Eight congressmen and congresswomen from the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, will be in Arizona this week as part of a delegation to study immigration and security issues. The delegation will be traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border, naturally, but will also meet on Thursday evening in Phoenix with business leaders, government officials…
We don’t make it a habit of commenting on the retirement of cops–or anyone else short of Arizona Cardinals’ quarterback Kurt Warner (Kurt, come back!!) But what the hell, Bill Louis, who retired on Friday as assistant chief out in El Mirage, deserves a little love after 33 years…
A 36-year-old Chandler man is behind bars after police say he stabbed his neighbor to death. Oh, yeah, he allegedly chopped the guy’s head off, too.Police were called to a house in the 300 block of West Fairview Drive in Chandler early yesterday morning.When they got there, they found the…
The Arizona Cardinals undrafted rookie quarterback Max Hall may have sealed his fate as the team’s starter with a 30-20 upset win over the New Orleans Saints yesterday.Hall wasn’t perfect, but he was good enough — more valid, perhaps, he was better than Derek Anderson, the team’s initial choice to…
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:…
Backed-up toilet water on the fifth floor of the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix dripped into rooms where surgery was occurring this summer — twice.The dirty secret was revealed in an anonymous letter we received yesterday that outlined less-than-admirable conditions at the hospital complex, which is located…
El Mirage once again finds itself at a crossroad. The departure of B.J. Cornwall, the city’s longest tenured city manager, leaves City Attorney Rick Flaaen in charge of a community in a financial crisis with little left to cut and no sources of new revenue in sight. A major decision…
The second suicidal man shot by officers from the Mesa Police Department in less than a week has been identified.The deceased is 59-year-old Douglas Watson.Unlike the shooting of a domestic violence suspect by a Phoenix police officer earlier this week, it seems the Mesa officer were justified in shooting Watson.Police…
The father-in-law of one of the stars of the reality TV show Raising Sextuplets is defending his son-in-law after he was charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct, and threatening domestic violence.In a twist, the father-in-law’s the same guy who called the cops to have him arrested after an incident in…
The attorney for the Phoenix police officer accused of fatally shooting a domestic violence suspect tells New Times an officer who witnessed the shooting is a liar.Craig Mehrens, the attorney for Officer Richard Chrisman, says information in a secondary police report is inconsistent with information provided by Officer Sergio Vergillo…
If you read this blog, odds are that you know that the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) crime lab found no gun powder residue on the bloody t-shirt worn by Pinal County sheriff’s deputy Louie Puroll on the afternoon last April 30. Sheriff Paul Babeu announced the finding at…
The giant mud pit that was Tempe Town Lake for the past few months is about to be a lake again.The city opened the spigot this morning after repairing a rubber barrier that burst in July, allowing about a billion gallons of water to go rushing downstream.Check out some real…
If you’re living in the Valley — or anywhere for that matter — and happen to think you’re a vampire, keep one thing in mind: you’re not.According to the Chandler Police Department, a Chandler couple stabbed their roommate in the arm after he told them they couldn’t suck his blood.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:…
An 82-year-old man caught last year for a 1987 murder — and the central character of a feature article this week in New Times — was sentenced today to seven years in prison. As detailed in the article, Richard Rodgers gunned down 23-year-old Terry Keenan in a parking lot for doing nothing more than…
Back in April, a Phoenix man dropped his dead wife off at a police station in downtown Phoenix. Today, he pled guilty to second-degree murder.According to court documents, when 58-year-old Dwight Wesley walked into a police station in downtown Phoenix covered in blood and carrying a knife, cops initially thought…
Just got word that the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office will be holding a press conference at 5 p.m. down in Florence. The subject: Testing by the Arizona Department of Public Safety of a bloody T-shirt worn by Deputy Louie Puroll when he was shot, allegedly by dope smugglers, in the…
We continue to hear from readers about our story, “Phantom Murder,” about a Peoria day-care operator who was charged with first-degree murder in the tragic 2007 death of a four-month-old boy. People want to know three things: Do we think that Lisa Randall “got away with it?” How’s she…
Here’s a short, “home” movie that won’t bore you, courtesy of one of the doctors-in-training at the Maricopa Medical Center:…
Vanity Fair’s published an article about Arizona Senator John McCain and “the Maverick” (if he’s still OK with that nickname) isn’t gonna like it. Neither is J.D. Hayworth, McCain’s opponent in this year’s GOP Senate primary. The article is titled “The Man Who Never Was,” and criticizes McCain for many…
A fist-fight gone wrong has left a 5-year-old boy in critical condition after one of the men involved in the fight shot up the house in which the boy was sleeping.According to the Phoenix Police Department, last night, an 18-year-old man, who was also shot, was in a fight with…
For the second time this week, and the third time in a week, a man is dead after being shot by police.This shooting sounds a little more justified than the one that happened on Tuesday. In other words, this guy presented a threat to police and no dogs were shot…
