The mother of the three-year-old girl, and the mother’s boyfriend were officially charged with the child’s murder yesterday by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.Police say the child’s mother, 26-year-old Susan Witbracht, and her boyfriend Dauntorian Sanders, 23, both of Chandler, beat the toddler with a belt until she was covered in…
A Phoenix charter school believes that when it comes to a “biased” news report, the best defense is a good offense. After Channel 3 News (KTVK-TV) aired a sensationalized report about asbestos at North Pointe Preparatory, the school published a retort prominently on its home page headlined, “Faltering Station Creates News. The un-bylined article (which we…
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If a naked baby is porn, what exactly is the stuff the rest of us watch?That’s what a Peoria family is probably wondering after they had their children taken from them, and put into state custody after a Wal-Mart worker contacted authorities about some family photos it developed.Lisa and A.J. Demaree…
A high-level aide to Governor Jan Brewer has quit, making him the second member of the Brew Crew to jump off the sinking ship in the last six weeks. Brian McNeil, deputy chief of staff of operations for Brewer, handed the governor his resignation yesterday. McNeil bailed in the midst of the tumultuous budget…
By playing a solid nine innings of baseball Wednesday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks helped keep the race to win the National League West an interesting one. In their 4-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chase Field, Dan Haren was excellent, the defense was airtight, and strikeout king Mark…
Three Fountain Hills high school students have admitted to vandalizing cars in the neighborhood and tagging them with racist imagery and slurs. The only suspect being named is Alex Castellanos, 18. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the students didn’t have a racial motive, and they will be charged with…
Why do Mexicans make the sign of mucho dinero with a gap between their thumb and index fingers, as if holding an imaginary wad of bills between both fingers? El Zorro Chupagringos Because if a pendejo like you can get the gesture, imagine us normal folks? Why do Mexicans who…
FOX HOUNDED You accuse me of lying?: [New Times writers Sarah Fenske and Ray Stern] spent three full days with all those documents and this is [all they] can come up with (“The Man Behind the Curtain,” September 3; see also “Outfoxed,” August 27)? The hearing on August 31 was…
It’s entirely possible that my dog is on crack. Yes, it seems cruel to libel him this way when he shows none of the worst signs of drug addiction. He’s never stolen from me to finance a habit; he hasn’t lost weight or suffered from hallucinations. But, honestly, there’s no…
Editor’s note: All interviews with parents were conducted in Spanish and translated to English. When Alfonso Uribe was 2 years old, he started banging his head against a wall. Alarmed, his mother took him to a doctor. The doctor didn’t speak Spanish, and Eulalia Uribe didn’t speak English. There was no translator…
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: Laine Lawless Met with Shawna Forde and Accomplice Hours After Arivaca Killings, Says Report Up…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is so concerned about recent hate crimes in his hometown of Fountain Hills, he decided to cancel a trip to Tucson today for a planned speech. The weird part is that he posted a message on his Twitter account at about 3 p.m. today that he…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Please see our update at the end of this post.Andy Boy, you don’t want to go there.That’s all we could think about after we read a nasty little attack on our coverage of the Bryant Wilkerson trial at the conservative blog www.sonoranalliance.com — posted by supporters of Maricopa…
Congratulations America, the recession is almost unofficially over!Well, if you believe Valley businesses that have declared September 17 the official end of our current national economic woes.If it was that easy, why the hell didn’t they do this six months ago? Not only are all of our economic problems soon to…
You gotta know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em, and Governor Jan Brewer is clinging to the idea of a 1-cent sales tax increase like grim death.”I still believe in the referral,” she says today at a speech at the East Valley Institute of Technology in…
Yesterday we reported that a man wearing a monkey mask to evade speed cameras was ticketed 37 times for speeding.Turns out that’s just how many tickets police handed Dave Vontesmar. The number of tickets he actually earned is epic.Department of Public Safety officials say he has actually racked up more than 90…
A long, long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was no “Sheriff” Joe Arpaio. But in the mid-1980s, there was a ex-DEA agent named Joe Arpaio who was selling flights into space from a Scottsdale travel firm. New Times has written about Arpaio’s former life as a space…
[jump] Suzi claims that other investigators have been trained on how to keep up with her Web site, and she feels comfortable in trying something utterly new with her life. She can’t wait to get to her new job at Mesa Community College as an Environmental Coordinator, which sounds suspiciously…
What could be more relaxing than a week on your own private island in the Pacific Ocean? Well, for one Arizona congressman, the answer is to do it alone with little more than snorkeling gear, a water desalinization pump, and a Hawaiian sling to spear fish.Mesa Congressman Jeff Flake opted out…
If you like what Andrew Thomas has done for Maricopa County, you’re in luck; he might be taking the Andy show statewide.That’s right; Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas announced that he’s forming an exploratory committee to look at a potential run for Arizona attorney general in 2010.If Thomas hopes to replace…
Mexican flag-burnin’ nativist Laine Lawless may have some ‘splainin’ to do. According to a report in the Everett, Washington Daily Herald, the newspaper that’s been the most dogged in following their hometown minutewoman and accused child-killer Shawna Forde, Lawless may have visited with Forde and an alleged accomplice hours after a…
