Detectives from the Peoria Police Department’s Special Victims Unit arrested Jose Sanchez Figueroa, a 37-year-old Colorado man, for allegedly engaging in sexual contact with a minor.The accused perv faces multiple felony counts of luring a minor for sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, sexual conduct with a minor, and molestation.And he apparently…
New Times snagged a 2011 Stylos Awards for Publication of the Year.We beat out La Voz and Que Magazine for Best Publication in the contest that focuses on the Valley Latino community.Stylos Awards are presented by the Isac Amaya Foundation to honor local, talented musicians, artists, models, and fashion designers, as…
Arizona Senator John McCain — who spent the better part of five years getting tortured by North Vietnamese soldiers during the Vietnam War — took to Twitter this morning to let some of his fellow GOPers know that he’s “very disappointed” in their positions on waterboarding, a controversial CIA interrogation…
David Appleton, a Scottsdale defense attorney who once served as the president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer’s Association, fatally shot a motorist last week during an apparent road-rage incident. Turns out, Appleton’s got a bit of a history in the road-rage department.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Appleton’s…
Jonathan Knight, a children’s Tae Kwon Do instructor in Glendale, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he sent photos of his penis to one of his 12-year-old female students.Knight was arrested last month and faces four counts of furnishing obscene material…
Heroin’s not good for anyone — especially an 11-month-old baby, like the one found in a Scottsdale hotel room that her mother baked out with heroin smoke yesterday afternoon.According to court records obtained by New Times, 25-year-old Matthew Nakihei and his baby-mama, Stefanie Bindes, 34, were arrested yesterday after police were called the…
The Kevin Kolb-less Arizona Cardinals stunned Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles with a 21-17 road victory in the city of brotherly love yesterday — which never would have happened if wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald wasn’t straight-up nasty.Aside from Fitzgerald’s two touchdowns — making him the franchise’s touchdown leader with…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of former Senate President Russell Pearce throwin’ in the towel for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest..We had nearly 60 responses in the comment section of the post, which you…
“Inconsistencies” in his story about fatally shooting a man during an apparent road-rage incident last night has led to the arrest of Scottsdale attorney David Appleton, who once served as the president of the Phoenix Trial Lawyer’s Association.. About 7 p.m. yesterday, Appleton called police to report that he’d shot…
Just-defeated state Senate President Russell Pearce doesn’t know when to keep his redneck trap shut. First he’s soundly defeated by challenger Jerry Lewis in the Legislative District 18 recall, then he’s removed as Senate President by the Republican caucus, and now Pearce’s margin of loss has widened to nearly 12 percent,…
The much anticipated interview with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — her first interview since getting shot in the head during the January 8 Tucson shooting — is set to air Monday night on ABC.It remains unclear how much viewers will see of Giffords in her current state — her staff says…
State Senator Steve Pierce was pegged by his Republican Senate colleagues to replace ousted former Senator Russell Pearce as the president of the Senate — and Arizona Democrats aren’t thrilled with the GOP’s pick.We commented yesterday that Pierce’s taking over as Senate president seems like a standard case of “meet…
Today marks one month since 5-year-old Glendale girl Jahessye Shockley was reported missing by her family, and police are no closer to finding her.Shockley, police say, wandered away from siblings — who were caring for her at her family’s apartment at the time — a little before 5 p.m. on October…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is often compared to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for several reasons — his crusade against illegal immigrants, and love of TV cameras, to name a few.There’s another similarity: dude can raise cash.Babeu announced last week that he’s considering running for Congress. Since his announcement,…
In celebration of Russell Pearce’s recent fall from grace, we submit to you the above photo of the now-former Senate president throwin’ in the towel for this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.Here’s how you play You Write the Caption: We show you a picture (above) and you…
A poll released Wednesday shows that the vast majority of Arizonans prefer a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who’ve been in the United States for an extended period of time, and can meet reasonable criteria for citizenship — as oppose to simply booting them back to their native countries,…
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that it will re-hear New Times’ lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and others over the 2007 arrest of its founders after our newspaper published an article about a grand jury that — the public would later learn — didn’t actually…
As if the ouster of former Senator Russell Pearce wasn’t enough of a signal to border-hawk Arizona politicos that it’s time to perhaps reassess their positions on immigration, a poll released yesterday shows that the majority of Arizonans prefer a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, as opposed to simply…
In July, news broke that someone in the U.S. Justice Department had leaked a memo in an attempt to retaliate against a whistleblower in the Fast and Furious scandal. That someone, it turns out, was former Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke. Burke resigned in disgrace at the end of August, two…
Ousted former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce went On the Record With Greta Van Susteren last night to discuss his getting booted from office — and piss and moan about Jerry Lewis, the man who beat him in Tuesday’s historic recall election.Van Susteren asked Pearce whether he and Lewis are…
A teacher with the Scottsdale Unified School District was arrested yesterday after two 12-year-old girls accused him of grabbing their breasts.The two girls, who police say are best friends, say the alleged gropings happened while the two were in the school’s library with 60-year-old Thomas Weaver, their teacher at the…
The penalty phase of Mark Goudeau’s trial continued this morning, with jurors hearing the deeply emotional accounts of the impact that the nine murders have had on the surviving family members and friends. Today’s testimony (continued from yesterday) truly was gut-wrenching. Goudeau stared straight ahead or buried his face in some…
