Police found two dead bodies in Phoenix over the weekend, and today announced the deaths have been ruled a murder/suicide.About 2 a.m. Saturday, Phoenix police responded to a shooting near 26th Street and Clarendon Avenue in Phoenix.Witnesses told the officers they’d heard people arguing and then gunshots…
The jury has rendered its verdict in the high-profile murder case of former Glendale resident Faleh Almaleki, accused in the so-called “honor killing” of his oldest child, 20-year-old Noor. Guilty of second-degree murder in the October 2009 hit-and-run in a Peoria parking lot.Guilty of aggravated assault–Almaleki also ran down Amal…
We haven’t heard much from former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth since Senator John McCain mopped the floor with him in the 2010 GOP Senate primary, but there’s a Senate seat opening up in Arizona — so “free government money’s” number one fan has crawled out of the woodwork to bash…
Some people are better at getting themselves out of trouble than others. Salma Rafik Hourieh is not one of those people. The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office was called to the 6600 block of West Laurel Avenue yesterday to deal with a fight between Hourieh and her sister. The sisters had…
A Pima County jury decided this morning that Shawna Forde, the kid-killing minutewoman responsible for the deaths of a 9-year-old Arivaca girl and her father in May of 2009, will pay for the murders with her life.Earlier this month, Forde was convicted of murdering 29-year-old Raul Flores, and his 9-year-old…
A mentally ill Scottsdale man police say is responsible for a deadly car wreck that left an 11-year-old girl dead, and several others injured, was ranting and raving about Jesus and Satan following the crash. Then, during his initial appearance in front of a judge, he shifted the blame to…
Forget Qwest’s “Heavy Duty Internet” commercials — the Qwest truck that crashed into a Phoenix home Tuesday morning seems pretty heavy duty as well. Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times that a worker driving a Qwest utility truck crashed into a home at North 27th Avenue and West…
A man killed during a shootout at a Phoenix bar early yesterday morning has been identified as 27-year-old Pedro Sanchez Galvan. The man who shot him, however, remains on the loose.Phoenix police spokesman Sergeant Trent Crump says the investigation into the shooting is ongoing, but, at the moment, there aren’t…
Serial stabber Jeff Hausner’s hope for leaving prison early has just been thwarted by the state Court of Appeals. This morning, the court upheld the conviction of Hausner on attempted murder and aggravated assault charges for a 2006 stabbing he committed with serial shooters Dale Hausner (his brother) and Samuel Dieteman. Among Jeff Hausner’s…
A Chandler woman insists that she’s not a meth dealer — she just arranges, buys, and is paid with either cash or meth, and she often conducts business with her infant daughter under the same roof.Last week, police arrested 29-year-old Carol Stephen following several meth deals at the home at…
Only in Arizona (and maybe Utah)…More than 40 Arizona state legislators have signed on to a bill that would make the Colt single-action Army revolver the official state firearm. Like many actions taken by the Legislators this legislative session, the move seems to defy all logic.In case you forgot, there…
I have praised Channel 5/KPHO’s reporters and producers in the past. I consider them colleagues. Not necessarily drinking-buddies. (Yet.) But I have fun chatting with them when I see them in the midst of the media scrum.Still, I wonder about the station’s pro-PLEA spin, PLEA being the powerful Phoenix Law Enforcement Association,…
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:…
Arizona Diamondbacks General Manager Kevin Towers wants to build the franchise on the backs of his young starting pitchers, something Ian Kennedy warned this weekend he should be cautious about. Kennedy understands what it’s like to play for a team with overhyped young starters, since he was part of the…
The Arizona Legislature is one step closer to tackling a serious problem that doesn’t actually exist.Today, the House reportedly gave initial approval to a bill that would require women getting an abortion to sign a document promising they aren’t aborting the pregnancy based on sex, and another promising they aren’t…
Your south Phoenix kindergartener speaks perfect English? That’s her classroom over there — the one with the tired-looking teacher and so many kids that you can’t see the carpet. According to an article by the Cronkite News Service’s Jolie McCullough, published today in the East Valley Tribune, English speakers are being screwed out of a decent…
To twist a line from the Bible’s Book of Amos, “Let the hatred roll down like water, and stupidity like a mighty stream.” This, because “justice” and “righteousness” are sorely absent in Sand Land.So shall it be in the state Senate Appropriations Committee tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22, when a slew…
In case you hadn’t heard, Madison, Wisconsin, looks more like Cairo, Egypt, these days, with thousands of people taking to the streets in protest of Governor Scott Walker’s new budget and the effect it has on the bargaining rights of union workers, namely, the most coddled of all government employees:…
Senator John McCain, as well as several other members of Congress, are renewing efforts to get boxer Jack Johnson pardoned — despite the fact that Johnson’s been dead since the Truman administration.McCain, as well as New York Representative Peter King, plan to reintroduce a congressional resolution urging a pardon for…
Pitchers and catchers reported for spring training in the Valley last week, but San Francisco Giants closer Brian “The Beard” Wilson didn’t spend his weekend working on his fastball — he spent it partying with Charlie Sheen, and several baseball legends, in what might be the best weekend ever for…
If any good came from the shooting rampage in Tucson last month, it’s an institution opening today at the University of Arizona with the goal of getting politicos to tone down the rhetoric.The National Institute for Civil Discourse opens today in Tucson. The organization is described as a “center for…
Cartel members aren’t really turning Pinal County into something more like Afghanistan, despite what Sheriff Paul Babeu wrote in a letter last week to the mayors of several Arizona border cities.Ironically, the sheriff had written in response to the mayors’ urging that he stop putting out inflammatory, inaccurate statements about…
