Max Scherzer had what may have been the best outing of his young career Wednesday night as he beat the Los Angeles Dodgers and one of the better pitchers in the National League, Chad Billingsley, 4-1. Mad Max, a pitcher with incredible stuff but frequent bouts of inconsistency, was rock…
Chandler police Wednesday released the audio of the 911 call in the death of a 3-year-old girl. The callers: the mother and boyfriend of the dead child, who have both been charged with first-degree murder for her death. “Yes, my [expletive] child isn’t breathing right now,” you can hear the boyfriend, 23-year-old…
Big Surf water park in Tempe will close at the end of Labor Day, perhaps for good. Golfland Entertainment Centers, which has operated the park since 1991, announced yesterday it will cease operations of the park to focus on its other ventures. The El Paso-based company that owns Big Surf…
GARBAGE PAIL KIDS Calling it stealing is crazy: Liked your “freegans” story. It demonstrated just how much food is wasted. And why shouldn’t those in need be allowed to have this stuff? Even those not in need. It’s destined for the garbage dump! To call it stealing just doesn’t make…
I am a 22-year-old Mexican-American woman, still living with my parents but going to college, working full time, and taking care of myself financially. I grew up in a very traditional Mexican household, youngest of four kids, and we were all born in the United States. I’m unmarried but have a…
Jeff Moriarty is standing across the street from the Borders at Scottsdale Fashion Square, wearing a sequined Elvis outfit with a removable ball of oversize chest hair and a skull mask. He is surrounded by a group of people wearing similarly homemade super-villain costumes, all waiting for the light to…
Five months ago, investigators with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office raided the home of one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favored commanders — seizing computers, cell phones, bank records, and other documents. This week, thanks to the work of this newspaper’s attorneys, information about that raid has finally been revealed. That…
CORPUS DELICTI We already know the real cause of death of Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old inmate at Goodyear’s Perryville Prison who collapsed after being left in a shadeless cage for at least four hours in the pitiless Arizona sun: Department of Corrections honcho Charles Ryan ordered her plug pulled on…
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: Wannabe Timothy McVeigh Types Welcome: The Neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition’s Phoenix Fall Wing Ding Up on…
Like you needed more proof that white supremacists are lame and talentless Are you painfully white, and hate Jews, diversity, Mexicans, and black folk (though not necessarily in that order)? Do you find yourself googly-eyed whenever Adolf Hitler is on the History Channel, or end up salivating over documentaries concerning the 1995 Oklahoma City…
Judicial Watch, a non-profit group based in Washington D.C., wants the state Attorney General’s Office to find a way to reduce the paycheck of Police Chief Jack Harris. The group wrote a letter to Attorney General Terry Goddard recently, asking him to file a lawsuit against the Phoenix Police Pension…
The video of the man who tried to feed a six-week-old kitten to a python has surfaced, and this guy is a bigger dirt bag than originally anticipated.You can see the video here, but if you ever want to smile again, we suggest you just take our word for it;…
As ASU’s status as a “party school” has declined in recent years, we should have known that you can’t keep a good dog down.Tempe police say that on Thursday and Saturday of last week, they made more than 90 party-related arrests at The Vue, a swanky student apartment complex located…
Chandler Police arrested two people in connection with the beating death of a 3-year-old child Monday.Police say that the child’s mother, 26-year-old Susan Witbracht, and her boyfriend, 23-year-old Dauntorian Sanders, beat the toddler with a belt until she was covered in bruises and had stopped breathing.”Speaking to the investigators, they’ve…
Our most recent cover story on local philanthropist/real-estate player/art collector and, now, accused arsonist Michael Marin elicited a bunch of E-mails and calls, many of them rabid (see example of typical commenter in photo below). Readers seemed to be incensed by Mr. Marin’s alleged audacity in claiming that he had escaped his…
The wife of Arizona Senator John McCain is “heading” up a cause near and dear to her heart — headaches.On September 10th, Cindy McCain will give the keynote speech at the Annual Meeting of the International Headache Society in Philadelphia to discuss the global headache epidemic.The International Headache Society is…
According to national statistics, you are likely to see more toothless meth-heads roaming the streets of Phoenix than almost anywhere in the country. As a result, Phoenicians have a new anti-meth ad campaign to look forward to, compliments of the federal government.If it’s even half as terrifying as the horrific…
The Maricopa County Elections Department and Recorder’s Office announced this morning it had found “reasonable cause to believe that a number of individuals and entities” have violated the state’s campaign finance laws. According to the announcement: The finding was hand delivered to the Office of County Attorney Andrew Thomas this morning…
How do you spell “relief”? Here’s a hint, it sure as heck ain’t Z-A-V-A-D-A. That’s because last night the mustachioed left-hander upended the Arizona Diamonbacks’ chances of taking two straight against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chavez Ravine by forcing in the game’s winning run on a walk. Here’s the…
Uranium mining could resume near the Grand Canyon this year, after the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality issued an air-quality permit to Denison Mines. The company plans to work the Arizona 1 mine, which hasn’t been mined for two decades. Conservationists and Native American groups oppose the mining, and express…
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: Anti-Vaccine Ron Paul Insaniacs (aka, “Ronulans”) Rousted by Phoenix PD, and Man Could I Care…
According to police, a Mesa man tried feeding a kitten to a python, and in his infinite wisdom, videotaped it.But wait, it gets worse.Against the better judgment of mother nature, the python showed the kitten mercy. Unfortunately, the scumbag who allegedly tried to feed the kitten to the python didn’t.Police…
