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Valley Fever
1:23 pm
May. 24, 2013
Phoenix News
Pastor Warren Stewart Supporter Cloves Campbell's Shocking Allegation: A Stewart Political Opponent's a "House Negro" It's getting downright dirty in the race for a District 8 seat on the Phoenix City Council. In the latest round of mud-slinging, one of the candidates is accused of going to Scottsdale for dinner... More >>
Valley Fever
9:12 am
May. 24, 2013
Phoenix News
Video Shows Pain of Five U.S. Citizens in Phoenix as Mom, Undocumented, Remains in Detention A video posted on YouTube this morning shows the pain of five U.S.-citizen children are feeling because their undocumented mom was arrested six months ago. We dare you to watch the video (see b... More >>
Valley Fever
7:58 am
May. 24, 2013
Phoenix News
Report Finds DPS Shooting of Alexander Wilson Justified, But Witness Says Officer Was Not In Danger Phoenix PD released a report that rules the shooting death of 16-year-old Alexander Wilson by a still unnamed DPS officer was justifiable.  The police report states that the officer f... More >>
Valley Fever
6:40 am
May. 24, 2013
Phoenix News
Morning Poll: Did ICE Help Kill Phoenix Officer Daryl Raetz, as Senator John McCain Asserts? U.S. Senator John McCain sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday demanding more information about why the immigrant suspect in Phoenix cop's death was released f... More >>
Valley Fever
5:25 pm
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
Jodi Arias Trial: Top Reactions to Sentencing Mistrial by Pro-Arias Commenters The failure of the Jodi Arias jury to agree on the death penalty sparked thousands of tweets and comments to various blogs and news sites. While many would prefer to see the vicious, calculating ... More >>
Valley Fever
4:46 pm
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
Jodi Arias Jury Done -- No Decision on Death Penalty; Mistrial of Penalty Phase Declared; State Wants to Retry Jury members in the Jodi Arias case wrapped up nearly five months of work today, causing a mistrial due to their failure to reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty. Some women jurors wer... More >>
Valley Fever
1:36 pm
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
Greg Patterson, AZ Board of Regents Member, Restarts Controversial "Espresso Pundit" Blog; Says He Won't Cover University Issues He's baaaaack. Conservative activist and former state lawmaker Greg Patterson has cranked up his controversial "Espresso Pundit" blog again, but has sworn off covering university issues because ... More >>
Valley Fever
12:00 pm
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
The Undercover Animal Cruelty Videos that Spurred Big Ag's Censorship Crusade This week's story, "The Ag Gag War," goes behind the scenes of the guerilla fight between animal rights groups and Big Agriculture. For years organizations like the Humane Society and Mercy fo... More >>
Valley Fever
10:18 am
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
CBS 5's Morgan Loew Got Stat Wrong in Medical-Marijuana Report, DHS Director Will Humble Says Ninety percent of medical-marijuana cardholders didn't qualify for nothing but "chronic and severe pain," as Channel 5's Morgan Loew reported last week, the director of the Arizona Department of ... More >>
Valley Fever
7:56 am
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
Medical-Pot Card Doesn't Provide Immunity to People With More Weed Than Law Allows, AZ Appeals Court Affirms; Patient-to-Patient Transfer Still in Question Medical-marijuana cardholders can be prosecuted when they possess too much weed or do something else that falls outside the boundaries of state law, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled last week. ... More >>
Valley Fever
6:07 am
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
Does Governor Jan Brewer's Fight to Expand Medicaid Change Your Opinion About Her? A few short years ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer became the hero of most conservatives and the villain to most liberals when she signed the anti-Mexican SB1070 bill into law. Now, with Brewer... More >>
Lemons
12:00 am
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
After Nine Months in Jail for Working Without Papers, Luz Ruiz Rascon Finally Will Go Free It took nine months of incarceration in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's notorious Estrella Jail, but what should have happened in August of last year,... More >>
ˇAsk a Mexican!™
12:00 am
May. 23, 2013
Phoenix News
Ask a Mexican on Guns in Mexico Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal, in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty of supplying guns that ended up... More >>
Valley Fever
3:27 pm
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
Arizona Diamondbacks Drop Rubber Game in Colorado After losing a tough game Tuesday in extra innings, the Arizona Diamondbacks could muster very little offense the Colorado Rockies' Jorge de la Rosa, losing 4-1 Wednesday afternoon and dropping tw... More >>
Valley Fever
3:19 pm
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
No One Bothers to Bid on Air Force One No one's currently willing to blow a minimum of $50,000 on a plane that acted as Air Force One at at least one occasion, and has been sitting at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport for a while.The Ge... More >>
Valley Fever
2:42 pm
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
State Representative Steve Smith Says Extra Prayer to Offset Atheist Colleague's Non-Prayer The actions of Republican State Representative Steve Smith have provided us with the reason why Democratic Representative Juan Mendez's God-free invocation at the House Representatives yesterday ... More >>
Valley Fever
2:10 pm
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
Meet the Three Women Currently on Arizona's Death Row While a jury's apparently having a tough time deciding whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for killing Travis Alexander, we'll point out that Arias would join just a few other women on deat... More >>
Valley Fever
12:01 pm
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
Jodi Arias Jury Can't Reach Decision on Death Penalty, Sent Back by Judge for More Deliberation The jury in the Jodi Arias case announced just before noon today that they can't reach a unanimous decision on whether Arias should be executed. Maricopa County Judge Sherry Stephens sent the j... More >>
Valley Fever
11:41 am
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
Reporters Ask No Tough Questions of "Sex Kitten" Jodi Arias on Eve of Sentencing Just watched the interview of Jodi Arias by Mark Curtis of Channel 12 (KNXV-TV), Troy Hayden of Channel 10 (KSAZ-AZ) and Ryan Owens of ABC News. In what may be one of the last TV interviews of Ar... More >>
Valley Fever
11:41 am
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
Mesa Woman, 78, Drives Into Fabric Store, Runs Over Four People A 78-year-old woman who thought she put her Toyota SUV into park outside a Mesa fabric store yesterday was incorrect, and ended up driving quite a distance into the store, hitting three people. ... More >>
Valley Fever
10:39 am
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
Atheist State Representative Juan Mendez's God-Free Invocation (Video) Democratic State Representative Juan Mendez's God-free invocation at the House Representatives yesterday, as first reported by New Times, is attracting nationwide attention.If you want to see th... More >>
Valley Fever
8:30 am
May. 22, 2013
Phoenix News
Arizona Diamondbacks Lose to Colorado Rockies 5-4 in Extra Innings The Arizona Diamondbacks scored a quartet of runs in a single inning to rally back from an 0-4 deficit last night, but it wasn't enough to defeat the Colorado Rockies. The D-backs fell to their Na... More >>

From the Print Edition

After Nine Months in Jail for Working Without Papers, Luz Ruiz Rascon Finally Will Go Free After Nine Months in Jail for Working Without Papers, Luz Ruiz Rascon Finally Will Go Free

It took nine months of incarceration in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's notorious Estrella Jail, but what should have happened in August of last year, happened just recently in the case of… More >>

Ask a Mexican on Guns in Mexico

Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal, in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty of supplying guns that ended up in the hands… More >>

Flip-Flopping John McCain Is No Political Profile in Courage Flip-Flopping John McCain Is No Political Profile in Courage

It wouldn't be a John McCain town hall without occasional off-color humor. "There was a poll, a poll that had to do with favorability," the 76-year-old U.S. senator tells the crowd… More >>

Jodi Arias Could Be Executed in Just Four Years — if Her Death Wish Isn’t Another Lie Jodi Arias Could Be Executed in Just Four Years — if Her Death Wish Isn’t Another Lie

In an exclusive post-conviction interview, boyfriend-killer Jodi Arias insisted that she didn't plan to kill 30-year-old Travis Alexander in 2008. But now that she's been convicted of premeditated murder, she'd… More >>

Ask a Mexican on Spanglish, Incredible Expanding Cars, and Protestants

Where did the notion of adding an -o to the end of an English word and assuming it makes it a Spanish word come from? Juanito "Anglos have long held power in… More >>

Dead or Alive? Paul Babeu's Wilderness-Rescue Unit Once Again Proves Inept Dead or Alive? Paul Babeu's Wilderness-Rescue Unit Once Again Proves Inept

Is Daddy living in the mountains now?" It's a heartbreaking question that 5-year-old Alexa has been asking her mom, Tonya Hensley, since her father went missing on April 15. It's been three… More >>

Ask a Mexican on Intra-Mexican Hatred and Immigration Travails

Why is it that people from Chihuahua and Monterrey are such jackasses? They come from pinches ranchitos and talk about their haciendas, They cross the border and act as if… More >>

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