By the time a must-win game for the Phoenix Suns rolls around, we’re usually breaking out the sunscreen and decorating the Maypole. This year, desperation’s come early. In the race for the Western Conference playoffs, the Suns sit in ninth place in an eight-team sprint following their disastrous 0-4 road…
Here’s some news: teenagers party. But Phoenix police say the parties are getting out of hand, with partygoers forming “crews” and taking over abandoned buildings or setting up in the desert. Police say such bashes can lead to vandalism, assaults, and (surprise!) underage drinking…A thoroughbred horse found wandering free in…
We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Valley Fever: Brewer vs. Nader: The U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear…
This just in: It’s okay to arrest newspaper owners under the cover of night. And it’s perfectly ethical for the county attorney to appoint the sheriff’s lawyer as a special “independent” prosecutor in a case where the sheriff is the “victim.” And if that “independent” prosecutor’s conflicts are so glaring that he quickly…
Who has the time, or motivation to listen to bigoted KTAR blowhard Darrell Ankkkarlo’s b.s. on a regular basis? Once in a while I’ll flick on PHX’s Glenn Beck-wannabe, just to see if KTAR’s fired his lame ass yet. But you’d really have to be a glutton for earaches to tune…
Maricopa County Superior Court jurors in the Doug Grant murder case have been deliberating his fate for 10 hours and counting. Grant (not the Jason-looking Doug Grant to the left) is charged with killing his wife Faylene back in September 2001 at their Gilbert home. With devout Mormon Faylene’s written blessing, Grant married his…
Although the ASU men’s basketball team didn’t win the Pac-10 Conference championship this year, Sun Devils guard James Harden was named Pac-10 Player of the Year today by conference coaches.The 6-foot-5 sophomore led the Pac-10 in scoring with 20.8 points per game. He also averaged 1.7 steals, 4.1 assists, and…
Phoenix-based property management company Pro Properties, Inc. must pay a $7,500 fine for failing to provide federally required lead-warning statements to renters of at some of its properties. The company’s failure to disclose violates the U.S. Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act, which requires landlords of housing constructed before 1978 to…
The Supreme Court has upheld a decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that overturned an Arizona law regulating how independent candidates can get on Arizona ballots. Presidential hopeful Ralph Nader sued the state after Arizona ballot laws caused him to withdraw his candidacy in the state back in…
Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Company has proposed building a mega-resort in Mesa that would include a convention space, retail shops, and an 18-hole golf course. But the company’s dream of turning the East Valley into a major metropolitan hub for conventions and high-profile visitors could be quashed at the polls tomorrow.Gaylord…
There’s only bad news about the fading Phoenix Suns, whose chances of making the Western Conference playoffs get slimmer by the game. The sad thing is, the Suns could’ve won every one of the past four road games in Orlando, Miami, Houston, and San Antonio. They were in each game…
He didn’t work a runway in pink underwear, but Sheriff Joe Arpaio still calls Charles Barkley a “model inmate” after the former Suns star talked to 200 teenage inmates on Saturday in Tent City, where he served three days for a DUI…Andrew Segal, 19, a student at U of A,…
We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Valley Fever:Should the Phoenix Suns Have Gotten Rid of Amar’e Stoudemire When…
Two State Bar complaints against Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas have been dismissed. Whether these are the last two complaints against Thomas, or how other complaints against any of his staff members may be doing — well, we’re just not sure. But it seems like Thomas may be off the…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office added a special bulletin to its Web site today about escaped child rapist Adrian Cruz, displaying more photos of Cruz in the hopes someone will spot him. Scroll down to see the new pictures. As you’ll recall, Cruz was the guy who slipped past inattentive…
On the heels of recent articles across the United States that claim heroin use is surging, the Arizona Department of Public Safety says it recently broke up a major heroin ring based in Chandler. Detectives worked for seven months on the case with members of a northern Arizona anti-drug task force,…
The Phoenix Suns are cringe-worthy these days, after losing the first two games on a four-game road trip at a time when they desperately need to win to squeak into the Western Conference playoffs. (We’re praying for a miracle tonight against the Tracy McGrady-less Rockets in Houston, before they meet the Manu…
You know the feeling: You want to convince people you’re a killer, and no one buys it. Never had that feeling? Well, Gilbert resident Stanely Cook Jr. sure has. The Arizona Republic reports that although Cook confessed to a reporter that he beat Dale Harrell to death in January, police say no evidence justifies that…
State Senator Russell Pearce’s plan to add a state surcharge on the cost of taking defensive driving school to pay for the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s crime lab contains one major problem: A $45 surcharge on motorists taking the classes already exists, and Pearce’s proposal for a new surcharge of…
Should the State of Arizona carve out an exemption to its marijuana ban for the pot-worshipping, neo-Zoroastrian Church of Cognizance? That was but one of the legal issues at stake during oral arguments on February 18 before the Arizona Supreme Court in the case of the State of Arizona vs…
There’s nothing like knowing something is worth an expensive pricetag — as long as you’ve got little choice but to pay for it. Days after a prominent Arizona Republic story about how lawmakers are scrambling to find funds for the cash-poor Arizona Department of Public Safety crime lab, the agency…
One last word on photo enforcement this morning (unless it isn’t): A reader recently sent us a few pages of info obtained from a Phoenix company called “City Photo Radar Information LLC,” which explains how to avoid the process servers who are sometimes dispatched when motorists blow off speed camera…
