U.S. Postal Service

FedEx Will Not Be Delivering 1,621 Pounds of Weed On Time

Somewhere is an unhappy FedEx customer who will never see his or her packages delivered. The deliveries didn't fall off the back of the truck, they weren't sent to the wrong address, and there's no use calling the local delivery center.  Tucson Sector Border Patrol stopped the FedEx truck near ... More >>

Mailman Kevin Campbell Accused of Punching Kid (Again)

A U.S. Postal Service employee is accused of punching one of his kids, a whole two days after the cops were at his home for a "similar incident" with his other kid.This time around, police say an officer was actually inside Kevin Campbell's Phoenix house as he let his son know he was "gonna kick [hi ... More >>

Robert Towery, Killer About To Be Executed, Wrote Us A Very Nice Letter

​ If all goes according to plan, death row inmate Robert Towery will die tomorrow, moments after Arizona authorities inject him with a lethal poison. Towery has been residing on the row at the state prison in Florence for two decades, since being sentenced in the horrific September 1991 Parad ... More >>

First Personal

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman: 10 Songs About the Mail

​By now it's news to no one that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. As detailed by Nick Greene earlier this month at Village Voice's Running Scared, this means print media is in for a punch (you know, while it's down and everything), your bills are going to show up later than they ... More >>

Modern Artist Dick Seeger Pioneered Scottsdale; Now He Turns to His Own Backyard

Summer Guide: Beer

Yuma: "It City" or Armpit?

Tag, You're Art: Local Street Artists Are Tagging Over Murals and Calling It Art

Cremated Remains of Phoenix Woman -- Lost by Postal Service -- Recovered

​Mabel Bink's been found! United States Postal Service officials confirm to New Times that the cremated remains of the 89-year-old Bink have been recovered and are back with her family in Chicago."She's back home," USPS spokesman Mark Reynolds tells New Times.In short, Bink, a now-former Phoenix r ... More >>

July 29 In Blogs: SB 1070, Christoph Kaiser, Cowboy Junkies, Matt's Big Breakfast, and Raul Grijalva

​​​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:

U.S. Postal Service Loses Cremated Body of 89-Year-Old Phoenix Woman

www.upnorthjersey.comWhen shipping human remains, it never hurts to go Priority.​A memorial service for 89-year-old Mabel Bink was held in Chicago on Saturday despite a few setbacks. For starters, it rained, which reportedly hurt attendance. The other setback: the U.S. Postal Service lost Bink's c ... More >>

New Clue in Case of ASU Student Killed During Robbery Attempt

Kyleigh Sousa​There's a new clue in the death of Kyleigh Sousa, the ASU student who was killed during a robbery-gone-wrong this past May, and the Tempe Police Department needs the public's help to answer a few questions those clues have raised.Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal tells New Times a ... More >>

Tax Fraud Suspect Wanted by IRS; Local Man Part of Elaborate Scheme to Steal Millions in Refunds

A California fugitive caught after a years-long "cat-and-mouse hunt" had defrauded the IRS of millions of dollars in a high-tech refund-stealing scheme, federal authorities now say. The fugitive, Daniel Rigmaiden, 29, of Santa Clara, was caught in August 2008, but one of his all ... More >>

Hot Links: Phoenix PD, I-10 Commutes, and an E-Mail Scam

​Phoenix police officers continue to work, despite imminent layoffs. This week, Phoenix will eliminate some officers' jobs, in an attempt to balance the city's $245 million deficit. Phoenix PD already cut about seven percent of its positions last year...The Gilbert Unified School District is consi ... More >>

Hot Links: APS Rates, Joe Shirley, and the Postal Service

​The Arizona Corporation Commission will vote today on a possible rate hike for Arizona Power Systems (APS) customers. The proposed increase would raise customers' rates by an average of more than $6 a month. An administrative-law judge has already recommended approval of the rate hike...A judge i ... More >>

Risqué Business: If Porn Star Taryn Thomas is Any Indication, the Valley of the Sun May Be the Next Porn Capital of the World

Post Office in Downtown Phoenix Will House Classrooms and Retail Space in $2M-Plus Renovation

Image: Peter Storch/New Times   The 1930s-era post office on Central Avenue and Van Buren Street is preparing to undergo at least $2 million in renovation by its owner, Arizona State University, in collaboration with the city of Phoenix. As New Times writer Robrt L. Pela explain ... More >>

Bryant Wilkerson Sentenced to Probation -- Prosecutor Asked for Prison

Andy Hartmark Bryant Wilkerson Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Teresa Sanders had never seen anything like it.Sanders was in court Friday morning to sentence Bryant Wilkerson, a 30-year-old Fountain Hills postal clerk whose cause was championed by both New Times and the NAACP. Wilkerson ... More >>

Prosecutors suggest charges for other driver in the Bryant Wilkerson case

Bombshell: The explosive backstory in the Robert Ortloff murder trial may be more fascinating than the case itself

Sending Out an S.O.S.

The U.S. Postal Service's rate hikes are endangering music's free press

Ella: High Points

A tisket, a tasket, a career

Breathless

Despite a lot of hoopla at the beginning of Napolitano's administration, environmental protections for kids have not improved much

Killer Candidate

Would-be legislator Dan Coleman wants to talk issues. But his past is just so much more interesting

Fear Factor

Two serial murderers loom among us. Inside the case of the Baseline Killer's first Phoenix victim

Media Darlings

Rising above the demo tide

Postal Modernism

Pushing the envelope

About Face

Ray Krone's got it all. A new look. Money. Problem is, he can't seem to forgive those who screwed up and put him on Arizona's death row

Dr. Buzzard

Mediator Gary Karpin preyed on vulnerable divorcées, falsely claiming he's a lawyer and a Ph.D.

Blue Xmas

Coming to terms with musical memories

Are You the Bomb?

Go for the gold: Tell New Times why you deserve to survive the impending apocalypse

Old Glory

Veteran Phoenix lawyer Gary Peter Klahr fought The Bar and The Bar won

Prisoner of Love

She captured his heart — but did her family railroad her boyfriend into jail?

Numbers Racket

A businessman, his wife, the lottery and their lawyers

Burn, Baby, Burn

'Stop urban sprawl!' 'Burn the rich!' 'An acre an hour is obscene!' Is it any wonder some are rooting for the arsonists?

Found at Sea

Tom Hanks discovers himself, and Robert Zemeckis steers a strong course in Cast Away

Don Wan

Valley-based infomercial czar Don Lapre has made millions selling his Money Making Secrets to late-night-TV viewers. So what's the secret behind his bankruptcy?

Season's Eatings

The Moneychangers

A New Times Investigation First in a Series

Return to Sender

Costner's new film is an elongated rewrite of The Road Warrior

Going Postal

Finances With Wolves

Telemarketers rake in millions of dollars by telling donors they're helping Native Americans. But the biggest beneficiary by far is the charity itself.

Kid Pics for the week

Mutiny At The County

Sheriff Arpaio's deputies say his vaunted posse does little more than waste money and slake their boss's thirst for publicity

Kid Pics for the week

Owe You DON'T!

The shoestring law firm of Bybee andShaw makes money by hounding debt collectors who make mistakes

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LET'S DO LAUNCH

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