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School of Hard Knocks: Three-Sport Gamer Mike Nixon’s Tried It All, But Can the Whip-Smart ASU Defensive Star Make It to the NFL?By Steve JansenThursday, November 19Mike Nixon walks through the front door of his Tempe home and drops a maroon-and-gold Arizona State University gym bag to the tile floor. A piece... More >> -
Party Favors: At Rasputin's Equestrian Manor, the Debauchery Continues Well Past Closing TimeBy Niki D'AndreaThursday, November 12It's Halloween night, and the biggest party in metro Phoenix resembles Dirty Dancing as if imagined by the Marquis de Sade. A couple hundred... More >> -
Losing Erica: Cynthia Clark Harvey Doesn't Want Anyone Else's Child to Die in a Wilderness-Therapy ProgramBy Amy SilvermanThursday, November 05Cynthia Clark Harvey climbs the stairs to the second floor of her north Phoenix home, pausing in a small bedroom. It's the kind of room... More >> -
Paranormal Activity: Arizona Ghostbusters Go to Extremes for Good CausesBy Niki D'AndreaThursday, October 29The corner of Cave Creek Road and Cheryl Street in Sunnyslope isn't usually a roadside attraction. Occupied by dilapidated wingding-style... More >> -
Friday Night Frights: Carl Hayden High Football Players Have More to Worry About Than Winning GamesBy Paul RubinThursday, October 22Tre Fields, a co-captain of the Carl Hayden Community High School Falcons football team, slipped into that place between consciousness and... More >>
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Broward - Palm Beach
The Rise and Fall of South Florida's Daily Newspapers
By Lisa Rab
A standing-room-only crowd attended the meeting where Rochelle Gilken decided to end her... More >>
Dallas
Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison Are Locked In A Pitched Battle Over The Soul Of The GOP. They Are Also Running For Governor.
By Sam Merten
As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September... More >>
Denver
Fixers, feeders, and the strange, hidden world of feral cats
By Alan Prendergast
Kristin Des Marais crouches in the damp and shines a flashlight into the vast crawl space... More >>
Houston
The Tug of War
Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison are locked in a pitched battle over the soul of the GOP. They are also running for governor.
By Sam Merten
As temperatures dip into the low 80s, providing a brief respite from the searing September, a... More >>
Kansas City
As Honeywell closes its 60-year-old site, workers are dealing with the fatal aftereffects
By Nadia Pflaum
Tony Ross' bat connected, sending the softball rocketing to the fence. While the outfielders... More >>
Miami
Miami pimp Hugo Gonzalez lavished gifts on his whores to keep them around
By Natalie O'Neill
In a dreary yellow living room, a gang leader named Rudy Villanueva leans toward a video camera... More >>
Minneapolis
Michele Bachmann: Crazy like a fox
The Minnesota congresswoman gives Sarah Palin a run for her money
Matt Snyders
It was just after 12:30 a.m. on election night when Michele Bachmann materialized in the... More >>
San Francisco
Sanctuary Sellout
Before: S.F. coddled undocumented teen criminals. After: S.F. punishes undocumented teens who commit crimes (and some who don't, too).
By Lauren Smiley
If you were to compile a list of threats to San Francisco's public safety, Oscar Martinez... More >>
St. Louis
Babe 'n Arms: Tom was a hot-tempered cross-dresser with a garage full of guns — and then he became Rachel
By Nicholas Phillips
Scott Clark heard screams as evening fell on May 24, 2007. He had just returned from work and... More >>
Blog
Valley Fever
Surprise Resignation Today of Famed ASU Baseball Coach Pat Murphy
Fri Nov 20, 1:56 PM
Word from ASU today that its longtime head baseball coach Pat Murphy has resigned is a mind-blower on every level. ?The immediate explanation? None. We haven't been able to... More >>
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- Friday Night Frights: Carl Hayden High Football Players Have More to Worry About Than Winning Games
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Columns
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A Former Arizona Gubernational Candidate Flirts With Facism; Plus, a Grade School in Pine Paints Over an African-American Face on Its Mural
Thursday, November 19SS IGNORANT Supposedly intelligent, respectable people do some really dumb stuff sometimes. Case in point: Former GOP gubernatorial hopeful Mike... More>>
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No Probable Cause? No Problem!: A U.S. Citizen Says He Was Detained Without Probable Cause by the MCSO, and Then Jailed for Traffic Violations
Thursday, November 19Editor's note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's forces. The next personal story will... More>>
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David Cavazos, Phoenix's New City Manager, May Owe His Job to a Plugged-In Developer
Thursday, November 19Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and the Reverend Oscar Tillman, who heads the local NAACP, have long enjoyed a good relationship — if not... More>>
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 19CALLS TO ACTION What good are these prosecutors?: It's appalling that U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke can't get it up to go after Sheriff Shithead.... More>>
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 19, 2009
Thursday, November 19
CALLS TO ACTION
What good are these prosecutors?: It's appalling that U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke can't get it up to go after Sheriff Shithead.... More >>
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