Buz Mills, Republican candidate for governor, praised his staff at the Gunsite Academy in Paulden, Arizona on Thursday for helping the victim of Sunday’s shooting mishap. “We are relieved this client is in good condition thanks to the swift actions of our staff at Gunsite and the dedicated paramedics at…
Eric Byrnes, the Arizona Diamondbacks one-time golden boy, was recently given the boot by the Seattle Mariners after — as described by New Times sister paper the Seattle Weekly — “batting .094, blowing a suicide squeeze, and demonstrating an inability to catch fly balls or run the bases properly, to boot.”Not…
Phoenix police announced today that they’ve arrested a man they believe is responsible for a string of graffiti-vandalism incidents in the Maryvale neighborhood of west Phoenix.Yesterday, police arrested 19-year-old Robert Hernandez, who they say goes by the graffiti moniker “Near” for his involvement in the vandalism of several businesses.If you live…
A man was mistaken for a target and shot at Gunsite Academy, a gun-training facility in Paulden, the Arizona Republic reports today. That happens to be the same 2,000-acre facility owned by Buz Mills, a Republican candidate for governor — not that Repub writer Jolie McCullough mentions it. The man…
Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready’s been getting around lately, earning play in the local media by calling Cinco de Mayo “Report an Illegal Day” on behalf of his beloved National Socialist Movement, or showing up to support Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “pick” for Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery. Now he’s scoring some high-profile…
Redflex Traffic Systems Inc., the company that operates Arizona’s photo-radar program, sent shock waves around Arizona today with an early-morning announcement that the great, Arizona, photo-radar experiment is coming to an end.In a press release this morning, Redflex announced that officials at the Arizona Department of Public Safety made it…
A former sheriff’s deputy in Santa Cruz County and another man were arrested on federal drug-smuggling and gun charges.Federal authorities say 29-year-old former Deputy Jesus R. Contreras and 38-year-old Ernesto Castro were arrested yesterday afternoon after a federal grand jury returned an indictment against the two men last month…
The man right-wing crackers love to hate, the Reverend Al Sharpton, preached to standing ovations from the crowd at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church Wednesday night, in an impressive show of opposition to Arizona’s new “papers please” immigration law, which he blasted as encouraging the profiling of Latinos.Afterward, Sharpton donned a…
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, in his bid to beat out Senator John McCain as the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, is pulling out all the stops when it comes to fundraising. And now one of his supporters is using the name of a fundraising campaign that raises money for…
In October 2007, New Times reporter Ray Stern was cited with a criminal charge for supposedly raising his voice while in the office of a lawyer working for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office — and no one would say, even under oath, who’d actually decided on charging him with the…
Phoenix has gotten sort of a bad rap lately — ya know, the miserable economy, the housing bust, the Legislature being hell-bent to return Arizona to its wild west days — but according to a recent study, Phoenix is a great place to be for recent college grads. The Web sites Apartments.com…
Hollywood director Robert Rodriguez of Sin City and El Mariachi fame has dissected Arizona’s new “papers please” legislation in the coolest way imaginable, producing what he calls an “illegal trailer” for his upcoming Mexploitation flick Machete, a trailer that slices and dices the new law with abandon.With a cast starring badass…
“We can’t be satisfied in just winning game 1…U know the Spurs will be ready but so will we,” he tweeted. Although it took most of the first half for the Suns to get up to speed and fulfill Dudley’s prediction, Phoenix managed to bounce back from an early deficit…
Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Rodrigo Lopez had a solid outing at Minute Maid Park in Houston, but it all came to naught. The Houston Astros got just three hits and two runs over seven innings, but it didn’t matter when Astros outfielder Carlos Lee blasted a walk-off home run to left field off…
Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo, so if you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re hung-over. If that’s the case, grab yourself some aspirin and take our poll. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under…
Driving on a cold desert night to a small farming community along the Rio Grande where hit men had gunned down a man who stopped to buy a beer, the convoy of local crime photographers snapped away at a soldier manning a checkpoint. He was wearing a skeleton mask, a…
The best part of spending a happy hour at Four Peaks Brewing Company in Tempe is that when you’re leaving at 6 p.m., having had a pint of this and a pint of that, you walk past a long line of suckers waiting for tables. They look so thirsty, and…
1070’s WAKE They’ve finally gone too far: These are sad-ass times for Arizona. The rednecks are finally in charge. For a minute, anyhow. This stupid Russell Pearce legislation (Arizona Senate Bill 1070) is so patently unconstitutional that there’s no way it will ever become law here. So, crackers, enjoy yourselves…
Where was Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon on the evening of July 27, 2009? If you look at Gordon’s official calendar, he was dining with his girlfriend and developer Steve Ellman at the Parlor, the hot new pizza place at Camelback and 20th Street. But, as it turns out, there’s a…
Village Voice Media is underwriting the cost of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona’s forthcoming litigation against Senate Bill 1070, as well as two other immigration lawsuits. Senate Bill 1070 mandates that a police officer who has “reasonable suspicion” that someone is a Mexican must detain that person. The…
All together, now: ¡A la chingada with Arizona’s SB 1070! For those of ustedes too occupied with the your Drinko por Cinco hangover, the initiative I mentioned (signed a couple of weeks ago into law by Arizona’s governor) gives immigration powers to the state’s police officers and sheriff’s deputies and…
With Governor Jan Brewer’s April 25 signature affixed to Senate Bill 1070, Arizona is poised to direct all law enforcement agencies to adopt Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s policy of rounding up and incarcerating Mexicans and then shipping them back across the border if they lack proper documentation of their status in…
