Republican U.S. Senator John McCain did not exactly receive a warm welcome when he visited the Navajo Nation this weekend to commemorate the Navajo Code Talkers. Throughout the day he was confronted by activists waving banners painted with messages, such as: “McCain = Indian Killer” and “McCain’s not welcome here”…
The Tonto National Forest Service says the horses who run free along the Salt River are abandoned livestock, wreaking havoc on the landscape. Simone Netherlands, president of the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group, a nonprofit that has been monitoring the herd for more than 17 years, says they are…
Friday started off with a withering low temperature of 93 degrees, giving Valley residents a hint of the heat-blast to come. By late afternoon, metro Phoenix reached a record-setting 117 degrees, the National Weather Service confirmed. It wasn’t the hottest day in Phoenix ever — that record of 122 degrees…
The Islamic State’s top leader repeatedly sexually assaulted Arizona aid worker Kayla Mueller during the 18 months she spent in the terrorist group’s custody before her death in February, according to a news report.. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi, personally delivered the 26-year-old Prescott native to the home of Abu…
U.S. Senator John McCain is “deeply concerned” about the United States decision not to prosecute an Islamic State militant that held Arizona aid worker Kayla Mueller hostage in Syria for 18 months before her death earlier this year. McCain penned a letter to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Attorney…
Top residential water users in Tempe and Glendale use 10 to 30 times as much as average customers, with totals of 2.5 million and 3.6 million gallons consumed respectively in 2014, research by Phoenix New Times shows. The biggest users of water in the non-residential category for those cities, meanwhile, add…
Glendale Police Department Commander Andre Anderson, on loan to the Ferguson (Missouri) Police Department as acting chief, has a blemished personnel record, according to a recent news report. The report reveals, based on Anderson’s personnel file, that he was suspended three times in one year and had an order of protection filed against…
As more than 3 million gallons of heavy metal-laden sludge from a spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado has worked its way down the A nimas River and toward the San Juan River and Lake Powell, many are asking how something like this could happen and how we…
In the neighborhoods surrounding Arizona State University, the first three weekends of school mean big parties, loud music, and streets full of drunk co-eds celebrating new-found freedom from parental control. For the last two years, those weekends have also meant an influx of police force — not just from the…
The main outreach and service provider for homeless veterans in the Valley, the Community Resource and Referral Center, recently moved out of its small office within the downtown Phoenix Lodestar Day Resource Center to a much larger and newly renovated facility. It’s a move its directors say will allow the…
Arizona has reached a marijuana-legalization milestone, with more than 80,000 people now qualified to legally possess, grow, or sell it for medicinal purposes. State voters passed the 2010 Medical Marijuana Act by a slim margin, resulting in about 90 dispensaries statewide and an ever-increasing number of patients, caregivers, and registered…
Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the anti-legalization group MATFORCE with a nice shout-out to the Phoenix New Times. In a Sunday article in Prescott’s Daily Courier newspaper, Polk tells reporter Scott Orr that New Times has made her and MATFORCE a “target” for their prohibitionist…
18-year-old Jessica Burlew has been in jail for 571 days while her public defenders and the state of Arizona have waded through the complicated and drawn out process of preparing for a homicide trial. A sources close to the situation tells New Times that the attorneys and relevant parties have been…
A status conference Tuesday morning in downtown Phoenix before federal Judge G. Murray Snow continued his court’s inexorable march toward a second round of contempt hearings in the ACLU’s big racial profiling case Melendres v. Arpaio, currently scheduled to begin September 22. In Tuesday’s hearing, Snow allowed the U.S. Department…
You’d think a man trying to lock his girlfriend in a building and set it on fire would use more than shoelaces to tie the door shut. Much like you’d think he’d know better than to carry four lighters in his pocket when he returned to the scene of the…
An excessive-heat warning is predicted for metro Phoenix on a day in early August, with a high of 111 anticipated. At noon, only a few people are strolling the residential streets of Tempe near Arizona State University. Yet in spite of the intense heat, and in seeming defiance of the…
Images of a mustard-orange river in Colorado shocked the nation last week after the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally released 3 million gallons of waste water and sludge from the inactive Gold King Mine into a tributary of the Animas River near Silverton, Colorado, on August 5. As of late Monday…
An inmate accused raping a teacher at an Arizona prison pleaded guilty Monday. Jacob Harvey, 21, did not take a plea agreement. Prison time for his crimes, rape, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon, won’t begin until after he finishes he current term in 2041, according to the Pinal…
When a reliable source sends photos of a recycling firm loading up computers in front of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s downtown headquarters at Jackson Street and 5th Avenue — given past events — it’s cause for concern. Though county officials maintain that everything is on the up and up, federal Judge…
A new study comparing the best and worst states for underprivileged children ranks Arizona 49th in the nation. Only Mississippi and the District of Columbia received worse scores. (In sub-categories, we ranked 50th out of 51 in early-foundations and economic well-being, 37th in health, and 48th in education.) The study…
A city of Phoenix effort to encourage safe hiking in mountain parks is expected to continue at least through the fall. The “Take a Hike, Do It Right” program was launched after several recent heat-related tragedies in Arizona, including the July 7 death of a British visitor last month on…
Several Arizona politicians at a town hall meeting Sunday tried to commandeer the plight of a beloved herd of wild horses to fuel the states-rights movement. But the approximately 350 people who gathered at Mesa’s Love of Christ Lutheran Church to protest a federal proposal to remove the horses from…
