A Mesa woman has filed suit in Maricopa County Superior Court accusing a local sports bar of violating city codes by not applying for a building permit for a stripper pole that she toppled from, cutting her ring finger. ReAnna M. Hedrick, 28, claims in the October 16 suit that on September 3,…
A new Cronkite/Eight poll finds that county residents mostly approve of Joe Arpaio’s performance as sheriff. The poll, conducted between October 22-25, asked 389 registered voters in Maricopa County if they approved or disapproved of the job the sheriff iis doing. It found that 61 percent of county residents either “approve”…
The third time’s the charm, and according to civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the Puente Movement, the pleasure will be ours January 16 as Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion frontman Zack de la Rocha returns to the Arizona capital to lead a National Day of Action…
Former Assistant Attorney General Felecia Rotellini became the first candidate for Arizona AG to officially throw her hat into the ring today — announcing that she’s converting her “exploratory” committee to a “campaign” committee and definitely running.Rotellini, a Democrat, hopes to replace her former boss, Terry Goddard, who is almost…
A Harper College fan who was punched in the face by a Phoenix College football player after a December game is suing the player and the Maricopa County Community College District. Jimmy Lee Renfro of Kansas City, Missouri, had traveled to Phoenix to watch the December 6 game between Harper, an Illinois school, and Phoenix…
Phoenix New Times is asking local meth-heads to put those euphoric buzzes or even shattered dreams to use by applying to write a new weekly column called, “You Do the Meth.”New Times’ sister paper in Denver, Westword, announced last week that it’s taking applications for a marijuana critic to review different…
A Scottsdale dentist is putting Valley kids in tough spot this Halloween — she’s making them choose between cash or candy…
We didn’t exactly need a think tank to tell us how bad things have gotten here in Arizona, but what the heck — if one wants to quantify our state’s woe, who are we not immerse ourselves in the sad details?This week’s bad news comes from this month’s Nelson A…
Remember when we wrote about a bill that could financially devastate homeowners facing foreclosure, and then we wrote about how it was reversed? Well, the bill might just be back. The Arizona Bankers Association — which represents more than 70 banks in the state — has filed a lawsuit in the Arizona…
Good news! Black-tailed prairie dogs are back in Arizona (you were concerned, we’re sure). However, a hunter outside of Tucson felt the need to blow one to bits with a high-powered rifle, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department. The black-tailed prairie dog once roamed Arizona in abundance…
In September, 2007, former Phoenix police Officer Mark Wilcox and his wife sued the department and Sergeant Kathy Johnson. Among other things, the couple claimed that his own department, especially Sergeant Johnson, had violated his civil rights and defamed him in the aftermath of an October 2004 incident involving a juvenile suspect. After…
Sheriff Joe has activated his infamous posse to hunt down a serial cat killer roaming the streets of Tempe, Chandler, and Mesa.Sounds like a nice change of pace from walking around malls at Christmas-time pretending to be real cops. The upcoming depolyment reminds us of the time a few years ago when the…
Arizona Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne says the state faces teacher layoffs on a large scale next year because of the state’s budget woes. Horne said the situation is “much grimmer” than Arizona residents realize…The male graduate student who committed suicide in a professor’s office at ASU yesterday has been…
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: Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. Ready Leads NSM Rally in Riverside, California Up on the Sun: The…
You don’t have to be a lawyer to see that the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office messed up part of its response to county management over the issue of hiring special prosecutors in the case against Don Stapley. The technical flub, which we’ll detail below, seems especially embarrassing for County Attorney Andrew Thomas…
We spent an abundance of time last week around the local high school football scene. First, of course, was the publication of “Friday Night Frights” (still on the newstands for a few more days, and available here for a lot longer than that), about the trials and tribulations of Phoenix Carl Hayden’s football program…
Joe Shirley Jr., president of the Navajo Nation, was placed on administrative leave today, pending an investigation into ethical, civil, or criminal involvement with two companies with tribal contracts.During a special session of the Navajo Nations Tribal Council, members voted 48-22 to place Shirley on leave during the investigation as…
Arizona State University police are reporting that a graduate student shot and killed himself inside a professor’s office a little over an hour ago…
A White House basketball game featuring Arizona congressman and national beefcake Jeff Flake has brought some heat on the Obama Administration. A couple of weeks ago, President Obama had members of his Cabinet, as well as members of Congress, including Flake, over to the White House for a game of…
Captain Joel Fox of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office filed a $75,000 claim against the county last week for the “emotional distress” of being forced to divulge the names of secret donors to a political committee. Naturally, Fox isn’t suing the Sheriff’s Office — just the Board of Supervisors, Elections…
As the Corleone saying goes: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” Didn’t President Obama tell us we were leaving Iraq? Tell that to the troops in the Army’s 653rd Support Group…
The Arizona Board of Education is set to return the Colorado City Unified School District to local control — that control being by a bunch of polygamist inbreds. The corruption and financial mismanagement of the school district was unearthed six years ago by the tenacious reporting of former New Times reporter…
