There's a big plaster duck in the driveway of Rick Orr's mobile home. If you know Rick Orr, you know this can't possibly be just any plaster duck; it's almost certainly one of the world's rarest plaster ducks, probably worth tens of thousands of dollars and crafted by some dead guy no one's ever hea... Full Story »
QUEEN FOR A DAY The ironically dubbed "First Amendment Forum" at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism concluded as if it were something out of a surrealist film, with Joe Arpaio donning a furry UofA Wilbur the Wildcat ha... Full Story »
Four years and hundreds of thousands of dollars ago, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas filed suit to stop the county's Spanish-language program for DUI offenders. You've probably heard little, if anything, about the case since Thomas' initial media blitz, when he argued that providing p... Full Story »
Editor's note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's forces. The next personal story will appear on our Web site Wednesday night, December 9. Just about everyone in Julio Mora's family plays baseball, including his three... Full Story »
CORRECTIONS • Last week's cover story should've said that the case against Sandra Dowling began befo... Full Story »
New Times columnist Sarah Fenske and our design team topped the list of winners in some recent national contests. Fenske was honored with a Clarion Award from the Association of Women in Communications for column writing, including her stories about Bryant Wilkerson, a black man who f... Full Story »
I used to frequent a cantina in Chicago where half of the bar was Polack, the other half beaner. The Polacks would speak in their native tongue and either start or finish all of their sentences with the word kurwa . I understand this to mean "whore" in their language. On the o... Full Story »
Holiday lights illuminate the Denver City/County Building in downtown Denver. AP Photo/David Zalubowski
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