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Valley Fever
10:00 pm
May. 17, 2013
Phoenix News
Marijuana By Itself Not a Significant Factor in Fatal and Injury Crashes in 2012, DPS Data Shows Pot by itself was not much of a factor in injury and fatal crashes probed last year by the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Fewer than 1 percent of suspected impaired drivers involved in suc... More >>
Valley Fever
1:37 pm
May. 17, 2013
Phoenix News
Trent Franks Now Wants to Tell Every Woman in America When It's Okay to Have an Abortion Anti-abortion fanatic/Republican Congressman Trent Franks has yet another abortion proposal, but this one's quite a bit more restrictive than his many other proposals.Franks, who is trying again... More >>
Valley Fever
12:56 pm
May. 17, 2013
Phoenix News
Tony Phung, Restaurant Owner, Accused of Stabbing Co-Owners to Death in Dining Area Believe it or not, Amy's Baking Company may not be the biggest "kitchen nightmare" in the Valley.That honor goes to Phoenix Vietnamese restaurant Pho 35, where the owner allegedly stabbed two of... More >>
Valley Fever
11:56 am
May. 17, 2013
Phoenix News
Airplane Up for Auction in Mesa Did Act as Air Force One, Historian Says; Still No Bids Yet The supposed Air Force One airplane up for auction at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport definitely did act as Air Force One, according to an Air Force historian.The General Services Administratio... More >>
Valley Fever
11:25 am
May. 17, 2013
Phoenix News
Jeff Flake Slammed in TV Ad by Mother of Aurora Shooting Victim (Video) A Valley mom whose son was killed last year in the movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, slams Senator Jeff Flake in an advertisement that's about to hit Phoenix airwaves, thanks to Flake's... More >>
Valley Fever
9:06 am
May. 17, 2013
Phoenix News
Rozeanna Luna, After Unsuccessfully Trying to Give Away Her Baby at a Phoenix Gas Station, Calls 911 on Herself to Get Rid of Child A Phoenix mother tried to give away her 6-month-old baby to four random people at a gas station before just giving up and calling 911 on herself, in hopes that she'd be jailed, and her child wou... More >>
Valley Fever
6:00 am
May. 17, 2013
Phoenix News
CBS 5's Medical-Marijuana Story: "Investigation," or Propaganda? CBS 5 -- the local news station that claims to be "telling it like it is" -- ran one of the stranger "investigations" we've seen from a local TV station.In the report, "investigative reporter" M... More >>
Valley Fever
4:37 pm
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
Paul Babeu, Pinal County Sheriff, Getting Some Lovin' (and Help Distracting Public from PCSO Search-and-Rescue Woes) from Fox News Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has been catching some serious heat over the way his office handled the search for missing hiker Christopher Hensley. The PCSO's own search crew combed the Super... More >>
Valley Fever
4:07 pm
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
CBS 5 "Investigation" Into Medical Marijuana Includes a Made-Up Statistic CBS 5 -- the local news station that claims to be "telling it like it is" -- prominently displayed a made-up statistic during its recent anti-medical marijuana propaganda piece "investigation."I... More >>
Valley Fever
3:46 pm
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
Marijuana Helps Control Diabetes, Promotes Good Cholesterol, Leads to Lower Waist Size, and Lowers Bladder Cancer Risk, New Studies Show Smoking marijuana has "remarkable" effect on diabetic problems and may lower risk of getting the disease, a study published on Wednesday states. This news comes a few days after a presentation a... More >>
Valley Fever
2:03 pm
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
David Trujillo, Dance Teacher at Several Valley Schools, Accused of Sex With Underage Student A volunteer dance teacher who's worked with kids at several Valley high schools and a private dance studio is accused of having sex with a then-underage boy who was a student at Mountain Pointe ... More >>
Valley Fever
1:07 pm
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
CBS 5 Reporter Claims Chronic Pain and Gets a Medical-Pot Card, Then Implies Wrongdoing Hopefully you missed CBS 5's "investigation" into the state's medical-marijuana program, in which they claim that "young, healthy" people are getting medical-marijuana cards.To prove it, reporte... More >>
Valley Fever
11:35 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
More Than 200 Pounds of Cheese Seized at U.S./Mexico Border, for Second Time This Year For the second time this year, U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized hundreds of pounds of cheese from someone trying to drive a cheese-load into the United States from Mexico.Federal author... More >>
Valley Fever
8:00 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
Christmas Comes Early for Phoenix Man (Problem Is, "Christmas" Is His Ex-Girlfriend's Name, and She Robbed Him) Here's the kind of Christmas that nobody celebrates -- an ex-girlfriend named Christmas who shows up to your house with a friend who's pointing a gun at your head and demanding money.Indeed, pol... More >>
Valley Fever
7:50 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
Jodi Arias Back in Court Today as Death Penalty Looms; Victim Statements, Mitigation Arguments Precede Jury's Final Decision The engrossing saga of convicted slasher Jodi Arias is wrapping up after the jury took about an hour on Wednesday to decide her fatal attack on Travis Alexander was "especially cruel." Next up in... More >>
Valley Fever
7:35 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
Pastor Warren Stewart District 8 Campaign Issues Cryptic Twitter, Boots Volunteer Pastor Warren Stewart's life in Phoenix has been deeply rooted in fighting for civil rights, and he has been a bold voice for immigrants' rights and immigration reform. But his run for District 8... More >>
Valley Fever
6:40 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
Phoenix Parks Foundation Pays Tribute To Councilmen Michael Johnsons, Tom Simplot The Phoenix Parks Foundation paid tribute to Councilman Tom Simplot and Councilman Michael Johnson, each serving out their final year in office. Johnson, who is endorsing Pastor Warren Stewart as... More >>
Valley Fever
6:00 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
Worst Recent Decision by an ASU Frat Boy? We're sure the frat boys at Arizona State University make poor decisions on an hourly basis, but there have been some extraordinarily poor decisions made recently by the bros.One might imagine th... More >>
Feature
12:00 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
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... More >>
News
12:00 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
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.... More >>
ˇAsk a Mexican!™
12:00 am
May. 16, 2013
Phoenix News
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... More >>
Valley Fever
5:29 pm
May. 15, 2013
Phoenix News
Floyd Stilwell Gets $250,000 Fine for Upgrading Airplane Engines for Venezuelan Air Force; Former Exec With Mesa's Marsh Aviation Keeps Money Made in Deal Upgrading airplane engines for Venezuela's air force in violation of an arms embargo has resulted in a $250,000 fine and five years' probation for Phoenix resident Floyd Stilwell. The 87-year-o... More >>
Valley Fever
4:07 pm
May. 15, 2013
Phoenix News
Arizona Diamondbacks Take Two of Three from Atlanta Braves A four-run fifth inning bailed out Arizona Diamondbacks starter Ian Kennedy as the D-backs beat the visiting Atlanta Braves 5-3 on Wednesday at Chase Field. The D-backs took two out of three from ... More >>

From the Print Edition

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 >>

Riding High: Arizona's Zero-Tolerance Stance on Pot and Driving Riding High: Arizona's Zero-Tolerance Stance on Pot and Driving

A couple of large mason jars full of green buds sit on the coffee table inside Tad Zaccard's west Mesa mobile home as he talks about his marijuana-DUI ticket. "I'm a… More >>

Ask a Mexican on Mexican Pride and Speaking English

Although I'm familiar with your column, I don't read it regularly. But today, I was struck by something you said in a recent column about how Mexicans can make Americans… More >>

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