A Pinal County 2-year-old is lucky to be alive after she was rescued from a hot SUV parked in the parking lot of a Fry’s grocery store.The girl, according to Pinal County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Elias Johnson, was left in the car for about 90 minutes.The girl’s mother, 30-year-old Amber…
JOE’S FARCE Of course they’re a joke: What Joe Arpaio is doing with his sweeps always has been a farce, and your latest story just proves it once again (“Sizzling Deal,” Uriel Garcia, August 11). The truth is, Joe doesn’t really give a good goddamn what happens to illegals once…
David Nelson, a former elder at the Madison Park Congregation Jehovah’s Witness Church in Phoenix, admitted to authorities that he sexually abused a teenage boy on several occasions in the early 1980s. With a confession from the suspect, it seems like a slam-dunk case — but not for the Maricopa…
Santiago Gonzalez walks through his watermelon fields on an overcast morning in May, surveying the crops. Some of the melons are bright green; others still have a yellowish tinge. The lifelong West Valley farmer reaches down for one, splits it open with a pocket knife, and cuts a chunk from…
When it comes to the war on the poor in Sand Land, I have little faith that the cruelty toward the less fortunate evidenced by our ruling Republican junta ever will be avenged. Governor Jan Brewer, state Senate President Russell Pearce, their puppet-maestro, Chuck Coughlin of HighGround Public Affairs, and…
This is going to sound absolutely and totally Caucasian. Lately, we have been trying to lighten the mood around the office with delicate bits of international confections. With all that’s going on in the world, who needs one more worry? With that said, we are struck with yet another issue…
Stupid is as stupid does. Not only has Matt Tolman, the real-estate rocket scientist behind the scurrilous pro-Pearce signs all over Mesa (signs the city has ordered him to remove because they are unlawful), been dumb enough to post a photo of his daughter’s rear-end on his public Facebook page, now…
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:…
Eric Fiegel, 22, had the bright idea to steal a few rare snakes. He did so by stuffing them in his shorts — and it was caught on video.Fiegel, of Mesa, waltzed into the Predator’s Reptile Center pet store last month, stuffed a few baby snakes — including one rare…
For more than a year, the union leaders representing more than 630 Phoenix bus drivers have been trying to hammer out a contract with Veolia Transportation executives.Now those talks are expected to pick up again after Labor Day.Veolia is the French transit company that landed a $383 million city-bus contract…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio conducted his 51st illegal immigrant roundup (under the guise of an “employer sanctions” operation. Per usual, no employers were arrested) this morning. It netted precisely one arrest.So, how many deputies did it take to bring this criminal to justice? Your guess is as good as…
Anna Maria Chavez, a former Arizona gal who worked under ex-Governor Janet Napolitano has been named the new CEO for the Girl Scouts of the USA.Chavez, 43, grew up in Eloy and joined the Scouts there at a young age with one of her friends. She also lived in Phoenix…
Veolia executives agreed to go back to the bargaining table with union leaders representing Phoenix bus drivers.That means that a possible strike, which has received the blessing of union’s international leadership, is going to be put on hold.Michael Cornelius, vice president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433, tells New…
The United States Department of Justice announced today that two men have been charged in connection with starting the Wallow fire, the behemoth blaze that destroyed a large portion of the Apache National Forest earlier this year.According to the DOJ, the two suspects, Caleb Joshua Malboeuf, 26, and David Wayne…
Though I figured Matt Tolman’s dirty tricks eventually would backfire on the Pearce camp, I had no idea the blowback would come so quickly or from such an official source.Tolman is the chairman of Citizens Who Oppose the Pearce Recall, which recently posted signs in Legislative District 18 bearing false…
When Child Protective Services placed a 4-month-old baby in the care of 25-year-old Angelica Jimenez, she didn’t bother to tell the CPS caseworker that her convicted felon boyfriend was living with her. In fact, she told CPS he doesn’t live with her.But 30-year-old Steven Saldana, who police say has a…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ghost “tweeters” this morning posted a message on the sheriff’s Twitter page saying Arpaio’s “getting ready for a big operation today.”That “big operation,” a spokesman for the MCSO confirms to New Times, is a raid of a Days in in central Phoenix in search of…
A woman accused of attempting to destroy evidence in the Susan Brock child molestation case accepted a plea deal this morning that will likely keep her out of jail.Christian Weems, an old friend of the incarcerated estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge…
In the interest of lambasting a dead horse till it’s tender enough to feed to a pigeon, I present the following e-mail string, unedited by me, save to put the electronic missives in order from first to last. As you’ll see, reader Michael Wells engaged in some participatory journalism by corresponding with wacky…
[jump] Burroughs’ homer was his first since 2005 and served as a redemption of sorts for the third baseman, who’s been on a major comeback over the past year. Once considered a baseball wunderkind (after he helped win back-to-back Little League World Series in the early ’90s), Burroughs hit the…
Five Phoenix police officers and one employee of the city of Phoenix were ordered by a judge last week to submit their DNA to those investigating the death of Phoenix police Sergeant Sean Drenth.Drenth’s death is the biggest mystery in the Phoenix law enforcement community, at the moment; authorities still…
Nearly all of the Phoenix bus drivers who turned out to vote on a labor contract proposed by Veolia Transportation rejected their offer and authorized a strike.96 percent of voters said ‘thanks, but no thanks’ to Veolia’s “best and final offer”, which comes after about a year of labor negotiations.Union…
