Tuesday morning cop news releases:*Mesa police and Pinal County air units began searching for a lost 85-year-old woman before dawn this morning. Mesa police Sergeant Ed Wessing states, “Cell phone contact was made last night and it is believed she is in south Pinal County.” The search was still going…
Gross, dude. The Royals, a team that’s been irrelevant since 1985 (a World Series-winning season that also marks the last time they finished first in their division), made the sinking-ship-like D-Backs look like the irrelevant one. For example, Arizona’s line score in the team’s 5-0 loss at KC’s Kauffman Stadium…
A Valley man found a pipe bomb his mailbox Tuesday night. The bomb squad arrived at his home near 7th Avenue and the Loop 101, where they determined the device was indeed an explosive. The postal inspector is investigating the incident, and the man’s mailbox was taken as evidence…Police say…
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: Revolver Records Relocating to Roosevelt Row AZ Ghostbusters Raise Money for Salvation Army…
People who plan on attending July 4 events in Phoenix or Tempe can buy their light rail passes now, allowing them to avoid long lines at fare boxes to validate tickets. Buying before the July 1 fare increase (an all-day pass is going to $3.50) will also let riders…
Maria Baier, who won a hard-fought race for Phoenix’s District 3 City Council seat in 2007, will leave her post to become State Land Commissioner, Governor Jan Brewer’s office announced today. The land commissioner oversees the sale of state trust land, which pays for school construction. Seems like a short…
Three years after getting busted by the state for making false claims, Scottsdale-based Liberty League International is being sued in federal court over claims that the company is running a pyramid scheme. The class-action suit, first reported by courthousenews.com, accuses Liberty League, at 14300 North Northsight Boulevard, Suite 210, in…
Is Phoenix Suns forward Amar’e Stoudemire blind to the truth about Sheriff Joe Arpaio?Apparently so, and in more than one eye. According to recent news reports, Big Stat was sworn in this afternoon as a “special deputy” for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. For Sheriff Joe, it’s a publicity coup,…
A Phoenix neighborhood activist in failing health will get a home makeover, courtesy of Home Depot and Phoenix police. Guadalupe Arenazas played a major role in ridding her neighborhood of criminals and scofflaws, also working with the Phoenix City Council on improvement issues. Now she’s in need of help: Worsening…
Don’t you hate when the facts get in the way of a good story? Turns out the Mesa stripper’s kid didn’t eat dog food, after all, Mesa police say today. At least, no one actually saw the kid dog food. Detective Michael Melendez says that the dog-food-eating part of the…
A bill that would’ve brought Arizona’s public-records law into the digital age has gone into sleep mode. Elizabeth Hill, (pictured), state public-records ombudsman, says the League of Arizona Towns and Cities launched a late lobbying effort this week and had the bill scuttled for this year’s legislative session. She doesn’t…
Governor Jan Brewer is keeping up the pressure on lawmakers today to send her a budget plan, calling a news conference this morning at 11 a.m. on the steps of the Arizona Supreme Court. Brewer told reporters yesterday she is asking the Supreme Court justices to force State Senate President…
Unlike football (Arizona Cardinals) and basketball (Orlando Magic), Major League Baseball is stingy with its surprises. Sure, the perennial-doormat Tampa Bay Rays made it to the promised land last year, but that was the rare exception to a longstanding MLB rule that separates contenders from also-rans. Though that unwritten baseball…
The Phoenix Coyotes will stay in Glendale — for now. Yesterday, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled against a proposal to let Blackberry CEO Jim Balsillie buy the team and relocate it to Canada. The NHL hopes for a September 10 auction for bidders who’d like to keep the Coyotes…
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: Barack Obama’s Shame: Joe Arpaio Wrecks Families, Wounds a Business, Makes a Little Girl Cry,…
Daniel Horne of Mesa describes himself as an experienced high-tech guy — a mild-mannered family man. Not your typical felon. But Horne spent a year of his life in the Maricopa County Jail system’s Tent City after plowing into a couple of women in his car while drunk. His victims…
Sales of Arizona Lottery scratcher tickets are up 10 percent over last year, making it a no-brainer for the state to ink a new five-year service contract with its instant ticket provider, Scientific Games. About 53 percent of the lottery’s $453 million in sales last year came from instant tickets,…
I’ve just received confirmation from Monica Sandschafer, ACORN’s lead organizer in Arizona, that the Rev. Al Sharpton will be in Phoenix this Friday, June 19th. For those unaware of it, that date is known as Juneteenth, and it commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.According to Sandschafer, Sharpton’s…
Phoenix stripper Samantha Abernathy (pictured) was arrested yesterday after cops discovered she’d left her two little kids, 1 and 3 years old, alone in the house for hours. Neighbors called the cops at about 7:30 a.m. because the kids were running around loose in the apartment complex. Abernathy had left…
A Queen Creek mom is under investigation over the possibility that she failed to report her 14-year-old daughter’s sexual tryst with a young transient she’d invited to live in her home. Angel Green, (a.ka. Daniel Green — pictured above), was 18 when the mom-of-the-year candidate invited him to move in…
Brenda Combs is a former crack addict from Phoenix whose successful efforts at turning her life around will be featured in a planned book. And that same book may help Slim Smith, (right), a disgraced local newspaper columnist and former alcoholic, turn his own life around. Smith, who was fired from…
A Phoenix police officer accused of taking old baseball cards from a vacant home will get her job back, reports Channel 5 (KPHO-TV). Channel 5’s Cara Liu put out a report in April about Marysol Larrison and Al Jackson, two officers who were disciplined for stealing property out of the home. Liu’s…
