Update, 8:30 a.m.: With 96.9 percent of precincts reporting, Garcia still trails Douglas by more than two points–over 25,000 votes–in the race for Superintendent. In the Secretary of State race, Reagan is ahead of Goddard by almost five points, representing almost 55,000 votes. With over 70 percent of precincts reporting,…
New Times reporters are all around the Phoenix area covering today’s election. Below, find a live Twitter feed of race results and reactions:…
Tim Casey, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s longtime lawyer, wants out of the hot-potato Melendres racial-profiling case now that it’s in a “compliance phase.” Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona don’t want him to leave so fast, though — not with questions and things left to discover…
Fred DuVal was forced to distance his campaign from a local Democratic gay-rights group last month after the leader called a Democratic lawmaker a “cunt.” Robert Rowley of the Stonewall Democrats of Arizona had put the dreaded c-word under a Facebook picture of State Representative (and soon to be State…
The judge in the Jodi Arias penalty-phase re-trial can’t prevent the public and news media from watching the show, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Monday. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens, who oversaw the lascivious first-degree murder trial that ended in May with Arias’ conviction, kicked members…
The State Bar of Arizona has created a short video to remind Tuesday’s general-election voters not to blow off the decisions on all those judges on the ballot. The “Finish the Ballot” cartoon (below) comes at a time when at least two judges in Arizona, including one in Maricopa County,…
Jermeel Reeves doesn’t seem to think you watch enough porn. At least, that’s one possible explanation for why the 28-year-old Phoenix man was driving around west Phoenix just before 9 p.m. on Saturday night with a porn movie playing in his car’s rear window. Reeves, a wanna-be rapper from Detroit…
A Mesa woman says gave trick-or-treaters a special prize on Halloween — her own wedding ring. Since then, the story of Brooklin Yazzie’s lost ring, reported on Saturday by ABC-15 News (KNXV-TV) has been picked up by news outlets around the world. Any ghouls and goblins who hit the Yazzie…
News on Friday that the election for president of the Navajo Nation will be postponed was clearly not what Democrats in northern Arizona wanted to hear. Poor turnout in Tuesday’s election by Navajos would likely impact the close race between Congressional District One candidates Ann Kirkpatrick and Andy Tobin…
Drunk driving is bad. That said, here’s where police will be setting up “saturation patrols” around the Valley, looking for impaired drivers this weekend:…
A police officer in Chandler who specialized in DUI enforcement was killed early this morning after being rear-ended by an alleged drunk driver. Officer David Payne, a seven-year veteran of the department, was stopped at a red light on his patrol motorcycle around 12:40 a.m. today when he was rear-ended…
Arizona’s “top” prosecutors on Thursday urged the public to oppose cannabis legalization, warning that diverted medical marijuana is an increasing source of the drug for teens. Problem is, these modern-day prohibitionists are cherry-picking their data from the newly released 2014 Arizona Youth Survey by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission. And…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, we have costume suggestions for…
Just in time for Halloween: The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry has announced that it’s changing its name to the Arizona Chamber of Economic Incompetence. Okay, not really, but it might as well. With its endorsement of Republican Doug Ducey for governor, the chamber is siding with the failed…
A coalition of Latino voter-outreach groups are projecting that Arizona’s Latino voters will clearly have more of an influence on this year’s election than they have in past years. People representing the dozen groups in One Arizona are estimating that Latino voters will account for 14 percent of the vote…
Eager customers and vendors are paying to attend November bridal and fashion events around Arizona, but the events are bogus. The scam appears to be somewhat sophisticated, with a massive online ad blitz and a professional-looking website featuring news about the supposed events. Both potential event attendees and vendors are…
The chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party is being sued for defamation after he essentially accused a Latino voter-outreach group of voter fraud. Maricopa County GOP chairman A.J. LaFaro accused the group Citizens for a Better Arizona (CBA) of “stuffing the ballot box” at the county election headquarters, and…
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexican men think all us gabachas are like the girls in Bikini Car Wash? I am married, a conservative dresser, frankly not very good-looking at all (but I do have blond hair, so maybe that counts for something on a guy’s internal whore-o-meter) and I speak…
After it took two hours and 15 doses of lethal-injection drugs for the state to execute convicted murderer Joseph Wood in July, the state’s death penalty procedure is still in limbo. A lawsuit in federal court, filed by both current death-row prisoners and a legal group representing media organizations, challenges…
COMMENTARYDoug Ducey’s one of those guys who could make a living selling Bermuda shorts to Alaskan bush people. So it’s no surprise that he snookered Wall Street Journal writer Jason Riley, who recently traveled to Tucson to meet with the Republican gubernatorial wannabe as he campaigned in the Old Pueblo…
Canvassers from a community-engagement group falsely accused of voter fraud staged a large-scale drop-off of ballots yesterday. About 30 canvassers from Citizens for a Better Arizona brought more than 300 completed ballots to the Maricopa County Recorder and Elections Office late yesterday afternoon. The move was a direct response to…
A Phoenix police officer was arrested and booked into jail on Tuesday, accused of pulling a gun on people during an apparent road-rage incident while transporting prisoners. Jeremy Sweet, 51, has worked for the department’s Central Booking Unit for about seven years. On Monday at about noon, he was transporting…
