It ain’t over till it’s over, and the lawsuit challenging the sham recall candidacy of Olivia Cortes ain’t over, yet.Though Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Edward Burke yesterday refused to remove Cortes from the ballot, on Friday at 3:30, he will allow the plaintiff’s lawyers, Tom Ryan and H. Michael…
As we reported earlier this year, Governor Jan Brewer has written a book. Well, she had someone ghost-write a book on her behalf that’s scheduled to be released November 1.As we noted in our previous report, Jan’s new book wasn’t just written by a ghost-writer, it was written by a…
John Gillis — veteran Los Angeles cop, former U.S. Department of Justice official and champion for the rights of crime victims — will be helping out Valley victims for a while.Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery has hired Gillis to serve as the chief of the agency’s victim services division. Picking…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Anrdew Thom Ass, 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 thought would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of Bruce Wardell…
Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer announced that he’s switching party affiliation in his push to unseat Joe Arpaio as the sheriff of Maricopa County.Stauffer, a life-long Republican, originally planned to face Arpaio in a GOP primary as a Republican. He’s now running as an Independent.See Stauffer’s explanation of his decision here.It’s…
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Robert Halliday, Arizona Department of Public Safety director, is lobbying for his No. 2 man with an internal survey that highlights the aide’s accomplishments. As we reported last week, a Fraternal Order of Police survey of employees earlier this year found extreme displeasure with Halliday’s top aide, Lieutenant Colonel Jack…
Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, the man who hopes to unseat Joe Arpaio as Maricopa County sheriff, announced Friday that he’s switching party affiliation to run as an Independent.It’s probably a pretty good move — Stauffer originally was running as a Republican, which means he would have had to face Arpaio…
Bradford Lund, heir to an immense Disney fortune and son of local developer Bill Lund, wants a federal judge to fire his state-appointed legal guardian.Lund, his father, and other members of the family have been embroiled in a nasty fight over hundreds of millions of dollars in a trust left…
A Phoenix woman is dead after apparently running herself over with her own vehicle in what police are describing as a tragic “accident.”Phoenix police say they found the body of 33-year-old Mendy E. Brooks pinned underneath her SUV in the middle of the road in a neighborhood near Campbell Drive…
Despite an 11th hour motion asking for a delay in a ruling in the lawsuit aimed at sham recall candidate Olivia Cortes, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Edward Burke denied the plaintiff’s application for a temporary restraining order, leaving Cortes on the November 8 ballot in Legislative District 18.In his…
Arizona was playing poorly on this homestand, and against the team with the worst record in baseball, the lowly Houston Astros. Just like that, the home boys fell behind 7-1, and the relatively small crowd at Chase Field (announced attendance was 17,814, but it seemed about half that to those…
Phoenix firefighter Mark Nehrenz was arrested Saturday afternoon after he hit a teenager with his truck and then just drove off, according to police.The victim suffered a broken hip and is expected to recover.According to court records obtained by New Times, police suspect that Nehrenz was drunk when he hit…
A few weeks earlier, Milwaukee’s power-hitting first-baseman Prince Fielder chose not to pick the D-Backs’ Justin Upton for the All-Star Home Run Derby in Phoenix, which pissed off a lot of Arizona fans. Though Upton publicly took the high road, it surely had to bother him, and he took it…
The St. Louis Cardinals long have been an upper-echelon franchise with perhaps the greatest fan base in all of Major League Baseball. For sure, they are a passionate bunch, as we found out one night some time ago when we almost found ourselves in a bar fight with Cards fan…
They’re pissed off at American greed and social injustice. They’re relatively leaderless but well connected through social media. And they’re gonna Occupy Phoenix on October 15.The “Occupy Wall Street” movement that led to 700 or so arrests in New York City over the weekend is catching like wildfire, with more…
It was a sellout at Miller Park in Milwaukee (same as it was in the first two games of the ongoing National League playoffs) on a beautiful Fourth of July. The Brewers were cruising, up 6-1 after the fourth inning. But this was becoming a special D-Backs team. Over the…
UPDATE: Judge Burke has just ruled thrown out the complaint, despite this 11th hour effort by Wright and Ryan. Will post decision shortly.UPDATE 2, 1:30 PM: You can read Burke’s ruling, here.CORRECTION: The judge denied a request for a temporary restraining order. The lawsuit is still alive, though Cortes will remain…
Alleged Phoenix scammer Donald Lapre, the owner of the company The Best Vitamin in the World, was found dead in his prison cell in Florence yesterday morning in what authorities say was an apparent suicide.Lapre, who was indicted in June for fraud, was found unresponsive in his cell in a…
Yeah, we know that the 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks are but one game from extinction at the hands of the formidable Milwaukee Brewers. But it ain’t over yet–and, besides, it was a blast getting here. Back on June 24, in a seesaw battle up in Detroit, the D-Backs somehow snuck past…
By this point in the season, it was beginning to become ever more clear to Arizona fans that this team might just be a little bit special. The exciting come-from-behind 6-5 win over the Florida Marlins at Chase Field was a case in point, the D-Backs’ 17th such win from…
With the Arizona Cardinals ahead by four points with about four minutes remaining in their 31-27 loss to the New York Giants yesterday, we said to a friend “and now Eli Manning’s gonna march the G-men down the field and win this game.Then Eli Manning marched his team down the…
