When U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement conducted an immigration sweep in northern Arizona in November, 2008, as a part of “Operation Return to Sender,” they touted it as a program designed to target and deport dangerous criminals. As it turns out, most of the people arrested didn’t have any criminal record…
Self-help guru and “Spiritual Warrior” James Ray, the focus of a homicide investigation stemming from the deaths of three people in a sweat lodge ceremony near Sedona, has put his house up for sale. Ray was also named in two lawsuits filed last week, both stemming from the sweat tent debacle –…
We’re sure the anticipation has been killing you, but the word around the water cooler is that Governor Jan is expected to announce her candidacy for a full term as governor tonight…
It was only a matter of time. Yeah, the Phoenix Suns were 4-0 going into last night’s game with Superman and the Orlando Magic — the man of steel being everybody’s favorite basketball star nowadays, Dwight Howard. And Howard & Co. didn’t disappoint their legion of fans, who believe their team…
The greatest moment in the Valley’s sports history happened eight years ago last night in downtown Phoenix, when the Arizona Diamondbacks scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth of the ultimate game of the World Series to upset the mighty New York Yankees. Rivera, who is pushing…
Two people were injured in a medical helicopter crash on the San Carlos Indian reservation last night. The pilot of the Eurocopter AS 350 lost control while trying to land at San Carlos’ Cutter airport. It was a training flight, and no patients were on board. Both occupants of the…
Why do beaners or gabachos deliberately try to ignore white people and act like they’re not there, or when your walking by, the lady beaners laugh so hard with a repulsive fake laugh that makes you want to just punch them? Not only I have noticed this, but a lot…
Cynthia Clark Harvey climbs the stairs to the second floor of her north Phoenix home, pausing in a small bedroom. It’s the kind of room empty-nesters tend to keep, and this one is packed with artifacts from her daughters’ childhoods. Briana’s Beanie Babies hang on the wall in an organizer…
UNDERDOGS A community touched: Many thanks to New Times and to writer Paul Rubin for taking the time to recognize possibly the most important feat of triumph that some of these kids may ever experience — a single football win in some 67 attempts. Regardless of the turnout of the…
Editor’s note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s forces. When Leopoldo Arteaga asked a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy why he was pulled over last May, he was yanked out of his car and fell face down onto the pavement, bloodying…
BURKE’S BUMBLE CBS 5’s recent special report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s pattern of retaliation against anyone who criticizes or opposes his office put some serious wind into the sails of Joe foes. Though it was not so much the partial recounting of Joe’s enemies list in the nearly 10-minute segment…
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: Neo-Nazi NSM Scum at the Arizona Capitol: Should Sane People Give Them the Time of…
This is the pouting face of 21-year-old Sean Sexton. Tempe police say Sexton was standing outside of a check-cashing store near Southern and Mill avenues October 28 firing an Airsoft rifle at the store’s windows…
Last month, about 10,000 copies of the University of Arizona’s student newspaper were stolen from various newsstands across the university. They were found the next day, dumped in various locations on the outskirts of the campus.You may be wondering “why the hell would anyone steal 10,000 free student newspapers?” If…
There’s one group talking a big game about confronting the neo-Nazi scum at the state Capitol this Saturday: the anarchists, the traditional foes of goosesteppers going all the way back to the Spanish Civil War, and then some. They’re often badmouthed in many activist circles here in town for being…
The great wealth amassed by infamous Arizonan Kemper Marley Sr., who died in 1990, has ensured the man’s name will be heard — and seen — for years to come. The guy had ties to the mob and a generally bad reputation (except when it came to making money). He was implicated, though…
We’ve been getting a bunch of emails from folks inquiring about the status of the Deborah Milke murder case. When we last wrote about the infamous case involving the mom convicted of orchestrating the murder of her 4-year-old son (she supposedly sent him “off to see Santa Claus”), we noted…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors thinks it may have solved its photo-radar problem. Sorry, they’re not getting rid of the damn things, they’re just going to charge you more if you ignore the ticket, as many often do.After a brief hearing this morning, the board voted to approve an…
Jonathan Antonucci, (at right), one of three suspects in a deadly fire at the Young Champions of America building in Phoenix, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson. Like Moniza Murillo, who took a plea in the case a few weeks ago, Antonucci got a break from the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. The…
Attention Phoenix motorists: When you hit a person with your car, you need to stop.This public-service announcement comes because in less than two weeks, a teenager and a 62-year-old woman were each hit by multiple cars and in each case, only one person stopped…
Keep your pets close to home, because there’s a new strain of rabies in Arizona — and it’s spreading. Known as “Big Brown Bat,” the virus appears to have mutated and is jumping species. Skunks and foxes are getting it — without having had any contact with bats. “Usually it’ll…
There are few things in the world more maddening than having your luggage lost when traveling and even fewer things more cathartic than going berserk on the airline representative when he or she tells you it may never be found.Phoenix police yesterday managed to track down more than 1,000 pieces of…
