Since his arrest Monday by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, no prosecutor has stepped forward to take the case against Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley. As we reported Monday, the MSCO is recommending more than 95 criminal counts against Stapley, including real estate fraud…Glendale police have released a sketch of a suspected…
Less than a month after the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Arizona Department of Corrections inmate Marcia Powell’s May 20 human cage death an “accident,” ADC honcho Charles Ryan has fired three employees, forced the resignations of two others, and disciplined 11 more. This according to an ADC news release…
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 Arpaio’s Active Posse Roster, Presented for Your Perusal (w/Update Re: Marshall Trimble) Up…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon blamed the media today for doing our job and reporting on governmental and corporate waste and stupidity.What do we have to say about that here at New Times? Guilty as charged.Gordon says the way the media covered corporate and governmental “training seminars” held here in the…
Is there any negative national list that doesn’t have Arizona in the top 10?Recently, Phoenix was picked as one of the worst places to raise kids. We are annually one of the worst states in terms of education , and we have some of the worst air quality in the…
A new poll released today sheds light on something most of us probably already know: We’re fed up with Governor Jan Brewer.Sure, she’s fine in that grandmotherly sort of way, but after a state budget battle that’s somehow still waging, heads are gonna have to roll.According to the poll, conducted by…
Some people just don’t know how to bow out gracefully.A guidance counselor with the Phoenix Union High School admittedly forged tickets to the schools prom and then sold them to students, pocketing the money.Sure, teachers are underpaid, but come on?!Tim Berra admitted to the district’s governing board that he forged…
As football fans, we have come to expect various degrees of pissing and moaning from wide receivers when they aren’t getting the ball. Call it the nature of the beast. It usually happens on the sidelines, or in the locker room and now, like everything else, has found its way…
If for some reason you type “white people stole my car” into a Google search, it will take you to a plethora of Web sites filled with spam and viruses as a result of a breach of cyber security. Google officials say they have been trying to fix the glitch since…
If Skeet Ulrich is “the poor man’s” Johnny Depp, the pig flu vaccine on its way to Arizona right now is the Skeet Ulrich of preventative measures. State health officials said yesterday Arizona is set to receive at least 70,000 doses of a nasal-spray version of the H1N1 vaccine ahead of…
At 10:13 last night, San Francisco Giants’ closer Brian Wilson struck out Arizona Diamondbacks’ slugger Justin Upton on a 3-2 pitch. Upton barked at the home-plate umpire in disagreement. The crowd, numbering in the thousands, booed in unison. We’re not sure if it was over the call or the fact…
The City of Mesa has created a series of new restrictions for massage parlors, in an attempt to crack down on parlors that may be fronts for illegal activities. Among the changes is a requirement that massage-parlor owners register their employees with the city, and work logs that detail therapists’…
Recall the ancient schmuck at the beginning of this video? Count him as one more reason you can give posse members the raspberries with impunityEver wonder who the pathetic wannabes are that populate Sheriff Joe’s posse? You know, the semi-senile geriatrics who patrol the malls at Christmas time, and aid and…
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:Billionaires for Wealthcare Chase AFP’s Tom Jenney with $20M Check Up on the Sun:Arizona Fall Frenzy,…
We’ve now got the paperwork that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office filed in order to arrest Don Stapley — again. And one thing is now incredibly clear: At this point, this is a publicity stunt, not a legitimate criminal case.No charges have been filed against Stapley. There’s no indictment, no…
To be honest, we didn’t think he had it in him, but in a new Vitamin Water Web ad, Steve Nash proves that Shaq and Charles Barkley weren’t the only Phoenix Suns with a sense of humor.Nash plays himself, “Canadian celebrity Steve Nash,” as a gruff-voiced infomercial spokesman that would…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office confirmed information it apparently gave Channel 15 (KNXV-TV) earlier today about wanting Don Stapley charged with 93 felonies and seven misdemeanors. In a likely nod to suspicions about the timing of Stapley’s arrest on new charges so soon after his old ones were dismissed, Sheriff Joe Arpaio…
The wheels of international law are spinning as an American murder suspect, awaiting possible extradition to the United States from his native India, may have the Canadian government advocating for him.Authorities believe that in 2007, now 34-year-old Avtar Grewel murdered his wife, Navneet Kaur, who at the time was 30-years-old, in her Ahwautkee…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, via Channel 15 (KNXV-TV), says County Supervisor Don Stapley is being accused of 93 felonies and seven misdemeanors related to illicit finances. And we heard something interesting from our own sources: This arrest didn’t involve a grand jury indictment or even a prosecutor’s office. It…
The latest from the Arizona Billionaires, showing some love for Tom Jenney… Here’s the latest video from the Arizona-based Billionaires for Weathcare, as shot by activist Dennis Gilman for his YouTube channel Humanleague002. The first Billionaires video back in August lampooned the scores of anti-Obama crazies protesting at Congressman Harry Mitchell’s office in…
Honestly, how many “adults” in this town really own swords? At what point does someone say to them self “hey, this is a dangerous part of town, I should probably get myself a sword?”Hey idiots; this is not the Middle Ages. We no longer joust, women are no longer damsels,…
Don Stapley (pictured) was arrested this morning by Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies and booked into jail. What a difference a weekend makes! On Friday afternoon, it looked like Stapley’s legal troubles were all but over. The Yavapai County Attorney’s Office had moved to drop all remaining charges against Stapley related to his alleged…
