Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently unveiled a controversial contest on his website asking the general public to vote for their favorite mugshot of an alleged criminal who’s been booked into one of the sheriff’s jails — the winner earning the coveted “Mugshot of the Day” honors.As we’ve mentioned, the…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio fired his chief deputy last week, but Dave Hendershott is being allowed to resign before the scheduled date of termination. Is that really a resignation? Typically, when someone’s forced to resign from a company or governmental agency, the boss doesn’t first state in writing that the employee…
A Pittsburgh natural-gas exec and his wife will donate $2,500 to a central Phoenix school on Friday as part of their cross-country trip in an alternative-fuel-powered Hummer H3, which they say pollutes less than a Smart Car. Murry Gerber served as CEO for EQT, a major natural-gas producer in Pennsylvania, for 12…
Courtesy of the Three Sonorans, the revolution is YouTube-izedHow often have you seen students protest and commit acts of civil disobedience because they want to study something?While their peers in the rest of the country may be looking to cut class, Tucson’s students are battling to maintain ethnic studies in…
A man convicted of fatally running down a Mesa bicyclist in Tempe last summer has been sentenced to a year in jail, and three years probation, after pleading guilty to charges that he left the scene of a fatal accident.Cody Ryan Davis, 23, was arrested last July at his home…
A Mohave County man was arrested last week after two kids saw him pissing on the side of a building — and he may have to register as a sex offender as a result.Mohave County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Trish Carter tells New Times 38-year-old Norman James Havatone was spotted at…
Donald Trump must have flipped what is obviously his wig this morning when President Barack Obama shockingly unveiled his long-form Hawaiian birth certificate — thus putting an end to the conspiracy based controversy over his citizenship (for anyone with half a brain, that is).Why did the president finally release the…
A couple of weeks back, I blogged about how Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s spokesman Tim Gaffney had apparently borrowed some stills of desert barricades taken by National Socialist Movement member Harry Hughes, otherwise known as the world’s “nicest neo-Nazi.” Or so I’ve dubbed him.Well, hell hath no fury like…
The air conditioning at Arizona’s Republican Party headquarters is broken, it’s been broken, and it may be a while until it’s fixed. But it’s not just the temperature that’s heating up within the state’s Grand Old Party.Sources tell New Times several groups within the party aren’t thrilled with recently elected…
The first person to stand up and address the board at yesterday evening’s Maricopa Community College Board meeting wanted to inform them about the Model UN team’s successes at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The next 25 were there to condemn the board’s recent tuition hike for “out of state” students, a…
Don’t look now, but the Diamondbacks are on the doorstep of their first series sweep of the season. And it’s against one of the best teams in Major League Baseball no less. Arizona beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-5 last night at Chase Field in the second game of the series…
Governor Jan Brewer was on CNN Monday night where she told host John King that the “Birther” issue was “leading our country down a path of destruction.”Frankly, we don’t think the “Birthers” are capable of constructing their own tin-foil helmets, let alone destroying the entire country, so to make the…
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:…
Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams (left) will step down from his post on Thursday as a likely step toward running for Representative Jeff Flake’s seat in Congress. Flake’s planning a run for U.S. Senator Jon Kyl’s soon-to-be-vacant seat, and Adams has been among the possible candidates for Flake’s Congressional District…
The Obama Administration is gearing up to sue Arizona again. In a letter to Arizona and three other states, the National Labor Relations Board’s lawyer announced plans to sue over state laws that guarantee the right to a secret ballot election in unionization efforts. While the letter went out to four states that…
What event could possibly combine collector cacti, the cast of “Glee,” and baseball into one package? If your guess was this year’s MLB All-Star Game — the first to be hosted in Arizona — then you’re right, oddly enough…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige raided a Valley business this morning in search of illegal immigrants using fake IDs in order to work — again. The result: a whopping four arrests.About 9:30 a.m., sheriff’s deputies “swarmed” the Allied Tube Company near 27th Avenue and Thomas Road in…
If you have eyes, and were in downtown Phoenix this afternoon, you may have noticed the enormous plume of smoke that overtook the skyline. Obviously, there was a fire.Details of the blaze are limited, but Phoenix fire officials tell New Times the fire started just before 2 p.m. at the…
Since our earlier post about a Pinal County jail inmate who beat up a detention officer so he could remain in custody and hopefully avoid a “hit” put out on him by a Mexican drug cartel, we got our hands on some video of the attack. It’s pretty wild.Last week,…
News Mild Undocumented students walk through a minefield of laws in pursuit of higher education. Some bills die on the floor of the statehouse. Others die on the governor’s desk. Sometimes, they die in the courts. And then there are those that die in a legislative committee, along party lines,…
fromtheleft.wordpress.com Apparently it takes a federal judge to tell the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office that being Hispanic isn’t actually illegal. More than two years after a Hispanic father-son combo was arrested by MCSO deputies near the site of one of their infamous worksite raids, a federal judge ruled Monday that…
Just when you give Governor Jan Brewer a little credit, she takes it way, way too far… Not only does Brewer find the debate over President Barack Obama’s citizenship to be a “distraction,” but she also thinks it’s leading America down a doomsday-ish “path of destruction.”The Birther movement is stupid,…
