Mexican flag-burnin’ nativist Laine Lawless may have some ‘splainin’ to do. According to a report in the Everett, Washington Daily Herald, the newspaper that’s been the most dogged in following their hometown minutewoman and accused child-killer Shawna Forde, Lawless may have visited with Forde and an alleged accomplice hours after a…
The 3-week-old girl, who police say suffered some gruesome injuries at the hands of her father, 25-year-old Brian Mark Hopf, is not expected to survive. Hopf poked the girl in the eyes,police say, and dropped her on the floor, leaving her with several skull fractures, broken ribs, and other serious injuries…
A pair of Phoenix business owners claim the city screwed them in a railroad deal and ruined their livelihood. Now the husband-and-wife entrepreneurs have locked themselves inside their small compound, threatening to stay until they’re forced out.This plot could have been pulled from the Westerns section at the DVD store,…
New figures released Tuesday show that under the current budget signed by Governor Brewer last week, the state is now at least $1 billion in the hole. After eight months of negotiation, who would expect anything less, right? The figures were part of a report from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee,…
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Chandler Police are going back to school this fall, as officers plan to ride school buses to ensure drivers obey the laws around school buses, and stop when buses activate their “stop” signs. The penalty for a first-time violation is a $250 fine…A Mesa-based company called Dixon Golf has created a…
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 Goldwater Institute’s Clint Bolick Jumps on the Anti-Intellectual Bash-Obama Bandwagon Up on the Sun:…
“You have an immaculate record. Some guys don’t trust an immaculate record. I do. I have an immaculate record.” — Captain Ellerby, from The Departed. We recalled this quote while looking recently at the 200-page personnel file of Captain Joel Fox. Fox, as regular readers of this blog know, is…
Arizona’s very own maverick, Senator John McCain, is telling a former Arizona icon to hang up his bloody sock, and join him in the United States Senate.McCain also told Sara Palin to run for vice-president, and I think we all know how that turned out.McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan tells CNN…
A Chandler man is in custody after, police say, he dropped his three-week-old daughter on the ground, and poked her in the eyes. The newborn was left with serious injuries.Brian Mark Hopf, 25, was arrested after his daughter was admitted to the hospital with “life-threatening injuries” including multiple skull fractures, fractured…
Arizona schools chief Tom Horne had some tough words for President Obama, and the White House last week, in regard to Obama’s address to students this morning.After hearing the speech, guess what; Horney loved it!”I think we can all agree with the message of the President’s speech,” Horne tells New…
Ever get the feeling we’re in the midst of some mass psychosis regarding the President of the United States on the part of those who hate his guts? For example, anti-Obama groups regularly use Nazi imagery in describing or illustrating Obama. Obama is depicted as Adolf Hitler, and or dressed…
State Senate bill 1271 — which would have drastically changed Arizona’s foreclosure law — was reversed when Governor Jan Brewer signed the majority of the budget. The law would have made it more difficult to qualify for protections that often prevent homeowners from going bankrupt in the event of foreclosures…
The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety wrapped up a more than a two-week sweep to bust drunk drivers yesterday, and, well, they “nailed” a lot of people.According to the GOHS, between August 21, and Septemeber 7, authorities busted 1,136 drunk drivers as part of the sweep that was given the title…
If you live in the Valley of the Sun, you probably have a trick or two to avoid getting busted by the speed cameras we all love so much. Some people just know exactly where they are, some buy devices to mask their license plates, and one man, police say, resorted…
While we would never encourage driving drunk, sometimes even smart people “slip up.” However, to “slip up” twice in the same day probably means you’re a complete nitwit.A traditional Labor Day is Mesa is full of picnics, parties, and, of course, DUI checkpoints. Yesterday was no different — except that police…
A Border Patrol agent is suing the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming he was traumatized after being stopped by ICE agents on a dark, rural road in southern Arizona and held at gunpoint. Jess Cabe, who works out of the Border Patrol’s Nogales Station, filed the lawsuit on September 4 in the U.S. District…
After Arizona Governor Jan Brewer approved the majority of the Legislature’s budget plan Friday, the question still looms: How the hell are we gonna pay for it?!Despite a laundry list of cuts, and concessions, the state is still well short of being able to pay for the programs still on…
Around 3:30 p.m. on Labor Day, while boarding an empty light-rail car at the Third Street and Washington stop, we heard a Sedona-red-wearing male say, in reference to the just-completed game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chase Field, “Whoa. This [the game] is really the…
Phoenix police arrested 1,053 people in their “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign that began August 21. The campaign, which ended Labor Day, was designed to crack down on DUIs. Of the arrests, police say 359 were cases of extreme DUI…One local man, Joseph Cummins, was stopped on suspicion of…
Weirdness of weirdness. I was only hoping to do one blog post today, but fate took another turn. I ended back up in Tempe, thinking protest organizer Leonard Clark might be doing another anti-Steven Anderson action for Anderson’s 6:30 p.m. service. When I got there, Clark was being interviewed by ABC…
It was love vs. hate, round one, down at the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe this morn, as about 125 soldiers of love, led by local progressive activist Leonard Clark, took on the Pastor of Hate, aka, Obama-despiser Steven Anderson, who was preaching to his tiny flock during the…
