Taylor Basilio, the Phoenix man who last month admitted to beating his 7-week-old son so brutally that the boy’s skull was broken in two places, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to child abuse charges.Basilio and his wife, Candace Basilio, were arrested last…
As you’ve probably heard, a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot with a high-powered rifle over the weekend. As you also may have heard, a New Hampshire couple was found shot to death in their car near Sedona on Friday, also shot with a high-powered rifle.Now, investigators are trying…
We’re not going too far out on a limb here by saying it’s going to be another long year for ASU’s men’s basketball team. The Sun Devils play hard for head coach (he of the recent contract extension) Herb Sendek–but the team is thin and the remaining players on the…
When many of us see Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords doing so well after getting shot in the head during last year’s shooting rampage at a grocery store just outside of Tucson, we’re relieved, inspired — even uplifted.Not 77-year-old George Morris, who also is one of Jared Loughner’s victims, and who lost…
The Phoenix Suns used the weekend to even up their season record at 4-4 with home wins over the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday and Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday. The Suns topped 100 points in each contest, with Steve Nash scoring 17 points in Friday’s 102-77 nationally televised blowout and…
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic day when a 23-year-old, severely mentally ill man named Jared Loughner shot 19 people at a Safeway just outside of Tucson, killing six.Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, despite getting shot in the head during the rampage, led an estimated 3,500 people in the Pledge…
Over the weekend Arizona residents commemorated what has come to be known as the “Tucson Tragedy;” the day Jared Lee Loughner opened fire outside a Tucson Safeway killing six and wounding 14 including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Residents from across Arizona and the country, including Giffords and her husband Mark…
The effort to block former state House Minority Leader David Lujan from sliding into ex-state Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s still-warm legislative seat is firing up, with former state House Representative Ken Clark adding his name to the list of wannabes.Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox says she’s received calls of interest…
*CORRECTION: The boy is actually only 7 years old. Mesa police had initially told us the boy was 8.How does an 8-year-old manage to get a loaded handgun on a school bus full of children? Well, just ask the 8-year-old who brought a loaded handgun on a school bus full…
Under Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Act, motorists with state-issued pot cards can legally transport a small amount of “medicine” in their vehicles — but not on tribal lands.And those Native American lands include a strip of the Loop 101 freeway that runs from south of McKellips Road to the Pima Road/90th…
Roughly 50 guns were stolen from a San Tan Valley pawn shop early yesterday morning in two separate burglaries. Now authorities want your help in tracking down the alleged thieves.The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were called to the Perfect Pawn and Jewelery pawn shop at 40975 North Ironwood…
State Senator Scott Bundgaard resigned from the Senate this afternoon just minutes before he was supposed to testify in front of the Senate Ethics Committee regarding a scuffle he got into with his former girlfriend on the side of a Valley freeway.Bundgaard’s attorney, Andre Merrett, tells New Times that the…
Today, state Schools Superintendent John Huppenthal ordered that 10 percent of the budget for the Tucson Unified School District be withheld until TUSD eradicates its Mexican American Studies program.The cut is punitive and retroactive to August 15, 2011.No great drama there. Huppenthal announced the school out of compliance with an…
*UPDATE* Bundgaard confirms to New Times that he has resigned. He says he’ll speak with us about it later today.State Senator Scott Bundgaard was scheduled to testify this afternoon during the Senate ethics hearing over the freeway fight he got into with his former flame Aubry Ballard. That didn’t happen,…
Gentlemen, the next time your girlfriend spouts off about how horrible you are at being a boyfriend, just tell her it could be much, much worse — she could be dating 32-year-old Ramon Eligio Alva.Alva was arrested Tuesday night after beating the crap out of his girlfriend because she greeted…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who wants Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s support in his newly announced bid for Congress, had strong words for Arpaio after the 2007 arrest of officer Thomas Lovejoy. Babeu questioned Arpaio’s motives in the arrest, saying they were driven not by honest enforcement of the…
According to a new survey, Tempe, the home of Arizona State University’s largest campus, is the second-worst college town in America — worse even than places like Waco, Texas, Ruston, Louisiana, and Poughkeepsie, New York.However, the survey was conducted by a group urging people to get an online education, rather…
File this one under, “Something wicked this way comes.” The non-crazy GOP blog Politico Mafioso is reporting that disgraced nativist standard bearer, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce is seeking the position of First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, where he’d be carrying water for AZ GOP chair…
A jury will start hearing the case of Chandler police officer Thomas Lovejoy versus Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on April 17, a judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Neil Wake, whose ruling two weeks ago in the case slammed both Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, also ordered a…
There’s a very sound reason we don’t engage in sports gambling but on the rare occasion: We learned the hard way a long time ago that we come too close too often to striking gold–but almost inevitably lose. We wrote yesterday that, in our imaginary betting world, we would take the…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is 79 years old. He’s also running for a sixth term as sheriff, as he announced yesterday.”For all those critics that demonstrate in front of my office for three years, calling me every name in the book, I’m going to announce right now on your…
Brahm Resnik of Channel 12 News (KPNX-TV) just tweeted that Governor Jan Brewer “indicates she will refile lawsuit to block medical marijuana law.” UPDATE: We watched Resnik’s report — looks like he got this one wrong. In his 10 p.m. broadcast, Brewer can be seen at an event talking about the medical marijuana lawsuit…
