Is Matt Leinart finally ready to lead the Arizona Cardinals? According to head coach Ken Wisenhunt and Leinart himself, the fifth-year quarterback out of USC is taking the necessary steps both on and off the field to be the main man behind center this fall. Now that Kurt Warner has…
A teacher at a Tucson high school has been arrested after police say he carried out a sexual relationship with one of his students.Thomas Saul, 31, a teacher at Catalina High School in Tucson, was arrested on Saturday after police say he had sex with one of his 17-year-old students…
As expected, the Arizona State baseball team is moving on. After taking three straight games as a Regional host, the Sun Devils will now play in their sixth Super Regional since 2003, the second-most in the NCAA over that time span. Ho hum, just another day at the ball field…
A fruitcake of nativist rage and looniness baking in the Arizona sun: That’s what was generally to be found at Wesley Bolin Plaza this Saturday, June 5 for the pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising rally, which drew around 2,000 mostly white participants to the state Capitol. Not everyone was as nasty…
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled this morning that, to collect blood from a person suspected of DUI, police must get specific consent from the suspect or get a search warrant.In other words, if you get stopped driving drunk and cops take your blood without permission, it can’t be used against you in…
Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker announced this morning that he will give up his duties as mayor to focus exclusively on his Congressional campaign.Parker, Paradise Valley’s first black mayor, will hand over his duties to members of the Town Council on Thursday as he attempts to become Arizona’s first black…
APS is gettin’ hip to the age of social networking and will begin alerting the public about large-scale power outages via-Twitter, the electricity giant announced last week.”In the event of a major power outage our customers are looking for the best information in the quickest manner possible,” says Tammy McLeod, APS Vice…
It’s now been moe than 100 days since J.D. Hayworth first asked Senator John McCain to debates, and “The Maverick” still won’t do it. Hayworth first made his request for a debate in March, but McCain said he would not debate the former congressman until he was an official candidate…
On Friday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks snapped their 10-game skid. By Saturday night, they’d won a series. And even though a loss to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday prevented an AZ sweep, the weekend felt like a success. (With such low standards, one stinkin’ win feels like a playoff victory…
On Thursday night, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio conducted a raid of the Burlington Coat Factory in the Arizona Mills Mall. He arrested three undocumented workers — and we stress the word “workers.” With the huge number of un-served, felony warrants in Maricopa County, and the coyotes and drug smugglers…
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: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio’s Petty, Mean-Spirited Raid on Burlington Coat Factory Jackalope Ranch: Field Guide: Downtown’s…
When it comes to campaign contributions from the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, headed by anti-immigrant opportunist Mark Spencer, Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth just barely edges out the Arizona Democratic Party. For the current 2009-2010 election cycle, Hayworth, the Mexican-bashing former radio host has taken $10,000 from the Phoenix…
We got an email from former Congressman J.D. Hayworth’s campaign this afternoon pimping his latest Web ad titled It’s Time for John McCain to Go and were instantly hit with a case of déjà vu.The ad features a few man-on-the-street interviews of Arizonan’s who can’t seem to think of a…
Jeff Allen Ahlers, the 47-year-old Tempe man whom Salt River Project workers found dead in a canal yesterday afternoon, was discovered to have wounds on his body that Tempe police say are consistent with a gunshot.Tempe police spokeswoman Molly Enright tells New Times cops don’t have a whole lot of…
Yavapai County businessman Owen “Buz” Mills released his campaign’s spending report this week, and it turns out that he’s dropped even more cash on his dismal campaign for governor than previously imagined.According to the report, before May 31, Mills had spent about $2.3 million, and much of the money came from…
Two Mexican men, one a medical doctor, were sentenced to prison yesterday for their participation in a heroin-trafficking conspiracy that stretched from a drug cartel in Colombia, through Arizona, and all the way to New York City.Dr. Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39, and Juan Bautista Beltran-Lopez, 38, both from Mexico, were sentenced to…
A Tucson man learned his fate yesterday after he was convicted of transporting and possessing child pornography.Kevin Deawne Martin, 40, of Tucson, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bury after a February jury trial.Martin got pinched as the result of a 2006…
Two court-appointed doctors confirmed today what many have thought for months: Elizabeth Johnson, the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson, is incompetent to stand trial.The doctors made their ruling after conducting extensive psychiatric evaluations of Johnson, sitting in a Maricopa County jail awaiting trial on kidnapping charges in connection with…
As many of you have no doubt learned, the anti-immigrant stunt Sheriff Joe Arpaio was planning that I mentioned in a blog post yesterday, ended up being an MCSO “raid” — if you can call it that — on the clothing store Burlington Coat Factory at Arizona Mills Mall in…
Campaign signs for Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker have been disappearing, his campaign claims, and the assumption from the campaign is that the anti-Joe Arpaio faction is to blame. The signs in question point out that Arpaio supports Parker’s candidacy for the Congressional seat being vacated by Congressman John Shadegg,…
Tempe police believe they have found the body of a man who went missing earlier this week after going for a walk on a canal path near his Tempe. According to the Tempe Police Department, Salt River Project workers found a body yesterday in the Western Canal near Kyrene and Baseline in…
Yesterday, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio used his Twitter page to ask the public for some suggestions on what he should do for his upcoming birthday. Arpaio turns 78 on June 14, so we figured loyal New Times readers had a little more than a feliz compleanos for the sheriff and asked for your best…
