Against the Lakers, Amar’e Stoudemire looked like crap, scoring a measly eight points. On Sunday night against Toronto, the star atoned for his worthlessness in L.A. by playing one of his all-around best games of the season. Stoudemire scored 30 points and had eight rebounds as the Phoenix Suns beat…
Depending on the week, the Arizona Cardinals have one of the most impressive offenses in the NFC — if not the NFL. This was one of those weeks. In the Cardinals’ 31-20 thumping of the Seattle Seahawks (3-6) yesterday in Glendale, the now 6-3 team’s offensive arsenal was on display. …
Vice President Joe Biden will be in the Valley today for the first time since being elected. Biden will attend a fundraiser for Arizona Democrats and then hold a roundtable discussion about how stimulus money is benefiting Arizona at Sky Harbor International Airport… A Chinese solar-panel company announced Sunday that it will…
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: Up on the Sun: UPDATE: King Khan & BBQ Miss St. Louis Gig, Face Possible Legal Trouble…
Congressman Jeff Flake spoke to the College Republicans at Arizona State University last night, and it turns out, he’s not too thrilled about the healthcare bill that narrowly passed the house over the weekend. “The worst piece of legislation I’ve ever seen,” Flake said. In fairness, Flake added that the…
Management of Arizona and New Mexico’s small population of re-introduced Mexican gray wolves will be returned to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service following a lawsuit by environmentalists. A news release by the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups that sued, states that wolf management had been heading…
Last week, the librarian at Camelback High School got an unexpected package in the mail — two books that were checked out in 1959. Along with the books, a $1,000 money order for “late fees.”When she got the package, librarian Georgette Bordine thought “here we go again.”…
In a speech today before the Center for American Progress, the think-tank that essentially acts as the Obama administration’s gray matter, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spoke about comprehensive immigration reform, mostly from a law-enforcement perspective. Afterwards, Napolitano fielded questions about her old Arizona political ally Sheriff Joe…
Former East Valley Tribune scribe and co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Paul Giblin, is heading to Afghanistan.The Arizona Guardian announced this morning that Giblin will be working in Afghanistan for a year as a civilian spokesman for the U.S. Military…
A writer at a Web site called Examiner.com has a beef with New Times and has called for our (gasp!) expulsion from the state of Arizona. Get in line: Many have demanded this over the years.In an article written yesterday, the Examiner’s “libertarian examiner,” Daniel Heller, got pissy over an event notice for a book-signing…
Arizona Cardinals receiver Sean Morey, who has already committed to donate what’s left of his concussion-rattled brain to science, admitted Thursday that he played in last week’s game against “Da Chicago Bears” with another concussion…
The photog who went a round with Mike Tyson at LAX on Wednesday says he never touched the former heavyweight champ. Tony Echevarria claims he was merely asking Tyson questions, when Iron Mike snapped and started beating him, breaking his camera and ultimately sending him to the hospital…
Not much good has happened for the 3-5 Seattle Seahawks since the Arizona Cardinals smoked them on October 18 at Qwest Field by a 27-3 count. (Arizona outgained Seattle in total yardage, 344 to 128.) The next week, they were manhandled by the Dallas Cowboys. The following game, they beat…
Welcome back to reality, Phoenix Suns fans. After your team amassed a surprising 8-1 record over the past two weeks (including spectacular wins over Boston and N’awlins), it’s likely you thought that Steve Nash, Amar’e Stoudemire, and the rest were going to run roughshod over the rest of the NBA’s…
Local workers unions and Safeway and Fry’s grocery stores have reached a tentative settlement on a collective-bargaining agreement, averting a worker’s strike. Union spokeswoman Ellen Anreder says terms of the settlement, reached late Thursday, will not be disclosed until union members have voted…A free bus route serving downtown Mesa has seen…
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: Lou Dobbs Delivers His Head to Hispanics, But That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing Up…
Yesterday morning, Scottsdale police got a call from the Paiute Neighborhood Center saying a man was exposing himself to kids at a bus stop in the 6600 block of East Osborn Road.When they got there, he was gone.This morning, police figured they would watch the area, just in case the perp…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Susan Brnovich has set a “firm trial” date of December 14 in the case of alleged “Salon Bandit” and former New Times scribe Joe Watson. Brnovich ordered all subpoenaed witnesses to appear in court on that date. Watson, who has been incarcerated in county jails…
In what seems to be a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the Valley, Phoenix Coyotes President Douglas Moss is pulling out all the stops to try to boost attendance at Jobing.com Arena.Yesterday, the team announced the “Coyotes Express,” a free shuttle service to drive people from the East…
The superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District did something this week that may sound nuts — she gave back a $20,000 bonus.Superintendent Elizabeth Celania-Fagen is in her second year as head of the district and evidently doing a good job, so the district’s governing board gave her a $20,000…
Time Magazine has named Arizona State University President Michael Crow one of the 10 “best college presidents” in the country — in part, because he ruined what was traditionally a perfectly good party school…
One thing we failed to point out in our previous post about Mike Tyson’s latest brush with the law is that the former heavyweight champ is currently on probation here in Arizona.In case you forgot, in 2007, Iron Mike was convicted of misdemeanor DUI and felony cocaine possession…
