The Glendale Police Department tells New Times its investigation into the disappearance of 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley is its “number one priority.” But that’s not enough for the girl’s mother, Jerice Hunter, who continues to publicly bash the police, claiming they’re not doing enough to find her daughter.Hunter and other members…
So what do you call an independent expenditure committee where the chairman scores around 72 percent of all the committee’s expenditures?You call that a nice payday for Constantin Querard. In February of this year, the slippery GOP consultant, alleged by some to be the ultimate shot-caller behind the sham candidacy of…
A former Maricopa County constable was arrested over the weekend after police say he conspired to burn his house down so he could collect an insurance payout.According to the Tempe Police Department, former Kyrene Justice Court Constable Jonathan Harold Irwin Levenson, who is Jewish, planned to make the blaze look…
Blake Obadiah Adams, the Phoenix man who fatally shot his girlfriend’s cousin on Valentine’s day after celebrating the day of romance by smoking PCP, was sentenced to prison time today after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge William Brotherton sentenced Adams to 16 years in prison for…
With just two weeks before Election Day, Phoenix’s two mayoral candidates aren’t letting up — taking political swings and slinging mud at each other. Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett says that if his opponent, Greg Stanton, is so adverse to lobbyists’ influence in city government, then why did he take…
After months of speculation that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu planned on seeking higher office, he announced this morning that he’s considering running for Congress.”I believe the real deficit in Washington is one of leadership,” Babeu says in a statement issued this morning. “Almost three years after the 800 billion…
A friend just pointed out a little question-and-answer interview that the New York TImes published over the weekend with Shaquille O’Neal. …
The jury in the Mark Goudeau serial murder/rape case resumes deliberations this morning in downtown Phoenix at the Maricopa County Superior Court…
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Mike Wallace is friggin’ fast — as the Arizona Cardinals learned the hard way in yesterdays 32-20 loss to “Big Ben” Roethlisberger’s boys at University of Phoenix Stadium.The Cards are now 1-5 after getting stomped by the Steelers for their fifth straight loss, and are now…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of shamed former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and one of his henchwomen, Rachel Alexander (who’s apparently dressed as former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin) for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption…
Could the Arizona Republican Party be any more obvious in its desire to quash the efforts of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, mainly because of that one word, “Independent”?What the heck are they afraid of? It’s unlikely the GOP will lose its majority hold on this redder than red state…
A man in Colorado died earlier this year after police zapped him with a Taser after he claimed to be a lion, tackled a guard at the Denver Zoo, and then bit a police officer. If you ask Scottsdale-based Taser, or the Denver coroner, though, the July 18 zapping wasn’t…
If there was a pervert hall of shame, “Uncle Jerry” Morrow would certainly be a first ballot inductee — he admitted to being a pedophile, and police suspect he’s molested nearly 20 kids dating as far back as 1976.Morrow was arrested last night at his home at 4807 South 339th…
A website touting support for a proposed $8.5 million bond in El Mirage is not only missing disclaimers about who paid for the site — it’s also misleads residents about who created it.And MoiaGroup, the Tucson-based web-design firm incorrectly linked to the site is pretty upset. So upset, in fact,…
Former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Detention Officer Kevin Gerster is heading back to jail — only this time as an inmate.Gerster initially was charged with five counts of aggravated assault for beating up inmates on at least two separate occasions (see the video below), and two counts of computer tampering for allegedly…
Someone should really keep Grampa Russell away from “the Internets,” e-mail, Facebook, and just about any technology that followed the invention of photography. State Senate President Pearce just doesn’t have a very good track record when it comes to newfangled technology, or any technology, to be precise. Surely, everybody recalls the…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirms to New Times that shamed former Captain Joel Fox has been given the boot following a long-running internal investigation that already has resulted in the resignations of two other top deputies.Former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott and Deputy Chief Larry Black — with whom Fox…
Gilman’s vid, from the ramparts… Here’s activist videographer and all-around hell-raiser Dennis Gilman’s latest video of vignettes from last weekend’s Occupy Phoenix protest. Shannon Rivers, as always, is way cool. And the gal on the guitar is quite talented.Martin, from back in the day…The first thing the chanting made me…
We watched the morning news a bit ago as onetime Disney-superstar-turned-train-wreck Lindsay Lohan slipped in the back door of the Los Angeles County morgue to do ghoulish penance for whatever it was that got her on probation. Lohan landed at the morgue (not in a body bag–yet!) after failing to…
In honor of the Arizona Bar disciplinary hearings that could potentially conclude with disbarments of disgraced former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon and the law-license suspension of ex-county lawyer Rachel Alexander, we’ve opted to go with a picture of the Alexander and Thomas for this week’s You Write…
The disappearance of 5-year-old Jahessye Shockley is now officially a race issue following some comments made by her grandmother, Shirley Johnson, yesterday.Johnson’s upset by the lack of coverage Shockley’s disappearance has received in the national media — all while the disappearance of a missing Kansas City girl, Lisa Irwin, is…
