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:…
Want to know how to get love as a Republican candidate for just about any office in Arizona RIGHT NOW: Drop to your knees and pucker up to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ass.Smooch, smooch, GOPers (that’s you Vernon Parker, J.D. Hayworth, and Andrew Thomas.) And now that’s you, too, Dean Martin. Republican gubernatorial candidate…
In this week’s print edition — and in a story posted online today — New Times staff writer Paul Rubin has an exclusive interview with Sue Krentz, who was widowed when her husband, Rob, was shot on the family’s ranch near the U.S./Mexico border in March.Krentz’s murder, which is still…
The so-called “debate over debates” seems to have spilled over from the GOP Senate primary and found its way to the left side of the aisle where former Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman is in a primary contest with — among others — former New Times columnist John Dougherty.Dougherty issued…
One of the Valley’s most prominent entrepreneurial businesses, Terri’s Consign and Design Furnishings, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after years of complaints that it wasn’t paying its consignment customers…
With the 2010 season seemingly over for the last-place D-Backs, fans got a possible glimpse of the future Monday afternoon. With the sixth overall pick in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft, the Snakes selected Barret Loux, a right-handed pitcher from Texas A&M. While the D-Backs definitely need any form…
We just got word of a charming horror story in Phoenix this morning that includes a failed suicide, a murder, and a man living in a house with a dead body for four days before calling police.Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times that cops received a call about 8:30 this morning from…
As attorneys at the Goldwater Institute stressed in a conference call with reporters this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to block matching funds — effectively stopping their dispersal for the 2010 election cycle — is hardly shocking. Astute observers had anticipated the possibility of such action for more than…
We loved the story in Saturday’s Arizona Republic about Robert Trombley, the volcano “expert” who runs a research center out of his Apache Junction trailer.It was the kind of story we wished we’d broken: A pull-back-the-curtain expose on a dude getting national attention because of his self-described status as a…
The Tempe Police Department today released a sketch of the man they believe is responsible for the death of a 21-year-old ASU student about two weeks ago.Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal tells New Times the department has received more than 100 tips from the public since Kyleigh Sousa was killed and…
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning put a halt to the matching funds portion of Arizona’s Clean Elections program.The decision blocks matching funds for publicly funded candidates until the Supreme Court either hears the case brought before it or decides not to review it. This almost certainly means matching funds will not play…
And then there was one…One of two potential buyers for the Phoenix Coyotes who vowed to keep the team in Arizona has withdrawn his bid to buy the bankrupt franchise.Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago Bulls and White Sox, announced in a press release last night that he and his group…
Tempe police still don’t know whether the gunshot wound discovered on the body of a Tempe man found dead in an irrigation canal last week was self-inflicted or the work of a cold-blooded murderer. Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal tells New Times there’s still no update in the case but that friends…
The 26th (and final) pitch by Diamondbacks closer Chad Qualls brought a sigh of relief for fans accustomed to seeing Qualls and the bullpen blow leads this season. Qualls, who earned his 11th save on the year, got Yunel Escobar to hit into a game-ending double play to secure the…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin is holding a press conference this morning where he claims to have a “major announcement” regarding his candidacy for governor. Governor Jan Brewer, according to the latest Rasmussen poll, has about a 27-point lead over not only Martin but any other candidate in the race. Brewer…
Phoenix journalist Valeria Fernandez has single-handedly emasculated neo-Nazi hugging state Senator Russell Pearce, and in Spanish no less.How she got Pearce to sit down for an interview for CNN en Espanol, I don’t know. But listening to the best known Hispanic-bashing bigot in the state, and perhaps the nation, being…
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:…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin, currently running in the GOP primary for governor, announced last week that he would hold a press conference tomorrow where he would make a “major announcement” regarding his campaign. Today, Martin announced the announcement again only now he says “immigration leaders” will be joining him at the…
Last week, Maricopa County cut an extra $2 million worth of checks — money owed to detention officers as part of a settlement with the Department of Labor after its investigation into allegations that the Sheriff’s Office routinely required detention officers to check in for meetings before they’d clocked in.But,…
Norm Davis, a steady-as-she-goes gent we dealt with when he presided as the chief judge in both Juvenile and Family Court, started his five-year term today as the presiding judge of Maricopa County Superior Court. What we like about Judge Davis (that’s a photo of him from a few years back)…
The cranks are all here in this video of the June 5 Phoenix Rising rally by videographer Dennis Gilman: Russell Pearce, Joe Arpaio, and lesser known wackjobs such as “Chemtrail Chelene” Nightingale, “Loopy Lupe” Moreno, self-loathing, wannabe white-boy Ray Herrera, and black apologist for slavery Ted Hayes. Gilman braved aggro,…
The mother of Kyleigh Sousa, the 21-year-old ASU student who was killed during a robbery attempt nearly two weeks ago, has a message for those responsible for her daughter’s death: Do the right thing and turn yourself in.New Times spoke to a somber Karen Montenegro, Sousa’s mother, this afternoon. She…
