Last week, we reported on the more than $215,000 worth of property stolen from Arizona State University between 2009 and 2010. There’s also another aspect of crimes against the university, bringing its two-year loss total to more than $285,000 — people are effin’ up ASU’s stuff. According to documents obtained…
Maricopa County’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff in America,” Joe Arpaio, says he’s considering running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.That said, New Times guaran-damn-tees he won’t actually run.”The issue is whether I want to leave this office and go to Washington and try to make a…
A drunk Phoenix man, and his equally drunk buddy, were denied service at a Phoenix bar because they were too drunk. Their response: try to burn the bar to the ground.About 8:30 p.m. Friday, Alejandro Emetrio Rodriguez, and his friend Delfino Mendez, went to the Funny Farm Bar at 4274…
A serial drunk driver prosecutors refer to as “one of the greatest threats to public safety in Maricopa County,” has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to his two latest counts of driving under the influence, which is a shitload of time for someone who never…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and his girlfriend, Elissa Mullany, have evolved over the past year – and not in a good way.The couple used to try and hide the fact that they were using the Mayor’s Office to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mullany’s company. She was getting…
Seriously? Seriously? Even after the Chris Hanson To Catch a Predator series, there still are perverts out there who seem to think the “kid” they’re chatting with online isn’t a cop — which is almost always the case, and is exactly what happened to a Lake Montezuma man last month.According to the…
The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office is asking the public’s help in finding a 10-year-old Kingman girl reported missing on Saturday.Trinity Gilbert was last seen in the 2200 block of East John L. Avenue about 1 p.m. Saturday.Gilbert was last seen in her home by her father, who reported her missing…
Fox 10 (KPAZ) reported last night that the “business of love” is “booming” in these hard times — in the form of increased mail-order “relationships.” Who says romance is dead? (See the Fox 10 video below). The TV station focused its report on local pimps matchmakers who run a Web…
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:…
Faleh Almaleki’s attorney had but three words to say when the Maricopa County Superior Court judge asked him to call his first witness late this morning. “The defense rests,” assistant public defender Jeffrey Kirchler muttered. It meant that Almaleki, the 50-year-old Glendale man accused of murdering his daughter Noor and severely…
Since our earlier post about a letter sent by several mayors of cities along the U.S./Mexico border to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, the sheriff’s responded with a letter of his own.The letter from the border mayors to Babeu asked that he tone down some of the rhetoric he’s been…
The bigoted bills state Senate president Russell Pearce has been pushing to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — SB 1308 and 1309 — have been pulled from the agenda for the Senate Appropriations Committee, for now.As you’ll recall, these bills were before…
We are happy to report that the “Birther Bill” has failed in the state Legislature — yet again.Jeanette Tejeda de Gomez, spokeswoman for state Senate Democrats, confirms to New Times that the “Birther Bill,” proposed by numb-Skull Valley Republican Judy Burges, has failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee, thus sparing…
UPDATE: Click here to see Babeu’s response to the border mayors’ letter.Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s making a pretty nice career out of being the face of the immigration debate in Arizona, but several mayors of border cities are asking that he tone down some of the rhetoric. Turns out,…
Dr. Ed Suter, a Mesa-based physician, says a physical exam should not be required before a doctor provides someone with a recommendation for medical marijuana. Andrew Myers, spokesman for the Prop 203 campaign, thinks that hopeful owners of marijuana dispensaries should have to prove they have at least $200,000 in…
Driving through downtown Phoenix today, we thought to ourselves “hmmm, this city definitely needs a collection of giant, gaudy, lighted ads for things like Pepsi, and Doritos — on par with places like Las Vegas and Times Square — to line the sides of buildings near Chase Field.” Actually we…
Shawna Forde, a founder of the anti-immigration group Minutemen American Defense Corps., has been convicted of murder in the 2009 slayings of an Arivaca man and his nine year-old daughter.The Pima County jury now must decide whether Forde, 43, should face the death penalty.Jurors reportedly deliberated for five hours on…
Videographer Dennis Gilman covered Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s recent worksite raid at the Phoenix company Great Western Erectors, and challenged Joe on separating mothers and fathers from their children during these immigration-enforcement stunts of his.Arpaio tries to slough it off, claiming he’s just enforcing the law and that you could say…
The ex-boyfriend of a woman murdered in Phoenix last week was arrested in Las Vegas yesterday morning while driving the victim’s car.Wade Ridely, 53, was originally considered an “investigative lead” in the murder of 62-year-old Anne Marie Simenson, his ex-girlfriend. Now, the Phoenix Police Department says, he’s a suspect –…
It wasn’t even a sellout at the Wells Fargo Arena last night for the rivalry game between the ASU Sun Devils and the Arizona Wildcats, and probably with good reason. The Wildcats do have a very nice team in this, their rebound year after missing the NCAA tournament for…
Henry Morello, the 84-year-old man reported missing last week, was found alive and well over the weekend, and he apparently survived nearly a week in the desert by drinking diluted windshield washer fluid.Morello was last seen Monday in the Cave Creek area driving his pale green 2007 Lexus SUV with…
The East Valley Tribune will increase its Sunday circulation from 100,000 to 150,000, says its new owner, Randy Miller.The East Valley Tribune will boast a “much bigger presence” in the community next month when it boosts Sunday circulation from 100,000 to 150,000, says the paper’s owner, Randy Miller.In an un-bylined…
