Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Reds fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The D-backs…
We enjoyed our many hours in 2008 at Maricopa County Juvenile Court in south Phoenix, after which we published some stories about how things play out down there. We spent days on end in the courtroom of Judge Mike Kemp, who then was new to the bench and learning the…
Maricopa County is celebrating Earth Hour this year by shutting off “non-essential” lights for one hour at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday. We decided to spend part of our Friday afternoon bugging county officials about this feel-good event, because our past research shows it typically costs governments and big companies more…
We’re not sure what’s grosser, little kid beauty pageants or ones for wrinkled old ladies, but in either case, we’d advise you keep a firm grip on your lunch.That being said, the Ms. Senior Arizona Pageant is tomorrow night, and if you’re interested in watching some youthfully challenged ladies strut their…
After two years under a bogus investigation by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, state Attorney General Terry Goddard is fighting back with his own investigation. Goddard has launched a probe into Thomas’ questionable acts, the Arizona Republic reported last night. The article doesn’t get specific about what Goddard…
You betchya Sarah Palin was in Arizona today, and the former GOP vice presidential candidate used a campaign event for her former running mate, John McCain, to kick off the “revolution” against the healthcare reform bill signed by President Obama earlier this week.McCain and Palin appeared together at the Pima County…
Maricopa County officials can’t sue the Sheriff’s Office for buying a $465,000 bus without their approval, so now they want to sue the bus company. Precisely why Motor Coach Industries would be sued over the internal squabble remains unclear. The county has maintained in this months-long bus battle that Sheriff Arpaio’s office bought the…
Any Valley fatties lookin’ to shed a hundred pounds may be in luck — NBC is looking for a new group of chunkers for its popular weight-loss reality show, The Biggest Loser, and the network is coming to the Valley to hold auditions.Casting agents from The Biggest Loser will be…
The former mining boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona could see a resurgence in mining soon. Local company Tombstone Exploration Corporation announced that it’s scheduled to begin an extensive drilling program in April. The company, which owns 11,500 acres of historical mining land in the desert around Tombstone, will drill at multiple…
The parents of missing baby Gabriel Johnson were in Maricopa County Family Court this morning for a custody hearing unrelated to the criminal charges against the baby’s mother, Elizabeth Johnson.Logan McQueary, the baby’s father, was awarded full custody of the missing baby and Johnson, who is currently in jail on…
Phoenix police caught a disgraced former minister of the First Southern Baptist Church of Phoenix of masturbating at a local adult store, New Times has learned. We reported previously on the March 9 arrest and subsequent resignation of Gordon Christopher, the longtime employee of the 88-year-old Phoenix church; cops have finally released the details. It turns…
A voter initiative to legalize medical marijuana in Arizona probably will go to the voting booth in November, and if it passes, the state hopes to tax the ever-loving crap out of medicinal weed.The Arizona Senate passed SB 1222 yesterday, which allows the state government to levy huge taxes on…
About 50 protesters from groups such as Puente and the newly formed LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) demonstrated against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as she spoke at ASU Thursday night at the John P. Frank Memorial Lecture. Carrying signs that read, “Janet Stop Joe Arpaio,…
The Phoenix Coyotes are in a cooling phase right now. The team’s franchise-tying nine-game winning streak came to an end on Tuesday with a loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, and the Coyotes eight-game shootout victory ride came to an end last night with a 4-3 shootout loss to the Nashville…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Mariners fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks…
Three people were killed yesterday when a dump truck hit a group of motorcyclists in north Phoenix. Eight motorcycles were stopped at a red light near 27th drive and Carefree Highway when the dump truck hit them from behind, pinning three people under the truck. Six more people were taken…
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: Eric Holder on Joe Arpaio Probe: DOJ Expects “Results,” Investigation Ongoing Joe Arpaio’s Nativist Attorney…
Kris Kobach, the far right-wing nativist attorney Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s hired to train the MCSO in immigration matters, is receiving $300 per hour, plus expenses, including airline tickets to and from Arizona.Though Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott surmised in his recent deposition in the civil rights lawsuit Melendres vs. Arpaio…
With John McCain and J.D. Hayworth engaged in an all-out war for the Republican nomination for Senate, you may have forgotten that at some point one of them will have to run against a Democrat. That Democrat is likely to be Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, who announced today that…
There’s been a rumor floating around the sports world that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb could be coming to the Arizona Cardinals to take the spot of the now-retired Kurt Warner, but it’s time to put those rumors to bed, Cardinals General Manager Rod Graves says today.The McNabb/Cardinals rumor has…
Scottsdale police arrested a man who is admittedly responsible for a string of indecent-exposure cases that stretch back to December.Police arrested 20-year-old Kiere Taylor yesterday on charges of public sexual indecency and disorderly conduct after witnesses identified him as the serial flasher…
With demonstrators outside the Phoenix federal courthouse clamoring for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today characterized the Department of Justice investigation into Arpaio’s office as “serious” and “ongoing,” and said that he expected the probe to produce “results.”The attorney general was at downtown’s Sandra Day O’Connor…
