View more news videos at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/video.If Sand Landers want a preview of how SB 1070 will play out on the street once it goes into effect at the end of July, they should look north to the Windy City.There, a Puerto Rican man was threatened with deportation by ICE agents…
About three weeks ago, we posted a story about rumors that Canadian billionaire David Thomson was lurking in the shadows hoping to swoop in and steal the Phoenix Coyotes from the Valley and relocate the team to Canada.Hate to say we told ya so (that’s a lie, we love it),…
Has Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard gone nativist on us, or is he just playing politics with Arizona’s new “papers please” immigration law?Goddard just announced that he’d had in-person meetings with law dogs from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department and told them that if the feds seek to…
The Arizona-based WANTED task force, a unit within the U.S. Marshal’s Office working in collaboration with Mexican authorities, announced today that it’s arrested one of Texas’ most wanted fugitives. Jose Luis Covarrubias, a 21-year-old U.S. citizen , was arrested on Wednesday in Mexicali, Mexico, after being featured on the Web…
The parents of Kyleigh Ann Sousa, the 21-year-old Arizona State University student who was killed in a robbery attempt on Wednesday, made a public plea to the suspect or suspects in the case to surrender to police.At a press conference yesterday, Karen Montenegro, Sousa’s mother, who flew in from New…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon apparently os breaking his silence about the State of Downtown Fund, graciously granting the Arizona Republic an interview. The article states that Gordon isn’t using any of the money donated by corporations and businesses to the State of Downtown Fund for personal use. And he points out that there…
You can file this one under “WTF??!?!”Turns out Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favorite law firm, which specializes in employment law, was brought in to help with both the crappy racketeering lawsuit Arpaio and then-County Attorney Andrew Thomas filed against county officials last year — and the federal grand jury…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced this morning that there will be a new addition to his faction of flunkies, and it’s a guy you may not want to “make angry.”Lou Ferrigno, the body-building star of the 1970’s TV show The Incredible Hulk and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bitch in the cult…
Former Arizona State University linebacker Pat Tillman was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame yesterday in New York, more than six years after he was tragically killed while fighting in in Afghanistan. Tillman played for the Sun Devils from 1994-1997, earning Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year honors in 1997. Tillman was…
We got word today that there’s another high-profile Republican coming to town to stump for Senator John McCain, and he’s someone who hasn’t always been one of “The Maverick’s” biggest fan. Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will be in town next Friday to campaign for McCain, suggesting that J.D. Hayworth, McCain’s GOP…
Man, this was a tough pill to swallow. The Phoenix Suns battled back from a double-digit deficit against the Los Angeles Lakers last night, only to blow it in the closing seconds all after a bizarre, buzzer-beating basket by Ron Artest. The 103-101 game five loss gives L.A. a 3-2…
Last night, the U.S. House and Senate armed services committees voted to insert a repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” — the 1993 law banning gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military — into the defense authorization bill, which will be due for a vote in late June or early…
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: Feathered Bastard: Whites Racially Profiled, Asked for Their “Papers” To Be on Native American Land Anti-SB 1070…
Arizona had a lot more riding on this season’s Western Conference Finals than mere pride — until Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon decided to show his hand today, that is.Gordon and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have spent the past week one-upping each other in a series of bets over rights…
The Arizona Diamondbacks typically rely on the bullpen when it comes to blowing winnable games but, this afternoon, the D-Backs starter took the honor of letting a close game slip completely out of reach in an 8-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies. Dan Haren, the D-Backs’ ace and today’s starter,…
Border Patrol agents from the Ajo Station seized more weed in the last three days than Cheech & Chong could’ve smoked in their heyday times 10. In the last 72 hours, agents seized 3,000 pounds of weed, in three separate incidents, near the U.S./ Mexico border south of Tucson and, although…
Truth told, we have spent an hour or two over the years with our longtime colleague John Dougherty at Casey Moore’s Oyster House, the venerable neighborhood joint on South Ash in Tempe. Did it again last night (Wednesday).The beer was cold as always, and the food delicious. But this was different –…
A radio station in Columbus, Ohio, held a contest this week where the grand prize was a weekend getaway to Phoenix, where the winner could spend their time “chasing aliens” — presumably of the illegal variety.See? Not everyone’s boycotting Arizona.However, if you were thinking, “I bet Rush Limbaugh’s broadcast on…
Could the May 29 anti-SB 1070 march be heading for disruption by some anonymous, underground group of pseudo-revolutionaries?That’s the concern raised by a flier circulating in town that shows a group of masked individuals, one of whom is holding a rifle.The flier decries SB 1070 and Arizona’s ban on ethnic…
The lawsuits just keep coming.Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband, Earl, today filed a notice of claim against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Chief Deputy David Hendershott, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Deputy County Attorney Lisa Aubuchon, and both the Sheriff’s Office and the County Attorney’s Office. The Wilcoxes…
Continuing his attack on former Congressman J.D. Hayworth’s pork-filled Congressional record, Senator John McCain released an ad today pointing out some of the more-ridiculous programs Hayworth supported during his time in Congress.In an ad McCain released about two weeks ago, we learned about Hayworth’s support of — among other things…
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC’s Good Morning America, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said that her native Arizona has to “put a good step forward to show that Arizona is not as a whole, a biased state.”An excerpt from the interview’s transcript is given below.She…
