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 Maricopa County judge said today he will rule as soon as possible on whether Phoenix has to release logs kept by members of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s security detail.Attorneys for Phoenix and Judicial Watch questioned witnesses, including Ruben Gonzales, a former member of Gordon’s security detail; Paul Johnson, a former Phoenix…
[jump] A photo of a younger Nelson Omar. The boy is now thirteen. Whether the coyote’s tale is true or not, Nelson is missing, and there is a decomposed body of a young boy at the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office that could be him. The coroner needs photos of the boy…
Twenty people were arrested and 49 others ejected from Sunday’s football game at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Most were Raiders fans, according to posts on a football Web forum. Oakland Raiders followers lived up to their reputation on Sunday as some of the rowdiest punks in football fandom. …
An Ohio man convicted of beating his landlord to death in Phoenix in 1978 is back in Arizona today after leaving the state in violation of his probation more than 30 years ago.John Whitting, living in central Ohio since leaving Arizona, was arrested 14 times while on the run, but nobody…
Anyone living in the city of angels got a little taste of Phoenix today, as temperatures hovered around 110 degrees for most of the day.Most people living in Los Angeles are novices when it comes to hellacious, oppressive, unfair heat. So, as you might expect, everyone freaked out.The top headline…
Gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard’s pulling out all the stops in trying to get Governor Jan Brewer back on stage for a debate, and Jan’s not havin’ it. Goddard’s accepted invitations to 10 debates or candidate forums and Brewer, apparently, won’t be at any of them. “Why is Jan Brewer hiding?”…
We heard a few hours ago from Tim Gaffney, the able public information officer for the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office. He tells us that his agency has decided to reopen the remarkable case involving Deputy Louie Puroll (in photo), which we wrote about in a piece entitled “Pinalcchio,” currently on…
It appears that reality TV’s claimed yet another marriage. Two more family-oriented reality TV stars are going the route of John and Kate: Bryan and Jenne Masche, stars of the reality TV show Raising Sextuplets, reportedly are heading for splitsville.Last week, we told you about the Masches. As the title of…
Who will pick up the tab for Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s investigation into the allegations made in MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo? And should Maricopa County pay for any of it, particularly considering the PCSO’s past record concerning internal investigations, specifically the mysterious “wounding” of PCSO Deputy Louie…
Elizabeth Johnson, mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, was in court again this morning for a pre-trial conference, at which the judge in the case delayed setting a date for trial.Johnson’s been charged with kidnapping, child abuse, and custodial interference in the disappearance of the baby, who went missing last December.Police…
Our hearts, once again, go out to Sue Krentz, the widow of murdered rancher Robert Krentz.Krentz was hit by an alleged drunk driver as she and a friend were walking outside of their church on Saturday night.Police in Douglas say Krentz and a friend, Shirley Gregory, were hit by 66-year-old Ramon…
It was ugly, Derek Anderson played like crap — again — but it was a win.The Arizona Cardinals eked out a 24-23 victory over the Oakland Raiders yesterday, and aside from the team’s record, Cards’ fans have little to be happy about.For the second time in three weeks, the Cardinals…
It was by no means perfect, but it’ll do nicely. The Arizona Diamondbacks won their last home series of the 2010 season by taking two of three victories from the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend. It started off rather inauspiciously on Friday night with a 3-1 loss to…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent a large portion of last week touting how his jails received high marks after a federal “audit.””The information they got … they should turn this over to DOJ. They would say, ‘Boy, this is pretty good, you did all the work for us,'” Arpaio…
If you read today’s Arizona Republic or watched Fox News last night, you might be under the mistaken impression that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s vast incarceration complex has undergone an audit from the U.S. Marshals Service and earned gold stars and smiley faces all around. Um, not exactly. Despite the hoo-ha Arpaio’s made over…
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:…
Phoenix city attorneys want to shut out the public from a court hearing on Monday that will help a judge decide whether to force the city to release logs kept by Mayor Phil Gordon’s publicly funded security detail.Monday’s hearing is the result of a lawsuit filed against Phoenix by Judicial…
Coming off a miserable loss to the Atlanta Falcons last week — and barely winning in St. Louis in week one — the Arizona Cardinals have even the most loyal fans asking “what the hell happened.”The answer could go several ways but the most popular explanation for the team’s fall…
“All this poor woman did was try to prosecute criminals…” The above line is taken from a ridiculous blog post published today on the pro-Andrew Thomas Web site, Sonoran Alliance, in reference to fired deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon. The post uses a few words to create a fantasy world…
U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman released a new Web ad today and it might be fairly persuasive if we hadn’t seen an identical ad — literally identical — from J.D. Hayworth during the GOP primary.The ad, titled “McCain VS Arizona,” features McCain fumbling over his words when asked what he’s…
Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of China’s one-kid policy and pro-lifers were out in force today in Washington D.C., bashing the Communist nation for it’s less-than-human-rights-friendly means of enforcing the law.China has about 1.3 billion people. To slow the rapid population growth, in 1980, the government implemented the policy allowing…
