Editor’s note: All interviews with parents were conducted in Spanish and translated to English. When Alfonso Uribe was 2 years old, he started banging his head against a wall. Alarmed, his mother took him to a doctor. The doctor didn’t speak Spanish, and Eulalia Uribe didn’t speak English. There was no translator…
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: Laine Lawless Met with Shawna Forde and Accomplice Hours After Arivaca Killings, Says Report Up…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is so concerned about recent hate crimes in his hometown of Fountain Hills, he decided to cancel a trip to Tucson today for a planned speech. The weird part is that he posted a message on his Twitter account at about 3 p.m. today that he…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please see our update at the end of this post.Andy Boy, you don’t want to go there.That’s all we could think about after we read a nasty little attack on our coverage of the Bryant Wilkerson trial at the conservative blog www.sonoranalliance.com — posted by supporters of Maricopa…
Congratulations America, the recession is almost unofficially over!Well, if you believe Valley businesses that have declared September 17 the official end of our current national economic woes.If it was that easy, why the hell didn’t they do this six months ago? Not only are all of our economic problems soon to…
You gotta know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em, and Governor Jan Brewer is clinging to the idea of a 1-cent sales tax increase like grim death.”I still believe in the referral,” she says today at a speech at the East Valley Institute of Technology in…
Yesterday we reported that a man wearing a monkey mask to evade speed cameras was ticketed 37 times for speeding.Turns out that’s just how many tickets police handed Dave Vontesmar. The number of tickets he actually earned is epic.Department of Public Safety officials say he has actually racked up more than 90…
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was no “Sheriff” Joe Arpaio. But in the mid-1980s, there was a ex-DEA agent named Joe Arpaio who was selling flights into space from a Scottsdale travel firm. New Times has written about Arpaio’s former life as a space…
[jump] Suzi claims that other investigators have been trained on how to keep up with her Web site, and she feels comfortable in trying something utterly new with her life. She can’t wait to get to her new job at Mesa Community College as an Environmental Coordinator, which sounds suspiciously…
What could be more relaxing than a week on your own private island in the Pacific Ocean? Well, for one Arizona congressman, the answer is to do it alone with little more than snorkeling gear, a water desalinization pump, and a Hawaiian sling to spear fish.Mesa Congressman Jeff Flake opted out…
If you like what Andrew Thomas has done for Maricopa County, you’re in luck; he might be taking the Andy show statewide.That’s right; Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas announced that he’s forming an exploratory committee to look at a potential run for Arizona attorney general in 2010.If Thomas hopes to replace…
Mexican flag-burnin’ nativist Laine Lawless may have some ‘splainin’ to do. According to a report in the Everett, Washington Daily Herald, the newspaper that’s been the most dogged in following their hometown minutewoman and accused child-killer Shawna Forde, Lawless may have visited with Forde and an alleged accomplice hours after a…
The 3-week-old girl, who police say suffered some gruesome injuries at the hands of her father, 25-year-old Brian Mark Hopf, is not expected to survive. Hopf poked the girl in the eyes,police say, and dropped her on the floor, leaving her with several skull fractures, broken ribs, and other serious injuries…
A pair of Phoenix business owners claim the city screwed them in a railroad deal and ruined their livelihood. Now the husband-and-wife entrepreneurs have locked themselves inside their small compound, threatening to stay until they’re forced out.This plot could have been pulled from the Westerns section at the DVD store,…
New figures released Tuesday show that under the current budget signed by Governor Brewer last week, the state is now at least $1 billion in the hole. After eight months of negotiation, who would expect anything less, right? The figures were part of a report from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee,…
[jump] Boyer came in from the bullpen to protect a 4-1 lead at that point, and promptly allowed a slew of singles from the Los Angeles lineup, which propelled Russell Martin. Then came Daniel Schlereth, who gave up a ribbie single to Andre Ethier and permitted Mark Kemp to get…
Chandler Police are going back to school this fall, as officers plan to ride school buses to ensure drivers obey the laws around school buses, and stop when buses activate their “stop” signs. The penalty for a first-time violation is a $250 fine…A Mesa-based company called Dixon Golf has created a…
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: The Goldwater Institute’s Clint Bolick Jumps on the Anti-Intellectual Bash-Obama Bandwagon Up on the Sun:…
“You have an immaculate record. Some guys don’t trust an immaculate record. I do. I have an immaculate record.” — Captain Ellerby, from The Departed. We recalled this quote while looking recently at the 200-page personnel file of Captain Joel Fox. Fox, as regular readers of this blog know, is…
Arizona’s very own maverick, Senator John McCain, is telling a former Arizona icon to hang up his bloody sock, and join him in the United States Senate.McCain also told Sara Palin to run for vice-president, and I think we all know how that turned out.McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan tells CNN…
A Chandler man is in custody after, police say, he dropped his three-week-old daughter on the ground, and poked her in the eyes. The newborn was left with serious injuries.Brian Mark Hopf, 25, was arrested after his daughter was admitted to the hospital with “life-threatening injuries” including multiple skull fractures, fractured…
Arizona schools chief Tom Horne had some tough words for President Obama, and the White House last week, in regard to Obama’s address to students this morning.After hearing the speech, guess what; Horney loved it!”I think we can all agree with the message of the President’s speech,” Horne tells New…
