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:…
You’d think it doesn’t get much more disgusting, depraved, and evil than someone sexually abusing their own children — but that’s because you’ve probably never met 29-year-old Juan Vidal Torres, who was arrested this morning on charges that he not only sexually abused his own kids, but injected them with…
The Arizona police state rolls on. Today, outside the Arizona state Capitol, human rights activists Salvador Reza and Anayanse Garza of the group Puente held a press conference with their lawyers. This, following their arrests the day before in the state Senate building by plainclothes officers with the Arizona Department…
The manslaughter trial of snake oil salesman James Arthur Ray could be televised live, the judge overseeing the case ruled today.In Session, formerly Court TV, requested to cover the trial live saying it would “advance Arizona’s tradition of courtroom access,” according to the Associated Press. It probably won’t hurt the…
It seems 19-year-old James Keehn’s remedy for his apparent “Bieber Fever” is oxycodone — authorities say he tried to get a fake prescription for the drug filled at a Mesa Target in December, but the pharmacist immediately recognized the script as bogus. Keehn left the store, but was identified in…
The dead body of a man was found laying on top of a fully loaded assault rifle in the Vekol Valley earlier this week, and because the man was Hispanic, authorities, per usual, are going on the assumption that he’s an illegal immigrant.About 9:40 a.m. on Monday, a ranger from…
Apparently for two men arrested Thursday, “doing it doggy style” meant finding people on the internet who would let them have sex with their dogs. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced the arrests of Keith Kiefer, 47, and Patrick Trejo, 25, after an ongoing investigation revealed the men were using…
We knew it was bound to happen, that the Arizona Wildcats weren’t going to run the table in the Pac-10 Conference. But last night’s 65-58 loss in Los Angeles to USC still came as something of a disappointment. The Trojans did a great job of bottling up Wildcats star…
The residents of a north Phoenix home may want to consider moving — early this morning, for the third time in two years, a vehicle crashed into their property, this time into their pool.According to the Phoenix Police Department, about 1:40 a.m. today, a man described by police only as…
If you’re feeling a vibe in Phoenix today that’s dramatically crazier more Conservative than usual, there’s a reason: the Tea Partiers have arrived.Thousands of Tea Partiers are flocking to Phoenix today for the first ever “American Policy Summit.”Sarah Palin, as we noted last week, will not be in attendance (she’s…
The word “suck” is apparently too offensive for Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman to utter — at least in the middle of a city council meeting.At last night’s meeting of the Tempe City Council, Hallman presented two Phoenix New Times “Best of Phoenix” awards to the city-owned Ken McDonald Golf Course…
The judge overseeing the case of Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner ordered yesterday that his trial is to take place by September 20.So far, Loughner’s been charged with two counts of attempted murder, and one count of attempted assassination for the January 8, shooting rampage outside of a Tucson Safeway…
While a federal audit of the Phoenix Police Department’s kidnapping statistics is under way, Police Chief Jack Harris has ordered his troops not to spend any of the $700,000 they collected from the feds to combat border-related kidnapping cases.The Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General reportedly is looking into allegations that Phoenix…
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:…
Welcome to Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya. Details are sketchy, but civil rights activists Salvador Reza and Anayanse Garza of the group Puente were arrested inside the Arizona state Senate building today, apparently for the bogus charge of trespassing.I say “apparently” because neither the Capitol Police, nor Arizona DPS Security Attache J…
The jurors deciding the fate of convicted murderer Jonathan Burns have hit a snag.The Maricopa County Superior Court announced this afternoon that the jury was having “issues” in agreeing on a sentence for Burns, who was convicted in December for the 2007 murder of Jackie Hartman, and could be sentenced…
Phoenix police are on the lookout for one of the more-gullible attempted bank robbers of all time. Cops say just after noon on February 14, a man went into a bank near 16th Street and Camelback Road demanding cash from a teller. The teller said they didn’t have any cash,…
The Phoenix Suns’ front office was hinting at bringing in some big name players as the trade deadline approached Thursday, but all they ended up with was a point guard shooting 34.6 percent from the field and barely 6 feet tall. The Suns announced their acquisition of Houston Rockets point…
What do a little girl, a workout bench, nylon restraints, and a tan Labrador Retriever have in common? They were all featured in images of kiddy porn found on the computer of a Mesa pervert yesterday.Police arrested 60-year-old Frank Morgan Foster, an old pro in the world of pervs, after…
If you live in Arizona and get pissed off every time you look at your bank statement, you may want to consider re-locating — a recent study finds that Arizona has the emptiest bank accounts of any state in the entire country.According to the study, conducted by Pitney Bowes Business…
It’s apropos that state Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Andy Biggs, the man primarily responsible for a bill that will drive a Ryder Truck full of nitro through the state’s Medicaid program, is himself a very wealthy man.He’s not rich through any sweat of his brow. He’s not self-made. Hell, he didn’t…
Arizona State University, in collaboration with the daughter of world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, wants to know what Valley youths would say to space aliens “when” they contact earthlings.As part of the university’s Origins Project, ASU is holding a contest for Maricopa County grade school students called the “Dear Aliens…
