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: Marcia Powell’s Autopsy Report Rules Cage Death in ADC Custody an “Accident” Pastor Steven Anderson,…
It’s one mystery solved, a few more to go.Thanks to documents unsealed today in Pinal County Superior Court at New Times’ behest, we now know the liaison between the Arizona Republican Party and Sheriff’s Captain Joel Fox.It’s a Republican campaign consultant, Chris Baker.Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen has testified under oath…
The National Council of State Legislatures must offer some pretty serious vacation time if they managed to convince Senator Pam Gorman to jump on board.Gorman was named chairwoman of the National Conference of State Legislatures last week, leaving us scratching our heads and wondering, “This can’t be the same Pam…
Pinal County Superior Court Judge Robert Carter Olson today unsealed the search warrant and other documents in a criminal investigation into a campaign finance scandal linked to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office — pulling back the curtain, in part, on an investigation that is clearly both active and serious.Olson acted…
As if our double chins and beer guts weren’t painful enough of a reminder as to how unhealthy we all are, now our iPhones can scold us into healthier eating habits, too. Two Scottsdale weight loss doctors have created a smart phone application that gauges and rates the nutritional value of…
The Goldwater Institute, the Phoenix based government watchdog named after conservative crusader, and former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, was named this year’s leader in policy development by The Arizona Capitol Times Monday.”The Goldwater Institute works hard to conduct research and develop solutions to strengthen the economy, bring transparency to government,…
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has a message for Arizona tourists: You’re creating fat-asses.Literally.The bureau is concerned with visitors to the town of Oatman, where they say tourists are over-feeding the town’s wild burros, making them unhealthy, and…well…fat.”The town has really encouraged burros to be down there; it’s part…
The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the autopsy report and toxicology results for Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old woman who died May 20 after being confined to a human cage at Perryville Prison in Goodyear for some four hours in the blazing Arizona sun. The conclusion of Medical Examiner Mark…
Just when we thought President Obama gave us all the “hope” we could handle, a Phoenix business owner is looking to provide some of his own.Russ Haan, a Valley business owner, and founder of Hope Is In The Cards, a movement to inspire, and motivate people by writing the word…
Quick note from the common sense department: When you walk into a pawn shop in a seedy part of town, the owner probably has a gun.Someone might want to share this bit of urban wisdom with a Phoenix man, who police say tried to rob a pawn shop, and now…
What did investigators find after executing a search warrant at the Gilbert home of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Captain Joel Fox? Call it the $315,000 question. Fox has been leading the public on a merry mystery tour for nearly a year, trickling out information about the SCA only under pressure…
With their lineup back at full-strength, the Arizona Diamondbacks looked — for a weekend, at least — like a team that could be dangerous in September. Against the reeling Houston Astros, the hitters hit well and the pitchers pitched well and everyone went home happy (except for closer Chad Qualls,…
Arizona Senator John McCain has endorsed Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk in his run for the U.S. Senate. McCain appeared with Kirk at a veteran’s event in Glenview on Sunday and said he would join Kirk in a “fight against this corruption, which has afflicted Washington”…ASU’s plan to build undergraduate satellite…
Before I hit you with my account of this Sunday’s evening service at Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church — home to Obama-death-wish preacher Steven Anderson, and his spritual follower, AR-15-toter and Obama-hater Christopher Broughton — I should run down some significant points picked up during my post-service chats with both. First off,…
Embedded video from CNN VideoOn Friday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez took on the subject of Tempe pastor Steven Anderson, the kooky, Obama-bashing preacher, now infamous for praying for the president’s demise, and for being the pastor to Christopher Broughton, the AR-15 totin’ anarchist/libertarian who showed up outside President Obama’s address to the…
Why anyone buys any of the shameless bull that flows forth from the MCSO’s PR team like a mighty river of bunk is beyond me. Take this latest, bogus claim from the sheriff of a legal victory in the big ACLU racial profiling lawsuit, Melendres v. Arpaio: “SHERIFF WINS IMPORTANT…
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: Radio KASA’s Carlos Galindo’s Thursday Run-In with MCSO Deputies Joe Arpaio a “Torturer on U.S…
Republican State Senator John Huppenthal has been acquitted on charges that he improperly removed a campaign sign last election day.Huppenthal, who has represented Chandler as either state representative or senator since 1992, had been charged with theft of the sign and tampering with a political sign, both misdemeanors.The East Valley…
A convicted killer serving a life sentence in Wisconsin for a 1978 double-murder has been charged in the 1973 murder of 22-year-old Leesa Jo Shaner. According to an article last year in the Wisconsin’s Journal-Sentinel, Shaner was on her way to pick up her husband at the Tucson Airport when…
Angela Simpson, the Phoenix woman accused of torturing a disabled man over three days before killing and dismembering him, was indicted on charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping, the Maricopa County Attorney Office’s announced today. This is one of those cases that make you wonder about the planet you’re living on. The…
An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio’s Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio “a pernicious person,” a macho champion of “denigration and mental abuse,” and a “torturer on U.S. soil.”…
Are your children unruly? Do they yell at the dinner table, shove each other in the hallway, or refuse to speak to you? Maybe you’ve got a house full of active kids and can’t keep up the pace. Well, Phoenix parents, get ready: if you’re feeling overwhelmed, British “Supernanny” Jo…
