Back in January, Senator John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, told an audience at the University of Florida that her father was “coming along” in terms of supporting gay marriage. If you believe everything you see on gay porn Web sites, “The Maverick” seems to be making enormous strides. McCain’s image was found on a gay porn…
The Phoenix Coyotes have the best shootout record in the NHL, which is a good thing considering their power play sucks to high hell. The Coyotes beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Saturday night after an eight-round shootout and nine unsuccessful Phoenix power plays that should have prevented the game from ever…
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Baja, California yesterday. The quake rocked high-rise buildings in San Diego and Los Angeles. A number of surrounding areas also have reported feeling aftershocks, including residents across Phoenix…Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies are searching for three men who fled the scene of a fatal scooter accident early this morning…
Peter Cottontail’s hoppin’ mad about photo radar… These anti-photo radar activists rock like Amadeus. Back in December, it was a passel of renegade Santas attacking photo radar cameras in Tempe with big Xmas gift boxes. This Sunday, on that great pagan celebration known as Easter, Peter Cottontail visited with the kids,…
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 Secret Immigration File: Rants, Threats, and Hate Site Literature Joe Arpaio and the…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, the likely Democratic candidate for governor, believes that the murder of Douglas rancher Robert Krentz was probably the act of a scout working for a Mexican drug cartel, despite little, non-circumstantial evidence suggesting this was the case.”It appears this was an employee of the drug…
We reported yesterday about the inappropriate, unforgivable, thoughtless — and utterly delicious — heckling by two county workers of Lisa Aubuchon, a special assistant to departing County Attorney Andy Thomas. The pair wondered aloud about Aubuchon’s job prospects at the County Attorney’s Office now that Andy is moving on. Aubuchon…
It may seem like Don Stapley’s troubles are about over, but Stapley sure doesn’t think so. The embattled chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors mailed a new fundraising letter two weeks ago to his friends and acquaintances, begging for big bucks to counter the “frightening amount” he owes…
Free From the Shackles of Common Sense …? Right-winger Greg Patterson making fun of a gay lawmaker? Shocking. Not exactly. We couldn’t let Patterson’s obvious brain-fart dissipate into the annals of the World Wide Web. Patterson, of Espresso Pundit fame, recently picked up a video posted on the Arizona…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will waste little time in finding a replacement for County Attorney Andrew Thomas, who announced his resignation yesterday so could run for state Attorney General. The Board released a selection process timeline today with a tentative plan for naming a new county attorney as…
The Arizona Cardinals announced today that the team has signed kicker Jay Feeley, even though negotiations with the Cards current kicker, Neil Rackers, are still sort of going on.Feeley played last season with the New York Jets, where he made 30 of 36 field goals and didn’t miss an extra…
The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public’s help in finding two sisters who were reported missing yesterday.According to police, the girls, ages 15 and 11, never reported home from school yesterday, but investigators aren’t sure if they even made it school.Police say the girls left their home, near 48th…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, the “consistent conservative” who touts his devout Christianity in television and radio ads, is heading to Las Vegas this weekend for happy hour with fellow conservatives at a bar called Stoney’s on the Strip.Where else would a good Christian spend his Easter weekend.Hayworth will be at…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest dehumanizing crime deterrent yesterday — a device the sheriff is calling “pedal vision.”Pedal vision is a something the Sheriff’s Office rigged up that requires inmates to ride a stationary bike if they want to watch television.As an inmate pedals, the bike creates…
Joe Dana’s report on the ongoing federal grand jury probe of ArpaioChannel 12’s Joe Dana reported last night on the federal grand jury investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Chief Deputy David Hendershott, and the MCSO, and offered some tidbits regarding the probe from confidential sources.The most intriguing of these is…
During Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s December deposition in the ongoing racial-profiling lawsuit Melendres vs. Arpaio, the sheriff revealed that he had kept a personal file on immigration-related matters, which up until then had not been turned over to the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the case.This, even though David Bodney, chief counsel for the plaintiffs,…
It’s a bit ironic, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s number-two guy, Chief Deputy David Hendershott, could lose his home at a so-called sheriff’s sale June 4.County records show that Hendershott, who has been with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office since 1979, took out a $774,500 mortgage on his Peoria home in…
When your average citizen is murdered, there typically isn’t a Congressional hearing to sort out the details. However, when that citizen is assumed to have been murdered by an illegal immigrant, members of Congress tend to take notice — even the cops have scant evidence.The latest to use the murder of…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Padres fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The D-backs…
A bill that would allow retailers to sell alcoholic beverages at 6 a.m. on Sundays received preliminary Senate approval Thursday. If the bill passes, alcohol sales on Sunday would begin four hours earlier than they do now. An analysis by budget staffers states that the new bill would generate more…
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: Russell Pearce’s Police State Bill Passes MAPS Committee (Again); All Persons in Arizona Could Be…
By now, everyone who reads this blog surely knows that Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas is resigning next week to run for Arizona Attorney General. he news was greeted in downtown Phoenix with a mixture of surprise (many were starting to wonder if Thomas would pull the trigger, being that he hasn’t…
