After his campaign’s less-than-successful embrace of that danged immigration issue — the debate du jour for any politico (or beauty queen) at the moment, which has critics saying Arizona’s senior senator flopped like a fish — Senator John McCain’s campaign released a new Web video that could shift the discussion…
Several months before signing SB 1070, Governor Jan Brewer accepted hundreds of dollars in “seed money” for her clean elections campaign from corporate executives and others with a possible stake in Arizona’s “papers please” legislation becoming law.In all, seven executives with the Tennessee-based private prisons giant Corrections Corporation of America…
It looks like Nik Richie’s getting nervous. On the heels of a new lawsuit filed against him, the self-described “reality blogger” took down several blog posts from www.thedirty.com that had targeted a woman who sued him last year for invasion of privacy. Richie published the posts last week to retaliate…
Phoenix police are looking for a teenage girl whom they say stole an elderly Phoenix woman’s wedding ring after meeting her at a grocery store on Sunday afternoon, after the woman offered to buy the suspect gas.About 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, the 80-year-old victim was in the shampoo aisle of…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is refusing to release his “conflict-of-interest list,” kept by the City Attorney’s Office to help elected officials flag potential conflicts when they’re casting votes at public meetings.The rest of Phoenix City Council members managed to release their lists, which New Times requested on May 4.This is one more…
Tucson police announced last night that they arrested a teacher at a Tucson high school for allegedly having sex with one of her male students. Police say 25-year-old Christie Elliot, an English teacher and cheerleading coach at Empire High School, had an inappropriate, sexual relationship with a minor student at the…
The floundering Arizona Diamondbacks actually won last night, beating the Florida Marlins 5-1 in a game most memorable for a bizarre play by usually stellar shortstop Hanley Ramirez. The play happened in the second inning of the game in Miami, and it was a doozy: The D-Backs’ Tony Abreu dinked a…
The Phoenix Suns have made a habit out of defying everyone’s expectations this season. To wit: When sports pundits predicted the aging team would barely contend amid an ultra-competitive Western Conference, Steve Nash and company made ’em eat crow by finishing as the fourth seed and dispatching their first two…
Today’s the day for the public to decide on Governor Jan Brewer’s miracle cure for the state budget: Proposition 100. Brewer’s been pushing for the one-percent sales-tax increase since the doom and gloom of Arizona’s finances set in last summer. Brewer’s been tugging on the heartstrings of the public in her campaign…
Note to readers: Please see updates and video below.The Arizona Daily Star is reporting that four young pro-immigration demonstrators, three of them undocumented, were arrested during a protest at U.S. Senator John McCain’s Tucson office today. The Star reports that five students showed up at the office in support of…
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: Phil Jackson’s Asinine, Nativist Remarks About Los Suns and SB 1070 ACLU, NAACP and Other…
Saying that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas illegally searched their offices and otherwise targeted them in an attempt to “retaliate against and humiliate” County Supervisor Don Stapley, East Valley developer Conley Wolfswinkel and his sons have filed a notice of claim with the county.The…
Two of Senator John McCain’s veteran campaign advisers — one being his campaign manager, Shiree Verdone — have left the campaign, the McCain camp announced Friday.After the “danged fence” ad, and what Dan Nowicki at the Arizona Republic is calling an “about face” on his stance on immigration, we figured…
If someone’s beaten to death in front of you, thrown in a garbage can, and dragged into the desert, do yourself a favor and let someone else clean up the blood.A Laveen woman learning this the hard way after she was sentenced today to 14 months in prison after pleading guilty…
Phoenix New Times writers won 26 awards – including 13 first-places — over the weekend at the Arizona Press Club awards banquet for work published in 2009. The big winner was art director Peter Storch, named Designer of the Year, one of the contest’s four most prestigious awards. About Storch’s…
Kurt Warner, the notorious “nice guy” who took the Arizona Cardinals to the Super Bowl for the first time ever two seasons ago, will have his number retired by the Iowa Barnstormers on Friday.With all the accolades Warner racked up in his 12 years in the NFL, you might think…
The Chandler Police Department is asking the public’s help in finding a missing 16-year-old girl who they fear is currently on the run with a man who’s wanted for first-degree murder.Mixarai Zumaia, 16, was last seen on Saturday morning at her home in Chandler.Chandler police Detective Joseph Favazzo tells New…
Last week, a biologist working for the Borderlands Jaguar Detection Project admitted that, in February 2009, he illegally placed a jaguar scat in the Atascosa Mountains near Ruby and directed a woman to place jaguar scats at sites that were authorized to snare only mountain lions and bears. Those scats led…
We stumbled upon the Miss USA Pageant (known in the world of beauty pageants as Miss America’s even ditzier cousin) on NBC last night, and before we could change the channel, one of the contestants nervously answered the question “how tall are you” with “I’m great, thanks.” Then, much like ghoulishly watching a…
The “real Republicans” over at Sonoran Alliance hate John McCain so much, they’ll post left-wing propaganda just to make their point. Which is fine with us, because otherwise we might have missed the latest parody of McCain’s idiotic “danged fence” video:…
As it had announced it would do last week, the ACLU along with several other groups filed suit in federal court today, seeking to have Arizona’s “papers please” legislation enjoined before it’s scheduled to take effect by the end of July.”SB 1070 is unconstitutional,” asserts the complaint. “It violates the…
About a year ago, then 81-year-old Orville Richardson kicked the bucket in Iowa and was buried by his family near his home. Now, a year after his death, Richardson’s body will be dug up, his head will be chopped off, it will be frozen, and then stored in Scottsdale thanks to…
