Eight doctors who have written nearly half of the state’s 10,000 or so medical marijuana recommendations didn’t check in with a DEA-monitored database as required, state officials allege. Will Humble, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, says he notified the Arizona Medical Board and Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical…
Today is Friday — a day that ends with the word “day,” which, sadly, seems to mean one thing here in the Valley: someone was arrested for beating up a kid.The latest contestants for Parents of the Year are 22-year-old Melissa Chambers and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Travis Darrah.Chandler Detective Seth…
“Birthers,” for some reason (probably because they know the “birther” movement is little more than a baseless conspiracy theory) will never admit to being “birthers.”Take local Tea Party coordinator Jim Wise, for example, whom we caught up with following our post this morning. We asked this guy four times whether…
Of all the things you don’t want to crash your car into while cruising around shitfaced, a cop car is pretty high on the list.This morning, Dylan Fann, 29, of San Tan, did exactly that.According to the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, about 1:30 a.m., a PCSO deputy was stopped in…
“Extremely low levels” of DNA in a 2009 Buckeye rape case made for a difficult analysis, leading to a long delay for the results, says the state’s crime lab supervisor. Although a 14-year-old victim found the courage to report the rape two days after it occurred in April of 2009,…
Remember when President Barack Obama released his birth certificate to get Donald Trump, Tea Party “patriots,” and conspiracy theorists to cool it with the claims that he’s not an American citizen?Well, that apparently didn’t satisfy some of the kookier far-right-wingers, who still seem to think that Obama is the real…
There’s good news about the Diamondbacks vs. Major League Baseball’s best team, the Phillies — Arizona’s 3-3 this season against Philadelphia. The other good news is that while the Diamondbacks were losing 4-1 to the Phillies before and after a more-than-two-hour rain delay in the City of Brotherly Love last…
Above, you can see the photo we snapped of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio struggling to eat a Mexican pizza from Taco Bell during a ceremony honoring the winner of the sheriff’s Inmate Coloring Contest.You Write the Caption’s pretty self-explanatory. Here’s how you play: we show you a picture, like…
Something about Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman’s son’s story about getting assaulted while on “A” Mountain Wednesday night doesn’t add up.We’re not necessarily saying he wasn’t assaulted, but the story doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.According to the Tempe Police Department, Eli Hallman, 18, was on “A” Mountain about 2…
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:…
As you may have heard, Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman’s son was injured on “A” Mountain last night — and that’s about all anyone knows for sure.Eli Hallman, 18, suffered head injuries and a broken jaw. He claims he was assaulted by three men, but now says he does not desire…
A 93-year-old great-grandma from Green Valley reeled in a 16.58-pound fish last Saturday to become queen for a day in Alaska’s famed Valdez Silver Salmon Derby. Lenore Groundwater beat out 797 other competitors to win the women’s one-day Derby, and her catch may yet finish first in the overall Silver Salmon Derby, which…
Thanks to “dangerous” new laws passed by the Arizona Legislature this year — and a recent court decision that overturned an injunction on laws passed in 2009 — Planned Parenthood announced today that it will discontinue abortion services in six Arizona cities.”Under the guise of making laws that make women…
Four hundred clams. That’s what some lobbyists may have paid to attend a fundraiser held for embattled state Senate President Russell Pearce Wednesday night at Alexi’s Grill in Phoenix.By my estimation, there were about 30 or 40 attendees at the height of the action. If they all paid to get…
A woman in Casa Grande has a goal: she wants to be the fattest woman in the world.That stunner to the right is Susanne Eman, and according her website — which you can check out here — she is trying to reach her goal weight of 1,600-plus pounds.”I’m your average…
If the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office ever offers you a “meal of [your] choice,” what it really means is a meal you can get at a drive-thru…
A Lamborghini Gallardo that cost $260,000 breaks down like a run-of the-mill beater car, a Scottsdale business executive claims in a federal complaint.Kevin Moshir, president and COO of CellTrust, bought the 2008 vehicle brand-new from Lamborghini North Scottsdale in February 2009.Sweet ride, it seems — except for, well, just about everything…
The Arizona Diamondbacks had their seven-game win streak obliterated and their asses handed to them in Wednesday night’s 9-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The Snakes may have shocked the sports world on Tuesday by getting an upset win over Philly and best-pitcher-in-baseball Roy Halladay, but the…
Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer hopes to unseat Joe Arpaio, 79, as the Republican nominee for Maricopa County Sheriff — and he wants to let you know where he stands on the issues.So Stauffer’s agreed to answer any question you have in New Times’ inaugural online town hall meeting.Arpaio was extended…
Someone’s apparently taken a page out of Karl Rove’s book and is spreading a rumor that Phoenix mayoral candidate Wes Gullett has an illegitimate child.Gullett’s former boss, Senator John McCain, ran into similar rumors when he ran against former President George W. Bush in the 2000 GOP presidential primary.McCain’s “illegitimate…
Phoenix mayoral candidate Peggy Neely pledges to rein in the influence of developers at City Hall and to strengthen ethics in government — but some of her past actions as a public official don’t conform with her new political message. Especially the former councilwoman’s dealings with CityNorth, a $1.8 billion…
There’s one thing Sheriff Joe Arpaio never lacks for: money. Certainly in the political realm, the sheriff is well heeled. His last campaign-finance report, filed in 2010, showed he had a cool $2.8 million in cash on hand. He probably has a lot more than that now, because Joe’s camp…
