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One in a blue moon, photo enforcement cameras do something other than make a profit off of momentarily careless drivers like Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. One Phoenix red-light camera helped nab a suspected motorcycle thief recently, says the Arizona Department of Public Safety.  …

Recent headline: “Clippers Crush Thunder.” Let’s hope it’s “Suns Burn Thunder” (don’t think about that too literally) after tonight’s game. But we digress: In what mad otherworld does the NBA’s perennial doormat, the L.A. Clippers, crush anybody? Well, on November 19, the mantle of NBA’s worst was seemingly passed from…

They can’t be serious. Democrats want Barack Obama to appoint Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer to some cushy federal post — doesn’t matter which one — so she won’t be governor when Janet Napolitano abandons the state to run Homeland Security. When that doesn’t work maybe state Dems will…

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:Hope for the Phoenix Suns was Reborn Against Portland — Despite…

A “green” public art project incorporated into Arizona State University’s new journalism building in downtown Phoenix puts on a slow-moving light show during the day as it funnels warm air up and out of a stairwell. After the project received extra attention during last week’s official dedication of the Walter Cronkite…

Joel Sinclaire, a 46-year-old Democrat who ran un- successfully this year for Maricopa County Supervisor against Don Stapley, was found dead in his residence Sunday afternoon. Sinclaire’s family called police about 1:15 p.m. Sunday to report the death. When police arrived at the house near Happy Valley and Hayden roads, they found…

State Treasurer Dean Martin (at left) is named in a lawsuit against the state by a group of Arizona municipalities who don’t want to pay millions of dollars in new fees. And Martin hopes he and the state will lose. The treasurer sent a letter today (reprinted below) to state…

It’s about the fast-break points, stupid! The Phoenix Suns, though way off last year’s pace, had six in their weekend game against the Portland Trail Blazers. We wouldn’t say they dominated the Blazers, but they held on to win at home 102-92. In other words, hope was reborn, after the Suns’…

Conservatives have mixed feelings about what kind of job Janet Napolitano will do as Homeland Security chief, assuming she gets the job, especially on the subject of immigration. But today’s post by conservative blogger Debbie Schlussel makes it obvious the Democratic Napolitano faces scrutiny and open insults on a wider scale as…

People are settling into the idea that Janet Napolitano will leave the state to become the nation’s Homeland Security boss — it looks like a sure thing, as long as the FBI doesn’t dig up anything too interesting about her during the intense vetting process. Local and regional media continue…

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: Twilight: the Early Show at Tempe Marketplace South Park Episode…

Gary Karpin, the mouthy disbarred attorney-divorce mediator whose illegal courthouse antics cost his “clients” thousands of dollars and untold heartache, was sentenced on Friday afternoon to almost 16 years in prison. A courtroom packed mostly with the con artist’s victims listened intently as Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville…

Hot Topic is selling Twilight shwag, but the homemade fashions were much more popular this morning at Tempe Marketplace. The crowd for the 10:30 movie was strictly 30 and over (except for the toddlers and babies eager moms hauled along — hey, this was local author Stephenie Meyers’ crowd, The…

It’s really bothersome to watch whiny little twerps succeed, and it’s been a bitter pill seeing New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning get mad props after bordering on bust for his first three seasons. Super Bowl XLII MVP? Ooh, that burned…

Times are tough for Republicans, (nationally, anyway). While the Web site for the Democratic National Committee Democrats offers contributors nothing but a T-shirt in return for a donation, the Republicans have a whole online store dedicated to overpriced, tax-deductible gifts for supporters…

However well they might do this year, your Sunnies are a team on the decline; Nash and Shaq are AARP members by NBA standards. Portland’s either the league’s team of tomorrow, or its biggest bust. And which way the Blazers go depends on the bum foot of presumed superstar Greg…

Scott Coles with his second wife, Ashley Scott Coles’ family will auction off the deceased millionaire’s fine art and memorabilia collection on December 16 — at the same mansion where Coles took his life last June. Coles death shook the Phoenix business community this past year. He left behind three…

Last night’s episode of the popular animated show South Park, titled “The Ungroundable,” riffed on the popularity of local author Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books, while simultaneously taking a jab at Scottsdale.