A former NHL coach is saying he can verify claims that Tiger Woods came to Phoenix to have his teeth fixed after being hit in the face with a nine-iron by his wife on Thanksgiving. Former NHL coach Pat Burns, who stood behind the bench for teams like the Montreal…
Well, that was close (even though it shouldn’t have been). Late in the second quarter on Tuesday night, the Phoenix Suns led the Sacramento Kings by 20 points and looked as if they were going to wrap this one up early in the third quarter. Unbelievably, the score was tied…
Chandler police are looking for a suspect in a car-theft case who stole a pickup truck and took the owner for a ride in the back. The truck owner, 17-year-old Edgar Campos, was taken through a red light at an intersection before he was ordered out of the vehicle near…
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 Wins Best “Corruption-Based Chutzpah” from TPM; and the Rep Notices Joe Depo, Misses…
A Pinal County judge has put the criminal case of Maricopa County Judge Gary Donahoe on hold until the state Supreme Court figures out what should be done with it. An article in the Arizona Republic this evening says the stay will be effective until March, when the Arizona Supreme…
A conservative think-tank is demanding that the city of Phoenix release two years’ worth of “activity logs” for Mayor Phil Gordon’s security detail — a set of records the city has previously refused to turn over.Judicial Watch, based in Washington, D.C., quietly sent a letter to the city on December…
Former Arizona Diamondbacks ace Randy Johnson is expected to announce his retirement from baseball in a conference call with reporters tonight, according to multiple media sources.In 22 Major League seasons, “The Big Unit” won 303 games and has a career ERA of 3.29. Johnson is second all-time on the MLB…
We’ve been getting an unusual number of calls and e-mails from folks wanting to know the status of the felony arson case against Michael Marin, the fascinating, if troubled, fellow we wrote about last summer in “Burning Man.” Readers may recall the story: Marin’s a mountain climber, visual artist, author, and onetime alleged financial…
Attention hood rats, hookers, and hillbillies throughout Arizona: You no longer have to go on The Maury Povich Show to find the identity of your baby-daddy.A company called Arizona Mobile DNA Services is bringing the joy of knowing that “you’re NOT the father” right to your living room.AMDS is a…
The U.S.Attorney’s Office in Phoenix announced that the man convicted of leading four Guatemalans to a watery death has been sentenced to close to 10 years in prison.Juan Pablo Moreno-Gonzalez, 27, was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison for his role in the deaths of the four men, whom…
Rachel Alexander, the deputy county attorney now handling the Maricopa County Attorney’s racketeering lawsuit against a host of county officials, was working out of Thomas’ executive office as recently as mid-December, county records show.Indeed, Alexander — a conservative blogger and longtime Thomas supporter — wasn’t transferred to the MCAO’s Major…
The zap-happy folks at Scottsdale-based Taser International are the subject of a new lawsuit seeking punitive damages from the company for fraudulently misrepresenting its products as non-lethal.The lawsuit stems from a January 2008 incident in Nevada, where a Las Vegas doctor died after he was stunned five times with a…
I take perverse pleasure in these two clips from lawyer David Bodney’s recent interrogation of Sheriff Joe in a deposition in the big Melendres vs. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit. Here, Joe’s forced to review my May 2009 cover story “Ja, Joe!,” which details Arpaio’s links to extremist groups such as…
A Tempe woman, who was denied parental custody rights last week and then drove her 8-month-old son to Florida, has been caught and will be brought back to Arizona. The baby, however, has not been found and the mother isn’t talking. Elizabeth Johnson, 23, was denied custody of her son,…
The Arizona Republican Party is reported to have received $50,000 from the National Republican Committee to help build a grassroots effort to strengthen the party. However, the latest spending reports show no record of the transaction, as required by law, the Arizona Guardian reports today. That, evidently, is A-ok with Arizona…
A disabled train blocked traffic in the state Capitol area in west Phoenix this morning. The train, about 100 cars long, is sitting at the intersection of 19th Avenue and Buchanan. Police say it may take several hours to move, and are advising motorists to take an alternate route, such as…
Those wisenheimers over at the blog Talking Points Memo have honored Maricopa County’s corrupt top constable with one of their annual “Golden Duke” awards, “given in recognition of great accomplishments in muckiness including acts of venal corruption, outstanding self-inflicted losses of dignity, crimes against the republic, bribery, exposed hypocrisy and generally malevolent governance.”Named…
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 Denies Wacky, Nativist “Reconquista” Conspiracy Theory in Video from Deposition Up on the…
It seems as though “Teddy Ballgame” had specific instructions for those dealing with his remains, none of which mentioned being cut into pieces, cryogenically frozen, and stored in Scottsdale.In a letter to his lawyer, longtime Boston attorney and confidante Robert E. McWalter, baseball great Ted Williams asked to literally sleep…
We were rummaging through the post-holiday e-mail riffraff this morning, and happened onto this timely report from the U.S. Department of Justice. It concerns the growing number of threats to federal judges, U.S. Attorneys, and federal prosecutors (from members of the community, not, mind you, from the likes of a county…
We had no idea that Paradise Valley’s veteran judge, Elsa Lynch, was in a peck of legal trouble when she told us in July about her upcoming retirement. Forgive us for momentarily losing our suspicious mind. A few weeks after our chat, it turns out, Lynch was indicted by a federal grand…
In China, 2009 was the year of the cow. In Arizona, however, 2009 may have been the year of the rabid bobcat.Officials at the Arizona Department of Health Services say there were more cases of rabies in 2009 than in any other year to date, including at least two rabid…
