On October 29, 18-year-old Joey Romero was walking home from his job at the 99 Cent Store near 83rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road, when a car jumped the curb, went up onto the sidewalk, and hit him before fleeing the scene. Romero was killed, and today, the woman police believe…
Don’t laugh, but neo-Nazi-huggin’ state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce is denouncing the neo-Nazis.Talk about man bites dog.Seems Pearce told KPHO that the National Socialist Movement members coming to Phoenix for an anti-illegal immigrant bash at the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse this Saturday should take a hike.”These hate-based groups are…
Just reading the Arizona Republic story about the murder of a 16-year-old boy in west Phoenix on November 1–yet another tragic urban tale about needless urban violence and loss. Here is that story.It reports the arrests by Phoenix police of four young men on suspicion of murder and other charges,…
A Prescott man has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to sending naked pictures of himself to a 13-year-old girl.Mathew James Noble, 27, accepted a plea deal that dropped more serious charges against him, but he pled guilty to attempted aggravated luring of a minor for sexual exploitation. He’s…
We can’t help but feel bad for Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock. Sure, his religious family-man persona can be obnoxious at times, but nobody should have to deal with the fact that their wife of 28 years allegedly had sex with a teenager. But Brock is dealing with it, and…
I’ve been hired to find out why some clothes are not being returned to patients at a nursing home in Newport Beach, California, even though these clothes are marked. I went down to the lavadero as a place to start my investigation and watched some señoras jóvenes selecting clothes that…
NASH-INAL NIGHTMARE Editor’s note: Okay, the jig’s up. No, silly, Steve Nash isn’t quitting the Phoenix Suns to go into Canadian politics, as our “Gone” cover story claimed last week. Not just yet, anyhow. Though his tongue was firmly in cheek when he was asked about our article, Nash said:…
NEAR BEER The only thing lame duck Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard could do to redeem himself from his painful-to-watch, failed run at becoming this state’s CEO is call a news conference announcing the indictments of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the entire MCSO command staff. Barring the unlikely occurrence of…
My name is Barry Friedman and I am a liar. The last time I lied to New Times readers was in 1991 when I claimed gold had been discovered under the Scottsdale Galleria and hundreds of people raced there to file claims. That little prank occurred before computers ruled the…
About two years ago, the Arizona Department of Public Safety investigated whether one of its officers had a photo on his computer that depicted a sexual assault in his house — by a bulldog. The alleged incident, much talked about among DPS employees and investigators, is said to have occurred…
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:…
It looks like the Phoenix police officer accused of murdering an unarmed domestic violence suspect — and his dog — as well as planting a crack pipe on a mentally ill homeless woman, will not be getting the boot from the department. A judge granted an injunction today that prevents…
We heard a little rumor the other day that Wes Gullett, a deputy campaign manager for Senator John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and a long-time operative within Arizona’s GOP, planned on running for mayor of Phoenix. Today, Gullett confirmed the rumor — sort of.Gullett tells New Times he’s strongly considering a…
The ex-fiance of Kumari Fulbright, the former “beauty” queen/University of Arizona law student, most famous for terrifying us all with her Gremlin-esque mugshot, was convicted yesterday for his role in the 2007 kidnapping of one of Fulbright’s ex-boyfriends.The jury found 47-year-old Robert Ergonis guilty of kidnapping, aggravated assault with a…
MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was reinstated as the network’s fear-monger-in-residence and was as smug as ever last night in his first appearance since he was suspended for violating the network’s ethics policy last week.If you weren’t expecting a fast-paced rant and a jab at his competitors, you should have been –…
The United Nations has posted the draft report on a review of the United States’ human rights record, which recently took place in Geneva, Switzerland. Both SB 1070 and the U.S. Border Patrol’s Operation Streamline are slammed in the draft, produced by a working group of the United Nations Human Rights’…
Time for a game of which is more disturbing — starring 26-year-old Michael Barham, of Buckeye.Barham was arrested yesterday after Phoenix police got word that he may have some kiddy-porn on his computer. After searching his home and computer, kiddy-porn was the least disturbing stuff cops dug up — as hard…
A lot of folks have been e-mailing me of late to wonder if I knew that the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement will be back in town on Saturday, November 13, to reprise their performance of last year at this time, when they got owned by local anarchists who came out…
The charade that was former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner’s appearance on Dancing With the Stars has come to an end. And rather than joining the likes of the other has-beens who didn’t make the DWS cut — including Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino and David Hasselhoff — we will be…
When we first heard there was a guy found sitting in an orange grove next to a Mesa airport, huffing paint, and throwing oranges at planes, we thought, “We gotta see what this guy looks like.”Sadly, at the time we published our story yesterday afternoon, which you can see here,…
In a hearing held yesterday for the Phoenix police officer accused of killing an unarmed suspect last month, two officers who responded to the shooting scene minutes after it happened painted a different picture of the incident than that of the officer who actually saw the shooting go down.The hearing…
Phoenix Councilwoman Thelda Williams tells New Times that she isn’t part of a private committee pulled together by Councilman Sal DiCiccio, Pete Gorraiz, president of the firefighters union, and Billy Shields, a Phoenix lobbyist and former head of the fire union.”I was just on a e-mail list to get minutes of…
