A female student at Maricopa County High School was arrested yesterday for allegedly making a bomb threat. The girl, whose name has not been released, reportedly told a teacher she “would be sorry, because a bomb would be placed on school grounds.” The suspect is being held at Pinal County…
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: Up on the Sun: Fit For Rivals: “Damage” (Luke Holwerda’s First Video) Enya’s Greatest Hits Coming Soon…..
The chief prosecutor in the case against a teen suspected of murdering a nun on the Navajo Indian Reservation last week is refusing to turn him over to federal authorities without an extradition request.Tribal police arrested the suspect, 18-year-old Reehahlio Carroll, when he was stopped for a traffic violation last…
Readers of our paper will recall the hullabaloo back in 2007 that led to the bizarre arrests here in the Valley of the chain’s owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. The sordid affair revolved around a sweeping subpoena drummed up by “special prosecutor” Dennis Wilenchik, a mediocre local attorney (he’s…
You would think that after a 90-day stint as a guest of Maricopa County, rapper and, um, tough-guy DMX would have learned a thing or two for his upcoming mixed-martial-arts fight. Seems you would be wrong…
David Cavazos took the reins as City Manager at Phoenix City Hall Friday — and immediately announced sweeping changes.Okay, so we’re being a teensy bit sarcastic. Cavazos, after all, was an inside candidate, a guy who began working for the city as an intern in 1987. He’s not expected to…
We remember Missy Kupferberg fondly as a staunch advocate for the seriously mentally ill here in the Phoenix area. Missy was a sweetheart did not suffer fools gladly, and she was more than willing to provide us with serious examples of wrongdoing by the powers-that-be in what passed then (and…
Officials at Sky Harbor International Airport announced today that they will start conducting random bag-checks to prevent luggage theft at baggage-claim areas.Good thinking, considering two people were just arrested for stealing more than a 1,000 bags without anyone seeming to notice for more than a month…
Arizona State University’s Tempe campus could be one of the first universities in the country with a Google Street View.Street View is a popular feature by Google that gives users a 360-degree street-level look at locations in most major American cities. It has been used at a college campus once…
In his first public comments since getting the boot from the NHL-owned Phoenix Coyotes, “The Great One” claims he’s not bitter. There was speculation that Gretzky might be a no-show for the NHL’s hall of fame induction ceremony last night in Toronto to spite the league and its leadership for…
The daughter of a Tucson man believed to have been murdered by the D.C. sniper plans tol be front and center today when the state of Virginia is scheduled to pump a lethal dose of potassium chloride into the murderer’s bloodstream…
Even the most fanatical of Suns worshippers couldn’t have imagined such an outcome. A weeklong five-game road trip to the East Coast, including bouts against powerhouses Boston and Orlando, wrapping up with four wins for the Suns? Believe it. The Phoenix Suns are for real, and have to be considered…
The boy from St. Johns, Arizona who pleaded guilty in the shooting deaths of his father and another man could be facing prison time. The prospect caused an uproar when Judge Michael Roca announced he would reject probation in favor of incarceration. The boy, 8 at the time of the…
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: Feathered Bastard:The Anarchists Own the Nazis, and the Nazis Cause a Car Wreck as They Amscray Transgender…
This just in: Doug Quelland is out. The decision was apparently passed down today by Administrative Law Judge Thomas Shedden, who agreed with the Clean Elections Commission that the mustachioed Republican should be removed from office. Quelland is accused of hiring a campaign consultant on the sly to get…
Americans dearly love their reality shows. We also enjoy waching fat people slaving away to shed girth.So a new weight-loss show is coming to the Valley this weekend to try to find the next flab-to-fitness story to feature in one of its episodes.The show has a working title called Obese and looks to…
The author of the book Muslim Mafia, which received a glowing endorsement from Arizona Congressman John Shadegg (pictured), is using the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas, last week as a battle cry for a “backlash against the Muslim community and its leaders.”Hold on — that’s just the beginning…
The Ahwatukee Foothills News is asking its readers to spare what they can to help keep the tiny paper afloat in the Internet age.One problem — its parent company, Freedom Communications, just pulled the plug on one of its other Valley newspapers after declaring bankruptcy but still had the gaul…
The Goldwater Institute released its annual legislative report card today, and as a whole, our legislators earned a big fat “C” when it comes to “protecting freedom.”…
Lynne Stevens has always been one of the odder figures in the local anti-immigrant movement, mainly because she doesn’t fit the profile of angry old coot, as personified by her peer, convicted public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener. A persistent protester of Salvador Reza’s Macehualli Day Labor Center, and of the ongoing…
The Phoenix Police Department has just confirmed to New Times that one of its officers accidentally shot himself at the department’s police academy this morning.As the old saying goes, a Phoenix cop “shot himself in the foot.”(Brief pause for laughter.)…
You’d think that close to eight months into the H1N1 epidemic, Arizonans would take a little time to educate themselves about the bug that could potentially kill them. We’re talking the basics here — like what the disease is, and how to avoid getting it. You’d be wrong. Researchers at…
