A 14-year-old boy, whom police in Louisiana found malnourished, injured, and living in a dumpy old trailer with his abusive father, is being returned to his mother here in Arizona.Last week, a St. Bernard Parish constable went to the trailer park where the boy lived with his father, with the intention of…
Apparently allowing any idiot with a permit to bring a gun into a bar wasn’t enough to satisfy Arizona’s gun lobby.The Arizona Citizens Defense League, a new political action committee recently formed by local gun lobbyists, hopes to pull the strings of state leaders and sway upcoming elections toward flintlock-friendly…
Three unidentified sources “from different parts of the political spectrum” hint that a state investigation of Governor Janice Brewer may be coming down the pike, says the Phoenix Business Journal.A September 5 article by Mike Sunnucks says that questions have arisen about the way Brewer uses her power and how,…
Have you ever stopped to think about how cool it would be if your gadgets fixed themselves? Of course you haven’t, because that would be CRAZY. Crazy or not, self-healing machines are exactly what several University of Arizona professors and graduate students have been researching for the past two years…
After a pathetic showing in the ’09 season, most D-backs fans would probably prefer that the lovable losers not play anyone next season, let alone the soon to be World Series Champion New York Yankees.Unfortunately for Phoenicians who don’t just go to Chase Field when the Cubs, Dodgers, or Mets…
As far as Eric Byrnes is concerned, 2009 has been the “year of the goat.” The 33-year-old left fielder has been consistently railed on by fans and sports wags over the bulk of the last two seasons for his incompetent ballplaying, repeated whiffs, occasional tantrums, and failing to justify his…
Nearly one million doses of the H1N1 vaccine are scheduled to arrive in Arizona next month, but not everybody will get a shot right away. Health officials are reserving the initial batch of shots for health-care workers, children, and expectant mothers, and say the general public may not get their…
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: Up on the Sun: Kanye West, Lady Gaga Plot Tour: Phoenix is First Stop Royal Filth Kicks…
Dennis Burke, one of former Governor Janet Napolitano’s chiefs of staff, has been confirmed as the next U.S. Attorney in Arizona. Burke’s ultra-qualified for the job. He’s a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Arizona, worked as counsel under former Arizona U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcini, is a former…
This month’s GQ is the forum for the newest embarrassing tell-all about the Bush White House, with ex-presidential speechwriter Matt Latimer telling readers what the ex-prez really thought about the John McCain campaign and a pathetic showing at a Phoenix campaign stop.Latimer describes telling W about a McCain campaign event right…
It was a sluggish summer for Metro light rail, but ridership is ramping up again thanks to a new semester at Arizona State University. Officials estimate the trains were boarded 882,328 times in August, which was far more than in either June or July. Traffic on the rail dropped from…
As much as we hate to quote Keanu Reeves, in the 1989 film “Parenthood,” his halfwit character “Tod” makes a coarse but eloquent point about paternity.When describing his father to his future mother-in-law, “Tod” tells her, “You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive…
It’s a sad day when a minister getting arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with a minor is no longer shocking.Chandler Police arrested 25-year-old Joshua O’Bannion after a 14-year-old girl told police that the minister had had sex with her on three separate occasions.O’Bannion served as the youth minister at the Christ…
You’re the city’s chief spokesman, home on administrative leave for allegations your bosses won’t specify to the public. A reporter calls, and you tell him you don’t want to say why you were put on leave. And then you say, out of the blue, “In my career, I have never touched…
The ruse of bipartisanship shall be on display September 21 as the Legislature begins its first talks over private school tax-credit reform. The Bipartisan Task Force on the Private School Tuition Tax Credits, a committee comprised of three Republicans and five Democrats, plan to give it their all in…
A new study conducted by the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix might make it a little harder for kiddies to get their hands on an “official Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred-shot range-model air rifle, with a compass, and a stock, and this thing which tells time,” made famous in the classic “A…
The ultra-“moral” morning man for 92.3 FM (KTAR), and often-deserved punching bag of this paper, Darrell Ankarlo, returned to the airwaves with a vengeance today, after a five-month absence resulting from a car accident that nearly ended his career…
donating his brain to science? Well, we never… Arizona Cardinals receiver Sean Morey announced yesterday that he has agreed to donate his brain, plus some spinal-cord tissue, to a medical study being conducted at Boston University. The donation, after death of course, is part of the “Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy — a…
The Arizona Diamondbacks versus the San Diego Padres. A battle of bottom-heavy NL West teams playing in front of nobody at SD’s Petco Park. Totally not-see TV, right? Well, we will see what happens in the latter two games of the three-game set, but last night’s donnybrook was actually pretty…
Planned Parenthood and the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights have sued to block enactment of House Bill 2564 and Senate Bill 1175, which would enforce new laws in Arizona that impose restrictions on abortions. Among the restrictions would be a mandatory 24-hour waiting period to get an abortion and the…
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: Joe Arpaio Hosted in Houston by Two Nativist Extremist Groups Up on the Sun: Coe…
I don’t know about the devil goin’ down to Georgia, but Sheriff Joe did go down to Houston this weekend to pimp the pack of bogus yarns in his 2008 tome Joe’s Law. You know, the one wherein he claims credit for busting the French Connection, says he pulled over…
