Downtown Tempe will no longer be the feeding ground of disreputable towing companies, thanks to changes by the city council. Visitors to the urban hotspot around Mill Avenue fell victim for years to highly aggressive towing companies that hooked vehicles up within minutes of an errant parking job. Hapless drivers were shaken…
Sinan Fazlovic, a Bosnian Muslim who moved to the United States in 1999, thought he had an understanding about his long beard when he was hired in 2005 as a jail guard for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have taken the job, he says in a lawsuit…
You know it’s taken a turn for the surreal when an obnoxious lout like William Gheen is calling you a racist. Gheen is a nasty piece of work, the founder of the extremist nativist Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which is headquartered in Raleigh, NC, burial place of Senator Jesse Helms…
New Times’ Valley Fever blog strives to give readers the best possible information about how the photo enforcement system works, from the first strobe of the flash to last minute of your Traffic Survival School (which, if you’re willing to exercise your rights and get lucky, you won’t have to…
Dan Haren set the pace for the Arizona Diamondbacks with a seven-hit, two-run, eight-strikeouts, no-walks performance in eight innings on the mound Thursday night.He improved his record to 4-4.And he got something he’s been denied in several starts this season: run production from his offense. Precisely, Arizona batters got 11 hits and five…
A 22 year-old Tuscon woman has been charged in the death of a Tuscon police officer. Lluvia Alejandra Dominguez was cited for failure to yield after hitting officer Peter Mannino while he was on his way home from a shift…Scottsdale resident Lawrence Cutler has donated a letter written by former President…
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: Medical Examiner Holds Marcia Powell’s Remains as Fiduciary Seeks Next of Kin Up on the…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Fields ruled today that the criminal case against County Supervisor Don Stapley won’t get sent back to a grand jury for reconsideration. Stapley’s lawyers still have a chance on Tuesday to convince Fields that he should dismiss 114 felony counts of failing to disclose…
The remains of 48-year-old Marcia Powell, who died May 20 after being confined to a human cage at Perryville Prison for at least four hours in the punishing Arizona sun, are being held by the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office on the request of the county Fiduciary Office, MCME spokeswoman Gayle Milette…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin says he considers it a “miracle” he was able to hold and get to know his newborn son for three days before the boy died. Martin’s wife, Kerry, died on Monday a few hours after giving birth. In his statement today, Martin thanks the staff at…
The Maricopa County Anti-Corruption Effort, a.k.a. MACE, finally bagged an actual criminal. Make that a family of criminals. MACE, created by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas, seems generally designed to bludgeon political opponents. But this is one case in which smoke really did become fire. It involves a dirty…
Maricopa County Animal Care and Control wants you to a adopt a “desperate housecat.” Or maybe even two.Last year, the number of stray cats taken in by the county tripled once summer began. They literally took in thousands of cats for which they didn’t have room — and you know…
The Arizona Guardian news site hung out a cyber-shingle for a new, online store chock full of paraphernalia sporting the start-up’s name.Perhaps a bit cheesy, but we wouldn’t overly fault the Guardian, a site started by laid-off journalists from the East Valley Tribune, for trying to scrape up a few…
Valley police have been practicing their driving skills in a video-game-like simulator on loan from the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board.Tolleson’s officers were required to train on the machine a couple of weeks ago, says the West Valley View. It’s housed in a 42-foot trailer that gets hauled…
This is what you a call a non-apology apology.U.S. Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano lashed out at the Canadian media yesterday, still ticked that people noticed a factual mistake she made last month while speaking about the 9/11 attacks. You might hear an apology in her statements to CTV –…
You couldn’t have blamed Arizona Diamondbacks fans for expecting the worst heading into Wednesday night’s 8-5 loss to the surging San Diego Padres at Chase Field. The light-hitting Snakes were about to face arguably the National League’s best power pitcher in Jake Peavy while countering with a young pitcher, Billy…
A young girl in Pima County died from the swine flu yesterday. The girl was the fourth person in Arizona to die from the virus. As of yesterday, the state has 534 confirmed cases of the disease…Phoenix Suns star Shaquille O’Neal was snapped by photo radar cameras twice on the…
JOe’s Goon Squad Joe idolizers are birds of a feather: If there was any doubt in people’s minds about whether neo-Nazis like J.T. Ready were associated with Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, it’s all erased now (“Ja, Joe!” Stephen Lemons, May 14)…
When Juan Tercero made the decision that quietly would define his life, he was wearing a T-shirt, green U.S. Army boxer shorts, and rubber shower thongs. Specialist Four Tercero, known as Tony, was chilling at Camp Eagle, a military base near the ancient city of Hue, Vietnam. It was November…
My question is simple: Can you please confirm the fact that there are doctors, lawyers, and other professionals living in Mexico? I’m a Mexican-American woman living in Chicago who had a heated discussion about that topic. My friend who is a teacher at a local school was of the opinion…
Abigail Brown was 14 years old — a high school freshman and a virgin — when some juniors and seniors got her drunk at a party and videotaped her having sex with them. The young men, go figure, had all the usual excuses. She was drunk, man! She was asking…
