Five of the six suspects still alive after Wednesday’s Miami Vice-style police shootout, that left one officer dead, have been identified.The suspects: Thadika Singleton, 38, John Webber, 37, Doarnell Jackson, 35, Jerry Wayne Cockhearn, 25, and Eldridge Gittens, 34.Each have been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, four counts…
In the end, this loss was just like most of the others this season. Little offense, the lack of a clutch hit, stupid mental errors. Another game, another D-Backs loss – this time 3-2 to the Philadelphia Phillies in 11 innings. This one makes seven in a row…
Yesterday, a bullet shot through the window of Congressman Raul Grijalva’s Yuma office and there is no shortage of speculation as to who’s responsible.The bullet was found a day after Grijalva announced he was calling off his request for outside businesses to boycott Arizona.It also comes a day after a…
Phoenix exploded today in a fit of anti-SB 1070 rage that only a summer rain seems to have dampened for the moment. Scores of activists including Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the organization Puente, and former state Senate majority leader Alfredo Gutierrez were arrested by federal officers, Phoenix…
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Although environmental studies are not yet complete, word is out that the U.S. Air Force considers Luke Air Force Base in Glendale the “preferred” home for its newest war bird: the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.The studies being conducted by the Air Force are key to determining how the military aircraft…
Arizona State football fans should be thankful for the Washington State Cougars. Without them, the Sun Devils would at the very bottom of the Pac-10. In the preseason media poll, released today in Los Angeles, ASU was picked to finish ninth…
The officer killed during an undercover drug investigation last night has been identified by the Chandler Police Department as 34-year-old Officer Carlos L. Ledesma.Ledesma, a father of two, was part of an operation in which undercover officers tried to buy bails of weed from suspects arrested at the scene, a…
Mabel Bink’s been found! United States Postal Service officials confirm to New Times that the cremated remains of the 89-year-old Bink have been recovered and are back with her family in Chicago.”She’s back home,” USPS spokesman Mark Reynolds tells New Times.In short, Bink, a now-former Phoenix resident, died last month,…
Ben Quayle, a candidate for Congress in Arizona’s Third District, isn’t even the Republican Party’s nominee yet, but that isn’t stopping the probable Democratic nominee, Jon Hulburd, from bashing him for how — more specifically, where — he raises money.Hulburd’s gripe: a lot of Quayle’s money has come from out-of-state…
After being a doormat in the NFL for decades, the Cardinals have put together back-to-back solid seasons that even included a trip to the Super Bowl two years ago. But the roster turnover between this season and last has been heavy, as playmakers such as Kurt Warner, Anquan Boldin, Karlos…
The old bullet-through-the-window trick is probably what shut down the Yuma office of Congressman Raul Grijalva just a day after he called off his controversial request for outside businesses to boycott Arizona in protest of SB 1070.Ruben Reyes, the district director in Grijalva’s Tucson office, tells New Times a bullet…
Three Chandler police officers were shot last night, one fatally, during an undercover drug bust, which, as described by police, sounds like a scene out of Miami Vice.Both Chandler and Phoenix police aren’t saying much about the shootings — the officers shot, and six suspects detained at the scene, are…
Lawyers for James Arthur Ray, the Oprah-approved “self-help” guru, who organized a deadly sweat lodge event near Sedona last year, want the motivational speaker’s trial moved from Yavapai County to Maricopa County.Prosecutors, however, do not.Ray’s been charged with three counts of manslaughter stemming from last year’s sweat-lodge event that left…
Phillies ace Roy Halladay made it look easy Wednesday night against the Arizona Diamondbacks as the Phils won 7-1. Halladay threw a six-hit complete game, striking out nine D-Backs, yet throwing only 109 pitches. The only blemish on his evening was giving up an RBI double to Miguel Montero in…
Judge Susan Bolton’s made her decision regarding the SB 1070 injunction, and nobody seems too thrilled about it — on either side of the debate.Both sides are declaring victory — in some sense — while the real winner seems to depend on whom you ask, or the radio station to…
Chanting, “We will not comply,” and, “Whose streets? Our streets,” a group of about 70 protesters took over one of the entrances to the square-mile town of Guadalupe Wednesday night, facing down Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies in a tense standoff that lasted a little over an hour.From 11:45 p.m. till…
FIELD OF DREAMS Inspiring success: Your story on the prosperous Latino farmers makes a mockery of most of the remarks that ignorant Arizona crackers make about “worthless” Mexican immigrants. The people profiled in your story are what America is all about. They came here and didn’t ask for handouts. They…
As an old gringo who calls himself a gringo (not a gabacho), I study Mexican culture and ask myself, “Where have I seen this before?” The answer invariably is: 1950s America, that’s where. Current Mexican culture in the United States is about 50 years behind current American culture. Back in…
Lisa Randall stepped into the bright sunlight Thursday morning, July 22, surrounded by family, friends, and her attorney. Randall took a deep breath and held onto the youngest of her five adult children, daughter Brenna. She pulled one of her pant legs up a few inches to expose the ankle…
CCA RULES In May, I reported in my Feathered Bastard blog that executives and lobbyists for the giant, Tennessee-based prison company Corrections Corporation of America had donated $1,780 in “seed money” for Governor Jan Brewer’s Clean Elections campaign. Such early contributions are limited to $140 per person. But if that…
In a daring act of civil disobedience in downtown Phoenix this evening, at least four activists occupied a tall crane near Central Avenue and Jefferson Street and deployed a huge banner that read “Stop the Hate,” with red lines crossing out “287(g)” and “1070.”Phoenix Fire Department trucks and Phoenix Police…
