We got word last night that the ASU student who was dragged by a car after the driver of the vehicle tried to steal her purse had died from her injuries and it was just confirmed by the Tempe Police Department. Kyleigh Ann Sousa was pronounced dead at about 9:30 last night from…
In a hilarious spoof of Cops sure to redden the face of every cracker nativist in Sand Land and beyond, L.A.’s “Josh on the street” skewers Arizona’s “papers please” law by flippin’ the script on white folks and asking them for their documentation to be on what was originally Native…
Since our post yesterday morning, the Tempe Police Department got back to us to clarify an incident involving a 21-year-old ASU student who was dragged by a car after the driver of the vehicle tried to steal her purse. About 2 a.m. yesterday, Tempe police responded to a call that a female…
Mark Reynolds hit a three-run homer that was too little, too late (dbacks.com). Like he has a lot of teams this season, Colorado ace Ubaldo Jimenez dominated the Arizona Diamondbacks last night at Coors Field in Denver.. The Diamondbacks rallied finally, but after eight shutout innings, courtesy of Jimenez, it…
Game five of the NBA Western Conference Finals is tonight in Los Angeles and, for the Phoenix Suns, the game has been called the most important game since the Charles Barkley era. The Suns and the Lakers are tied at two in the series, and for the Suns to move on to…
I have a sister. I read your column each time it comes out in the Tucson Weekly. Once, we were talking about all the hatred against Mexicans in our state and my sister said, “Sis, why do they hate Mexicans so much in Arizona? Why do they hate us so…
Saturday night, Phoenix New Times celebrated the paper’s 40th anniversary and honored the finalists and winners of the first-ever Big Brain Awards. Six winners — including one in a surprise wild card category, culinary arts — were announced: Seesaw Designs, Design Co-owned by Angela Hardison, Raquel Raney and Lindsay Tingstrom,…
Aaron Forrester bends over a table in his father’s garage, furiously sanding a shin guard. Beads of sweat trickle down his forehead and gather atop his thick goggles. Surrounded only by the whir of the sanding machine and the smell of Bondo, he’s unblinking in his focus, even though the…
TAKEN IDENTITY LifeLock is a near-worthless firm: LifeLock signs are indeed everywhere, and yet your story proves that the company has engaged [in] deceptive advertising and more. LifeLock is truly evidence that suckers are everywhere in this land (“Cracking LifeLock,” Ray Stern, May 13). Thanks for the fact-laden, insightful look…
Natalie Morris was a Slow Foodie by pure instinct. During culinary school at the Art Institute, the budding chef hadn’t heard about the global movement to eat seasonal, local food, but she immediately recognized a key issue: “Why do we have to keep ordering food from one big company? It’s…
RADICAL RESISTANCE In one of the boldest acts of civil disobedience of late, a group of Native American, Mexican-American, and white activists occupied U.S. Border Patrol offices at Tucson’s Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on May 21, locking themselves around a pillar in a lobby that was soon filled with shocked Border…
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: John McCain, Russell Pearce, Michelle Obama, Jan Brewer Pimp-Slapped in New Dennis Gilman Video Up…
In case you hadn’t heard, SB 1070 will be protested on Saturday, May 29 with a massive march to the Arizona state Capitol from Phoenix’s Steele Indian School Park. Things kick off with a rally, speeches and performances beginning at 8 a.m., then the march will begin from 3rd Street and…
A Tucson man who spent more than three years in Canada fighting extradition back to Arizona admitted this afternoon to the 2006 beating death of his wife.Henry Fischbacher told the Pima County Superior Court that he beat his wife to death with a flashlight on October 5, 2006, after an argument…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s gettin’ some heat lately after county auditors determined that his office may have misspent more than $50 million over the past five years. Today we’re getting an idea of where some of that cash may have been going.TLC recently featured a show you may have…
At a meeting this morning, county supervisors voted unanimously to curtail Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s access to county credit cards — putting a $200 per-purchase limit on cards issued to the Sheriff’s Office after the sheriff refused to cooperate with a routine audit.But, at the meeting, County Manager David…
Staff at Adobe Mountain School in Phoenix are reporting that the death of a youth yesterday was a suicide. And they wonder if the incident is tied to the “hush, hush” suicide earlier this month of a corrections officer from the same facility. The boy was found in his cell at…
Window Rock state Representative Chris Deschene filed more than 10,000 ballot petitions with the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office yesterday, qualifying him to run for that office in this year’s election.Deschene, a former Marine Corps major, claims he’s the first native American to ever file to run for statewide office in…
Britney Spears is a well-known nut-job, so this morning when we heard she was planning on having her body frozen after she dies, with the hopes that she’ll be thawed out and brought back to life in a future generation, we weren’t exactly shocked.It’s reported that Spears has become so enamored with cryogenic…
Everyone gets a piece of hand sandwich in Dennis Gilman’s new YouTube video on the hypocrisy of our political leaders over SB 1070 and the plight of the 12 million undocumented in this country.This time Gilman spares no one on the left or the right. Everyone from John McCain and…
Tempe police need the public’s help in tracking down a guy they say tried to steal the purse of an Arizona State University student and ended up dragging her with his car as she clung to the handbag. About 2 a.m. today, Tempe police responded to a call that a…
Last weekend, Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth shocked us with his interesting take on United States involvement in World War II, which prompted a very-public history lesson from John McCain, his opponent in the GOP Senate primary. Today, Hayworth is saying McCain’s World War II tutorial is “shameful.” If you missed it, here’s…
