When the Arizona Diamondbacks return to Chase Field on Tuesday for Game Three of the National League Division Series, it will be a do-or-die situation after a disappointing weekend in Milwaukee. While every other team in the 2011 playoffs split over the weekend, the D-Backs were swept and now find…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above booking photo of Bruce Wardell for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest.Wardell is accused of watching porn in front of his girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter. His girlfriend, Latease Coddington, who lived in…
Channel 5 ganks footage from Gilman, presents it as its own…The Gilman video KPHO swiped from…My colleague, indie videographer Dennis Gilman, founder of the PearceWatch Facebook page, is passionate about the YouTube videos he creates. Though he has a day job, in his off hours, he is essentially the Michael…
Butter wouldn’t melt in Constantin Querard’s mouth. Querard’s one of the sleazy backers of state Senate President Russell Pearce, and as you all now know, he’s suspected of being the “brains” behind the sham candidacy of recall queen-for-a-day Olivia Cortes. He also has a history in Arizona politics of shady deals…
Good teams win more than their share of close games, but the Arizona Diamondbacks weren’t doing much of that in April and into May of the regular season.As the D-Backs entered a three-game series against the Minnesota Twins at Chase Field, they had lost six straight one-run games in a…
Going into this game at San Diego’s Petco Park, the Diamondbacks were six games below .500 and a half-game out of last place in the not-so-great NL West division. Another one-run loss on the previous evening had hurt. Big relief pitcher Chad Qualls, whom had been a disaster zone when…
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:…
Thomas Vickery lit a fire under the butts of city officials earlier this year, shaming them into finally moving a fire hydrant that blocked a curb ramp on a sidewalk.Now he wants the city of Phoenix to move up its schedule to do more improvements along Bethany Home Road that…
An illegal immigrant with epilepsy who crashed into the squad car of Phoenix police officer Jason Schecterle in 2002, burning the officer severely, has been deported to Mexico.Rogelio Gutierrez, 45, was marched across the border in Nogales on September 12 after spending the last nine years in an Arizona state…
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerThe McLeod video censored by YouTube and CBPWhen you’re member of the media and you want to hear about U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s latest drug bust, you get an almost instant return call from an agent eager to answer your every question.But if you want…
We’ll take a break now from our paean to the Arizona Diamondbacks successes in the 2011 season to get back to our regular gig digging up dirt and what-have-you. Will add five more tomorrow as the D-Backs open their best-of-five series against the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin…
For the second time in just over a year, an Arizona prison inmate has stolen a car and escaped custody.The latest con to escape the clutches of the Arizona Department of Corrections: 40-year-old Dyan Castorena.According to the DOC, Castorena was was working at the Manheim Auto Auction in Tolleson this…
James Louis Baker, 54, is a bus driver for the Paradise Valley Unified School District. He also seems to think 13-year-old girls are scouring the Internet for 54-year-old bus drivers to have sex with.We hate to break his heart, but they’re not. However, cops posing as 13-year-old girls are another…
One of the greatest moments of the 2011 season came at Chase Field in early May against the Colorado Rockies. We were about to leave after the 7th inning with the D-Backs down 2-0 and stinking up the joint offensively, but decided to stick it out until the end–sure glad…
The Diamondbacks opened a ten-game home stand on a Monday night against arguably baseball’s best team, the Philadelphia Phillies. On paper, it was something of a mismatch, little right-hander Ian Kennedy against southpaw Cliff Lee, one of the game’s most dominating pitchers.But Kennedy was the star on this night, throwing…
We don’t have video highlights for this one, but the D-Backs’ early-season come-from-behind win over the Giants to salvage the final game of a three-game series at Chase Field was a beaut. We were there as Arizona squandered an early three-run lead to the world champs, and it looked like…
It was the kind of game that the D-Backs lost just about every time last year — a game in which they lost a lead late and had to go into extra innings.Arizona opened its season in Denver against the Rockies, a team that many pundits expected to give the…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced yesterday that CNN will produce a “major” debate in Arizona between GOP presidential candidates.Jan’s “thrilled.””I’ve been in politics a long time, but I can’t remember a more critical election than this,” she says. “When it comes to some of the hallmark issues facing our country…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s Human Smuggling Unit arrested a U.S. Border Patrol agent last night as he was allegedly speeding down State Route 85 in possession of oxycodone and fake marijuana.According to the MCSO, the HSU was patrolling a known drug-smuggling route when they bumped into Michel Atondo, who…
More than four years ago, we wrote about the quirky kidnapping case involving (then) 4-year-old Raven Laws, some local Native-Americans and a quasi-Indian tribe based in Alabama. The name of the story was “Indian Givers,” and here it is. Interested readers should hit that link button for a primer,…
Election law attorney Tom Ryan may not get Legislative District 18 recall candidate Olivia Cortes booted from the November 8 ballot, but on Thursday, with the assistance of co-counsel H. Michael Wright, Ryan effectively put the Tea Party on trial. And at least metaphorically, the verdict was guilty.Through the examination…
Days after helping Phoenix police take down violent gang members, the DEA has gone after a softer target: A medical marijuana club in Tempe.Agents began showing up at the AZ Go Green Co-Op at 426 East Southern Avenue around 8 a.m., according to a news report by Channel 10 (KSAZ-TV)…
