Chandler Police Seek Hit-and-Run Driver
The Chandler Police Department is looking for a guy who sped off after hitting a man with his car early this morning — an alarming trend here in the Valley of the Sun…
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Showing 21891 - 21912 of 32709Authorities Need Help Catching “The First-Aid Bandit” Suspected of Robbing Four Valley Banks
There’s a new bandit in town, and authorities have given him what is possibly the least-cool moniker since the infamous “Salon Bandit.” The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for the man it is calling “The First-Aid Bandit.”Don’t let the name fool you, this guy isn’t running around slapping Band-Aids…
Famed ASU Baseball Coach Pat Murphy Resigns Unexpectedly Today
Word from ASU today that its longtime head baseball coach Pat Murphy has resigned is a mind-blower on every level. The immediate explanation? None. We haven’t been able to contact one of our favorite coaches yet, though we suspect that Murph will call back at some point soon. For sure, university…
East Valley Tribune Announces Potential Buyer Two Weeks After Announcing it Would Be Shutting Down December 31
The East Valley Tribune may have a new lease on life, just two weeks after the failing publication announced it would be closing its doors on December 31.At the time of the closure, Trib CFO Mark McEachen told employees that the closing might be “a good marketing tool” to lure…
DPS Arrests Real Estate Agent Caught By Traffic Cams 66 Times
A prolific Valley speeder wasn’t quite fast enough to escape the long arm of the Department of Public Safety.DPS officers had been looking for 29-year-old Elvis Amir Saloum since July and finally caught up with him Thursday at a mall near his Peoria home…
John McCain and J.D. Hayworth in Dead Heat in Rasmussen Poll, but Will Foghorn Leghorn Take the Plunge?
A new Rasmussen Reports poll just out shows KFYI lip-flapper and former congressman J.D. Hayworth in a dead heat with U.S. Senator John McCain for the 2010 GOP primary nod. Hayworth is within the 4 percent margin of error, trailing McCain 43 to 45 percent with likely Republican primary voters…
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Hundreds of Lobsters “Murdered” at Tucson Event After PETA-Endorsed “Humane” Killing Method Falls Through
A new device developed by a British inventor supposedly kills lobsters “humanely” before they’re cooked.But when PETA attempted to bring the device to Arizona last weekend for a lobster bake fundraiser for the Child and Family Resource Center in Tucson, things didn’t quite go according to plan and PETA was…
Salvador Reza Discusses Joe Arpaio on GRITtv, and Dennis Gilman’s Video on Nazis in Arizona
Dennis Gilman’s outdone himself yet again in his latest video, this time focusing on the November neo-Nazi march to the state Capitol, and the links between the Nazis and the nativists. It’s a creepy, almost apocalyptic vision of Arizona dominated by racist politicians such as state Senator Russell Pearce, done…
Robbers Steal the Ashes of a Peoria Family’s Dead Son
Peoria police are looking for the person or persons responsible for robbing the home of a Peoria family. On the list of missing items: The ashes of the family’s dead son. Lindsay Grannis, the child’s mother, says when she came home yesterday afternoon, her garage door was wide open. When…
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Can ’09 Redbirds Go 8-0 on the Road? First, They Have to Get by a Super Bowl of Sorts in St. Louis.
Talk about a daft stat. If the Arizona Cardinals get back to the Super Bowl in 2010, it’ll likely be thanks to their nutty road-field advantage. Sitting pretty with a road record of 4-0 (6-3 overall) in ’09, Ken Whisenhunt’s Redbirds got smoked on the road last season by scores…
Suns Drop One They Were “Supposed to Win” to the New Orleans Hornets. Next Up: Detroit Pistons on Sunday.
You’re kidding, right? The Phoenix Suns’ game Thursday night against the Hornets in New Orleans was supposed to be a gimme. Before the game, fans and local sports talk radio hosts had already chalked up win number 11 for the Suns. “The Suns’ second team alone could beat the Hornets,”…
Hot Links: Power Outages, Sneaky Toddlers, and Photo Radar
Representative Doug Quelland must give up his seat in the Legislature. Quelland was found to have violated campaign-finance rules earlier this year. Quelland plans to appeal the ruling in Maricopa Superior Court…A fire broke out in the auditorium at Red Mountain High School in Mesa last night. Fire officials believe the fire started…
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November 19 In Blogs: Jaenelle Antas, MC Hammer, Thanksgiving, and World Toilet Day
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: Feathered Bastard: Blue Boy Video: See the Creation of the African-American Face That Was Too Much for…
Hard Times in Glendale; Coyotes Slashing Prices on Expensive Lower-Level Seats
Anyone want to go to a Phoenix Coyotes game, or is that a stupid question — the team has the lowest attendance record of any team in the NHL. What if you could sit in the lower level on the cheap? If that’s enough to lure you to Glendale, you’re…
Blue Boy Video: See the Creation of the African-American Face That Was Too Much for an Arizona Town
Thanks to New Times Web Editor Jonathan McNamara, you can now watch Phoenix muralist Francisco Garcia creating the Blue Boy image that so freaked out the little town of Pine-Strawberry, Arizona, that he was ordered to take it down and replace it with the image of a cabin. McNamara squeezed…
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Holocaust Denier David Irving’s Uberbabe Assistant Jaenelle Antas Ready to Bounce According to Hacked Emails
I haven’t given much thought to Holocaust-denier David Irving since July, when I covered his appearance at the Phoenix diner Jerry’s. There he spoke to a group including local neo-Nazis such as Harry Hughes, J.T. Ready, and Jesse Curnow, as well as Mexican-flag-burning lesbian nativist Laine Lawless. Though the event…
Approved! State of Arizona Gets $700 Million Loan Just to Keep Lights On
Remember when banks were lending money to people that had no means of paying it back and the entire economy came crashing down?The Bank of America apparently has no memory of this because it just approved a $700 million loan to the Arizona state government, which happens to already be…
AZ Senator Verschoor Doesn’t Show Up For Vote During Special Session, Budget Bill Doesn’t Pass, and State’s Still Short $2 Billion
As we reported this morning, the special session of the Legislature was expected to be over today, and legislators were expected to agree on a number of cuts to help bridge the state’s $2 billion budget gap.That didn’t happen.In what is becoming almost tradition, the Republicans in the Senate came…
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Tucson Citizen Reporter Claims She Was Stiffed By Gannett When Paper Went Bust
A former journalist at the now-Web-only Tucson Citizen is claiming that Gannett, the paper’s parent company, didn’t live up to its end of the bargain after the 138-year-old paper went bust back in May.Alice Flick, the longtime TC scribe, who wrote under the byline A.J. Flick, claims Gannett screwed her…
Today is World Toilet Day; Group Asks Phoenicians, “Are You Squatting?”
There seems to be a day designated for just about everything, and toilets are no exception.Today, November 19, is “World Toilet Day” and a group called “The World Toilet Organization” is encouraging Phoenicians to participate in a global event called “The Big Squat.”…
Arizona Grenade Bust May Be Linked to Similar Bust in Mississippi
On Tuesday, the Department of Public Safety Announced it had arrested three people after finding 23 grenade casings and one live grenade in their possession. The weapons are suspected to have been headed to Mexico to fuel the drug wars going on between rival cartels. Coincidentally, a similar bust was…
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Legislative Special Session Expected to End Today; $400 Million Down, $1.6 Billion to Go
The legislature’s third special session is set to come to a close today, after legislators have seemingly managed to cut about a quarter of the state’s $2 billion budget gap. The majority of the cuts fell in the lap of the K-12 education and social programs under the Department of Economic…