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: Medical Examiner Holds Marcia Powell’s Remains as Fiduciary Seeks Next of Kin Up on the…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Fields ruled today that the criminal case against County Supervisor Don Stapley won’t get sent back to a grand jury for reconsideration. Stapley’s lawyers still have a chance on Tuesday to convince Fields that he should dismiss 114 felony counts of failing to disclose…
The remains of 48-year-old Marcia Powell, who died May 20 after being confined to a human cage at Perryville Prison for at least four hours in the punishing Arizona sun, are being held by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office on the request of the county Fiduciary Office, MCME spokeswoman Gayle Milette…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin says he considers it a “miracle” he was able to hold and get to know his newborn son for three days before the boy died. Martin’s wife, Kerry, died on Monday a few hours after giving birth. In his statement today, Martin thanks the staff at…
The Maricopa County Anti-Corruption Effort, a.k.a. MACE, finally bagged an actual criminal. Make that a family of criminals. MACE, created by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas, seems generally designed to bludgeon political opponents. But this is one case in which smoke really did become fire. It involves a dirty…
Maricopa County Animal Care and Control wants you to a adopt a “desperate housecat.” Or maybe even two.Last year, the number of stray cats taken in by the county tripled once summer began. They literally took in thousands of cats for which they didn’t have room — and you know…
The Arizona Guardian news site hung out a cyber-shingle for a new, online store chock full of paraphernalia sporting the start-up’s name.Perhaps a bit cheesy, but we wouldn’t overly fault the Guardian, a site started by laid-off journalists from the East Valley Tribune, for trying to scrape up a few…
Valley police have been practicing their driving skills in a video-game-like simulator on loan from the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board.Tolleson’s officers were required to train on the machine a couple of weeks ago, says the West Valley View. It’s housed in a 42-foot trailer that gets hauled…
This is what you a call a non-apology apology.U.S. Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano lashed out at the Canadian media yesterday, still ticked that people noticed a factual mistake she made last month while speaking about the 9/11 attacks. You might hear an apology in her statements to CTV –…
You couldn’t have blamed Arizona Diamondbacks fans for expecting the worst heading into Wednesday night’s 8-5 loss to the surging San Diego Padres at Chase Field. The light-hitting Snakes were about to face arguably the National League’s best power pitcher in Jake Peavy while countering with a young pitcher, Billy…
A young girl in Pima County died from the swine flu yesterday. The girl was the fourth person in Arizona to die from the virus. As of yesterday, the state has 534 confirmed cases of the disease…Phoenix Suns star Shaquille O’Neal was snapped by photo radar cameras twice on the…
JOe’s Goon Squad Joe idolizers are birds of a feather: If there was any doubt in people’s minds about whether neo-Nazis like J.T. Ready were associated with Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, it’s all erased now (“Ja, Joe!” Stephen Lemons, May 14)…
When Juan Tercero made the decision that quietly would define his life, he was wearing a T-shirt, green U.S. Army boxer shorts, and rubber shower thongs. Specialist Four Tercero, known as Tony, was chilling at Camp Eagle, a military base near the ancient city of Hue, Vietnam. It was November…
My question is simple: Can you please confirm the fact that there are doctors, lawyers, and other professionals living in Mexico? I’m a Mexican-American woman living in Chicago who had a heated discussion about that topic. My friend who is a teacher at a local school was of the opinion…
Abigail Brown was 14 years old — a high school freshman and a virgin — when some juniors and seniors got her drunk at a party and videotaped her having sex with them. The young men, go figure, had all the usual excuses. She was drunk, man! She was asking…
DARTH RYAN The Lumley Vampire, the underground newsletter purportedly run by current and former Arizona Department of Corrections employees, knows who killed 48-year-old Marcia Powell. That’s the woman who recently died after at least four hours baking outside in the Arizona sun, while confined to a wire cage at Perryville…
Gilman’s latest, revealing Arpaio’s nefarious domino effect… Just curious, but where are the white knights of the Obama administration as Sheriff Joe ignores crimes, intimidates his political opponents, and zip-ties American citizens and those here legally without probable cause? About every six months one news outlet or another reports that…
As I mentioned in this week’s Bird column, a group of Phoenix advocates and activists have banded together to hold a memorial service for Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old woman who died last week at Perryville Prison after being left in a human cage for at least four hours in the blazing Arizona sun…
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: UPDATE Chris Brown: A Monster, Even Though He Sees It Otherwise. Also, My…
Donnie Delahanty, a dumb-ass kid from a dysfunctional family who killed a cop in 2005 for the hell of it, was ordered to death row earlier today. Delahanty (shown here in a 2005 photo) stared straight ahead as a court clerk for Superior Court Judge Warren Granville read the jury’s…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas (right) has decided it’s okay to prosecute “super-speeders” caught by freeway speed cameras, reversing a decision he made in March. And leadfoot state Republican Party director Brett Mecum (see police mugshot below) is one of the first to be charged. Thomas stated two months ago that…
The two people who died in a helicopter crash in the northwest Valley on Friday worked for the Peoria Police Department. Michael Gauchat, 41, had been a police officer with the department since 1990. Donna Collum, 45, had been with the city of Peoria since 2000, working first in the…
