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: Joe Arpaio Considers Run for Guv According to Phoenix Business Journal, David Hendershott Considers Exile…
A judge has delayed his decision on whether to ban LifeLock from setting fraud alerts on its customers’ credit bureau accounts, giving the Tempe-based company a few weeks’ breathing room. Federal Judge Andrew Guilford has already ruled LifeLock’s scheme of setting fraud alerts doesn’t comply with the Fair Credit Reporting…
Has your sparkling bundle of joy turned into an adolescent monster? If so, you’re in luck; the ABC reality show “Supernanny” is coming to town in search of the Valley’s most misbehaved minors.The show will be holding open casting calls on Saturday at The Phoenix Zoo and Wet ‘n’ Wild…
A robbery gone wrong ended when the victim upped the ante on the would-be robber by pulling a sword.Police say that the suspect and the victim, who are believed to have been friends, went to a check cashing store near the victim’s house on Thursday.The two men in their thirties,…
The lawsuit filed by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office against county management — the result of disputed ownership of a computer system — will now move to Pima County, the Maricopa Superior Court has ruled.This looks like a victory for the sheriff’s side: His lawyer’s had asked for an “emergency…
Phoenix is starting to live up to its “streets of rage” reputation.Early this morning, police say a Phoenix man cut another man off with his car near West Indian School Road and North 51st Avenue just after midnight.Given Phoenix’s No. 6 ranking on the list of cities with the worst…
You would think that city residents would welcome church bells as a means of drowning out the police sirens and gunshots often heard in Phoenix neighborhoods. Apparently not.In June, a Catholic bishop was sentenced to three years of probation and 10 days in jail (suspended) for violating a noise ordinance…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be considering a run for Governor of Arizona, according to Phoenix Business Journal reporter Mike Sunnucks. If he does so, Chief Deputy David Hendershott might be considering self-imposed exile in Honduras. Or maybe Shanghai. For Captain Joel Fox, center of the SCA scandal and G. Gordon Liddy-wannabe, there’s always harakiri. This…
Holy crap, she really did it!On Thursday, Governor Jan Brewer signed a portion of the state budget that allows for the sale of state buildings, including both houses of the state legislature, the state fairgrounds, prisons, and several other state owned buildings.The plan, which drew national attention after Brewer brought…
President Obama is heading back to school next Tuesday, and Arizona Schools Superintendent Tom Horne doesn’t like it. You’d think he’d be thrilled; maybe now someone will pass the AIMS test. Horne gave President Obama a lesson in educating children in a statement he issued Tuesday, and when the fearless leader of one…
Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill yesterday which allows for the sale of some of Arizona’s public properties. House Bill 2010 dictates the state try to raise as much as $735 million by selling state-owned buildings and then leasing them back. Buildings that could be sold include the House 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: Feathered Bastard: Steven Anderson’s Yuma City Warrant for “Disorderly Conduct,” and RP4409’s Moronic Misuse of the Word…
As we sit on the cusp of kissing the daunting 110 degree days goodbye for eight glorious months, we can be certain of one thing: They’re coming.That’s right; as the majority of the country prepares to freeze its ass off for the rest of the year, as Phoenicians we prepare…
Sedona man Jack Louis Sporich–also known as the “Pied Piper of Pedophiles”–was arrested yesterday after being extradited from Cambodia for molesting four children under the age of 14. He and two others– Erik Peeters, 41, Ronald “John” Boyajian, 59 –were caught as part of the international sex sting “Operation Twisted…
Pedro Ultreras’ stark, uncompromising film 7 Soles (7 Suns) may be the most timely film out now. The movie depicts a band of Mexican migrants enduring a living nightmare to cross the Sonoran desert in the hopes of reaching Phoenix. Your last chance to see it any time soon will…
Governor Jan Brewer signed one of seven budget bills Thursday that provides the funding for the Department of Public Safety.It’s about freakin’ time!DPS was on the verge of a financial freak-out as its cash flow was drying up, and it wasn’t sure if its 2,200 employees would even get paid…
John McCain’s presidential dreams just won’t die.Our fearless senator took the stage of The Tonight Show last night, and joked with host Conan O’Brien about demanding a recount of the 2008 presidential election.”I land in the airport today, LAX, and I’m walking through and everybody said, ‘I loved for you. I voted…
Construction workers just north of Tucson stumbled upon a rattlesnake on their job site about three weeks ago.Not too uncommon; this is Arizona.Well, the thing had two heads — not necessarily a sign of the apocalypse, but something veterinarians at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum say they haven’t seen in their…
Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen called for an investigation into Attorney General Terry Goddard at a press conference yesterday — but failed to mention that Goddard’s office is currently investigating Pullen.In fact, in Pullen’s remarks, which you can see in this video posted to www.sonoranalliance.com, the state party chairman…
The long arm of the law gave the drug company Pfizer Inc. a couple of pretty firm slaps Wednesday, one of which will bring close to $1 million to Arizona.As part of a settlement for a multi-state federal lawsuit, the company has agreed to pay $33 million to 41 different…
The state budget battle has prevented Arizona from complying with a federal mandate that requires states to enter information about sex offenders into a national database. The Adam Walsh Act of 2006 requires states to submit information about their most prolific perverts by July of this year, and Arizona has failed to do so…
Watch this, and tell me truthfully, who do you feel for, these two guys, or the nudnik operating the camera? Look, I’m no fan of the U.S. Border Patrol. Or of checkpoints. Or of police power in general. I think anyone familiar with this blog knows that. But it’s a…
