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Chandler Police Seek Hit and Run Driver

2009-11-20 15:28:13

The Chandler Police Department is looking for a guy that hit a man with his car early this morning and then just sped off -- an alarming trend here in the Valley of the Sun. ...

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Authorities Need Help Catching "The First-Aid Bandit" Suspected of Robbing Four Valley Banks

2009-11-20 14:36:40

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 ...

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Surprise Resignation Today of Famed ASU Baseball Coach Pat Murphy

2009-11-20 13:56:18

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...

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East Valley Tribune Announces Potential Buyer Two Weeks After Announcing it Would Be Shutting Down December 31

2009-11-20 13:37:58

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...

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DPS Arrests Real Estate Agent Caught By Traffic Cams 66 Times

2009-11-20 12:31:02

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 finall...

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Hundreds of Lobsters "Murdered" at Tucson Event After PETA-Endorsed "Humane" Killing Method Falls Through

2009-11-20 10:35:22

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 fun...

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Robbers Steal the Ashes of a Peoria Family's Dead Son

2009-11-20 08:42:35

Peoria police are looking for the person or person 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, ...

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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.

2009-11-20 08:00:00

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...

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Suns Drop One They Were "Supposed to Win" to the New Orleans Hornets. Next Up: Detroit Pistons on Sunday.

2009-11-20 07:35:00

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 a...

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Hot Links: Power Outages, Sneaky Toddlers, and Photo Radar

2009-11-20 07:30:34

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 ru...

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November 19 In Blogs: Jaenelle Antas, MC Hammer, Thanksgiving, and World Toilet Day

2009-11-19 18:30:49

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 B...

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Hard Times in Glendale; Coyotes Slashing Prices on Expensive Lower-Level Seats

2009-11-19 16:45:51

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 ...

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Approved! State of Arizona Gets $700 Million Loan Just to Keep Lights On

2009-11-19 15:14:16

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 ...

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AZ Senator Verschoor Doesn't Show Up For Vote During Special Session, Budget Bill Doesn't Pass, and State's Still Short $2 Billion

2009-11-19 13:48:23

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 ...

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Tucson Citizen Reporter Claims She Was Stiffed By Gannett When Paper Went Bust

2009-11-19 12:03:01

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...

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