We’re biased on this one.Gotta admit it.We watched hours and hours of testimony by former Maricopa County Andrew Thomas today, and the guy definitely seemed to have an answer for everything — but only in the way our mother used that phrase on us in our most smart-alecky moments. Thomas…
There are currently 175 law enforcement job openings at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, and if you’re not a military veteran returning from combat, any application you may submit will only be considered after those submitted by returning military folks, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today.Arpaio has “ordered” that all military…
Andrew Thomas certainly seems to believe his own theories as he defends himself today against a State Bar complaint that could cost him his law license.In the former Maricopa County Attorney’s world, County Supervisor Don Stapley is “corrupt,” whose motive to commit crimes was the money he was being paid…
Julie Kuhns’ boyfriend might have some explaining to do…to his wife.Kuhns, 45, was arrested Monday after admitting to police that she drank a third of a bottle of vodka before “accidentally” shooting her boyfriend in the chest.Her boyfriend, it turns out, is married to another woman.According to court documents obtained…
Did they leave out a zero somewhere?I keep rubbing my eyes and scratching my noggin over this latest campaign finance report filed yesterday by the Committee to Oppose Recall of Russell Pearce, which is run by the Virginia-based Team America PAC, co-chaired by anti-immigration stalwarts Tom Tancredo and Bay Buchanan.Despite…
In our account of the “Occupy Phoenix” demonstration in downtown Phoenix earlier this month, we used the above image of an “occupier” holding a sign stating that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is a “lying whore” who has Alzheimer’s disease.In our post about the rally, we suggested that calling someone a…
Part Two of the morning testimony by former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas brought out even more of Thomas’ apparently hypocritical thought processes.We say hypocritical because it’s difficult for us to believe that Thomas believes the words coming out of his mouth.As we noted in our last post about today’s…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said in a disciplinary hearing against him today that he doesn’t know why a judge he thought was “biased” made a major ruling in Thomas’ favor.Thomas has maintained throughout his fight with county officials that retired Judge Kenneth Fields, who was assigned to cover…
Proving that the world really has gone crazy over Arizona’s annual haboobs (that’s what we used to call dust storms until a big one this year), a video of a Florence wedding marred by dust is going viral. Here’s the YouTube version — our professional opinion is that it’s downright…
One of the more telling moments during fired deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon’s remarkable testimony at yesterday’s disciplinary hearing was her twisted take on office investigators Mark Stribling and Tim Cooning. It came during Aubuchon’s Twilight Zone-like account of what led up to the infamous direct criminal complaint that then-Maricopa…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is taking stand this morning in a disciplinary proceeding that could result in his disbarment.Click here to access the state Supreme Court’s Web site, then click on today’s live proceeding.Thomas was elected in 2004 on a platform of illegal immigration reform, then re-elected in…
Lisa Aubuchon lives in an alternative universe.True, we may have watched too many Star Trek episodes as a kid, but after watching the former deputy county attorney’s performance on the stand in the State Bar’s disciplinary hearings yesterday, we could come to no other conclusion. From the way she connected…
Cheerleaders at Gilbert High School planned to wear breast cancer awareness T-shirts that featured the slogan “Feel For Lumps, Save Your Bumps” to home football games in October.The cheerleaders planned to wear the shirts while collecting money for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization — a foundation setup…
Jason Alistair Lowery, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer who was busted in a marijuana smuggling sting last week — and then led authorities on a high-speed chase through the desert while throwing bundles of weed out of his ICE-owned vehicle — is to be held without bail,…
No matter what a stripper tells you when you’re shaking a handful of dollar bills at her, chances are she doesn’t want you to force oral sex on her. We’d venture further and assume a stripper really doesn’t want you to force oral sex on her while she has her…
An unrepentant Lisa Aubuchon is testifying at the moment before a hearing panel that is considering serious disciplinary action against her, her ex-boss County Attorney Andrew Thomas and another attorney.L Aubuchon has been trying to explain the litany of oft-told events that led to the ongoing hearings at the Arizona…
A cat had 22-year-old Freyando Bizardie so “depressed” Sunday afternoon that he tried to choke it to death. He also tried to stab it with a pen before he bit two of his sisters.According to court documents obtained by New Times, police were dispatched to Bizardie’s Phoenix home Sunday afternoon…
Wanna see a video of a Scottsdale chick brawl and a guy getting Tasered by police? Of course you do — who doesn’t?Our friend Pete over at Scottsdale Arizona News sent us a link to a brawl that apparently went down in a Scottsdale parking garage.The video is pretty brutal…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Vic, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of shamed former Maricopa County…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced yesterday that he’s considering running for a currently non-existent Congressional seat.As you can see in the comment section of our story on the matter (which you can see by clicking here), Babeu’s potential candidacy hasn’t been well received by New Times readers. As we…
To hear Barnett Lotstein tell it, ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas was willing to sacrifice his political career in order to do the right thing by going after alleged “corruption” in county government Lotstein spun, um, testified this morning at the ongoing disciplinary hearings regarding his former boss, Thomas,…
When a baby’s teeth are coming in, parents will often rub a little rum on the baby’s gums to dull the pain. A Phoenix mom is suspected of opting for a different remedy — police suspect she gave her 2-year-old baby methadone to treat a toothache.Phoenix police haven’t revealed the…
