J.D. Hayworth’s criticism of John McCain over a TV ad featuring Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu seems to have backfired.Since calling on McCain to pull the ad because Babeu called in to a white-supremacist radio show — apparently without knowing it was a show for racists — Hayworth’s now taking…
Kerby Young Having pictures of your nude, female neighbor isn’t the strangest thing in the world — assuming she gave them to you. However, when you get the images by sneakin’ around outside her bathroom window with a camera — without her knowing — not only is it super-creepy, it’s…
The Diamondbacks open up a four-game series tonight at home against the San Francisco Giants. The D-Backs are trying to win their fourth game in a row while the Giants are trying to stay in the playoff race. It’s pretty much just another series in July. But the teams could…
Tempe officials released surveillance footage of Tuesday night’s dam burst, and if you were expecting some awesome, apocalyptic wave overtaking the dry riverbed, don’t get your hopes up — the video sucks.The quality of the video resembles that of the Paris Hilton sex tape, and the content is far less…
While Andrew Thomas won’t stoop so low as to take our call, his debate-loving spokesman, Barnett Lotstein, nearly always calls us back. We just heard from him on our question, posed in an earlier blog post: If Thomas, who’s running for state Attorney General, can praise Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon for…
The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public’s help in tracking down the person who stabbed a man to death yesterday morning.Sergeant Steve Martos of the Phoenix PD tells New Times that, just before noon, cops responded to a call saying someone was hurt at 8822 North 1st Street in…
If you’re wanted on a felony warrant, hanging out at a county jail that’s swarming with cops seems like a great place to get yourself caught.That didn’t stop a Phoenix man, though, who paid a visit to a friend in the county clink. The visit resulted in a high-speed chase…
Back in May, an attorney for Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon sent Maricopa County officials a demand to preserve documents in anticipation of a legal claim. Gordon “intends to pursue all his legal options for the actions leading up to and arising out of the investigation, intimidation, and harassment..by members of…
We just returned from a downtown Phoenix courtroom where a judge dismissed first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges in the case of Peoria day-care operator Lisa Randall (pictured feeding a grandchild). “The dismissal is in the interests of justice,” Deputy County Attorney Belle Whitney told Judge Michael Kemp, during a…
Seriously, who steals cows?Aside from the obvious physical challenges such a task presents, the legal ramifications don’t decrease based on difficulty of theft.In other words, you’re better off stealing a diamond — or just about anything that doesn’t weigh as much as a small car and that doesn’t require you…
There were six runs scored over the first six innings of the D-Backs and Mets game last night. Over the next eight, there was only one. But it’s a run the D-Backs will take, as it gave them a sweep of the New York Mets with a 4-3 win. Chris…
The vicious GOP primary battle between John McCain and J.D. Hayworth goes on. The latest skirmish is over a McCain campaign ad featuring his number-one cheerleader in Arizona law enforcement, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.Babeu recently called in to a Tennessee-based, white-supremacist radio show to talk about, what else, immigration…
GOLDEN AGE Money is an illusion: As a conservative, I read New Times for the investigative articles, like “Gold Rush,” that expose scam artists for the damage they inflict on unsuspecting consumers (Ray Stern, July 8). When you and your fellow writers follow the truth in a story, without regard…
On Monday, July 19, a top aide to Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley told New Times that prosecutors will file a motion to dismiss murder and child-abuse charges against Lisa Kathleen Randall, whose case is the subject of this story. Cindi Nanetti, division chief over major crimes, said senior prosecutors…
I heard Mormonism is a quickly spreading religion down in ye olde Mexico. What is it about this religion that a lot of Mexicans find so fascinating? Jack Mormón Historically? Mexico has long had the second-largest community of Mormons in the world after the United States — official LDS figures…
On a recent afternoon inside the bustling day-care center Las Familias del Pueblo in downtown’s Skid Row, Alice Callaghan heads toward a ringing phone. The middle-aged Episcopal minister, who was once a Catholic nun, still wears a kind of religious uniform that’s both pragmatic and modest: a khaki skirt cut…
Editor’s note: Following publication of this article, U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton enjoined the state of Arizona from enacting key provisions of state Senate Bill 1070. Though the law’s most dangerous sections were put on pause, pending the outcome of litigation, the remainder of the law goes into effect,…
LINE IN THE SAND The nativist wagons are circled when it comes to SB 1070 and the seven lawsuits filed against it, including one by the U.S. Department of Justice. Governor Jan Brewer’s legal defense fund for Arizona’s new breathing-while-brown statute has raised $1.3 million and counting in private donations…
For all the haters out there who dissed Zack de la Rocha’s anti-SB 1070 Sound Strike concert, to take place at the Hollywood Palladium this Friday, July 23, I’ve got two words for you: SOLD OUT. Tickets for the event, which will be headlined by Rage Against the Machine and Conor Oberst, were…
November won’t come soon enough for Tempe. If all goes well, officials say, that’s when Town Lake will be repaired and filled back up. Until then, the picturesque view of rippling water and early-morning rowers is going to be supplanted by that of a dirty, concrete-lined ditch. And folks in the lofty…
Since our earlier post about Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth’s advice to Senator John McCain that he pull a campaign ad featuring Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, the McCain campaign got back to us and says it won’t be pulling the ad.”We know that Congressman Hayworth is desperate, but we never…
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:…
