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:…
Remember last week when a publicist for comedian Katt Williams issued a statement saying how sorry the comedian was for an anti-Hispanic tirade he went on during a performance in Phoenix last month? About that…Williams was on CNN over the weekend where he not only didn’t apologize for the tirade,…
John Woods, a former umpire recovering from a brain injury, was fired from an Outback restaurant because of his disability, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleges in a federal complaint.The subject of several media reports in recent years, (the Arizona Republic had a long write-up on him in February), Woods…
CORRECTION: the way this post was originally written indicated that Spencer Cullen is physically a man hoping to have a sex-change operation. In fact, Cullen is a woman who wants a sex-change operation. It has since been changed from its original version.Spencer Danger Cullen, 23, was born with a vagina…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio really loves his job. The reason: he doesn’t have to go through all that pesky “legal stuff” if he wants to put someone in jail.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was live at the Apollo Theater a Mojave County GOP fundraiser/comedy hour over the weekend, and…
Three people — including a 14-year-old boy — were injured during a drive-by shooting in west Phoenix last night, and the shooter is still on the loose.The Phoenix Police Department says the three victims were walking to a birthday party in a neighborhood near 23rd Avenue and Indian School Road…
The Arizona Diamondbacks were cruising to yet another win last night against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field in Denver when the unthinkable happened: Their bullpen fell apart late in the game. Reliever David Hernandez gave up five runs in the eighth inning against the Rox, blowing Arizona’s lead and…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Andrew Thom Ass, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest. On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo. We picked…
According to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ghost-“tweeters,” the sheriff and presidential hopeful/Texas Governor Rick Perry chatted over the weekend about “immigration and other matters.”Again, that’s according to the sheriff’s Twitter page — whether the alleged conversation actually took place has not yet been confirmed by Perry’s campaign staff (Arpaio’s…
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:…
According to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ghost-“tweeters,” at least two big-name Republican presidential hopefuls have sought his input in the past few days regarding “immigration and other matters” — and Arpaio’s lovin’ the (alleged) attention.According to Arpaio, over the weekend, he “received phone call at my house from TX…
Vincent Michael Tarvin probably wouldn’t have been busted with a pocket full of what police believe to be cocaine early this morning — but he decided to go into a Valley telemarketing business and pull out his penis. He then advised employees at the business that it was time to…
It appears a thief the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s bandit-naming department has dubbed the “thou shalt not steal bandit” may have struck again — this time in Phoenix.Phoenix police say the First Fidelity Bank branch near 32nd Street and Lincoln Drive in Phoenix was robbed this morning by a gun-wielding…
Former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke’s apparently forced resignation last week stemmed not only from the “Fast and Furious” scandal, but also from a botched case involving grenades.The Wall Street Journal reports today that Burke may have approved an attempted sting in 2009 by the U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms bureau…
A former Tempe cop accused of stealing evidence from the agency’s evidence room — including a refrigerator — has pleaded guilty to reduced charges.Initially, former Tempe Officer Elliot Campbell was booked on two counts of theft of a credit card, 10 counts of tampering with evidence, and one count each of…
An Arizona company formerly known as iCloud Communications has dumped its trademark lawsuit against Apple and apparently changed its name.The Phoenix-based iCloud caused a ruckus in the tech world earlier this summer with its federal complaint, which was filed just days after Steve Jobs officially unveiled Apple’s iCloud, an online…
The bizarre death of Rebecca Zahau — the girlfriend of Scottsdale-based Medicis CEO Jonah Shacknai, whose death was ruled a suicide last week — just got more bizarre; the results of Zahau’s autopsy make it seem even less likely that she took her own life.Aside from being found bound behind…
Arizona State University police arrested a man last month who may be the infamous ride-by serial-groper, whom police believe may be responsible for nearly a dozen gropings around the university’s Tempe campus.Filiberto Salgado Cirilo, 26, was reportedly arrested on August 30, after allegedly riding his bike next to a woman…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for a caption for the above photo we stumbled upon of a cool-looking off-road machine and a bored deputy, who evidently has too much time on his hands, for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest.Once again, you didn’t…
He’s swiped $100 million from taxpayer-protected funds to use for his own pet programs, engaged in high-profile shenanigans with former fellow Sith Lord and ex-County Attorney Andrew Thomas — monkeyshines rivaling Watergate in corruption, and still can’t do his job and serve tens of thousands of outstanding warrants.But he can…
[jump] Gerardo Parra proceeded to nail a single and pinch-hitter Geoff Blum got the base on balls treatment, which set the stage for a two-run triple by Willie Bloomquist’s and an RBI single by Aaron Hill. The scoreboard was then 4-1 in favor of the Diamondbacks. Arizona’s dugout was nothing…
Following my column this week regarding the Associated Press’ flubbed piece on the sentences received by 13 anti-SB 1070 protesters arrested outside the Fourth Avenue Jail on July 29, 2010, attorney Antonio Bustamante, one of the lawyers for the defendants, wrote the AP asking for a correction or retraction of…
