The Phoenix Coyotes took a pair of home wins over the weekend, beating the Calgary Flames 5-4 on Friday, and the St. Louis Blues 5-3 on Saturday. A pair of hat tricks from Vernon Fiddler and Ray Whitney certainly helped things.Scoring isn’t exactly Fiddler’s strong suit — he’s more a…
The Phoenix Suns put up 40 three-point attempts, and sank 22 of them, Sunday night in Los Angeles as the Suns upset the first-place Lakers 121-116. Turns out the 22 treys is one off an NBA record set by the Orlando Magic last year. No matter — beating the Lakers…
As the saying goes, the best defense is a good offense. The Arizona Cardinals have neither a good offense or a good defense, which was apparent in their 36-18 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. The loss was the Cards’ fourth in a row and leaves Seattle alone in…
Phoenix-area anarchists earned the right to wear their Zapatista-like bandannas Saturday in a full-on street battle at 8th Avenue and Jefferson, with anarchists and assorted counter-demonstrators on one side, and the Phoenix Police Department and a contingent of neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement members on the other.Although I cannot condone the…
The passage of Proposition 203 will go down as one of the most memorable elections in state history.The final numbers are in, and Arizona’s medical marijuana has won by 4, 341 votes. There’s no turning back. The Maricopa County elections department, in a bulletin sent moments ago, reports that Monday’s…
Andrew Myers of the Marijuana Policy Project has been on edge since Election Day. Then came the 5:35 p.m. update of vote results. Observing the results from a small office in downtown Phoenix with his girlfriend and a couple of others, his demeanor suddenly changes. Instead of looking worried, he…
Proposition 203 is now winning. Arizona’s medical marijuana bill leads by 4,200 votes following counts of provisional votes today. Thousands of votes remain uncounted, but the new trend looks like it will be hard to beat. …
When I first began reporting on immigration and Sand Land politics several years ago, I was under the mistaken impression — because I’d never lived in an area so heavily influenced by the LDS before — that most Mormons were like neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell Pearce. Very quickly, I learned…
A convicted felon in Pinal County hit the trifecta in terms of shit you shouldn’t have in your pickup truck — cops found weed, a sawed-off shotgun, and crystal meth after he wrecked his truck near Arizona City yesterday.Cops responded to the accident and found 35-year-old Casey Amos, as well…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn’t up for re-election for two, long years, but that isn’t stopping him from trying to drum up cash to pay his legal bills for his campaign right now — and he’s turning to out-of-state donors to do it.This morning, we received a letter sent…
David Remmy, the Yuma substitute teacher arrested on Wednesday for allegedly gettin’ a little grabby with a female student, was in court this morning, where he told the judge that any inappropriate “touching” of the girl was accidental.”I did nothing intentionally…,” Remmy told the court during his initial appearance this…
I agree with Espresso Pundit’s Greg Patterson about as often as I agree with state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce, which is, almost never. But he exposed an ugly little problem with the Arizona Democrats recently that I’ve seen get zero play on liberal blogs, so I think it’s worth mentioning here,…
Are the Phoenix Coyotes so bad that their opponents think it’s OK to stay out partying until 2 a.m. the night before a game? Calgary Flames center Brett Sutter apparently thinks so and it’s landed him in a bit of trouble.The Flames are in town to play the Coyotes tonight,…
Props to Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain, for taking a stand against her lawmaker husband — and his continued reluctance to allow gays to serve openly in the military — by participating in a star-studded ad in support of the LGBT community.The ad is for the group…
Laura Flanders A Peoria woman charged with manslaughter for running over an 18-year-old man last month was so “dazed” from medications prior to the collision that she drank nail polish without realizing it.On Wednesday, Peoria police arrested 23-year-old Laura Flanders for running over Joey Romero as he walked home from…
A Glendale man was taken into custody yesterday after running two red lights and crashing into three cars. When asked about the wreck, the man told police “Spice” is to blame.As you may know, “Spice” is a brand of synthetic marijuana, and after (ahem) extensive research, was determined by New…
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:…
Andrew Myers, the campaign manager for Proposition 203, tells New Times tonight that he’s very hopeful the medical marijuana initiative will come out on top when all the votes are in. It seems like wishful thinking, but official figures show he might be right. Myers points out that provisional ballots…
If you were expecting to learn the fate Prop. 203 — Arizona’s medical marijuana initiative — tomorrow, don’t hold your breath. Election officials don’t expect to be done counting ballots until next week, which violates election statute, but, as we just found out, is not that big a deal.From the…
We’ve been following the shooting death of 47-year-old Jeff Ahlers, of Tempe, fairly closely, and five months after he was shot, we still have no answer as to what happened.Ahlers was first reported missing on June 1, and was found shot to death in a canal a few days later.By…
For anyone out there who may think otherwise, substitute teaching at an elementary school is not a good way to meet chicks.Be that as it may, a substitute teacher at a Yuma elementary school is behind bars after police say he inappropriately touched a female student during class. David Remmy,…
If you see a toilet in Chandler’s new City Hall, fight the urge and don’t drink from it. Seems fairly obvious, but if you forget, the city’s been kind enough to post signs as a reminder.In almost every bathroom in the new, uber-“green” facility are signs saying “Urinals and Toilets…
