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Nearly 20,000 workers at Valley Fry’s and Safeway grocery stores could go on strike if a contract deal between the companies and workers’ union is not reached by 6 p.m. next Friday. Spokesmen for the grocery chains say the companies have tried to negotiate a fair deal, and plan to…

​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: Up on the Sun: Shonen Knife at Plush in Tucson Concert Review: Dirty Heads and Dear and…

A candidate for sheriff in Orange County, California, has recruited the help of “America’s [self-proclaimed] toughest sheriff” in his bid to win a June election.This afternoon, Arpaio is in the OC at a fundraiser for one of the county’s candidates for sheriff, Lieutenant Bill Hunt.Arpaio will be speaking on behalf of…

The FBI announced this morning that it has made an arrest in the case of the nun murdered in New Mexico over the weekend — and that’s about it. For some reason, the FBI is not revealing any details about the person arrested, other than the suspect was picked up…

What do you call a dog with two legs? Who cares, it still won’t come when it’s called (badop-ching).Yet the Arizona Humane Society has got itself a 6-week-old female chihuahua that needs a little help.”Rue,” as staffers are calling the pooch, was born with only its two hind legs and…

Big bonuses for execs of failing companies seems to be the common theme in business culture these days, and the East Valley Tribune and its parent company, Freedom Communications, apparently are no exception.The Trib will cease to be after December 31, putting an end to a newspaper that thrived for more than…

When U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement conducted an immigration sweep in northern Arizona in November, 2008, as a part of “Operation Return to Sender,” they touted it as a program designed to target and deport dangerous criminals. As it turns out, most of the people arrested didn’t have any criminal record…

Self-help guru and “Spiritual Warrior” James Ray, the focus of a homicide investigation stemming from the deaths of three people in a sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona, has put his house up for sale. Ray was also named in two lawsuits filed last week, both stemming from the sweat tent debacle –…

We’re sure the anticipation has been killing you, but the word around the water cooler is that Governor Jan is expected to announce her candidacy for a full term as governor tonight…

Two people were injured in a medical helicopter crash on the San Carlos Indian reservation last night. The pilot of the Eurocopter AS 350 lost control while trying to land at San Carlos’ Cutter airport. It was a training flight, and no patients were on board. Both occupants of the…

Why do beaners or gabachos deliberately try to ignore white people and act like they’re not there, or when your walking by, the lady beaners laugh so hard with a repulsive fake laugh that makes you want to just punch them? Not only I have noticed this, but a lot…

Cynthia Clark Harvey climbs the stairs to the second floor of her north Phoenix home, pausing in a small bedroom. It’s the kind of room empty-nesters tend to keep, and this one is packed with artifacts from her daughters’ childhoods. Briana’s Beanie Babies hang on the wall in an organizer…

UNDERDOGS A community touched: Many thanks to New Times and to writer Paul Rubin for taking the time to recognize possibly the most important feat of triumph that some of these kids may ever experience — a single football win in some 67 attempts. Regardless of the turnout of the…

Editor’s note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s forces. When Leopoldo Arteaga asked a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy why he was pulled over last May, he was yanked out of his car and fell face down onto the pavement, bloodying…

BURKE’S BUMBLE CBS 5’s recent special report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s pattern of retaliation against anyone who criticizes or opposes his office put some serious wind into the sails of Joe foes. Though it was not so much the partial recounting of Joe’s enemies list in the nearly 10-minute segment…

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: Neo-Nazi NSM Scum at the Arizona Capitol: Should Sane People Give Them the Time of…

This is the pouting face of 21-year-old Sean Sexton. Tempe police say Sexton was standing outside of a check-cashing store near Southern and Mill avenues October 28 firing an Airsoft rifle at the store’s windows…

Last month, about 10,000 copies of the University of Arizona’s student newspaper were stolen from various newsstands across the university. They were found the next day, dumped in various locations on the outskirts of the campus.You may be wondering “why the hell would anyone steal 10,000 free student newspapers?” If…