It was probably only a matter of time before someone popped Brother Dean Saxton, Arizona’s infamous “slut-shaming preacher,” upside the head. For 19-year-old Tabitha Brubaker, that time appears to have come on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 26, when she allegedly cracked a baseball bat into the side of Saxton’s…
A grassroots Arizona cannabis-legalization campaign halted its drive for a 2016 ballot measure on Wednesday after failing to reach its signature-collection goals. Campaign manager Jason Medar confirmed in an April 12 blog post that Arizonans for Mindful Regulation wasn’t gathering petitions fast enough to make the July 7 deadline to…
Outside Phoenix’s Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse on Tuesday, opponents of Sheriff Joe Arpaio serenaded passersby with live mariachi music, chanted “Arrest Arpaio, not the people,” and unveiled a giant balloon depicting their nemesis in handcuffs and stripes. But inside the courthouse, by the the end of a five-hour session,…
Faster than a spinning lobbyist, more powerful than a strike-all amendment — it’s AZ Powergirl, celebrity cosplay model, swooping in to save the Arizona Legislature! Or so voters of Tempe’s Legislative District 26 can imagine, now that Cara Nicole Trujillo is officially in the race for the Arizona House of Representatives…
Just north of the Arizona border in San Juan County, Utah, copies of phony documents have been turning up at gas stations and post offices, aimed at local Native American tribes. The bogus handouts are filled with false information related to an actual pending proposal to establish a 1.9-million-acre national monument around…
Swell Farmacy’s plan to build a marijuana dispensary near Arizona State University hit a roadblock with Tempe zoning officials and may end up in court because of allegations of a conflict of interest on the zoning board. Swell Farmacy, also known as Healing Healthcare 3 Inc., wants to build its…
From the tons sold in legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of last week’s biggest pot news stories that affect the Grand Canyon State… Pro-Cannabis, Left-Wing Candidates File to Run for Office in Arizona…
A 12-year-old from Phoenix has been selected to compete on La Voz Kids, the Spanish-language version of NBC’s reality singing series, The Voice. Dulce Perez wowed the coaches during the blind auditions, when singers are chosen for teams based solely on vocal talent. Having made it through a pre-audition in…
Today, in a preview of a high-stakes hearing on Tuesday, May 31, in the contempt case of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and three of his subordinates, the ACLU filed a memorandum asking U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to make a referral to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, asking for an investigation…
A coalition of Arizona-based environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit this week against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for issuing a permit for a massive development project near the city of Benson that the groups say will devastate the San Pedro River…
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport might get rid of the Transportation Security Administration and bring in a private company to screen passengers and bags, according to an internal city memo released on Thursday, May 26. Under a “Screening Partnership Program” model now in place at 22 airports nationwide, security personnel from…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirms that there are four cases of chickenpox among the detainee population at the Eloy Detention Center, but immigrant rights advocates say there could be more. “We personally don’t believe that it’s only four,” Francisca Porchas, organizing director of the immigrant-rights group Puente Arizona,…
A Louisiana man’s life ended Wednesday after a swarm of bees attacked him and a companion in Usery Mountain Regional Park, just northwest of Apache Junction. Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies say 23-year-old Alex Bestler and a friend were hiking Merkle Trail when the swarm attacked unprovoked. The friend made it…
Seven Arizona lawmakers are asking the attorneys general of Arizona and Nevada to file a civil-rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice over the handling of the shooting death of 54-year-old Arizona resident Robert “LaVoy” Finicum, one of the men who occupied a wildlife refuge in Oregon earlier this…
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich waded into the nation’s tumultuous transgender-bathroom fray, announcing Wednesday that Arizona is one of 11 states with public officials suing the Obama administration regarding recent guidelines on how public schools should treat transgender students. The lawsuit, brought in U.S. District Court in Texas, claims the…
Some readers of the Arizona Capitol Times are calling a recent article about the Democratic primary race (subscription required) in Tempe’s Legislative District 26 sexist, if not outright misogynistic, for the way it repeatedly refers to the one of the candidates as the girlfriend of one of the other candidates. The story,…
Clad in a blue cap and gown, Mariam Cheshire stood before the residents of her Phoenix senior living facility to talk about earning her college degree at the age of 88. “This took me 71 years,” she says, addressing the crowd of seniors gathered in the cafeteria for a celebration. “It…
Paradise Valley kept its photo-enforcement cameras on after Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich issued his legal opinion in March — and now the town’s so backed up with tickets, it can’t process them all. The upscale Phoenix suburb is mailing violation notices to some of those offenders before statutory deadlines…
Former border vigilante Chris Simcox probably won’t be getting any Father’s Day cards in jail, judging from the testimony of three of his daughters on Monday, during the Minuteman Project co-founder’s ongoing trial on six counts of child molestation and furnishing pornography to minors. Two of the daughters who took the…
From the tons sold in legal medical-marijuana dispensaries to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here’s a roundup of last week’s biggest pot news stories that affect the Grand Canyon State… CRMLA Takes Issue With Pot Prohibitionists’ Acceptance of Booze-Industry Contribution…
A judge sentenced cannabis activist Billy Hayes to two years in prison on Friday for his role in two medical-marijuana businesses. Hayes, 40, is a hero to those who oppose monopolistic practices and tight restrictions in the marijuana industry,and was the subject of a November 2014 feature story in New…
Shitcanned. A local TV news outlet has fired one of its top reporters after he was arrested for public defecation. CBS 5 (KPHO) news director Dan Wilson confirmed to New Times via e-mail today that reporter Jonathan Lowe “no longer works for the station.” When New Times wrote about the bizarre incident,…
