SAD STATE Would like to come back, but can’t: My wife and I visited Arizona in 2006. We enjoyed it. We’d like to return. Except we can’t (see our immigration series “Amongst U.S.,” and, most recently “Pearce’s Nemesis,” The Bird, Stephen Lemons, March 3). My wife is a Spanish national…
PLEA TV Far be it from me to tell local CBS affiliate KPHO (Channel 5) how to run its newsroom, but the station’s special relationship with the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the powerful union that represents rank-and-file Phoenix police officers, undermines KPHO’s tag line of “telling it like it is.”…
Two weeks before the start of spring break and despite good weather, the beaches and resorts in Rocky Point, Mexico, are deserted. Reservations for the annual sojourn are reported to be minimal — resort staff and tourism officials expect another slow year. American tourists are sparse throughout town, from Cholla…
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Traveling to and around Mexico can be a fun experience, but you should use your head if you’re planning on going there for spring break. It’s not as simple as driving to Lake Havasu or San Diego, and — as we detail in this week’s feature article on Rocky Point…
Image: Arizona DPS Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Robert Halliday has won a lawsuit filed against him by a former officer who once dated his daughter. Robert Halliday, director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, has won a federal lawsuit filed against him by a former DPS officer…
An estimated crowd of 200 students marched from Carl Hayden High School on 35th Avenue and Roosevelt Street to the State Capitol this afternoon, protesting state Senator Russell Pearce’s SB 1160 and the continuing lack of opportunity for undocumented students. Students were organized by a group at Carl Hayden led…
Give it up, bub…After sitting on death row for more than two decades, Daniel Wayne Cook is still fighting to avoid his date with the executioner’s needle, which happens to be less than a month away.Cook’s attorneys filed a petition to review his death sentence, claiming he suffers from post-traumatic…
If there’s one thing 37-year-old alleged meth head Gerald Alfred Seyfried won’t do, it’s go quietly.Seyfried got popped over the weekend after setting a fire on a sidewalk for no apparent reason. Rather than explain the situation to the arresting officers, he started a fight with them — that only…
State Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard may have staved off being ousted from his leadership position when he met with Senate Republicans yesterday to explain his involvement in last month’s alleged domestic-violence incident, but sources tell New Times that the chances of Bundgaard remaining majority leader after his colleagues revisit…
Despite all this blather about immigration-related bills being “held” by state Senate President Russell Pearce until there’s a budget, Senate Bill 1495, which would give the governor the power to call up a presumably nativist “state guard” anytime she wants, passed the Senate yesterday, 21-9.All nine Democrats voted against the…
Fresh from the rumor mill: if Sarah Palin runs for president, she will base her campaign out of Scottsdale, continuing the Palin family’s invasion of Arizona.As you know, Palin’s daughter Bristol recently/inexplicably bought a home in Maricopa. Then a job as an on-air personality at a local radio station just…
Winkler and his wife Mary have a spread at the base of the forbidding Peloncillo Mountains on the Arizona/New Mexico line, about 20 miles north of the Mexico border. It’s a few miles from where Geronimo, the Indian warrior, surrendered in 1886. He is a retired Superior Court judge who…
The Scottsdale man whose erratic driving is alleged to be responsible for the death of an 11-year-old girl, and who ranted and raved about Jesus and Satan following the wreck, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning, where he pleaded not guilty to manslaughter.At his initial court appearance, 46-year-old…
Arizona’s new medical-marijuana law protects qualified patients from discrimination by their employers, a progressive feature that sets it apart from similar laws in other states. A legislative bill we told you about last month aims to dilute that protection, however, and it has solid support among state lawmakers. The Patient Discrimination Act, is…
A Phoenix robbery suspect is dead after shooting it out with police after holding up a 7-11.According to the Phoenix Police Department, officers responded to a robbery in progress at the convenience store near 48th Street and McDowell Road about 2 a.m.When officers arrived on the scene, the suspect ran…
Embattled state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard reportedly told Senate Republicans that his now-ex-girlfriend, Aubry Ballard, pulled out a gun during a roadside brouhaha last month that left the senator with a black eye and Ballard in the hoosegow.Bundgaard met with Senate Republicans yesterday to discuss the February 25, incident,…
Sometimes people are practically begging to be arrested — like the two goons who allegedly decided to load 227 pounds of pot into their truck on the side of an interstate highway today. The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrests of Prior Marcano, 40, and Fernando Sanchez-Moyinedo, 26, after…
Well, they actually did it…The Arizona Senate yesterday approved a bill that puts the Grand Canyon State one step closer to becoming the first state in the entire union to have its own official state gun (Arizona’s currently in a race with Utah for that, ahem, honor).The Senate voted 18-12…
Hakeem Warrick and Vince Carter scored 32 points each Tuesday as the Phoenix Suns edged the Houston Rockets 113-110 at US Airways Center. It was a career night for Warrick, who was filling in for the injured Channing Frye, out two to three weeks after dislocating his shoulder in a game…
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:…
Elizabeth Johnson, the kinda-hot/borderline-nuts-o mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, was supposed to be in court this morning to attend a hearing regarding the kidnapping charges she faces stemming from her son’s disappearance in December of 2009.Johnson, apparently, didn’t feel like it.For at least the second time in less than…
