We remember Debra Weyermann from our long-ago days trolling for stories for the Sierra Vista and Bisbee dailies down at the Mexican border. She was known as “D” in those days when she covered the courts for the Arizona Daily Star, and did a bang-up job. Fast-forward to now: Weyermann’s…
No More Deaths, a Tucson-based human-rights advocacy group, continues its push to end the abusive treatment immigrants suffer while in U.S. Border Patrol Custody.The group shares the stories of abuse, neglect, and humiliation of 13,000 people detained by the Border Patrol in a report released today — “A Culture of Cruelty:…
Litchfield Park resident Cherish Arroyo, 35, was arrested yesterday after police say she had sex with a 16-year-old boy. The boy, it turns out, is a teammate of Arroyo’s son on the Copper Canyon High School football team. Arroyo currently serves as treasurer of the team’s booster club.According to the…
State Senator Scott Bundgaard, facing an ethics complaint and possible expulsion from the Senate for his roadside fracas with his now former girlfriend and his invocation of legislative immunity, has filed an ethics complaint against three members of the state Senate Ethics Committee, which is currently set to hold hearings…
Bath salts, a designer drug that causes people to trip out, can apparently take average criminals and turn them into super-powered criminals with a penchant for violence.According to the Mesa Police Department, bath salts seem to be giving criminals “unusual strength,” particularly when they are confronted by cops.In fact, in…
An off-duty Department of Public Safety helicopter pilot, as well as two others, were killed in a head-on car wreck last night on the U.S. 93 north of Wickenberg.According to the DPS, Matthew Uhl, a 46-year-old civilian helicopter pilot with the DPS assigned to Kingman Air Rescue, was driving a…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has reportedly pulled today’s City Council’s agenda his recommendation to appoint his girlfriend, Elissa Mullany, to the Phoenix Aviation Advisory Board.Gordon wanted to appoint her to the aviation board to replace Art Hamilton, whose four-year term is expiring in December.The recommendation — as with all appointments…
About three weeks after failing to starve himself to death while rotting in a Texas prison, child-raping cult leader Warren Jeffs has been released from the hospital and taken back to the big house.Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, is serving…
Are the Arizona Diamondbacks stumbling, rather than charging, into the playoffs? After losing 5-3 to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Chase Field — the D-Backs’ fourth loss in their past six games — it appears they may be a little wobbly as they get a little closer to…
Mark Zuckerberg officially has the ability to piss off the entire world.Facebook (yet again) has made some unpopular changes — the degree to which we cannot even begin to explain (the computer geeks techies at ZDNet seem to have a grasp of what’s been changed and explain it all here)..In…
Since my recent column about well-known Phoenix mitigation specialist “Jameson Johnson,” aka, Jimmy Carroll Johnson, and his criminal record for armed robbery, a lot of folks have rushed to Johnson’s defense, arguing that his wrongdoing was all in the past, and since he had been doing good deeds locally, we…
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:…
Mesa thief Anthony Lopez Rios used a samurai sword in an attempt to steal a guy’s bicycle last night. More laughable than using a martial arts weapon to try to rob a bike, the robbery attempt netted precisely zero bikes — and Rios can now add “failed bike robber” to…
Convicted rapist Edward Hartley, by his own account, has a small penis. It’s so small, in fact, that he whipped it out in front of a 13-year-old girl he found at a bus stop to reassure her that if the two were to have sex, he wouldn’t hurt her.He also…
Seems like a decade ago that we wrote about the murder of 30-year-old Navneet Kaur, the estranged Ahwatukee wife of Avtar Grewal. We called the story “Snake on a Plane,” referring to Mr. Grewal’s midnight escape to India on a Continental Airlines flight. Here it is, The native of India…
Union leaders trying to negotiate a contract for bus drivers in Phoenix and Tempe aren’t making any progress with Veolia Transportation, the international firm that runs the cities bus operations.”A strike appears to be inevitable,” Michael Cornelius, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433 tells New Times about the…
Jonah Shacknai, the CEO of Scottsdale-based Medicis pharmaceutical company, has asked the California attorney general to review the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department’s finding that the death of his girlfriend was a suicide.Rebecca Zahau’s body was found naked, bound, and hanging from a balcony in the courtyard at Shacknai’s Coronado…
The skull of a human child that, until yesterday, was for sale on Craigslist has been turned over to authorities, Phoenix police confirm to New Times.Phoenix Sergeant Trent Crump told New Times yesterday that there is nothing illegal about possessing a human skull “unless you kill the person to get it.”A further…
Peter Normann, the Anthem doctor convicted of murder in the deaths of two of his patients, and manslaughter in the death of another, was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he was sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison.Normann’s sentencing hearing was delayed last week…
Valley resident George Lindell was driving to a Boston Market in north Phoenix to grab some grub last week, when he was rear-ended by an SUV. The SUV then swerved to avoid hitting another vehicle, causing the driver to lose control and crash into a utility poll, bringing down power…
Arizona Diamondbacks ace Ian Kennedy pitched a one-hit masterpiece through eight innings last night at Chase Field to win his 20th game — a milestone only reached by three other Diamondbacks pitchers (Randy Johnson, Curt Schilling, and Brandon Webb) in franchise history. But, more importantly, the D-Backs’ magic number was reduced to four…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Shadeaux14, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest. On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of Minnesota Congresswoman Michele…
