We just got word that R. Lee Ermey — best known for playing the no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket and later for making out with Steve Zahn in Saving Silverman — will appear at an event with Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth. If you’re not familiar with the guy,…
Valley canal paths have become a fairly popular venue for doom and gloom as of late, with a Tempe man found either murdered or a suicide victim a few weeks ago and the stabbing and robbery of a Phoenix man yesterday morning.Phoenix police Sergeant Trent Crump tells New Times that…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to hire dispute expert Kenneth Feinberg to handle claims against the county by county officials and employees. Feinberg has a solid reputation as a legal referee. He’s the Obama-appointed “pay czar,” (monitoring the pay of executives who work…
Do you have your passport and Coyotes jersey ready? The Phoenix Coyotes released their 2010-11 regular season schedule Tuesday, and it begins with an unlikely location for the first two games. The Yotes will play the Boston Bruins in Prague, Czech Republic, October 9 and 10. That certainly is a…
The Phoenix Coyotes announced yesterday the re-signing of left winger Taylor Pyatt to a two-year deal. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed. In his first year with the Yotes, Pyatt appeared in 74 games while adding some scoring punch with 12 goals and 11 assists…
Police in Vermont announced this morning that a man they believe murdered his his wife and daughter in Waterbury, Vermont in 1978, killed himself in Arizona in 1997 — nearly 20 years after the murders.Sergeant Tara Thomas, spokeswoman for the Vermont State Police, tells New Times that fingerprints of a…
Mexican pinatas are the latest item from south of the border on the list of things not allowed in Arizona — at least when they’re made to look like licensed Disney characters. This isn’t exactly a case of asking Mickey Mouse for his “papers, please” — Disney characters fall under intellectual property,…
Behind an early offensive surge and the solid, steady arm of Rodrigo Lopez, the Arizona Diamondbacks earned a convincing 10-4 win Monday night at Chase Field against the New York Yankees. With numerous Yankee fans in attendance in the sellout crowd, the Snakes were the ones who looked like a…
Yesterday, we told you about a dude who was so fed up with Mariopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “clown convention” that he had the sheriff’s best kissy-face tattooed on his ass. We can’t help but love the hilarity of 23-year-old Jeff Jacobson’s posterior protest because — having to look at a grown…
National Socialist Movement regional director Jeff Hall has filed an “after action report” on the NSM Web site with photos and video of the dead body that Mesa swastika-licker J.T. Ready said he and fellow brownshirts (and assorted fellow travelers) came across during their recent weekend warrior-ing in the Vekol…
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:…
The Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct has dismissed all four complaints filed against local judges by David Hendershott, chief deputy under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The commission “found no clear and convincing evidence of ethical misconduct” and voted to dismiss the complaints, a June 18 letter from the…
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced today that charges have been filed against one suspect in the 2008 murder of a Tucson woman who was once featured as one of Maxim Magazine’s “Hometown Hotties.”Kelly Soo Park, 44, was arrested Thursday — along with 34-year-old Ronnie Wayne Case, an…
Should Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, and former Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik be held accountable for their investigation into this newspaper — and the jailing of its owners?That question is now in the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A three-judge panel…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is many things, but not much of a sports fan. That didn’t stop him from attending a Opening Day game for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Interesting because Arizona passed a law in 2000 that prohibits elected officials from accepting free tickets to sporting or cultural events. It’s a law…
Back in February, we wrote about a synthetic cannabinoid called JWH for this blog. Several things have happened since then, so much that we now have a category dedicated to synthetic marijuana called “Buzz Buzz” on our arts and culture blog, “Jackalope Ranch.” In addition to several states – not…
The Scottsdale Police Department is investigating the death of a 4-month-old baby found dead in a baby seat next to her sleeping mother following a late-night party at the mother’s Scottsdale apartment.According to police, officers were called to an apartment complex near Scottsdale and McDowell roads around 5:45 yesterday morning.At the…
The Arizona State baseball team hasn’t lost two games in a row all season. Now wouldn’t be a good time to start. After falling to Clemson 6-3 in their opening game of the College World Series on Monday morning, the Sun Devils are now one loss away from elimination. After…
As Graeme McDowell played through the final holes of the US Open, his biggest challenger wasn’t Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods or Ernie Els. It was some guy named Gregory Havret. Wait, who? Congrats to McDowell on his win, but you can’t help but think that some of the top names in…
Sunday’s Arizona Republic story about Tom Horne wasn’t the first time the candidate for Attorney General has been asked about a decades-old bankuptcy and government sanction. As Horne reminded us today, Republic reporter Pat Kossan wrote an article in 2002 about his failed business venture from long ago, which resulted in his being…
The MCSO’s highly-paid PR apparatchiks have just sent out an announcement on the one guy who seems to get more publicity than neo-Nazi J.T. Ready these days.I’m talking, of course, about our own geriatric, Mr. Magoo-esque gendarme, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who will begin livebroadcasting his mug Big Brother style on www.ustream.tv/channel/JMA-tv1, every Wednesday…
Here’s one for you: Early on the evening of May 8, a ranch hand at a spread in Apache, a dot off Highway 80 near the New Mexico border north of Douglas, phoned local authorities. A sheriff’s department report describes how the fellow was driving home on remote Skeleton Canyon…
