Big day for local women’s college sports yesterday, specifically fastpitch softball, a sport near and dear to our heart.First, the big-time (i.e. Division I) news: Arizona State moved on to the Super-Regionals as the solar eclipse faded into the night, beating scrappy Syracuse 4-0 in the elimination “if” game in Tempe.Sophomore…
The Phoenix Coyotes live to play another game this season, after shutting out the Los Angeles Kings 2-0 at the Staples Center yesterday.Captain Shane Doan scored two goals, and goaltender Mike Smith recorded his third shutout of the playoffs in the Coyotes’ first win of the Western Conference finals.The Coyotes…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who dropped his congressional bid earlier this week to run for sheriff again — and his Chief Deputy Steve Henry, whom Babeu pushed out of his own bid for sheriff.After…
Phoenix New Times won 30 journalism awards, including first-place awards for investigative reporting, immigration coverage, news and opinion blogging and design, from the Arizona Press Club on Saturday night.Staff writer Paul Rubin received a first place Don Bolles Award for Investigative Reporting for “Hell Hole,” (September 1, 2011), described by…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, a relatively moderate Republican, wants to be Governor. But to have any kind of shot at the 9th floor, he figures he must placate the activist base of Sand Land’s GOP, which is deeply, rabidly insane. Hence, the predicament he finds himself in, having to…
Karl “Jack” Frost admits he tried to make a citizen’s arrest of a man who was jogging in a bike lane, but that Gilbert police got most of the story wrong.Frost, 47, says the main notion he wants to dispel is that he was in illegal possession of a .40-caliber…
Remember the quirky case of onetime Wall Street broker, Yale Law School-educated attorney, art collector and man about town Michael Marin, who was accused in 2009 of criminally torching his Biltmore Estates mansion? Trial time for Michael Marin–finally. The highly publicized case perhaps was most notable for how Marin said…
On Wednesday, we told you about U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy asking Attorney General Eric Holder asking if Maricopa County could be on the hook for repaying up to $25 million in federal taxpayer coin, thanks to the Justice Department’s civil-rights case against Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Turns out, alleged civil-rights violations by…
It can only be described as a massive violation of human rights, what this country has done to deny a future to an entire generation of individuals, who for all intents and purposes are Americans.I’m talking about the hundreds of thousands of bright, undocumented youth who would qualify for a…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett just found out the reason why you’re putting yourself in a difficult position when you appeal to “birthers” — people are going to think you’re a “birther.”After people caught on to the fact that Bennett told the “birthers” that he was taking the “extra…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks’ work for his constituents currently includes pushing a bill for (of course) tighter abortion regulations.Problem is, the Arizona Congressman’s bill only applies to D.C., as Congress has supreme authority over the city’s laws, and Franks has taken it upon himself to tell the District what its…
A 2010 “suicide” in Queen Creek has now been determined to have been a staged suicide, and Orange County, California divorce lawyer Robert Fischer is the one accused of doing the killing.Fischer — not to be confused with the Scottsdale man of a similar name who blew up his family…
The Phoenix Coyotes’ incredible run this year is one loss away from being over.The Coyotes lost 2-1 to the Los Angeles Kings at the Staples Center last night, in what was probably the closest shot for the Coyotes to win a game over this three-game stretch in the Western Conference…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s dropped his congressional bid earlier this week to run for sheriff again, pushing his Chief Deputy, Steve Henry, out of his bid for sheriff.This must have been a real awkward conversation Babeu decided (in his own best interests) he had to have with Henry, with Babeu explaining why…
Mark Mitchell’s going to be the new Tempe mayor.According to the unofficial results, Mitchell beat Michael Monti by 139 votes, and the City of Tempe put out an announcement declaring Mitchell as the winner.Election officials still haven’t finished counting write-in votes or the three votes cast by people who didn’t…
Three fundraisers are planned this week to help the families of J.T. Ready’s victims. On May 2, Ready shot and killed his girlfriend Lisa Mederos, 47; her daughter Amber Mederos, 23; Amber’s fiance Jim Hiott, 24; and Amber’s one year-old baby girl Lilly, in a murder spree that ended when Ready…
Click-clack/Where your papers at?/We under attack/Fight back/It’s warOne of the best songs to put Senate Bill 1070 and the whole police state mentality that reigns in Arizona on blast is “Papers,” by the Phoenix hip hop duo Shining Soul.With the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled to rule on SB 1070 by…
A Peoria seventh-grader earned a trip to a juvie facility yesterday for telling his classmates the flashlight he planted near the school was probably a bomb, police say.Flashlights, as you may recall, are a hot topic on the west side these days, as someone turned a couple of them into…
Few things tick off Karl “Jack” Frost more than pedestrians in a bike lane, apparently.Frost, a 47-year-old Chandler resident, tried to make a “citizen’s arrest” on a 52-year-old Chandler man who was jogging in a bike lane yesterday, Gilbert police say…
It appears a person with an actual law degree also thinks it’s a bit strange that former middle school teacher’s aide Gabriela Compton got probation for having sex with a student, groping another, and sending some nudie pictures that the teenaged boys passed around.Slate posted an online article yesterday sending…
Last year, former New Times news blogger James King wrote about Wade Ridley’s arrest and subsequent confession to the February 2011 north Phoenix machete/butcher knife murder of his girlfriend, Anne Simenson. Ridley was charged with first-degree murder in Maricopa County Superior Court, but the local case still was awaiting disposition…
Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son in February — is back in Maricopa County, winning a trip to the 4th Avenue Jail for a fresh mugshot.Garcia, 18, turned himself in to immigration-enforcement authorities near the border crossing in Lukeville on Friday, and was booked into…
