-time gamers, and rather than rest his aching leg against a truly pathetic New Orleans Hornets team, Nash played 29 wildly effective…
State Representative Matt Heinz announced Tuesday that he’s running for the Congressional seat previously held by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.Giffords, as you probably know, resigned from the seat last week so she can focus on her recovery after getting shot in the head during last year’s shooting rampage in Tucson. Heinz…
My cousin had put a picture on Facebook that said, “I will not be forced to learn a foreign language to accommodate illegals in my country.” He’s Mexican-American. Our family is from La Luz, Zacatecas, and its surrounding villages. His dad (my uncle) was born here in El Paso, Texas…
To get on the bad side of Hall of Fame rocker Alice Cooper, Mexican boxing idol Julio Cesar Chavez, and a man who scaled Mount Everest takes some doing. But Brian Weymouth, a veteran Valley restaurant manager/sports-entertainment agent who has hobnobbed and done business with those men, succeeded in doing…
