After a long battle, the Tohono O’odham Nation emerged victorious today when the feds accepted the tribe’s West Valley land into “trust.”This isn’t the final step, but it is a major one for the Indian tribe. It means the Tohono O’odham Nation is closer to building its proposed $600 million…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon ended the week down two staffers.Today was Debra Stark’s last day as Mayor’s Chief of Staff. On Monday, she moves into her new role as Executive Assistant to the City Manager. She will oversee Public Transit, among other city departments.(And, boy, did she luck out! All…
Phoenix bus-riders have been spared a bus strike come Monday …The Teamsters Local Union No. 104, which represents the employees who fuel and clean the buses, extended its contract until August 15.The other two unions that represent Veolia Transportation employees already had agreed to extend talks…
Wanna take a trip to Mars, without donning a spacesuit? Try the new Mars map compiled for online use by Arizona State University, in collaboration with NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Microsoft. Philip Christensen, Regents’ Professor of geological sciences in the School of Earth and Space Exploration, calls it…
A female inmate at an Arizona prison won’t be serving the remainder of her sentence behind bars. That’s because she’s dead — and it seems she did it to herself.Prison officials announced this afternoon that 28-year-old Geshell Fernandez was found dead in her cell just after noon today.Prison medical staff…
Phoenix sounded the alarms this week to prepare the public for a possible bus strike as talks continue with one of the transit unions.Negotiations are expected to continue throughout the day with the union representing employees who fuel and clean the buses,Teamsters Local Union No. 104. Their contract, as of…
Scenes of TV news folk running outside to experience two minutes of monsoon rain have become too common to make fun of. But we can’t help dissing last Tuesday’s ridiculous, first-person report by Kevin Kennedy of Channel 12 (KPNX) about hiking Camelback Mountain in 111-degree heat. Yes, hiking in the…
If you’re a pederast, you don’t have to watch To Catch a Predator to know that if you want to get caught being a pervert, your best bet is to try to pick up a kid for sex via the Internet.And yet people do it over and over (and over)…
Of the hundreds of sports franchises in the world, the Arizona Cardinals are worth quite the pretty penny. According to Forbes magazine, the Cards rank as the 30th most valuable sports team in the world. The value of the team, owned by William Bidwill, is a hefty $935 million, and…
Everybody loves a good cold-case file, and the Phoenix Police Department is happy to oblige whenever it can.Yesterday afternoon, Phoenix cops arrested a man in connection with the 2005 murder of 24-year-old Vester Freeman.Freeman’s body was found stabbed to death on May 3, 2005, in front of a business at…
As the days pass, it seems there are more and more rumors surrounding D-Backs pitcher Dan Haren. With the July 31 trade deadline inching closer and closer, the word around baseball is that Haren probably is going to get traded — sorry D-Backs fans. But Haren himself spoke out yesterday, saying he…
A Mesa man was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he molested his 6-year-old step-granddaughter on several occasions at her Chandler home. In at least one case, police say he used pieces of pool equipment.According to court documents obtained by New Times, on July 20, the girl’s mother reported to police…
The D-Backs’ shutout loss to the scrappy San Francisco Giants should have come as little surprise to anyone even with half-an-eye on the last-place homeboys. The 3-0 defeat at Chase Field ended Arizona’s three-game winning streak (which had come at the expense of the befuddled New York Mets). Still, “our” guys did keep…
www.bestteeshirtsever.com Get over it, Canada. The Winnipeg Jets are now the Phoenix Coyotes, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon. Furthermore, there is absolutely nothing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police can do to bring your team back — no matter how many times you get hopped up on crappy,…
Gilman’s latest on yesterday’s arrestsAs I was locked in SB 1070 legal hell Thursday, eyeballing the two proceedings in front of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, I missed a lot of the action outside the Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix where the hearings were taking place.While legal beagles…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth released his latest John-McCain-amnesty ad this morning, and he’s pulled out the big guns to bash “The Maverick.”Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, and, of course, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio each make a cameo in the ad.Check it out after the jump…
It’s a date that’s been circled on the calendars of video-game and football geeks for months: August 10, 2010. Which’s the release date of Madden 2011, pretty much the most successful video game ever. Since some nerds will be lined up to buy their copy at midnight, we thought we’d…
All eyes were on Arizona — again — yesterday as protesters for and against Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law flooded the streets outside of the federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix.As seven people were arrested outside, inside a federal judge heard arguments about why she should or shouldn’t grant an injunction…
This just in: Get Out! Arizona and America Join Joe Arpaio in Rushing to Inquire: Are Your Papers In Order?In a day filled with protests, arrests, legal arguments, an appearance by the governor, and at least one certified neo-Nazi, the most significant developments in the SB 1070 saga happened within 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:…
Seven activists were arrested by Phoenix police today during protests of SB 1070 outside of the federal courthouse, where hearings were under way on the law’s validity. The arrested were part of a protest involving about 50 people at the corner of 4th Avenue and Washington. Protesters banged drums, held…
Once you hit a certain age, it’s important to stay active. While many of those in the twilight of their lives often opt for things like BINGO, bird watching, and knitting, a Pima County woman has taken up a different hobby: armed bank robbery.According to the Pima County Sheriff’s Office,…
