This just in: A prominent election law expert signed off on Don Stapley’s campaign fund for the National Association of Counties in 2004 — complicating the sheriff’s claim that the fund is at the root at least 45 counts of theft and 48 counts of “prohibited acts.”Our readers first raised…
Two Arizona nitwits decided to take their own version of the Arizona Meth Project on the road this week and found themselves arrested and facing drug charges.As one of the national leaders in meth use, this ought to buff Arizona’s gleaming reputation.Police in Hall County, Nebraska arrested 18-year-old Ruben Torres…
The infamous Hells Angels motorcycle gang is no longer just that cuddly group of unorganized bike enthusiasts from our parents’ generation. Now, according to a jury and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, they are officially a “street gang.”Thanks for clearing that up.The gang’s new label comes as the result of…
All this subtext, all this intrigue. And all this political jibber-jabber. We’ll leave the moving parts to able colleagues Ray Stern and Sarah Fenske. But we were struck yesterday by a soundbite from the mouth of Paul Charlton, the usually circumspect and conservative former United States Attorney for Arizona, who…
An ASU researcher in collaboration with a Canadian research team made some interesting discoveries about the amount of food we eat and the company we keep.Andrea C. Morales, an assistant professor of marketing at ASU and her Canadian counterparts recruited 210 students to participate in the study and told them…
The Monday arrest of Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley triggered a 48-hour window in which to file charges. Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office, which apparently made the arrest in the white-collar case without first consulting a prosecutor’s office, recommends Stapley be charged with 93 felonies and seven misdemeanors related to alleged slush…
Here we are more than a year away from gubernatorial elections, and pollsters are already hard at work.According to a poll released today by Public Policy Polling, Attorney General Terry Goddard would crush any likely opponent in next year’s election.The poll matched Goddard against sitting Governor Jan Brewer, former-Governor Fife Symington,…
Now that parts of Georgia are beginning to resemble the lost city of Atlantis after recent flooding, Arizona-based U-Haul wants to help out. U-Haul is offering a free month’s storage to anyone who has fallen victim to the flood. “We know that this is a very difficult time for individuals,”…
Now that Republican Governor Jan Brewer is officially not one of the popular kids in the high school that is state government, Republican gubenatorial hopefuls are starting to come out of the woodwork. Brewer, whose approval rating is now less than 25 percent, yet still hasn’t ruled out running herself, has opened…
In the 26 games in which he’s worn Sedona red, the Oklahoma-born ballplayer has amassed close to a .300 batting average, knocking in four RBIs and blasting out 14 hits (three of them homers) off some of the NL’s best pitchers. And that includes former D-Backs superstar Randy Johnson, who…
Since his arrest Monday by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, no prosecutor has stepped forward to take the case against Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley. As we reported Monday, the MSCO is recommending more than 95 criminal counts against Stapley, including real estate fraud…Glendale police have released a sketch of a suspected…
Less than a month after the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Arizona Department of Corrections inmate Marcia Powell’s May 20 human cage death an “accident,” ADC honcho Charles Ryan has fired three employees, forced the resignations of two others, and disciplined 11 more. This according to an ADC news release…
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: Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Active Posse Roster, Presented for Your Perusal (w/Update Re: Marshall Trimble) Up…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon blamed the media today for doing our job and reporting on governmental and corporate waste and stupidity.What do we have to say about that here at New Times? Guilty as charged.Gordon says the way the media covered corporate and governmental “training seminars” held here in the…
Is there any negative national list that doesn’t have Arizona in the top 10?Recently, Phoenix was picked as one of the worst places to raise kids. We are annually one of the worst states in terms of education , and we have some of the worst air quality in the…
A new poll released today sheds light on something most of us probably already know: We’re fed up with Governor Jan Brewer.Sure, she’s fine in that grandmotherly sort of way, but after a state budget battle that’s somehow still waging, heads are gonna have to roll.According to the poll, conducted by…
Some people just don’t know how to bow out gracefully.A guidance counselor with the Phoenix Union High School admittedly forged tickets to the schools prom and then sold them to students, pocketing the money.Sure, teachers are underpaid, but come on?!Tim Berra admitted to the district’s governing board that he forged…
As football fans, we have come to expect various degrees of pissing and moaning from wide receivers when they aren’t getting the ball. Call it the nature of the beast. It usually happens on the sidelines, or in the locker room and now, like everything else, has found its way…
If for some reason you type “white people stole my car” into a Google search, it will take you to a plethora of Web sites filled with spam and viruses as a result of a breach of cyber security. Google officials say they have been trying to fix the glitch since…
If Skeet Ulrich is “the poor man’s” Johnny Depp, the pig flu vaccine on its way to Arizona right now is the Skeet Ulrich of preventative measures. State health officials said yesterday Arizona is set to receive at least 70,000 doses of a nasal-spray version of the H1N1 vaccine ahead of…
At 10:13 last night, San Francisco Giants’ closer Brian Wilson struck out Arizona Diamondbacks’ slugger Justin Upton on a 3-2 pitch. Upton barked at the home-plate umpire in disagreement. The crowd, numbering in the thousands, booed in unison. We’re not sure if it was over the call or the fact…
The City of Mesa has created a series of new restrictions for massage parlors, in an attempt to crack down on parlors that may be fronts for illegal activities. Among the changes is a requirement that massage-parlor owners register their employees with the city, and work logs that detail therapists’…
