The Phoenix Suns are inviting twinkle-toed geriatrics in the Phoenix area to head over to the U.S. Airways Arena this Saturday and bust-a-move with the hopes of joining the team’s elderly dance squad, the “Golden Grannies.”If selected, each Granny will have the distinguished honor of performing dance routines during half-time at…
Arizona’s lackluster Legislature is looking to call its next special session the week of December 14 to discuss ways to bridge the state’s $1.6 billion budget gap. Despite having no plan other than Governor Brewer’s one-cent sales-tax increase that has failed time and time again in the Republican-led Senate — and…
Chandler police have arrested a man they believe is involved in a three-year-old murder case. Police arrested 22-year-old Rodrigo Romero yesterday for possible involvement in the 2006 murder of Lindsey Key. Key was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting near Arizona Avenue and Erie Street in Chandler on December…
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:Sheriff Joe’s Bigoted Deputies Harass an Activist in Video from September Sweep Up on the Sun:…
wwwuthpastor.com Google has made it possible for the average person to see their house from space, get a 360-degree view of almost any street in the country, and now the company is taking on swine-flu. The Arizona Department of Health Services announced today that it is partnering with Google…
Department of Public Safety officers, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, carried out one of the final stages of “Operation Quiet Riot” last night, arresting seven members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club for a series of violent assaults in Northern Arizona bars. “Quiet Riot” was a six-month investigation…
government has managed to blow through a $700 million loan from the Bank of America in less than a week, and that wasn’t even enough to keep things going. According to Treasurer Dean Martin, his office had to dip into internal sources to come up with the extra $73 million the state needed…
A brand-new cell phone app., developed by a professor at U.C. San Diego, is supposed to help guide illegal immigrants across the U.S.-Mexico border similar to how a GPS system works in a car. UCSD visual arts Professor Ricardo Dominguez created the app., which he is calling the Transborder Immigrant Tool, to give…
Florida Governor Charlie Crist met with Chicago Cubs president Crane Kenney, chairman Tom Ricketts, and other team officials to try to lure the team away from their spring training home in Mesa and have them set up shop in Naples, Florida. “We like palm trees better than cactus, and hope that…
It is a widely agreed-upon theory that sex offenders are almost required to have a mustache. While Joseph Edward Roberts has not been convicted of anything yet, if the theory holds true, that scraggly stache certainly won’t help his upcoming case…
Police say a 17-year-old Mesa boy will be charged with second-degree murder for fatally stabbing one of his friends last week. Frank Raymond Aguilar, according to police, stabbed 17-year-old Alexander Niazi after he caught the teen kissing his sister…A 3-year-old girl was killed when the lid to a toy box…
A day after scurrying off stage at the Cronkite School and ordering one of his deputies to defy a court order, Sheriff Arpaio took some time out of his busy schedule this morning to do some of the, um, really important stuff — like promoting a 109-year-old member of his…
An indictment was unsealed today in Kansas City, Kansas, that named 20 people involved in a marijuana-distribution ring that has netted more than $22 million over several years, and like many pot-peddling rackets before it, this one originated in Phoenix. The indictment is the result of an 18-month investigation by the Drug Enforcement Agency, the…
The latest book in the “we-love-Pat-Tillman” saga, Where Men Win Glory, by John Krakauer, features a photo of the former Arizona Cardinal staring heroically into the distance while standing on top of a mountain in Afghanistan. It’s enough to make any football fan weep.. One problem — the guy who took the photo…
A cat that was described by Colorado shelter workers as “half-frozen,” has thawed out and may be coming to find a home in Arizona. The cat, appropriately named Icee, was found under a deck in Teller County, Colorado, last month just a day after a heavy snowfall. When police found Icee, they…
Members of the Arizona Legislature are working on a, umm, great idea to help bridge the state’s now $1.5 budget gap — they want to start taking donations from you. As if the taxpayers are the ones who got us into this mess. Legislators are drumming up support for a…
Three people were found dead inside a Tucson home yesterday. Police say the bodies of a man, a woman, and a child were found inside the home but are not releasing any details about the case, other than that it is being investigated as a homicide…The body found below in…
Authorities in seven Arizona cities have been looking for the people responsible for the theft of hundreds of iPhones and other expensive cell phones over the past few months. Today, the Glendale Police Department announced that it has arrested three people in connection with the thefts.Lucky for the three men…
People say the holiday season should be about giving, and local law enforcement seems to be taking that to heart by giving out DUIs like they’re going outta style.As part of the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety’s Holiday DUI Task Force, with the clever catch phrase “drive hammered…get nailed,” law…
The state Board of Cosmetology threatened in April to pull the license of a Gilbert spa because of a treatment the owners were calling “doctor fish.””Doctor fish” is a pedicure treatment where people dip their feet in tanks of water that have hundreds of live imported Garra Rufa fish that want…
Here’s a new way to potentially beat the dreaded photo-radar cameras: Buy a novelty license plate.This method apparently worked for one Arizona speeder, whose large white Dodge pickup truck went speeding past a photo radar station and the camera snapped a shot of the license plate that says, “N Joy…
A new “extreme Beer” that has been outlawed in 13 states is coming to Arizona, and in the words of Dave Chappelle, “It’ll get ya drunk.”…
