Police in full riot gear, some tech-ed out SWAT-style with pepper-spray guns. A cop chopper overhead. Protesters locking arms to prevent police vehicles from moving. A 69 year-old activist on crutches arrested and cited, along with six others. Cops flinging demonstrators around like rag dolls.In other words, not your average…
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Dave Hendershott, the former top aide for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, s apparently was worried enough about being charged with crimes that he hired a legal firm to help him. That wouldn’t be a problem — except he may have gotten the county to pay the bills. It looks like…
Kid-killing rapist Donald Beaty is scheduled to be put to death on May 25 at the state prison in Florence for the 1984 murder and rape of 13-year-old Christy Ann Fornoff. Let the last-minute appeals commence.Beaty’s attorneys filed a motion yesterday to have his death sentence overturned, claiming his trial…
The nice part about “holidays” like St. Patrick’s Day, New Year’s Eve, and Cinco De Mayo is that police literally tell you they are going out of their way to arrest drunk drivers. They tell you when, for the most part where, and advise that, to avoid getting a DUI,…
Apparently quite a bit. Participants in last night’s “undie run” caused enough of a “ruckus” to force police to pull the fire alarm at the school’s Memorial Union to get thousands of rowdy, scantily clad students to leave the building…
President Barack Obama has decided to not release photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, despite the majority of Americans thinking he should.Obama apparently doesn’t pay attention to data retrieved from New Times’ uber-unscientific morning polls, which overwhelming shows that people want to see photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse…
If you like jet-packs, the outdoors, or the possibility of some guy plummeting thousands of feet to his death, you may want to head to the Grand Canyon Friday, where a Swiss daredevil plans to fly over the canyon with a jet-pack.Yves Rossy, a former fighter pilot, plans to jump…
Despite that it’s unclear whether Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords will be physically able to run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl, she already leads every Republican in the field — at least according to the somewhat left-wing pollsters at Public Policy Polling.PPP released the results of a…
The Arizona Court of Appeals has delivered a blow to Glendale officials trying to block the Tohono O’odham Nation from building a resort-style casino near the city’s border.The court ruled that the Nation’s entire 135-acre parcel near 95th and Northern avenues is outside of Glendale’s boundaries. A previous trial court ruling…
Yesterday, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced that after his office’s investigation into misconduct by top deputies in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, he’s determined that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio knew nothing of the misconduct.Babeu claims that Arpaio became so insulated by now-fired Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott that 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:…
The long-awaited report on the investigation into allegations against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s command staff didn’t get released today, after all. True, a 1,022-page summary report was released. But about one-third of it was blacked out, and the three separate reports containing the conclusions of the investigation haven’t…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said today that he’s convinced his Maricopa counterpart, Joe Arpaio, knew absolutely nothing about the misconduct of his top deputies. Babeu, speaking at a news conference at the state Capitol, said the investigation his office conducted on Arpaio’s commanders proved numerous, serious instances of misconduct and…
As the U.S. government weighs whether to release photos of Osama bin Laden’s bullet-riddled corpse to appease conspiracy theorists doubting his death is legit, the now-former public enemy number one is having a great time in hell — at least that’s what an uber-lame Twitter account celebrating his killing would have you believe.Like…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said today that he “made mistakes” in dealing with his top aide, former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott. In an intentionally brief news conference today, Arpaio read from a prepared statement and took questions from reporters. But he didn’t really say much. Arpaio refused to…
The Avondale Police Department wants to remind Valley residents that an infant taken from a swap meet in 2001 is still missing, in the hope that some new ink about the girl’s abduction could create some new leads.Ten years ago Friday, 4-month-old Jacqueline Vasquez was with her mother and 2-year-old…
Ethnic studies student Angelica Penaran takes a TUSD board member to the woodshedThe fight against the effort to slowly kill the Tucson Unified School District’s embattled Mexican-American ethnic studies program continues today with a TUSD board of governor’s meeting scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Last week, a TUSD vote on a proposal…
As a certain editor at the Arizona Republic knows, we often let many of the paper’s small screw-ups slide. Rather than call the Repub out for a minor typo in a headline, we’ll send a friendly e-mail alerting him to the problem. We’re not gonna do that today — today’s…
politisite.com A poll of 623 Arizona voters released today reflects a couple things — almost nobody likes Donald Trump, and most people would prefer Sarah Palin not move here. In the poll — from Public Policy Polling — opinions are recorded about possible GOP nominees for the 2012 presidential election,…
Clifton Wilkinson had two plans yesterday after getting caught in the act of allegedly sexually assaulting his estranged wife: Plan A was to convince her that it wasn’t rape. Plan B was to hang himself. He failed miserably at both. According to documents obtained by New Times, Wilkinson’s estranged wife…
