About half of Arizona students failed their yearly science and writing tests, which are given to gauge their understanding of subjects. The Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test is distributed each year to students in grades 3 through 8 and to 10th graders as well…
Today’s a big day for Arizonans, as we collectively hope that Governor Jan Brewer can behave herself in front of the President of the United States.As we all know from the infamous photo of Brewer’s finger in the president’s face from last year, Brewer couldn’t quite contain herself during their…
Someone at Google apparently has a twisted and most decidedly un-PC sense of humor. Several New York Times articles that are part of an archived-newspaper service Google provided until 2011, contain the phrase “Jew York Times” in search returns…
Buses were back on the road today in the East Valley and portions of South Phoenix after union leaders reached a compromise with First Transit executives. The four-day strike ended, in part, after company officials agreed during a 32-hour session with Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433 to eliminate from the…
Consider the following a confirmation of the obvious: an e-mail from Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s alleged mistress, Carmen Chenal, wherein she confesses her motivation for resigning her $108,000 post at the AG’s Office. “I need to leave here,” she writes in a May 24 e-mail, forwarded to Horne’s gmail…
Oh, boy. Governor Jan Brewer plans on running into President Obama during his visit to Phoenix on Tuesday — on an airport tarmac.Remember, when Obama came to town early last year, Brewer greeted Obama on the tarmac at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport with a finger right in the president’s face…
The sale of the Phoenix Coyotes is a real thing.According to a press release from the team, “The Phoenix Coyotes announced today that IceArizona AcquisitionCo. LLC has closed on their purchase of the Phoenix Coyotes franchise from the National Hockey League. The sale and ownership transfer has been approved by…
Former Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman will go to trial this week on a murder charge in the 2010 death of Phoenix resident Daniel Rodriguez.Chrisman responded to a 911 call from Rodriguez’s mother, who asked that police remove her son from the trailer where they lived together. Another officer told…
Dozens of medical-pot dispensaries dot the state from nearly every corner since the first one, Arizona Organix of Glendale, opened in November. A recent newsletter to patients released by the state Department of Health and obtained by New Times shows the addresses of 48 of these pioneering businesses, which teeter…
The editorial staff at ABC 15 will be learning a thing or two about racial sensitivity after the station filmed a segment from Lo-Lo’s Chicken and Waffles, where reporters were getting reactions to the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case.It seemed like out of all the places to find opinions…
Some creep in Tempe is grabbing butts (again).It may seem like a strange way for a butt-grabber to operate, but Tempe police say three women have now reported the assaults — at three different Fry’s grocery stores…
Among the FBI’s Most Wanted are individuals from Arizona (or with ties to the state) who have evaded authorities for decades in cases involving child porn, the sexual assault and sodomy of children and defrauding the public out of millions of dollars. Suspects featured here are presumed innocent — until…
This weekend, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio celebrated the 20th birthday of his favorite son jail, Tent City.To celeberate, Arpaio ordered some stuff for inmates that’s generally not allowed — coffee, better food, rental movies, unrestricted television, magazines, ’90s music, and cigarettes (candy cigarettes, HARDY HAR HAR!)…
Last week, Arizona Cardinals cheerleader Megan Welter was celebrated in the news as an Iraq war veteran who fulfilled her dream of dancing with pompoms; this week, Scottsdale police arrested her on suspicion of assaulting her boyfriend because of texts he received from an ex, police say. Welter, 29, who…
Citizens, please join us in requesting that Governor Jan Brewer not finger the President of the United States again.As you may recall, Brewer made assholes of us all in early 2012, as she shoved her finger in President Obama’s face upon his arrival on the tarmac at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway…
The bloodbath at Gannett Company Inc., over the past 48 hours saw as many as 223 jobs lost, with 29 people reportedly laid off at the Arizona Republic. Some of those on the list were veteran journalists, including two who had worked for the paper for decades. Another two were…
Here’s something that sounds horrifying: Maricopa County health officials say there’s a “bloody diarrhea outbreak” in the West Valley.Dr. Bob England, director of the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, says the 11 people who have reported this illness know each other.UPDATE: The bloody diarrhea has been linked to Federico’s…
Who celebrates 20 years of running what they describe as a “concentration camp,” and takes pride in exposing men and women to the elements of the desert?Only the leader of that “concentration camp,” of course — Maricopa County Fuehrer Sheriff Joe Arpaio…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s crusade to silence county Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox on the Melendres case scored a win Thursday, with a superior court judge declining to weigh in on Monty’s argument that Wilcox has a conflict of interest regarding the federal civil rights lawsuit. In a minute entry…
A vendor who works inside Fry’s grocery stores admitted to secretly taking “thousands” of photos of women inside the store for “sexual purposes,” police say.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 32-year-old Timothy Millet is actually an employee of Nabisco but works inside Fry’s stores around the Valley…
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, all of our alleged offenders have…
Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos announced on Thursday that he is calling it quits in Phoenix. Cavazos, the first Latino to serve as city manager, has brokered a deal to become the next city manager in Santa Ana, a community in Orange County with about 300,000 residents…
