MCSO John Stephen Beaupied: Sotally tober Some people believe in the “use of alternative fuel.” Apparently John Stephen Beaupied believes in the alternative use of fuel, which allegedly includes huffing gasoline and scaring the hell out of people at a Phoenix gas station. According to documents obtained by New Times,…
Warning labels usually come with bad news, like “Cigarette smoke contains carbon monoxide,” or “This product contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.” Now the Arizona Republic has a new warning label for all of their coverage of the Fiesta Bowl fiasco:…
The Arizona Legislature has a knack for something: ruining the reputation of the entire state via a collection of embarrassing, symbolic bills.Last week, Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill that makes doctors who perform abortions based on sex or gender criminals, which is fine except there’s no evidence to support…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
The Glendale mom who police say intentionally hit her daughter with a car had the recommended aggravated-assault charge against her thrown out by a Maricopa County Superior Court commissioner — but not because there’s no case. Rather, there was an error in how the woman was charged.If you’re unfamiliar with…
The Arizona Republic ran an article today about Captain Joel Fox’s lawsuit against Terry Goddard and Cox Communications over the public release of sensitive e-mails. The story by Repub veteran JJ Hensley, though, fails to mention one thing: The e-mails’ gushy love talk between Fox and his supervisor, Larry Black, which are undoubtedly…
Police have yet to recover the body of a Chandler woman who’s been missing since last March, but authorities feel they have enough evidence to charge her ex-boyfriend with murder.The Chandler Police Department announced today that Rick Valentini — a.k.a. Bryan Stewart — has been charged with second-degree murder in the…
Arizona State University’s athletic department is keeping a secret, and it’s creating a whole lot of buzz among Sun Devil faithful. People inside ASU athletics wouldn’t budge on divulging the secret to New Times, but we’re told the secret is a “total overhaul” of ASU’s athletic branding — especially for…
Opening statements started this morning in the jury trial of two “right-to-die” octogenarians charged in the case of a mentally disturbed Phoenix woman who committed suicide in 2007. A packed spectator’s gallery at Maricopa County Superior Court heard dramatically divergent views of criminal defendants Dr. Larry Egbert and Frank…
Despite state Representative Judy Burges’ humiliating “Birther Bill” having failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year, it has found its way back to the Legislature via a strike-everything amendment. Sadly, a preliminary vote on the bill will be taken in the Senate today.The bill is slightly different from…
A Glendale mom was arrested last week after coming up with a pretty convincing way to win an argument with her 17-year-old daughter: hitting her with a car.Sylvia Aranda, 37, was arrested Friday after witnesses say they watched her hit her daughter with her car near Grand Avenue and Greenway…
Candidates in the Phoenix mayor’s race carefully measured their words during a forum hosted by Equality Arizona, a political organization that advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality. The Monday night forum included questions to gauge candidates’ stances on same-sex marriage and discrimination in housing and employment within city…
I have to wonder if the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association would be so supportive of fired killer-cop Richard Chrisman if his victim had been white instead of Latino.PLEA has gone all out to back Chrisman, who has kept his lips zipped about the October 5 shooting of unarmed south Phoenix…
Anyone recall the flap of about a year ago, when Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu went on a white supremacist radio show in Tennessee called “The Political Cesspool”?PCSO spokesman Tim Gaffney took the spear for not vetting that one for his boss. And I couldn’t help but recall that little…
President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he will seek a second term in office, despite the piss-poor economy, the high unemployment rate, the border mess, Libya, Japan, the housing crisis, and flaking on campaign promises like closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Let the rhetoric commence. On the Republican side,…
A North Carolina man was sentenced to 60 months’ probation for scratching his name into petroglyphs along the Colorado River that are more than 1,000 years old.In addition to the probation, Trenton Austin Ganey must pay $10,000 restitution and complete 100 hours community service after admitting to carving “Trent” into…
Convicted murderer Daniel Wayne Cook was scheduled to be put to death this morning for the brutal 1987 murders of two men in Lake Havasu City. However, the United States Supreme Court granted Cook a last-minute stay delaying — or potentially reversing — his death sentence.During the murders of his…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
Since our previous post about a search warrant conducted by Chandler police to obtain a handwriting sample from Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, the county supervisor’s spokesman sent New Times a statement from Brock, in which he denies he ever helped his wife conspire to have sex with a teenage…
Once again, just when we though the uber-bizarre sex scandal involving both the wife and daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and a teenage boy couldn’t possibly get any more bizarre, it did.The Chandler Police Department confirms to New Times that it has conducted a search warrant to obtain…
An auto mechanic for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency in Tucson says in a lawsuit that the agency and fellow employees are discriminating against him because he’s a Christian. David Stanford, who’s worked for the CBP’s Tucson Sector Garage for about two years, says co-workers ridicule him and play “extraordinarily loud music” because…
If you’re planning to run against Congressman Jeff Flake for the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Jon Kyl, you should understand — the guy’s got some cash.Flake announced today that his campaign has raised $1 million in three months.”Our tremendous finance committee includes most of Arizona’s hardest-working Republicans, and…
