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Radical bills authorizing the roundup of Canadian Jews residing in this country illegally passed both houses of the Arizona Legislature and now await Governor Jan Brewer’s signature. Immediate targets are expected to be foreign-born Jews hanging about in the parking lots of banks looking for odd jobs and for investors…

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: Glenn Beck Invades Glendale on God Tour, Would Thomas Jefferson Have Approved? David Cavazos, Phoenix…

  The company that acquired the Centerpoint towers in Tempe in bankruptcy proceedings will start the bidding for the unfinished project at $8 million. As we reported earlier today, the foreclosed five-acre property and two towers will go up for auction tomorrow. Although he knows what the opening bid will be,…

As the longtime chief deputy to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, David Hendershott has long had a reputation as the sinister architect of Arpaio’s political machinations. But read Hendershott’s personnel file, and you’ll get a much different impression: one more akin to a bumbling Keystone Kop than the Lord of…

Sports giant Nike aired an ad today that even has us scratching our heads wondering “is there no shame.”The black-and-white ad shows a sullen-looking Tiger standing on a golf course with the voice of his dead father speaking to him…

John Favreau’s futuristic answer to the über-successful Avatar is a 3-D journey into a Southwestern conflict between Silver City, Arizona, settlers, who must resolve their differences when an alien spaceship crash-lands in their city.The movie is called Cowboys and Aliens, and we learned today that mega-star Harrison Ford has signed on to…

Darrell Ankarlo, the self-righteous host of KTAR’s Ankarlo Mornings, whose lips have often been firmly attached to the rump of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will no longer have a show on KTAR, the station announced at the end of the Ankarlo Mornings broadcast this morning.Ankarlo has been absent from the program…

Just when we thought the bottom of the reality TV barrel had been scraped to give us The Jersey Shore, the We TV network unveiled its latest reality masterpiece, and it’s featuring a little local flavor.Sunset Daze is the network’s latest attempt to cash in on the reality craze, and…

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced last night that Arizona will be joining 14 other states in a lawsuit against the federal government over the federal healthcare mandate passed by Congress last month.Brewer’s general counsel, Joseph Kanefield, will represent Arizona in the lawsuit, and the governor claims that after all is…

A Phoenix man has been arrested and charged with posing as a fertility doctor to molest people while giving them examinations. Jeffrey Graybill, 40, is being held without bond and faces charges including sexual abuse, sexual assault, and identity theft. Police say Graybill advertised online, and offered men up to…

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: Geraldo Rivera Features Joe Arpaio, Mary Rose Wilcox and Marshmallow-Mouthed Bigot Russell Pearce Up on…

A dump-truck driver who ran into the back of group of motorcycles last month, killing four riders, was on methamphetamine at the time of the collision, Phoenix police say. Eight motorcycles were hit; four people were killed and five were injured. Police arrested Michael Jakscht, 46, today after he allegedly…

The Arizona Court of Appeals today upheld a Maricopa County judge’s contempt-of-court ruling against a sheriff’s detention officer who lifted legal papers from a criminal-defense attorney in open court and had them copied. Gary Donahoe, who until recently was the county’s presiding criminal judge, held the detention officer, Adam Stoddard, in indirect civil contempt after the…