Bravo to Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik for tonight’s news segment where he pays a visit to the modest residence of Legislative District 18 recall candidate Olivia Cortes, and stops by the homes of some of state Senate President Russell Pearce’s relatives to ask them why they circulated petitions for Cortes.As…
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:…
Attention all fair-weather sports fans, Johnny-come-latelys, and bandwagon riders: Arizona Diamondbacks playoff tickets are up for sale starting tomorrow morning. Even though you probably didn’t start following the team until they began dominating their division in June, now’s your chance to be in the house when this year’s astounding D-Backs…
Just got word that he defense team of Mark Goudeau, accused of murdering nine people in an infamous 2005-06 crime spree, will not be calling any witnesses to the stand at his ongoing trial…
A Phoenix man was arrested this morning for allegedly being a member — or former member — of the computer hacking group LulzSec, which claimed responsibility for the security breach of the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s computer system earlier this year.Cody Kretsinger, 23, was arrested after a grand jury…
There they were. All in one room. And there was remarkably no blood spilled.Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Attorney General Tom Horne. Gerald Richard, a law enforcement policy advisor for the AG’s Office. Phoenix Police Chief Joe Yahner. Among others…
Last week, Valley resident George Lindell was just your average painter/drummer driving to a grocery store. Now, thanks to some reckless driving, and an over-the-top account of a car wreck, he’s officially famous — well…Internet famous.Earlier this week we posted a video of Lindell describing a car wreck he’d been…
California Attorney General Kamala Harris has decided that she won’t review the San Diego County Sheriff Department’s findings that the bizarre death of Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of Scottsdale-based Medicis CEO Jonah Shacknai, was a suicide.Earlier this week, Shacknai wrote Harris a letter asking her to review the case –…
The bizarre deaths of two people at Luke Air Force Base over the weekend has been ruled a murder-suicide, authorities announced this morning.The bodies of Gaudioso Gamilla, 62, and Vilma Gamilla, 61, were found stabbed to death inside the base’s post office Sunday night after their son, who lives on…
Someone slashed Phoenix mayoral candidate Greg Stanton’s tires last night while he was at a fundraising event at an art gallery in Sunnyslope.A witness from a restaurant across the street reportedly saw a large male wearing a hood over his head slash two of the tires on Stanton’s gray sedan…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office confirmed to New Times earlier this week that the sheriff’s assigned an “elite posse” to look into President Barack Obama’s “fake birth certificate” before allowing his name on the presidential ballot in Arizona next year. In response to the embarrassment Arpaio’s decision to investigate…
James Arthur Ray, the Oprah-approved snakeoil salesman responsible for the deaths of three people, is set to be sentenced next month after getting convicted of three counts of negligent homicide — and he doesn’t think he belongs in prison.Ray considers himself a self-help guru — the three deaths for which…
I am a half-breed, as they say (Mexican father, Anglo mother), and recently I’ve been reading a lot about the drug violence in Mexico. I’ve become increasingly disturbed by the way in which we Americans are directly contributing to this war by supplying the demand for drugs while still making…
BROCK ‘N’ ROLL Fulton Brock must resign immediately: It’s very apparent that [Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton] Brock was protecting his wife and daughter long before the arrest of his wife (“Brocked Up,” James King, September 8). I actually felt a degree of empathy for him when this first hit the…
The most polite way to say it is that state Senate President Russell Pearce, facing a November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18, struggles mightily with the truth. In fact, he seems to struggle with it anytime he’s in front of a camera or a microphone. Most recently, he…
Just after noon on December 15, 2009, a Tempe police detective sent a very specific e-mail about how to conduct a child pornography investigation to this private address: detectiveoneal32[at]ma.com. Detective Burke Mattlin was writing from his work computer to a former colleague, Shaquille O’Neal — a.k.a. Shaq, The Big Cactus,…
Politics is an inherently dishonest profession. By contrast, most religions, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints specifically, mandate that adherents be honest in all dealings with their fellow men and women. So perhaps it’s no great revelation that mass schizophrenia has taken hold of the deeply Mormon,…
El Mirage city officials, cops and firefighters filled up their gas tanks at the city’s only gas station for more than a year and a half without any qualms about the fuel prices.That’s back when Joe David, the shop owner, was a political ally.But now that David started opposing a…
Here is the long awaited second video from my colleague, Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman, culled from the shenanigans that took place at a recent GOP Legislative District 19 meeting in Mesa. For an intro to the players and what’s going on, read my initial blog on this meeting, here, and…
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 Arizona Diamondbacks’ recently dormant bats finally came alive this afternoon, and it couldn’t have been at a better time. The locals held on to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-5 at Chase Field in front of a lively crowd of about 25,000, all of whom seemed well-aware that the team…
Oprah-approved snake-oil salesman James Arthur Ray says he won’t be hosting sweat lodge events anymore, which is a great decision considering the last time he did, three people died and dozens were injured.Ray is currently awaiting sentencing after being found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide in the deaths…
