A Chandler thug is behind bars after attacking a man with a knife in the parking lot of the El Coyote Bar for no apparent reason.Ernesto Rascon, 24, wasn’t trying to rob the victim. The victim hadn’t slept with his girlfriend. Rascon, it seems, was just being a dick to a guy…
I’ve always wondered who the Republicans hate more: Latinos or gays?Now that the DREAM Act has failed a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, while the effort to end Don’t Ask Don’t Tell succeeded, I guess we know.Naturally, I’m more surprised by the latter than the former, but maybe I…
Last week, we told you about 50-year-old Maria Delores Chagolla, who had been reported missing by her family last Wednesday. We’re sad to report that Chagolla was found dead in her SUV last night.Residents in a neighborhood near 83rd and Glendale avenues called the Glendale Police Department last night to…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has agreed to return control of its civil litigation unit to the County Attorney’s Office, now that they’ve got a county attorney they like.The Arizona Republic reports this morning that new County Attorney Bill Montgomery and the Supes “will announce today” that they’re giving up…
There are only three teams in the National Football League with worse records than the Arizona Cardinals. The Carolina Panthers — the worst of those three teams — beat the Cards 19-12 yesterday in game 14 of the Cardinals’ series of practices for next year (a.k.a.: the 2010 football season) in…
What a weekend for the Phoenix Suns! Steve Nash lost all feeling in his limbs — momentarily — after a collision in the opening minutes of Friday night’s game with the Mavericks in Dallas. Then, the next day, a monster trade with Orlando was announced, which sent the Suns most prolific scorer,…
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Before the release of draft rules on Proposition 203, Will Humble, the director of the state Department of Health Services, estimated 100,000 people a year might qualify for medical marijuana.Now, under the proposed regulations, only 10,000 to 20,000 people a year would qualify, he said in a news conference today.The…
A woman says her ex-boyfriend has pulled a fast one on the legal system, and now there’s a chance he’ll be released from custody even though he stabbed her father to death. Walter McCarthy, 50, was found guilty but insane today of murdering 83-year-old Vernon Cumming.
To accompany the audio recordings we published yesterday, where Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll confirms his claim of a supposed death threat made against New Times reporter Paul Rubin by a Mexican rancher, and discusses being approached by Mexican cartels he claims tried to get him to look the…
A Phoenix man who beat his mother and nephew to death with a shovel earlier this year is heading to the slammer — for a long, long time (or until he croaks, whichever comes first).In November, Erik Lampert, 35, copped to murdering his two relatives, 14-year-old Logan Lampert and 61-year-old…
The new presiding judge of the county justice courts, Lester Pearce, “appreciates” the blog post we wrote about him last month, a spokeswoman for the courts tells us today.That’s the blog post, (based on an Atlantic Monthly article), in which we wrote that Pearce seems to be off his rocker…
The Phoenix Police Department just announced that an investigation has been opened into the case of a dead baby found in a box authorities believe was shipped from Phoenix to McAllen, Texas.Earlier today, the Phoenix P.D. said it had limited knowledge of the case.”Although they cite Phoenix as being the…
Documents in a lawsuit against the Arizona State Board of Education show that Marco de Niza High School officials made a deal with a former teacher to keep quiet about her student lover.Tamara Hofmann was accused by her bosses at the Tempe school in 2007 of having sex with student…
A Glendale woman thought it would be a good idea to toss her one-month-old son across a room and onto a bed Wednesday night, and she probably wouldn’t be in as much trouble as she’s in today had she not gone completely berserk on everyone around her afterward. Police responded…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office fears that two suspected illegal immigrants — both under the age of 18 — drowned in a canal near Gila Bend after fleeing a car pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy last night.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong says the sheriff’s dive team is headed to an…
A local lawyer arrested last year on suspicion of possessing child pornography was found guilty on all counts yesterday.But here’s the sick part: A juror in the case tells us this morning that the lawyer, Davis William Curtis Jr., 64, did much more than look at kiddie porn on his…
The brother of a Phoenix man found shot to death in his home earlier this week is a suspect in the man’s murder. He’s also a suspect in the murder of his brother’s son — the suspect’s 6-year-old nephew, who was found shot to death in alley, the Phoenix Police…
UPDATED: Click here for update.A baby, reportedly from Arizona, has been found dead in a box shipped to southern Texas.According to KNES in San Antonio, Texas, the baby was found in a box shipped to a clothing distribution center in McAllen, Texas, at some point in the last 24 hours.Given…
The Arizona Department of Health Services released a draft of rules today for the launch of a medical-marijuana program authorized by the voter-approved Proposition 203.Let the debate begin.The draft rules place additional restrictions on the law in terms of what defines a doctor-patient relationship, suggesting that a patient must have…
U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry was in the desert canyons of southeastern Arizona on Tuesday hunting down bajadores, or bandits, who lurk in the shadows and prey on the illegal border-crossers.Terry, 40, was shot and killed while he and other agents attempted to arrest a group of suspects…
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