Often is the case in local TV news that a reporter asks a tough question, the subject gives some bullshit answer, and the conversation moves on without any sort of resolution.As for Fox 10’s John Hook: homey don’t play dat.Following the shooting of an unarmed Phoenix man by a Phoenix…
Mexico is truly an amazing, beautiful country! Huge oil reserves, mineral deposits second to none, tourist potential unparalleled! God gave Mexico every possible advantage. And yet the Mexicans, in all their wisdom and intellect, have turned it into a backwater, undeveloped narco-ruled Third World cesspool of corruption and poverty. How…
JOE MUSINGS It’s maximum-security time: Indict, indict, indict! What doesn’t Joe Arpaio understand about breaking the law (“Indictment Time,” The Bird, Stephen Lemons, September 23)? His nativist supporters always are asking everybody else what don’t they understand about the word [illegal]. Now it’s Joe Arpaio’s turn. We need to make…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu seemed unprepared for the intense national and local media scrutiny immediately thrust on him and his deputy, Louie Puroll, in the wake of our story “Pinalcchio” . Babeu, an anti-illegal immigrant spokesman of increasing national prominence since the famous April 30 shooting incident involving Puroll,…
A bailiff in a beige uniform opens the door next to the courtroom’s inmate-seating area, which is empty for the moment. It’s Monday at the Maricopa County Superior Court, and the inmate galley begins to fill up for the morning’s hearings. “It might be easier to get him through this…
A Guadalupe man run over by a Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputy during a traffic stop last year will receive $600,000 in a settlement of his lawsuit.Armando L. Nido didn’t pull over for deputy James Carey, (see our post about Nido’s notice of claim), so Carey didn’t stop for Nido. He…
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:…
For the second time this month, a Valley senior has gone missing, and police need your help to find her.Theresa Zynda, 79, went out in the rain last night, and she never came home.She left her house in a the 2005 Buick LeSabre about 8:30 last night, at the height…
We can understand the benefit of having most pets. Dogs make you feel like a rock star every time you walk in the door, fish are fun to look at, and cats…well, people seem to like ’em.What we can’t figure out, however, is why a Pinal County man would keep…
That’s Elizabeth Hawkenson. And that’s her ASU ID card. The girl to the left is 18-year-old Elizabeth Hawkenson. She’s an ASU freshman from Copperas Cove, Texas, studying geology at ASU’s Tempe campus. She’s attending school on a $33,000 academic scholarship. She was also featured in a “reality porn” video, currently…
Yesterday, we told you about an officer-involved shooting in Phoenix. Details were limited, so we said to check back later. We got the details and they’re pretty nuts.According to court documents obtained by New Times, Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon…
Can Arizona Cardinals quarterback Max Hall be the solution to the team’s quarterback quandary? Probably not, looks like he’s gonna have the chance.The Arizona Republic is reporting that “sources” close to the team say Hall will make the start Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.Derek Anderson, it appears, will be…
We were hit with a case of de ja vu this morning when we read a press release from the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office about a pair of illegal immigrants who were kidnapped and left in the desert, with one of the victims getting shot.The story itself isn’t what jarred…
On Monday, we told you about a bicyclist hit by two impaired drivers in Mesa on Saturday night. Today, cops need help figuring out who he is.The unidentified bicyclist was riding a yellowish BMX-style bike northbound on the west side of Higley Road when he tried to cross a ramp…
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’s hard for any kid to warm up to a parent’s love interest when that person isn’t the child’s mother or father. The resentment tends to fade by the time you’re 42 years old, though. Unless you’re name is Guy Neal O’Connor, Jr. O’Connor was arrested over the weekend after…
Phoenix police shot and killed a suspect in a domestic violence dispute in south Phoenix this afternoon.According to police, the mother of the suspect called 9-1-1 around noon today to report an argument between she and her son at their trailer home near Baseline Road and Central Avenue.Two officers responded…
There’s no denying that hail storms are cool…when you’re in one. Reading about hail isn’t quite as exciting.That’s not stopping local TV news stations from filling their Web sites with stories about hail.As you’re probably aware, it hailed today. Local TV news stations seem to think it’s the apocalypse.The top…
A wanted sex offender was arrested last week doing exactly what you might expect a wanted sex offender to be doing: hangin’ out near an elementary school.The U.S. Marshal’s Office got a tip last week that Michael Jack Owl, a 37-year-old fugitive, who failed to register as a sex offender,…
Conservative pollster Scott Rasmussen has released his latest poll on the Arizona governor’s race and Democratic candidate Terry Goddard has gained a little (very little) ground.Rasmussen loves two things: push polls and seeing his name in the paper, so we take his polls with a healthy serving of salt.That said,…
About 60 transit employees remain locked out of Phoenix bus facilities after Veolia Transportation declared on Sunday that negotiations with labor reps reached an impasse.A lock-out isn’t the same thing as a strike, and so far, buses are still operating as usual. It’s not business as usual for employees represented…
U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman, as well as several other Democrats running for office this year, were at the University of Arizona yesterday for a rally. It didn’t go well.It went so bad, in fact, that the university’s newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, wrote a scathing editorial with the headline “AZ…
