We got an email from former Congressman J.D. Hayworth’s campaign this afternoon pimping his latest Web ad titled It’s Time for John McCain to Go and were instantly hit with a case of déjà vu.The ad features a few man-on-the-street interviews of Arizonan’s who can’t seem to think of a…
Jeff Allen Ahlers, the 47-year-old Tempe man whom Salt River Project workers found dead in a canal yesterday afternoon, was discovered to have wounds on his body that Tempe police say are consistent with a gunshot.Tempe police spokeswoman Molly Enright tells New Times cops don’t have a whole lot of…
Yavapai County businessman Owen “Buz” Mills released his campaign’s spending report this week, and it turns out that he’s dropped even more cash on his dismal campaign for governor than previously imagined.According to the report, before May 31, Mills had spent about $2.3 million, and much of the money came from…
Two Mexican men, one a medical doctor, were sentenced to prison yesterday for their participation in a heroin-trafficking conspiracy that stretched from a drug cartel in Colombia, through Arizona, and all the way to New York City.Dr. Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39, and Juan Bautista Beltran-Lopez, 38, both from Mexico, were sentenced to…
A Tucson man learned his fate yesterday after he was convicted of transporting and possessing child pornography.Kevin Deawne Martin, 40, of Tucson, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bury after a February jury trial.Martin got pinched as the result of a 2006…
Two court-appointed doctors confirmed today what many have thought for months: Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, is incompetent to stand trial.The doctors made their ruling after conducting extensive psychiatric evaluations of Johnson, sitting in a Maricopa County jail awaiting trial on kidnapping charges in connection with…
Campaign signs for Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker have been disappearing, his campaign claims, and the assumption from the campaign is that the anti-Joe Arpaio faction is to blame. The signs in question point out that Arpaio supports Parker’s candidacy for the Congressional seat being vacated by Congressman John Shadegg,…
Tempe police believe they have found the body of a man who went missing earlier this week after going for a walk on a canal path near his Tempe. According to the Tempe Police Department, Salt River Project workers found a body yesterday in the Western Canal near Kyrene and Baseline in…
Yesterday, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio used his Twitter page to ask the public for some suggestions on what he should do for his upcoming birthday. Arpaio turns 78 on June 14, so we figured loyal New Times readers had a little more than a feliz compleanos for the sheriff and asked for your best…
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: Feathered Bastard:Barack Obama Chats With Jan Brewer, as Joe Arpaio Pulls Another Anti-Immigration StuntJackalope Ranch:Welding, Spelunking, and…
Apparently it’s go-grab-your-gun day in the GOP Senate primary and both former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and his opponent, Senator John McCain, each picked up endorsements from some big-name gunslingers.We got an email from Hayworth’s campaign earlier today announcing that Bob Corbin, the former president of the National Rifle Association, was…
The treasurer of a neighborhood watch organization in Phoenix was busted today for allegedly stealing money from the organization over a two-month period.Ready for the kicker? A lot of that money came from grants from the financially-fucked City of Phoenix.Phoenix Police Detective James Holmes tells New Times that 34-year-old Vincenta…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio “tweeted” earlier today that he needed a little help deciding what to do for his birthday this year, and while “jump in front of a fucking bus” was our initial suggestion, we figured loyal New Times readers probably had a few ideas of their own…
If you think former Supreme Court Justice — and Arizona native — Sandra Day O’Connor is still a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, you’re wrong but not alone O’Connor retired from the bench in 2006. But even if you don’t know tht but still know who she was, you know more…
A radio station in Ohio, which last week held a contest offering the prize of a weekend in Arizona — where “Americans are proud and illegals are scared” — offered an on-air apology yesterday for the insensitive stunt.Brian Dytko, the station manager for News Talk 610 WTVN in Columbus, Ohio, personally…
Yesterday, we published a story about comments that Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth made about John McCain’s support of a bill that would repeal the federal healthcare law that passed earlier this year. At a campaign stop this week, Hayworth was discussing McCain’s reluctance to co-sponsor a repeal of the law sponsored by…
Governor Jan Brewer released a statement last night in response to accusations that she lied about her father’s service during World War II. The only problem is she didn’t even address the fact that she lied — or even that people seem to think she lied. In case you missed…
Yesterday, it was exposed that a story Governor Jan Brewer told the Arizona Republic about how her dad died “fighting the Nazi regime in Germany” was — to put it politely — less-than-accurate. In reality, not only was Jan’s dad not in the military, he never even left U.S. soil during…
After Governor Jan Brewer’s office failed to call us back regarding the gov’s bogus claims that her father “died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany,” we thought we’d give Treasurer Dean Martin, Brewer’s opponent in the GOP gubernatorial primary, a chance to weigh in.”Trying to use the death of a…
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth spoke at a campaign event in Marana last night and, as expected, he used the appearance to criticize his opponent in the GOP Senate primary, John McCain. As you may have also expected, he muffed it up.Hayworth was discussing the federal healthcare bill that was signed…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer seems to have contracted a case of Richard Blumenthaul Syndrome but rather than embellishing her own military record — like Connecticut Senate hopeful Blumenthaul was outed for doing last month — she seems to have just flat-out lied about her father’s service in World War II.In…
Arizona voters will have yet another chance to vote on whether they want medicinal marijuana legalized in this state, thanks to the efforts of a statewide advocacy group that’s collected hundreds of thousands of signatures over the last several months.Only 153,356 signatures were needed to get the measure on the…
