Zulema Espinoza terrorized her three children, her husband, and a fellow motorist while out drinking and driving Saturday night. According to court documents obtained by New Times, Espinoza, 30, was driving drunk near 33rd Avenue and Thomas Road about 9 p.m. when she sideswiped a fellow motorist’s car with her…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s website got a bit of a facelift over the weekend, and the new format seems geared toward one thing: poking fun at inmates in Joe Arpaio’s gulags.The redesigned website features on its front page a way for the general public to vote for the “mugshot…
Twenty-two United States Senators sent a letter to President Barack Obama late last week asking him to stop deporting undocumented youth who might be eligible for the federal DREAM Act, which Senator Richard Durbin plans to re-introduce in this session of congress. The letter exposes Obama’s double-talk on immigration — but…
This just in: a naked leprechaun was spotted trying to buy crystal meth from a north Phoenix drug dealer early Saturday morning — which is about as believable as KPHO’s latest attempt at “telling it like it is.”The local TV news station is under the impression that there was a…
is closed and a man is dead after he threatened to commit suicide by jumping from a highway overpass. Phoenix police shot him before he was able to execute his plan, but he still managed to fall to his death.About 4 a.m. today, a motorist called police to report that…
The Mormon Church claims it never knew one of its members, 49-year-old Susan Brock, the somewhat-estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was sexually abusing a teenage boy before her arrest..This, according to court documents obtained by New Times, is a lie.The church issued the following statement amid criticism…
It was déjà vu all over again at Chase Field this weekend as the Arizona Diamondbacks once again needed a late win to avoid getting swept in a series. They got it in extra innings against the San Francisco Giants Sunday, scrapping together a rally in the bottom of the…
The Phoenix Coyotes now trail the Detroit Red Wings two games to none in the first round of the NHL playoffs after losing 4-3 Saturday, and we want to know if the Howlers can pull off a miracle.The first two periods of Saturday’s game weren’t pretty for the Coyotes. The…
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A Phoenix pastor’s fight to hold church services in his backyard has moved to federal court.Michael Salman has battled his neighbors and the city of Phoenix for years, arguing he has the constitutional right to have about 50 friends each week to worship God in the backyard of his home, near…
A Pew Research Center poll claims that Mexicans look less favorably on Americans since the passage of SB 1070, a stat used today by the Christian Science Monitor to thread an article on immigration.Just one problem: It took us about a minute to find another poll that shows Mexican attitudes…
Just back from downtown Phoenix’s county courthouse, where Faleh Almaleki has been sentenced to 34 1/2 years behind bars for the 2009 murder of his daughter Noor and near-murder of another woman…
Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock compared his molester wife’s teenage victim to the fictional character of Dorian Gray, a young, hedonistic pleasure-seeker with loose morals, whose beauty infatuates an older man. Brock’s callous opinion of the victim can be found in the 100-plus pages of documents detailing the sexual relationship…
A San Diego-based psychiatrist was appointed today to evaluate Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old, lone suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage on January 8. U.S. District Judge Larry Alan Burns appointed Dr. Matthew Carroll to perform Loughner’s mental-competency exam, according to the Associated Press. The AP says the decision to appoint…
Saint Joseph is traditionally the patron saint of workers and immigrants. The latter is because the father of Jesus was forced to flee to Egypt to save the Christ child from Herod the Great’s wrath. Once King Herod was dead, Joseph moved his family back to Israel, settling in Nazareth.There…
It’s that time of the month for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office jail staff, who uncovered an inmate scheme of smuggling drugs into the jails through tampon deliveries. The Sheriff’s Office is happy to report that they “dashed the plans of some inmates to get high on heroin and the new…
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley accuses the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives of instructing Arizona gun dealers to sell firearms that eventually landed in the hands of Mexican drug cartels — a strategy the senator says may have led to the southeastern Arizona shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Brian…
hempbeach.com Thursday was the first day for hopeful medical-marijuana patients to apply for their voter-mandated medicine, and spokeswoman Laura Oxley tells New Times that the Arizona Department of Health Services approved 44 out of the 65 applications processed by 3 p.m. The department had 110 applications for medical pot by the end…
After months of controversy over whether the Phoenix Police Department intentionally inflated kidnapping statistics to get federal funding, the city’s top cop has announced he is retiring today.Public Safety Manager Jack Harris had come under fire because he repeatedly told City Manager David Cavazos and City Council members that the…
One glance at a recently released police report about the sex scandal that rocked the family of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and it’s obvious the county supervisor was paranoid that police were listening in on jailhouse phone calls between him and his wife, Susan Brock, who was recently sentenced…
Instead of getting high off those expired, unused, or unwanted prescription drugs you have at home, give them to the Chandler Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration. At an April 30 event, Chandler police and the DEA will accept any of your prescription drugs — no questions asked…
Jurors apparently won’t be hearing from the two Final Exit Network defendants in a classic “right-to-die” case involving the assisted suicide of a mentally troubled Phoenix woman. Attorneys for the pair, Dr. Larry Egbert and Frank Langsner, told Superior Court Judge Paul McMurdie yesterday afternoon that they don’t plan…
