Arizona Cardinals’ wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald is laughing off his brother’s controversial Twitter remarks and has offered the younger Fitzgerald to QB Kurt Warner Sunday as penance for the statements.”He’s going to be taking out the garbage, whatever Kurt wants,” Fitzgerald tells the Associated Press…
The San Francisco Giants kept their slim playoff hopes alive for at least one more day after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-2 on Wednesday night at Chase Field. The poor D-Backs have lost four of their past five and, ugh, 14 of their last 19. Yeah, the season pretty much…
Governor Jan Brewer was caught on camera referring to the State Capitol as a “hell hole.” Brewer made the remark at the Tucson Country Club, while addressing a group of Republicans. Brewer’s office says the remark was not referencing the city of Phoenix, but the budget battle at the Capitol…Federal…
In Garfield strips in the funny pages that appeared earlier this year, Garfield is wearing a sombrero and taking siestas. While cute and all, isn’t the sort of thing that we have been striving to stop? What was Jim Davis thinking? Maybe he needs a refresher course in not making…
AUTISM BARRIER Help them at all costs: It was a heartbreaking story about the Latino kids with autism. I can guess what the reaction to this story from redneck Arizonans will be, though: These kids are sub-human and don’t deserve any help from us. They will say that if there…
There’s a joke making the rounds in Scottsdale. “What do Colorado City and Scottsdale have in common?” The politically incorrect answer: “Incest.” It’s not nice to joke about victims of polygamy, but I laughed out loud when I heard that one. Because if you think Phoenix is a small town…
Lisa Davis made it to her late-afternoon appointment with forensic psychiatrist Joseph Franzetti with time to spare. It was April 2007, and Davis was with her 10-year-old son, Troy. The fourth-grader was facing charges of criminal damage and burglary in Maricopa County Juvenile Court. He and a pal had gotten…
The 12 months Daniel Horne spent in Tent City were the worst of his life. In his book Accidental Felons, Horne describes his awful year in jail after a 2005 DUI-related accident he caused. The 58-year-old professional dodged spiders, ate food that resembled garbage, and, he says, suffered “permanent lung…
SHERIFF’S NUT I have to give Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s regime props for creative abuse of the federal court system. Who else but a legal lapdog such as Timothy Casey, the guy making bank from county coffers for defending our septuagenarian lawman, would subpoena an organization that has absolutely nothing to…
Charles Ryan may have pulled the plug on Macia Powell too soon. He may have overseen an ADC staff that denied her water for hours in a shadeless wire cage, a staff that allowed the severely mentally ill Powell to defecate on herself in captivity, that allowed her to perish…
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: Pearl Jam Finally Defeats The Music Industry (You’re Still Screwed) Creed Tickets Now…
Here’s the latest on the Stapley case: *The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office submitted the theft and fraud case against County Supervisor Don Stapley to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office today. *The Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas’ office says the case has “merit.” *However, Thomas has yet to make a decision…
This just in: A prominent election law expert signed off on Don Stapley’s campaign fund for the National Association of Counties in 2004 — complicating the sheriff’s claim that the fund is at the root at least 45 counts of theft and 48 counts of “prohibited acts.”Our readers first raised…
Two Arizona nitwits decided to take their own version of the Arizona Meth Project on the road this week and found themselves arrested and facing drug charges.As one of the national leaders in meth use, this ought to buff Arizona’s gleaming reputation.Police in Hall County, Nebraska arrested 18-year-old Ruben Torres…
The infamous Hells Angels motorcycle gang is no longer just that cuddly group of unorganized bike enthusiasts from our parents’ generation. Now, according to a jury and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, they are officially a “street gang.”Thanks for clearing that up.The gang’s new label comes as the result of…
All this subtext, all this intrigue. And all this political jibber-jabber. We’ll leave the moving parts to able colleagues Ray Stern and Sarah Fenske. But we were struck yesterday by a soundbite from the mouth of Paul Charlton, the usually circumspect and conservative former United States Attorney for Arizona, who…
An ASU researcher in collaboration with a Canadian research team made some interesting discoveries about the amount of food we eat and the company we keep.Andrea C. Morales, an assistant professor of marketing at ASU and her Canadian counterparts recruited 210 students to participate in the study and told them…
The Monday arrest of Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley triggered a 48-hour window in which to file charges. Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office, which apparently made the arrest in the white-collar case without first consulting a prosecutor’s office, recommends Stapley be charged with 93 felonies and seven misdemeanors related to alleged slush…
Here we are more than a year away from gubernatorial elections, and pollsters are already hard at work.According to a poll released today by Public Policy Polling, Attorney General Terry Goddard would crush any likely opponent in next year’s election.The poll matched Goddard against sitting Governor Jan Brewer, former-Governor Fife Symington,…
Now that parts of Georgia are beginning to resemble the lost city of Atlantis after recent flooding, Arizona-based U-Haul wants to help out. U-Haul is offering a free month’s storage to anyone who has fallen victim to the flood. “We know that this is a very difficult time for individuals,”…
Now that Republican Governor Jan Brewer is officially not one of the popular kids in the high school that is state government, Republican gubenatorial hopefuls are starting to come out of the woodwork. Brewer, whose approval rating is now less than 25 percent, yet still hasn’t ruled out running herself, has opened…
In the 26 games in which he’s worn Sedona red, the Oklahoma-born ballplayer has amassed close to a .300 batting average, knocking in four RBIs and blasting out 14 hits (three of them homers) off some of the NL’s best pitchers. And that includes former D-Backs superstar Randy Johnson, who…
