Tilmon Strickland wants answers.His daughter, Melissa Strickland, was murdered in Phoenix in March 1997. She was bludgeoned to death, and her body was dumped in broad daylight near 21st Street and Corona Avenue. She was 24 years old. “It seems I’ve had to fight every step of the way just to…
Despite a less-than-impressive season (thanks to three even less-impressive quarterbacks), and being a member of one of the worst teams in all of football, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald’s heading to Hawaii for the Pro Bowl.Fitzgerald originally was selected as an alternate for the NFL’s all-star game, but because the Green…
An unidentified man is dead after he was seen engulfed in flames on a Phoenix street Saturday morning. The man’s car was also on fire when police responded to the scene, and authorities want to know what happened.Phoenix police and fire officials responded to a call about 10:30 a.m. Saturday…
The Phoenix Suns committed 14 turnovers Saturday in Detroit as they let the Pistons outscore them 28-15 in the fourth quarter and eke out a 75-74 win. All that after notching their fifth win in a row Friday night against the Washington Wizards. With just over nine minutes left in…
Someone has reposted the video that was jerked belowThe AZ Repugs new Tea Bagger chairman, Tom MorrisseyNote: See Updates below…It’s been a good day for the Democrats, in more ways than one.Ex-Democratic state treasurer candidate Andrei Cherny beat out failed U.S. Senate Candidate Rodney Glassman for the chairmanship of 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:…
A little reminder, for those SCs inclined to vote for RodneyRodney Glassman, reaching out to the Tea PartyDavid Abie Morales of Three Sonorans fame has written a hard-hitting opinion piece on how erstwhile U.S. Senate candidate and trust-fund baby Rodney Glassman is messing up the party of LBJ, JFK and…
Since our previous post about a bill proposed in the Arizona State Legislature that would amend the law regarding specialized license plates to include a “Don’t Tread on Me” plate, one of the bill’s sponsors got back to us and offered his explanation of some of the language used in…
Arizona has license plates supporting breast cancer research, calling for child-abuse prevention, and for those supporting wildlife-conservation efforts, to name a few. Now, if two Arizona legislators have their way, the mantra of Tea Partiers across the country will be slapped onto the tags of any Arizonan who wants it.State representatives Vic…
The man pictured above is wanted by the Scottsdale Police Department for allegedly smashing a bottle over a guy’s face at a bar on New Year’s Day.According to the SPD, the above-pictured man was at the Devil’s Martini bar in Scottsdale to ring in the new year, and he did…
Sometimes you just don’t have time to call AAA — for example, if you’re in the process of burglarizing a house, someone sees you, and your getaway car won’t start — which is exactly what happened to a pair of thieves in Mesa yesterday morning.According to the Mesa Police Department, two…
About two weeks ago, we reported that at this year’s Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, the ambulance that carried President John F. Kennedy after his 1963 assassination would be on the auction block. Today we learned the ambulance getting auctioned off by Barrett-Jackson could be a fraud.A blogger for…
I’ve been critical of uber-lefty state Senator Kyrsten Sinema on different issues, like the anti-Westboro Baptist Church legislation she recently sponsored in the legislature.And I think it’s a big mistake to think that Dems can work across the aisle with crocodiles such as state Senate President Russell Pearce. As my…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer this morning signed a bill that gives her the authority to request a waiver from the federal government that would temporarily remove nearly 300,000 of the state’s neediest people from the Medicaid program.The governor’s plan would remove about 280,000 low-income adults from the program, saving the state…
Like you needed more proof that erstwhile Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman is a charlatan, take a look at this mass e-mail, sent out by Glassman on January 10, two days after the Tucson massacre, which severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and felled Chief U.S. District Judge John RollThe…
Kyrsten Sinema’s pissed when she calls us back last night. “I didn’t mistakenly vote for shit!” she fumes. “They explained what we were voting on wrong.” The Democratic state senator’s ire isn’t directed at us, but rather at her Republican colleagues at the state Capitol — and also at Arizona Daily…
A Maricopa man — with a history of sexual misconduct — was arrested Wednesday for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. The abuse, the girl told cops, had been going on since she was only 8 years old.Felipe Barrera Pacheco, 43, faces six counts of sexual assault on a minor, three…
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords left the University Medical Center in Tucson this morning en route to a hospital in Houston to begin rehab after she was shot “through the brain” less than two weeks ago.Giffords, recovering in Tucson since the January 8 shooting, left for Houston about 9:20 a.m. today. She is traveling with…
The father of a 24-year-old man last seen at a party in Tempe early Saturday morning says there’s “no way” his son willingly went off the radar from his friends and family. Emmanuel Jigba, a Sierra Leone native now living in the San Jose, California, area, was in Tempe Thursday…
You might not know it, but the Arizona Diamondbacks will soon have their first Hall of Famer. No, not Randy Johnson. He isn’t eligible for election yet. It’s not Curt Schilling, either — although both guys are going to make it into the Hall someday. Roberto Alomar, who played 38…
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:…
A North Carolina mayor is catching hell for writing on his Facebook page something that millions probably would love to tell Jared Lee Loughner to his face. News that Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others, including a little girl, had been shot by a gun-wielding madman last week brought feelings of sorrow and…
