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:…
We’re not sure which gets a higher rating on our pathetic-o-meter: flying across the country to attend a “computer role-playing conference” or trying to hook up with a 16-year-old girl while you’re there.Either way, a 61-year-old Glendale man allegedly did both and now faces charges of sexual exploitation of a minor.According…
alleged kiddy-porn-peddling pediatrician, arrested earlier this month for distributing images of (ahem) “child erotica” over the Internet, is on the run.After getting indicted last week, Dr. Emilio Luna, 40, was granted pre-trial release on the conditions that he turn over his passports, wear an electronic-monitoring bracelet, and, most importantly, stay…
It seems some of Arizona’s Democratic members of Congress aren’t as vulnerable in their re-election bids as originally anticipated — at least the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks they’re not.The DCCC reportedly is cutting the advertising budgets of Representatives Harry Mitchell, Ann Kirkpatrick, and Gabrielle Giffords because their opponents aren’t putting up as…
It’s been proven over and over again: Governor Jan Brewer’s hysteria and the hysteria of her nativist allies over alleged illegal-alien-perpetrated crime in Arizona is founded on anecdotal evidence, some of it glaringly inaccurate, such as Brewer’s infamous claim that headless bodies have been found in the Arizona desert. That’s a…
Attorney General Terry Goddard released a new campaign ad calling out Governor Jan Brewer for her case of debate-a-phobia.Last week, we told you about what we’re considering the best decision of Brewer’s gubernatorial career: she vowed not to participate in more debates.A great move considering what happened last time, which, as always, we’ll show…
Arizona State University has a problem: a serial groper’s running amok on the university’s Tempe campus.Since March, the groper has assaulted at least six women, and police believe he may have struck again last night.About 8:15 p.m. yesterday, a woman was walking by herself — but amongst other people –…
An inmate at an Arizona prison was murdered on Friday, and there’s a good chance he had his junk cut off in the process.Inmate Shannon Palmer was found unresponsive in his cell at Lewis Prison in Buckeye Friday afternoon.He was taken to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead…
As the saying goes: a win is a win — is a win. Even if that win is an ugly one, which was the case in the Arizona Cardinals’ 17-13 victory over the St. Louis Rams yesterday.To be blunt — wide receiver Steve Breaston aside — the Cards looked like…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Derek Anderson had his first test in a Cardinals uniform yesterday and he passed — barely.The Cards eeked out a 17-13 win against the St. Louis Rams, but it certainly wasn’t pretty. And Anderson, the recently acquired starting quarterback, was particularly ugly.If you caught the game, you…
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 Friday. It’s late in the workday. And I’m feeling a little punchy. So I figure it’s the best time to introduce you to the genius that is Minute Man Pete. Minute Man Pete is a proud, Arizona sandbilly who lives in a trailer in Tombstone with his trusty canine “Pedofile.” He…
Three out of four firearms used in Mexico crimes trace back to the four Southwest border states, judging by guns submitted for tracing by Mexican authorities, says a report by a coalition of U.S. Mayors.The findings were released in a new report by the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition, co-chaired…
The suspect in the murder of a Utah sheriff’s deputy was indicted today on several charges including premeditated first-degree murder.A Coconino County grand jury indicted 23-year-old Scott Curley on five counts including premeditated first degree murder, aggravated assault on a police officer, aggravated assault on a citizen, burglary, and theft.The…
What could potentially be a fairly hot cat fight is brewin’ within the GOP and if it goes down, we want a front row seat.Meghan McCain, the daughter of Senator John McCain wrote a book (shocking, we know) detailing her experience as the daughter of a candidate in the 2008…
Living in a van down by the river, as the late Chris Farley eloquently explained, is not the most admirable abode for anyone. Living in your car parked half a mile from the 14-year-old to whom you’ve been anonymously writing sexually charged notes offering to pay her for sex is way south of not…
The Sun City pediatrician — who boasts in his bio on the Web site of his medical practice that he “enjoys caring for children of all ages and backgrounds” — has been formally indicted on charges that he distributed kiddy-porn over the Internet.Dr. Emilio Luna of Desert Valley Pediatrics has been formally…
George Adams’ documentary Panic Nation, which begins a week-long run at Phoenix’s Cinema Latino today, is really two films: one an overview of the United States’ schizophrenic mindset when it comes to Mexican immigration; the other, a detailed examination of Oklahoma’s version of SB 1070 — HB 1804 — which…
Governor Jan Brewer can rest easy knowing that the video of her epic brain fart during last week’s gubernatorial debate is no longer the most ridiculous video of a political candidate currently making the rounds on Youtube. That honor has been passed on to Phil Davidson, a candidate for county…
Look out, local media, there’s a new player town.Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication this week unveiled its newest addition to the school’s award-winning arsenal of programs devoted to local news coverage.The Web site Cronkite News was launched Tuesday. It combines two of the school’s…
www.solarnavigator.com Green Party candidates — who the New York Times claims are “homeless” and who were dubbed by Arizona’s Green Party as “sham” candidates — can remain on the November ballot as the party’s nominees for several offices, a federal judge ruled. This despite complaints that they’re being used by Republicans to lure…
A Phoenix woman who sent her daughter and other teens to rough up her ex-boyfriend has been sentenced to 1.75 years in prison. Katherine Faye White supplied her daughter, the daughter’s 20-year-old friend and three minor teens with a Taser, crowbar, duct tape and other supplies needed for the job. Her instructions,…
