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It used to be that the people who worked in the city of Phoenix’s public information office were friends — or at least acted like it. “It was a family,” says one employee. “Everybody went to lunch. Everybody went to each other’s homes.” Not anymore. These days, the 12th floor…

Visiting Camp Creek for the first time is a bit like discovering a hidden fairyland. One moment you’re driving, surrounded by nothing but bald, craggy desert mountains and open sky. Then, the road dips between two hills and there it is: an oasis tucked beneath a dense canopy of sycamore…

Editor’s note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s forces. Fili Gaucin is a bright 12-year old, an American citizen born in this country who, like most boys his age, likes to play video games and watch TV. In fact, Fili,…

LOCAL HEROES Ever since the MCSO’s contract for police services with the town of Guadalupe was renewed earlier this year, a small band of residents of the square-mile town has sought to monitor the interaction of sheriff’s deputies with Guadalupanos. A month and a half ago, these half-dozen or so…

For most of my life I was oblivious to the hate that Mexicans have for Salvadorans. I became aware of it when I made the huge mistake of marrying a Salvi. Once I became engaged to my Salvi girlfriend or whenever I would tell any Mexican that I married a…

​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: Joe Arpaio Target of FBI Probe, Says Channel 5 in Report to Air Thursday Up…

Arizona State University police have released the audio of the 911 call made after a graduate student shot himself in his professors office Monday.You can listen to it here.The call was placed by Professor Jason Griffiths, whose office is two doors down from the office of Professor Mookesh Patel, where…

City Attorney Gary Verburg was asked by Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio whether his “past business relationship” with the Gila River Indian community affected his participation on the Loop 202 issue.But did DiCiccio bother to tell Verburg that the relationship was also, well, present? Damned if we know. We can’t get Verburg…

A Scottsdale man pleaded not guilty yesterday for allegedly passing a bogus check to the Steve Miller Band for a show the group played in Casper, Wyoming last November…

A California company called “Searching for Bigfoot Inc.” claims to have made a discovery in the hills near Flagstaff that could change everything you may think you know about Sasquatches. In a press release from SFBF, the group claims a man named Larry Jenkins, who lives in “the hills near…

A U.S. District Court shot down a request by Sheriff Joe Arpaio for a summary judgment in the Robert Daniels lawsuit.In a court ruling obtained by New Times, Judge Susan Bolton ruled that there are “several issues of material fact” that still remain in regard to the sheriff’s involvement in…

Did Barry Goldwater, the father of modern conservatism, once refer to the American Indian Movement as “Assholes in Moccasins”?More to the point, if you were a Native American artist claiming that he did, would you choose to unload that knowledge at a Heard Museum fundraiser full of Goldwater lovers –…

The self-help guru who organized the “Spiritual Warrior” sweat lodge retreat near Sedona that left three people dead and dozens injured is offering his condolences in the form of a check — too bad it’s for about half as much as the victims paid to go and sit in a…

We caught wind of this a few hours ago but couldn’t confirm it until now — Jorge Murillo, the state hospital “patient” who escaped custody last week by hopping two fences without anyone seeming to notice, has been captured. Murillo, a 40-year-old Honduran national, who recently finished a 10-year prison…

Arizona State Representative Kyrsten Sinema is in Washington, D.C. today to attend a ceremony for the signing of a hate-crimes bill that would add crimes committed against people because of sexual orientation, gender, and gender identity. Sinema has sponsored similar legislation in Arizona…Tempe police believe they may have arrested the…

​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: Zack de la Rocha Returns to Phoenix January 16 to Lead National Day of Action…