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The union-backed protests planned for Walmart stores nationwide on “Black Friday” includes a protest at one of the Walmart locations in Tempe.Phoenix-based United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99 says workers will be protesting at the store at Elliot Road and Priest Drive at 7 a.m. on “Black Friday.”…

My father and mother were able to come over because after the “yellow scare” was over, the States didn’t seem to mind that Chinese were coming over here by the boatloads. Since my parents were given visas and green cards pretty easily, my father was able to get into school…

The other day, I spoke on the phone with a woman named Taz Loomans. She stepped out of a coffee shop in Portland, Oregon, into lightly falling rain to take my call, which sounded pretty romantic considering that I was hunched in my car in the parking lot at Scottsdale…

The Phoenix man who was temporarily cleared of murder and child-abuse charges in a 2-year-old girl’s death was back in jail Thursday, after nearly two months of freedom.Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times 27-year-old Ryan Reed was arrested Thursday night on two counts of child molestation…

Assistant House Minority Leader Ruben Gallego, a Phoenix Democrat, announced plans to introduce a marijuana-legalization bill during the upcoming legislative session.Gallego, an Iraq War veteran, said he’s working on a bill “that would regulate and tax marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol.”…

It seems that inmates at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails will be going hungry this Thanksgiving, because the Turkey Day menu at gulag de Arpaio sounds absolutely inedible.In years past, Arpaio used to make a song and dance about ponying up an extra six cents an inmate to serve them something…

Well, Arizonans, you can decide on your own what you might be giving thanks for this Thanksgiving, but we can tell you some things you shouldn’t be thankful for.In fact, we found 50 ways in which you can give no thanks this year:…

Contaminated lettuce is the “probable source” of the E. coli outbreak a few months ago at a Federico’s Mexican Food location, according to the county health department.The Maricopa County Department of Public Health released its report on the investigation of the outbreak, which sickened a total of 94 people, with…

By January 31, Child Protective Services plans to have started (or completed) investigations into the cases that have been ignored over the last three years.The Department of Economic Security, which oversees CPS — or is supposed to, at least — finally released its plan for how the agency’s going to…

In the interest of fairness, we can only follow up a list of Phoenix’s 10 hottest newsmen with a catalog of Phoenix’s hottest newswomen.Now, the following rankings have nothing to do with any supposed journalistic abilities, but rather only their abilities to visually captivate their audiences. Enjoy…

The activists from Citizens for a Better Arizona are all over Child Protective Services and the agency’s failure to investigate 6,000 claims of neglect and abuse.In addition to making frequent made-for-TV trips to the Department of Economic Security (the parent agency of CPS) and Governor Jan Brewer’s office, CBA’s also…

An employee of the Tilted Kilt restaurant in Downtown Phoenix was killed at work this morning.Phoenix Police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times the killing is apparently the result of a fight between two members of the kitchen staff…

The Arizona Republic published a TKO of its editorial board this weekend, after the writers declared that the state’s voter-approved medical-marijuana program was “one of the biggest cons around.”Dr. Gina Mecagni, a local emergency physician, simply annihilated the Republic’s assertion that most medical-pot patients probably are fakers…

New Times ladies were sitting around engaged in a heated debate about who People magazine should name as 2013’s “Sexiest Man Alive.” Well, turns out that, last week, People handed the honor to Adam Levine, Maroon 5’s frontman and a judge on The Voice We say bah! We’d have given…