On Sunday, Gary Maitha found himself in a nightmare situation for any married man: he lost his wedding ring. Luckily, the ring was found by 41-year-old Gary Barnett, who offered to return it to Maitha — as long as he agreed to pay a $100 “finder’s fee,” which aside from…
Former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth thinks the reason Arizona’s medicaid program is in such bad financial shape is that it covers people who are in the country illegally. The only problem with that is Arizona’s medicaid program doesn’t actually cover the overwhelming majority of illegal immigrants.Oh, J.D., how we’ve missed…
Three teens were injured last night after one of them crashed the stolen car he was driving into a pole.The wreck happened about midnight near the intersection of 16th Street and Earl Drive, according to the Phoenix Police Department…
Baseball is a funny game. The Arizona Diamondbacks got to Colorado Rockies ace Ubaldo Jimenez and beat the Rockies in extra innings on Opening Day Friday, 7-6, then lost a pitcher’s duel between excellent young starter Dan Hudson and eminently mediocre Rockies pitcher Jorge De La Rosa Saturday, 3-1, before…
The Phoenix Suns kept their fading playoff hopes alive against the Los Angeles Clippers Friday night before having them snuffed out for good by the San Antonio Spurs Sunday morning. Friday’s 111-98 win against the Clippers was almost a cruel April Fool’s Day prank on Suns fans, however, as it…
The Arizona Diamondbacks kicked off the 2011 season over the weekend by splitting a pair of games with the Colorado Rockies, which is encouraging considering they ended last season with the third-worst record in baseball.The D-Backs ended last season with a 65-97 record, earning them last place in the National League…
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Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Lisa Allen was dismayed when she saw the super-sleazy TV ad against her boss’ opponent, Dan Saban, air on September 30, 2008. She thought the ad, which stated that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s opponent had masturbated on county time and had once been accused of raping his…
A former Goodyear City Council candidate is sticking to her story that a state Republican Party leader told her she could get Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s endorsement by paying $2,000. The Politico Mafioso blog reported this interesting example of sleazy politics on Tuesday after perusing the SCA report we published last week. Buried in…
Joel Fox filed two federal lawsuits this week in apparent response to New Times’ publication of love letters between him and his boss at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Larry Black. The first lawsuit targets former state Attorney General Terry Goddard and three employees of the AG’s office; the second,…
tcritic.com As we learned last month, Craigslist is a terrible place to go if you want to have sex with dogs. Now we’re learning Craigslist is also a terrible place to sell stuff you steal from people in Mesa. On Wednesday, a Mesa woman was perusing Craigslist when she found…
God, apparently, is a little indecisive.Despite having suggested earlier in the week that he would announce plans Saturday to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jon Kyl, Congressman Trent Franks — who said earlier this month he would leave the final decision about whether he’d run to the man upstairs –…
We’re sad to report that there were 24 bovine casualties as a result of this morning’s wreck of a truck carrying 37 head of cattle. Several of the beefs that didn’t make it were shot by police to prevent the animals from suffering — which is refreshingly a-okay with People for the…
I’ve received a couple of calls from regular readers wondering about the paucity of posts this week in Feathered Bastard. And no, I’m not in rehab or dead. Yet.Rather, I’ve been hard at work on a special project for my editor, one commanding almost all of my time this week…
Houston Press Abdullah the Butcher: WWE Hall of Famer. ”Superstar Billy Graham,” subject of our cover story this week, forwarded a press release this morning criticizing wrestling legend Abdullah the Butcher, who is going into the WWE Hall of Fame this weekend, for allegedly giving an independent pro wrestler Hepatitis C…
On Tuesday, the Fiesta Bowl released an internal investigation of bowl employees, highlighting questionable spending of the organization’s money and alleged illegal campaign contributions — the second such internal investigation since The Arizona Republic started reporting on it in 2009. But there’s one point that has been mostly ignored in…
The Arizona Senate gave final approval earlier this week to the second of two controversial abortion bills to pass through the Legislature this year. This one’s aimed at guilting women out of ending their pregnancies and places more restrictions on abortions by pill.HB 2416, approved 18-10 by the Senate on Wednesday, forces…
PETA’s now in the business of handing out “awards,” and we’ve got a candidate for “Worst Truck Driver of the Year”: the guy who flipped a tractor-trailer carrying nearly 40 cows this morning.Authorities say 38 cows are in need of rescue following an early-morning tractor-trailer wreck on Interstate 17, just north…
The Glendale Police Department wants the public’s help in tracking down the person they say either threw or pushed a 16-year-old girl from a car Wednesday night.The girl, Anita Munoz, a sophomore at Independence High School in Glendale, was thrown from a car about 7 p.m. Wednesday near 6700 West Ocotillo…
Meghan McCain, the overly vocal daughter of Senator John McCain, does not expect the upcoming HBO movie about her family and her pop’s failed bid for the presidency in 2008 to paint her in the most positive light. In fact, she expects to be “crucified.”As we mentioned earlier this month,…
As New Times noted yesterday, if you smoke pot, and have any of the symptoms that could potentially qualify you for a medical-marijuana card, you’d be an idiot to not at least try to get one.Our advocacy of medical marijuana, however, has apparently pissed off at least one reader, who…
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:…
