This year’s Super Bowl was a special one for a lot of cities — Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Green Bay among them. But few had a scene comparable to Cave Creek, Arizona.The hamlet north of Phoenix is most famous for drawing outlaws like the rapper DMX and Hell’s Angel’s founder Sonny…
State Senate President Russell Pearce’s baby-bashin’, anti-14th Amendment legislation will get a hearing Monday, February 7, in the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Pearce’s ally, state Senator Ron Gould. Fortunately, the pro-immigrant advocacy group Border Action Network, has a plan for battle:A “One-Thousand Baby Chain,” made up of real and…
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:…
Our blog post yesterday about the ABC News “investigation” in Tucson brought up some of the same concerns that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio mentioned in a letter today to the national news outlet. Even if the teeth of SB 1070 hadn’t been pulled by a federal judge, it’s…
If you work for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, you probably won’t be tempted to eat at McDonald’s anytime soon — because your boss, Joe Arpaio, claims doing so might be a risk to your health. But not for the usual reasons.Arpaio issued a warning today to all MCSO employees to use…
While Veolia Transportation, the company that operates Phoenix city buses, is in the midst of contentious negotiations with the bus drivers’ union, corporate executives are dropping subpoenas to gain access to union computers. Corporate execs also got court approval to sift through records from Google, Yahoo, and Qwest to accomplish…
A Phoenix man who brought his dead wife’s body to the police station last year was sentenced in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning.Dwight Wesley, 58, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last October, and this afternoon Judge Glenn Davis sentenced him to 22 years in prison for murdering his…
There are several abortion bills making their way through the Arizona Legislature at the moment. None of them seem to make a whole lot of sense, considering the other, more-pressing issues the state currently faces (namely a pesky $2 billion budget shortfall), but one in particular has pro-choice advocates livid. …
For the second time this week, a Valley speedster put the pedal a little too much to the metal — and the consequences were fatal. Police say two people were killed after their car crashed into a house on the corner of East Osborn Road and North 25th Street in…
With two Super Bowl rings already adorning the fingers of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger — and the chance for a third coming in Sunday’s Super Bowl — there’s already talk about whether he’s Hall of Fame material. Former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner isn’t buyin’ into the hype.Warner appeared on…
Arizona’s pro-immigrant community is ticked at one if its own: uber-lefty state Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who has in the past marched with the Reverend Al Sharpton in protest of Senate Bill 1070, and normally opposes the Republinuts in the state legislature on most of their nefarious doings.Such liberal bona fides…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Pima County Attorney’s Office issued a joint statement this morning outlining how prosecuting Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner will go forward.Loughner, who authorities believe is the lone suspect in the January 8, shooting rampage at a Tucson grocery store, currently faces a three-count indictment…
The real conspiracy was on the other side.Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his lackey, Lisa Aubuchon, while alleging high crimes and conspiracies against county leaders, were conspiring criminally among themselves and Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s minions, says a formal complaint filed by the Arizona State Bar.Even a casual observer…
Officials from the Goodyear Police Department tell New Times that two bodies found this morning in Yavapai County are believed to be those of two people who were reported missing early Thursday morning.The bodies, believed to be those of 43-year-old Thomas Watson and his ex-girlfriend, 31-year-old Tara Shermerhorn, were found…
After weeks of consideration, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ astronaut husband has decided he’ll head to space in April on the space shuttle Endeavor’s final mission.Mark Kelly took a leave from training after Giffords was shot “through the brain” during the Tucson shooting rampage on January 8. Giffords was among 19 people…
Valley cop shops are asking the public’s help in tracking down a pair of thieves they say scammed numerous retailers out of about $27,000.One of the suspects has been identified as Ramon Angel Leon-Baron. His accomplice has not been identified.Cops say,starting in August 2009, the pair would go to Valley…
There were momentous happenings in men’s Pac-10 basketball as the conference’s second half got under way last night with the Arizona teams on the road in the Bay Area. For starters, the Arizona Wildcats took over sole possession of first place by virtue of a tough win over the Stanford…
www.Packers.com To date, only one sixth-seeded playoff team has won the Super Bowl: the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers. This year’s Green Bay Packers remind us of that year’s Steelers insofar as neither of the teams was an authentic sixth-seed. Rather, both are SINOs, Sixth-Seeds In Name Only. The typical sixth-seed is, by…
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:…
Amal Khalaf, the woman who survived after getting crushed by a Jeep Cherokee driven by accused murderer Faleh Almaleki, took the witness stand late this morning in downtown Phoenix. Speaking through an Arabic translator, Khalaf testified dramatically about the circumstances that led to the November 2009 incident outside a Peoria…
A member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, who authorities believe is responsible for “one of the most grisly” murders in recent American criminal history, has been captured in Argentina, the U.S. Marshals Service announced today. Paul Merle Eischeid, one of the U.S. Marshals 15 Most Wanted Fugitives, was captured…
The three dogs that attacked an Arizona City boy last month have been euthanized, Pinal County officials confirm to New Times.The dogs had been in mandatory quarantine after mauling the 10-year-old victim so badly he needed to be medevaced to a Phoenix hospital for treatment on January 19…
