The battle for control of Maricopa County — pitting Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas against the Board of Supervisors, judges, and county administrators — has been costly to both taxpayers and the parties involved.But it’s been a major boon to one local law firm. Ogletree Deakins, a…
Channing Frye shoots from three. Shazam! Whoops, wrong sport. As a huge audience in the Valley watched the Phoenix Suns top the Los Angeles Lakers last night to tie their increasingly interesting series at two games apiece, our Arizona Diamondbacks quietly lost a tight one to the Colorado Rockies up…
“All we’ve done is earn ourselves a great opportunity,” Steve Nash told reporters, after the Phoenix Suns defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 115-106 at US Airways Center last night. “We can’t be content! We can’t be content!” Suns Coach Alvin Gentry stressed to his team in the locker room after…
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced yesterday that between October 1, 2009 and April 31, it seized more than 622,000 pounds of weed. That was only in the Tucson sector. With Border Patrol agents seemingly waging war on weed — including three busts netting more than 1,600 pounds over the weekend — you might think finding someone…
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: SB 1070 Shooting? Phoenix Police Release Report on White-on-Brown South Phoenix Slaying Some Have Linked…
Does setting a fraud alert on your credit file every three months hurt your credit score? Critics of a Tempe-based identity-theft “protection” company, LifeLock, claimed in lawsuits that it does — a fact that we noted in this month’s feature story about the truth-challenged firm. But a blog post in the…
A Prescott Valley man got pinched Sunday for allegedly molesting a 14-year-old girl several times dating back to at least March.The suspect, 20-year-old Ethan Cook, may have gotten away with it, too, had he not sent his alleged victim several “sext” messages of which her parents eventually became aware.According to…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been pretty busy in their war-against-weed, nabbing more than 1,600 pounds of the icky in three separate busts last weekend.The first of the weekend’s three big busts happened Friday afternoon when agents working at a checkpoint on Highway 90 near Wilcox found about…
Lame! LifeLock, the so-called identity-theft “protection” company based in Tempe we wrote about last week, called us in a tizzy yesterday — worried about the accidental publication of one its employees’ personal data. This is the type of situation LifeLock would never put in a press release, but we’re more than…
The New York Times has just reported that President Barack Obama will soon announce that he’s sending 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, in what looks like an obvious election year cave to the right.The Times’ Randal Archibold writes that Obama will announce the move today following a…
A Gilbert man was sentenced to the federal pen after pleading guilty to robbing a bank in Gilbert last year.Donald Ray Ludington, 49, got 48 months for the October, 2009 robbery.Ludington, according to court documents, walked into the bank wearing a backpack and got in line with other costumers.Once at the…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s had a rough couple of months — ya know, defending to the national media what is possibly the most controversial piece of legislation to ever come out of Arizona, pimping her one-cent sales-tax increase, and trying to get herself elected governor — so we found out today that…
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth made one of his more-legendary gaffes over the weekend, and Senator John McCain’s campaign responded the way it often does when J.D. opens his trap and something dumb comes out: with a mildly humorous Web ad.In case you missed it, Hayworth was asked a question about the…
The Obama administration announced a deal last night that would repeal the U.S. military’s 17-year-old policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell” when it comes to homosexuals in the military, and John McCain aint happy about it. McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says the deal is being…
Thankfully for the Arizona Diamondbacks, tonight’s game against the Colorado Rockies is up in Denver at beautiful Coors Field. Almost exactly the same time as Rockies right-hander Jhoulys Chacin tosses his first pitch, the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers will tip off at US Airways Arena for the monster…
The Phoenix Police Department has released its report on the May 6 fatal shooting of Juan Varela in South Phoenix, allegedly by his neighbor Gary Kelley. Some have suggested Arizona’s new “papers please” law was a motive in the killing. However, the witnesses cited in the report never mentioned SB 1070 to…
As we reported yesterday, the Sonoran Tourism Board ran an ad in the Arizona Republic over the weekend that some Arizonans are viewing as a threat and even prompted Joe Arpaio to call for a boycott of Mexico. The original version ran on Friday and features what appears to be a…
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: William Gheen’s Facebook “Friend,” Neo-Nazi Harry Hughes, and Hughes’ “Patrols” for Illegals Up on the…
If you watched Steve Nash’s nose collide with Derek Fisher’s skull during last night’s Phoenix Suns playoff win against the Los Angeles Lakers and don’t think he’s one of the toughest mother-effers to ever hold a basketball, watch it again. If you’re still not convinced, watch Grant Hill’s reaction after having…
The boycott battle wages on.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today called on Arizonans to boycott Mexico following two versions of a “threatening” ad published in the Arizona Republic over the weekend, which were paid for by Sonora Tourismo, the Sonora tourism board.The original version ran on Friday and features what appears to be…
Grant Woods, who has told New Times that he’s seriously considering a run for mayor of Phoenix, has some Facebook updates that might give some would-be constituents pause.On Friday morning, he posted this comment: “Fat woman asking for extra cream cheese on her bagel. Really?”Geez, when did he become the keeper of all…
Does it matter that one of William Gheen’s Facebook buddies is a well-known Phoenix-area neo-Nazi, a neo-Nazi that likes to go out on “patrols” with wannabe stormtrooper J.T. Ready, totin’ assault rifles, searching for illegal aliens? Normally, it wouldn’t, save for the fact that Gheen’s made such a big stink…
