An allegedly “missing” $80,000 in the Cave Creek School District’s cafeteria budget has sparked an all-out food fight in the northeast Valley over accusations of a government cover-up and of stolen rations of ham and cheese. Amid the finger-pointing–which by now has enveloped the state Attorney General’s Office–nobody knows exactly…
A prisoner described by fellow inmates and others as one of the most influential people at the state prison in Florence has entered his tenth week of a hunger strike, vowing that he’s ready to die unless officials transfer him to a less harsh area. Chuck Shepherd, a 39-year-old Sikh…
Phoenix builder Bob Gosnell once again is embroiled in a controversial hotel project–this time on the beachfront in Los Angeles. Gosnell Builders claims it’s owed millions of dollars by the owner of the Park Hyatt luxury hotel under construction on Santa Monica Beach. However, several months after the Phoenix firm…
In northeast Phoenix, a family of women tells an eerie story of footsteps on the roof, blood in the living room and midnight strikes by a black-clad “Ninja” that sounds like a script from a Hollywood thriller. “Living hell,” “terrorism,” and “sickening” are some of the words the women use…
I had been in Phoenix exactly one day when I saw a news story on TV about former Governor Evan Mecham’s plans to publish a newspaper. At the time, Mecham refused to give a publication date for Arizona Newsday, but he said that when it did start, it would be…
If you thought the Phoenix Cardinals were woeful last season, you should talk to a handful of Tempe residents about the off-season–specifically, the night of May 7. Nearly three months after two Cardinal players, Eric Hill and Willie Williams, allegedly harassed a restaurant crowd and a college professor, bitterness lingers…
Three years ago this week, thirteen-year-old Myron Traylor had just finished his paper route and left his South Phoenix home with his mother, Debbie, to visit his grandparents. About a half-mile separated the two homes in South Phoenix. Myron and his mother traveled on foot because Debbie did not have…
Just because Roy Lynch’s dream sounds bizarre, that’s no reason to bury your head in the sand. Lynch, owner of the Arizona Ostrich Ranch, predicts that ostrich meat will soon battle to become a staple in the American diet, hogging a place at the table alongside chicken, pork and, yes,…
