Last Thursday, the Arizona Legislature failed to pass pieces of legislation that would shave about $400 million off of the state’s $2 billion budget shortfall. The special session was supposed to reconvene today, but it seems as though that’s not happening either.The proceedings were delayed — again — as Senate Republicans…
Considering the Cardinals dismal road performance last season, did you ever think you’d hear these words: The Arizona Cardinals are now 5-0 on the road. For the first time since 1948, back when the team was the Chicago Cardinals, the nomadic franchise has managed to win five games on the road after its 21-13…
The Phoenix Suns have seen their fair share of memorable duos over the past four decades of playing basketball in the Valley, including capable combos such as Alvan Adams and Gar Heard from the ’76 Sunderella team and the talented twosome of KJ and Thunder Dan in the early ’90s…
The former home of Senator John McCain is going up for auction. Near Glendale and Central avenues, the house has 13 bedrooms, two guest houses, and 14.5 bathrooms. The auction price will start at $5.9 million…Queen Creek officials are asking residents to help decide on a slogan for the city. The…
In a stunning revelation recently made public as part of the ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an MCSO sergeant has admitted that the department has been destroying documents and e-mails directly related to the MCSO’s anti-immigrant sweeps. This, despite numerous requests…
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: Salvador Reza Discusses Joe Arpaio on GRITtv, and Dennis Gilman’s Video on Nazis in Arizona…
Two Tucson men were sentenced recently for stealing Saguaro cacti from inside Saguaro National Park, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today. Joseph Tillman, 50, will serve eight months in federal prison. His buddy, Gregory James McKee, 42, was sentenced to six months of home confinement and 100 hours of community service. A park…
The Chandler Police Department is looking for a guy who sped off after hitting a man with his car early this morning — an alarming trend here in the Valley of the Sun…
There’s a new bandit in town, and authorities have given him what is possibly the least-cool moniker since the infamous “Salon Bandit.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for the man it is calling “The First-Aid Bandit.”Don’t let the name fool you, this guy isn’t running around slapping Band-Aids…
Word from ASU today that its longtime head baseball coach Pat Murphy has resigned is a mind-blower on every level. The immediate explanation? None. We haven’t been able to contact one of our favorite coaches yet, though we suspect that Murph will call back at some point soon. For sure, university…
The East Valley Tribune may have a new lease on life, just two weeks after the failing publication announced it would be closing its doors on December 31.At the time of the closure, Trib CFO Mark McEachen told employees that the closing might be “a good marketing tool” to lure…
A prolific Valley speeder wasn’t quite fast enough to escape the long arm of the Department of Public Safety.DPS officers had been looking for 29-year-old Elvis Amir Saloum since July and finally caught up with him Thursday at a mall near his Peoria home…
A new Rasmussen Reports poll just out shows KFYI lip-flapper and former congressman J.D. Hayworth in a dead heat with U.S. Senator John McCain for the 2010 GOP primary nod. Hayworth is within the 4 percent margin of error, trailing McCain 43 to 45 percent with likely Republican primary voters…
A new device developed by a British inventor supposedly kills lobsters “humanely” before they’re cooked.But when PETA attempted to bring the device to Arizona last weekend for a lobster bake fundraiser for the Child and Family Resource Center in Tucson, things didn’t quite go according to plan and PETA was…
Dennis Gilman’s outdone himself yet again in his latest video, this time focusing on the November neo-Nazi march to the state Capitol, and the links between the Nazis and the nativists. It’s a creepy, almost apocalyptic vision of Arizona dominated by racist politicians such as state Senator Russell Pearce, done…
Peoria police are looking for the person or persons responsible for robbing the home of a Peoria family. On the list of missing items: The ashes of the family’s dead son. Lindsay Grannis, the child’s mother, says when she came home yesterday afternoon, her garage door was wide open. When…
Talk about a daft stat. If the Arizona Cardinals get back to the Super Bowl in 2010, it’ll likely be thanks to their nutty road-field advantage. Sitting pretty with a road record of 4-0 (6-3 overall) in ’09, Ken Whisenhunt’s Redbirds got smoked on the road last season by scores…
You’re kidding, right? The Phoenix Suns’ game Thursday night against the Hornets in New Orleans was supposed to be a gimme. Before the game, fans and local sports talk radio hosts had already chalked up win number 11 for the Suns. “The Suns’ second team alone could beat the Hornets,”…
Representative Doug Quelland must give up his seat in the Legislature. Quelland was found to have violated campaign-finance rules earlier this year. Quelland plans to appeal the ruling in Maricopa Superior Court…A fire broke out in the auditorium at Red Mountain High School in Mesa last night. Fire officials believe the fire started…
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: Blue Boy Video: See the Creation of the African-American Face That Was Too Much for…
Anyone want to go to a Phoenix Coyotes game, or is that a stupid question — the team has the lowest attendance record of any team in the NHL. What if you could sit in the lower level on the cheap? If that’s enough to lure you to Glendale, you’re…
Thanks to New Times Web Editor Jonathan McNamara, you can now watch Phoenix muralist Francisco Garcia creating the Blue Boy image that so freaked out the little town of Pine-Strawberry, Arizona, that he was ordered to take it down and replace it with the image of a cabin. McNamara squeezed…
