CBS’ Phoenix affiliate KPHO has been sued by a Mesa doctor the station accused of being a pervert in terms of how he treated a few female employees.According to Doctor Khalid Shirif, the medical director of Creative Health Care Services (Sunrise Health & Hospice), KPHO falsely reported that he fired…
Glendale officials are not ready to fold in what has become a high-stakes gamble to prevent the Tohono O’odham Nation from building a resort-style casino in the West Valley.Neither is the Gila River Indian Community.The duo’s Keeping the Promise campaign is drumming up opposition to the West Valley Resort, which…
Daniel Gukeisen, a former attorney convicted of fatally stabbing Arizona State University student Garrett Hohn, was sentenced to five years in prison this morning after he was found guilty of manslaughter last month.He actually showed up for court this time.When the verdict was read last month, Gukeisen wasn’t present. Apparently anticipating a…
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley has escaped a second criminal case leveled at him by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Gila County Attorney Daisy Flores has decided not to charge Stapley for his alleged wrongdoing in a case that new records show was manufactured in part for…
Local psychic Susanne Wilson sent out a press release this morning blasting Stephen Hawking for saying heaven isn’t real. “Psychic abilities prove the existence of the afterlife,” the press release declares, “refuting” Hawkings’ claim. Anyone can be a psychic with a little help from their friends, she says. To…
There’s a new member of the Arizona House of Representatives: attorney Justin Pierce was appointed today to serve the remainder of former Speaker Kirk Adams’ term.The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors announced Pierce’s appointment this morning.Pierce, an employment lawyer with the firm Jackson Lewis, will serve the remainder of Adams’ term,…
Both Arizona major-college softball programs rolled through their respective NCAA Regionals over the weekend in Tempe and Tucson, the first of two steps necessary to earn a coveted spot in the College World Series. Neither squad really was tested in the four-team tourney, each going unbeaten in three games to…
A challenger has emerged to run against America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” in the 2012 election.Mike Stauffer, a lieutenant in the Scottsdale Police Department, announced over the weekend that he will take on Maricopa County’s corrupt top cop, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, because he’s fed up with Arpaio’s “shamelessly and recklessly thumbing his nose…
Rumors that Sarah Palin is planning a Senate run in Arizona seem a little more credible now that it seems the former Alaska governor has purchased a house in Scottsdale.Rumors have been swirling for months that Palin was either looking to purchase a home in Scottsdale, or already had purchased one, and…
Phoenix New Times walked away with 14 first-place awards last night at the state Press Club’s 2010 Best Journalism in Arizona contest — including for the paper’s comprehensive national immigration series, “Amongst U.S.”Overall, the newspaper received 40 awards for work during 2010.Sarah Fenske, a former New Times staff writer and columnist who now…
Recently filed court documents show that State Senate President Russell Pearce’s 30 year-old son Joshua has been sentenced to a year in the Arizona Department of Corrections for violating the conditions of his probation on a 2007 conviction for aggravated DUI. (Both Joshua’s infant son and his wife were in…
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:…
Phoenix police rescued a 21-year-old man yesterday who was run off the road while driving his car in Tucson, kidnapped at gunpoint, bound, driven to Phoenix, and held for ransom.The Phoenix Police Department was alerted by a local media outlet that a woman called to report that her brother was…
A new report released by the Chandler Police Department shows that detectives investigating two bishops in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recommended that the two men be charged with crimes for failing to report the sexual abuse of a teenage boy at the hands of Susan Brock,…
It may come as a shock to a Mesa woman, but grenades are not welcome at Dairy Queen.Mesa police say 30-year-old Renee Deshaies walked into a Dairy Queen in the 600 block of East Main Street in Mesa to get some ice cream last night. After getting the ice cream,…
Valley sports reporter Bruce Cooper isn’t buying the account of a fatal 2009 boating accident that took the life of his son as it’s told by the lone survivor of the mishap.Cooper’s son, Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper, and three friends went on a fishing trip along the Florida coast in…
An outbreak of horse herpes has forced the closure of a Queen Creek Park.Horseshoe Park & Equestrian Centre will be closed through at least June 2 to prevent the spread of the horse herpes, which is currently spreading throughout the Southwest…
We corresponded with child killer Donald Beaty for awhile back in the late 1980s, for a story on Arizona’s death row. In fact, we met him briefly during a surreal tour of Cellblock 6, where the condemned used to be “housed” for decades. Beaty was the Valley’s most reviled person…
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms intercepted a 50-caliber cannon they say was headed to a drug cartel in Mexico.ATF Supervisory Special Agent Peter Forcelli tells New Times that agents got information from the Mexican government that the unidentified suspect planned to buy the gun and deliver…
James Harden, who would have been a senior this past season at ASU had he not gone to the NBA after his sophomore season, destroyed the Dallas Mavericks in a nationally televised game last night, as his Oklahoma City Thunder evened their Western Conference final series at a game each…
Russell Pearce: Pioneer Against Illegal Immigration or Racist?: MyFoxPHOENIX.comKudos to Fox 10 anchor John Hook and executive producer Rod Haberer for the best exposé I’ve seen another outlet do on the subject of state Senate President Russell Pearce and his relationship with Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. The piece ran during…
There was another pitching duel at Chase Field last night. Arizona Diamondbacks reliever-turned-starter Josh Collmenter traded blanks with Atlanta Braves starter Jair Jurrjens until the Diamondbacks took the game’s first and last lead in the bottom of the sixth. The final score read 2-1. Chris Young played the hero on…
