A Phoenix man — with a lengthy rap sheet for domestic violence — was arrested yesterday for the murder of his girlfriend, during which he allegedly bit off her nipple.Paul Lavon Hamilton’s been charged with one count of second-degree murder in the beating death of Stephanie Joyce, his girlfriend of…
Just in case you read the above headline and nearly had a stroke, relax — 74-year-old Senator John McCain is NOT running for president in the 2012 election.”The Maverick” spoke to a group of Alabama businessmen and government leaders yesterday, where he was probed about whether he had any intentions…
Louie Puroll, a former Pinal County sheriff’s deputy whose tale about getting shot by illegal-alien dope smugglers in the desert near Interstate 8 came under fire last year, is not, repeat not, back on the job. A colleague pointed out a comment attached online to one of his stories that claimed Puroll –…
The Arizona Supreme Court has issued a stay in the execution of kid-killing rapist Donald Beaty because of a last-minute switcheroo in one of the drugs used to put him down and a clerical error made by state officials.Beaty’s attorneys reportedly objected to the last-minute substitution of the sedative pentobarbital…
Griselda Nevarez Educators or politicians? It isn’t just undocumented students upset with the Maricopa Community Colleges Governing Board anymore. State politicians and business leaders showed up at last night’s board meeting to condemn MCC’s recent tuition hike targeting undocumented students. Representative Catherine Miranda and her husband, ex-representative Ben Miranda, were…
Yahoo! Sports It’s good! Er, bad, for the Diamondbacks at least. Talk about a reversal of fortune. Josh Collmenter lost his first game of the season against the Colorado Rockies yesterday while Joe Saunders won for the first time this year in a double-header at Coors Field. The Rockies pounded…
Governor Jan Brewer and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne are preparing to file a declaratory judgment in federal court that would put a halt to Arizona’s medical marijuana program.The move comes after U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke warned Arizonans in a letter to the Department of Health Services that Arizona’s voter-approved…
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One of those arrested, a detention officer, is the baby-mama of a cartel “kingpin” and another is a former member of the sheriff’s anti-human-smuggling task force who’s himself an alleged human smuggler.The three officers, Deputy Alfredo Navarette and detention officers Sylvia Najera and Marcella Hernandez, were arrested this morning after a…
Arizona leaders are preparing to ask to the feds to put a halt to Arizona’s medical marijuana program. *UPDATE: Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne says no dispensary permits will be issued until a federal court rules on the legality of the program. He’s not sure how long that could take.*…
If you flew on a United Airlines flight out of Phoenix this afternoon, you may want to wash your hands — or your everything.A United plane, in which a guy masturbated and ejaculated on his seat on May 19, has been criss-crossing the country since. According to a website that…
A former teacher/cheerleading coach at a Tucson high school pleaded guilty this morning to charges that she had a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student at the school for which she formerly worked.Christie Elliot, a now-former English teacher and cheerleading coach at Empire High School in Tucson, pleaded guilty to assault…
Our sources, it appears, were correct.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office just confirmed that three sheriff’s deputies have been arrested in connection with a drug- and human-smuggling operation.Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Bill Montgomery plan to brief the media on the busts at 3:30 this afternoon.According to the MCSO, “Arpaio…
UPDATE: The MCSO confirms to New Times that three sheriff’s deputies have been arrested. Click here for details.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office served search warrants at three west Valley locations this morning, and county sources tell New Times the boys in beige are investigating some of their own for alleged…
Ssshhh… Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery seem to be on a secret mission. He’s scheduled to appear at a fundraiser tomorrow for himself hosted by lawyer Mark Goldman and featuring an appearance by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, (whom Montgomery apparently thinks is sort of daffy.) Obviously, this can’t be a simple…
At one point, Goodman claimed that the shuttered fiduciary firm, the Sun Valley Group, in cahoots with Superior Court Judges and a cabal of greedy attorneys, was ripping off adults deemed “incapacitated” by the court for everything they had. Judges often appoint private fiduciaries to help with all aspects of a clients’s…
The search is on for two men who police say robbed a guy earlier this year, and now authorities want your help. They’re even making it worth your while.Silent Witness is offering up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the suspects, one of whom is pictured to…
The First Amendment apparently doesn’t extend to Twitter-town — if you work for the Arizona Daily Star, anyway.A federal labor board recently found that the Star was well within its rights when it fired a public safety reporter for a series of morbid “tweets” he posted on his Twitter account…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks wrote a recent article for Roll Call, in which he argues that gender differences between men and women should keep the ladies off the front lines of a combat situation.Franks argues that sexual tension between male and female soldiers “further complicates the situation by providing one…
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Arizona Congressman Trent Franks has a message for subscribers of “radical feminism”: you need a penis to serve in military combat roles (cue the feminist outrage).Franks penned an article for Roll Call last week, in which he argues that gender differences between men and women should keep the ladies off…
When confronted by two women as he had sex in his car, Christopher Nader Shahin told them that the girl involved was his “baby mama” and that “she fine.” Turns out, the girl wasn’t his “baby mama;” she was a 14-year-old he’d just kidnapped from a grocery store, and she…
