The fatal rollover of a Korean War-era truck at Canyon de Chelly over Memorial Day weekend is still under investigation, but the problem wasn’t the back-country road, the Park Service says.Tom Clark, superintendent for the Canyon de Chelly National Monument, tells New Times that it’s too early to say whether…
A 22-year-old mentally disabled man is dead after sustaining at least a dozen injuries, allegedly at the hands of family members.Joshua and Carlena Pinkerton, the man’s brother-in-law and sister, brought him to the hospital Friday after he collapsed in the bathtub, and a doctor called Phoenix police after noticing bruising, scrapes, puncture…
Browsing through the “Mugshot of the Day Leader Board” on the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office website always brings a surprise, like the Sunday booking of Vicente Valles, who has the City of Tempe logo tattooed on his chin, and an Arizona State University logo on his cheek.It kind of reminded…
A mostly online-based political-action committee is considering getting involved in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District primary between Republican Congressmen Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.Test PAC loves the Internet. Quayle, several of the PAC’s members believe, does not.”Quayle co-sponsored [the Stop Online Piracy Act] before he withdrew his co-sponsorship,” Test PAC treasurer…
Every other year, a commission is supposed to gather info and decide how much the state’s legislators should be paid, and they pass that recommendation on to the ballot to let voters decide if it’ll stick.(When you’re done laughing your ass off at the thought of giving Arizona’s legislators another…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as LD25 and not voting for Russ, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce — who’s actually trying to get…
Former state Representative Richard Miranda is going to prison for a couple years for treating his charity to help out the impoverished as the Richard Miranda Wants More Money Fund.Miranda, a 55-year-old Democrat, won a 27-month trip to prison this morning for stealing from his charity, and then evading the…
U.S. District Court Judge Neil Wake’s final order in the proposed settlement by Maricopa County to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox: Pay the woman.In an order on Friday, Wake granted Wilcox’s motion to enforce the settlement order, stating that Wilcox “shall have judgment” in the amount agreed, plus an additional $28,000…
Turns out, the baby belonging to 19-year-old Catalina Clouser was allegedly put into harm’s way by two acts of moronic driving Friday night.As we told you this morning, Phoenix police say Clouser put her kid in a car seat late that night, but forgot to put the baby/car seat into…
This morning we found a series of blog posts about a fatal rollover crash in the Canyon de Chelly National Monument that has received little media coverage. The crash of the Korean War-era truck a week ago killed Hawaiian astronomy professor Richard Crowe and injured several others. Blogger Jim Jaillet…
New Times has come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass — and we’re all out of bubblegum.New Times writers and designers have been nominated sixfold for this year’s Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s AltWeekly Awards.This comes a month after raking in 30 journalism awards, including first places for investigative reporting,…
Richard Dawson, the acerbic, but playful host of Family Feud for so many years, died yesterday at the age of 79. Our connection to Dawson was this: He was best buddies with Bob Crane, star of the prisoner-of-war sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, on which Dawson played mouthy sidekick Corporal Peter Newkirk. And…
The Arizona Guardian political news site has disappeared into cyberspace’s black hole. The Arizona Guardian, a local political news site once held up as a possible model for a declining news industry, has gone belly-up. As of today, the Guardian’s site is off the air, sounding the death knell that…
Update: Catalina Clouser’s Baby Was Also in the Car During Boyfriend’s DUI, Before Getting Dumped in Phoenix Intersection Catalina Clouser put her 2-month-old baby in a car seat after smoking some weed with her boyfriend at a Phoenix park Friday night. The minor detail she missed was that the 19-year-old…
Women’s college softball is terrific these days — these girls can really play ball, and they all look so damn coachable. So, natch, it’s very hard to win a national championship, no matter the level, no matter the sport, and Division I fast-pitch definitely is no exception. The Arizona State…
Ashley Buckman and her boyfriend James Edwards — in jail after Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter died Thursday night — had no prior contact with Child Protective Services before their arrests last week.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain-dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on Wednesday night, after what Edwards told…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce — who’s actually trying to get elected again — with some baby.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve…
No doubt you’ve heard of driving while brown, particularly regarding Arizona’s infamous ethnic cleansing law Senate Bill 1070. Well, if you’re Hispanic and plan to continue living in this state, get ready for running-out-of-gas-while-brown, walking-to-the-7-Eleven-while-brown, picking-up-your-kids-from-school-while-brown, going-to-work-while-brown, and while you’re at it, add in witnessing- or being-a-victim-of-a-crime-while-brown.Not that blatant racial…
Image: azmmcaregivers.com The Arizona Patient Education Center’s Tempe and Phoenix locations were raided and shut down yesterday by Phoenix police. The Tempe and Phoenix locations of the Arizona Patient Education Center, which provided medical marijuana to state-registered patients, were raided on Thursday by Phoenix police. “These guys applied for…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett officially has become that kid no one wanted to play with because he just made up the rules to games as he went along.Bennett, as you may recall, decided to play ball with the “birther” crowd, taking the “extra step” to verify President Barack Obama’s…
The post-election dust has settled, and we would be remiss not to take a look at the scorecard for one of our favorite public-relations stuntmen — famous (some would say infamous) spin-master Jason Rose. We see that he lost a few more petals in May, but Rose tells New Times that…
Ashley Buckman’s 4-year-old daughter died last night, just one day after Buckman and her boyfriend, James Edwards, were arrested for horrific alleged abuses of the girl.Toryn Buckman was pronounced brain dead when she was brought to Phoenix Children’s Hospital on Wednesday night, after what Edwards told police was five or…
