Mark Kelly, husband of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, spoke during an Arizona Democratic Party fundraiser at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix to salute the party’s grassroots volunteers.During his speech, the retired NASA astronaut, told the crowd that Giffords was excited for Greg Stanton to be Phoenix’s next mayor…
Facebook calls it a glitch, but a Scottsdale woman and her Phoenix lawyer want to be compensated for the social media site’s surreptitious tracking of Web browsing history.Former state Attorney General Grant Woods filed the federal complaint on Friday for his client, Sharon Beatty of Scottsdale. But Woods is asking…
The Arizona Cardinals got crushed 34-10 by the winless (until yesterday) Minnesota Vikings yesterday, which tends to happen when a team gives up 28 points in the first 13 minutes of the game.The first quarter for the Cards couldn’t have gone any worse.After having to punt on the first two…
An official “unusual event” was declared at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station west of Phoenix on Saturday after water in a junction box outside of reactor containment building caused an electrical short.KTAR (92.3 FM) radio is the only outlet that appears to have reported the incident, but maybe that’s…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Joe Arpaio’s aging goon squad for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest..We had 80 responses in the comment section of the post, which you can see by…
The Cinderella season of the Arizona Diamondbacks has sadly come to an end. The clock has finally struck midnight as the Milwaukee Brewers won 3-2 in 10 innings during the deciding Game Five of the NLDS this afternoon.The D-Backs didn’t go quietly as it was a wild roller coaster of…
A Buckeye woman came home on Wednesday to a shocking sight: A man she knew was performing oral sex on her mentally disabled, 19-year-old son.Her son is too severely disabled to speak or give consent to sexual activity, court records state. The woman called 9-1-1- after the 26-year-old suspect, Stephen…
Ten Arizona sheriffs — five Democrat, five Republican — gathered at the Arizona State Capitol on Friday to call for an independent investigation into the “Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal. The sheriffs held a news conference in front of the Arizona Peace Officers Memorial, decrying the “bloodshed” caused by the…
Tempe police officer Scott Saffell, 40, died yesterday afternoon in Ahwatukee after his personal motorcycle collided with a car that made a left-hand turn in front of him.This is one reason riding a motorcycle is risky: Other drivers. And the “car-makes-left-turn” collision is one of the most feared by riders.Phoenix…
Speaking of Ed Moriarity, the Montana lawyer recently helped a local boxer and boxing trainer file a lawsuit against Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, Janet Napolitano, and a raft of other defendants.Boxer Luis “Yori Boy” Campas and promoter Joe Diaz filed a $43 million claim against the county back…
A Washington, D.C.-based firm conducted a poll in the Phoenix mayor’s race that reveals Greg Stanton has a 19-point lead over his opponent Wes Gullett.Robbie Sherwood, a spokesman for Stanton, said the poll wasn’t commissioned or paid for by the Stanton for Mayor campaign.”I haven’t seen that poll and don’t…
d Moriarity, Lisa Aubuchon’s pro-bono lawyer from Montana, has helped represent celebrity clients from Imelda Marcos to the family of Karen Silkwood.According to his former partner, Gerry Spence, Moriarity was born under a mineshaft.Since his opening statement in the State Bar disciplinary hearings for former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas,…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is endorsing Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett, saying that he would work with them to fight illegal immigration. “Wes Gullett understands that the most sacred responsibility of city government is public safety,” Babeu said in a press release. “He’ll work with us, not against us,…
Dyan Castorena, the Arizona prison inmate who escaped custody by stealing a car last week, was taken back into custody yesterday, the Arizona Department of Corrections says.Castorena, who left a work crew at a car auction in a car she stole, was arrested just after 3p.m. yesterday at Casino Arizona…
Dennis Gilman’s video of Ryan’s press conference yesterdayAttorney Tom Ryan was in rare form Thursday afternoon as he faced the media with his client, Mary Lou Boettcher, the plaintiff in the lawsuit against sham candidate Olivia Cortes, and his co-counsel H. Micheal Wright. The scene was Mesa’s Wright House, owned…
At 11 a.m. today, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, and nine other Arizona sheriffs, will hold a press conference at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza at the State Capitol to discuss the federal government’s bungled gun trafficking sting, “Operation Fast and Furious.”Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will not be in…
In honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 20th “crime suppression” sweep, we’ve chosen the above photo of the sheriff’s youthfully challenged goon squad we snapped yesterday as the sheriff announced his raid on southwest Phoenix.To be fair, not all of the henchmen Arpaio picked for his sweep were of…
There’s good news and bad news following sham state Senate candidate Olivia Cortes’ announcement that she’s withdrawing from the LD18 Russell Pearce recall race.For starters she’s no longer a candidate (not that she was ever an actual candidate). The bad news: she hung in there long enough to keep her…
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:…
The feds launched a new assault in their fight against medical marijuana today, threatening to seize the property of California medical marijuana dispensaries unless they close within 45 days.If there’s no push-back from the states that have legalized weed for qualified patients, including Arizona, it looks like this could be…
Just looked at an e-mail from Jennifer Liewer, the on-the-spot public information officer for the Arizona Supreme Court:David Hendershott, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s disgraced former chief deputy, is set to testify next week in the disciplinary hearings for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.That ought to be good. After an…
When asked this afternoon why he spends so much time putzin’ around Maricopa County in search of illegal immigrants and petty criminals during his “crime suppression sweeps,” as opposed to focusing the resources of the sheriff’s office on more dangerous criminal activity, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the following:”I’m…
