This story has been edited from its original content. Contrary to a statement in the article below, Darrell Willis, Wildland Division chief of the Prescott Fire Department, does have hotshot firefighting experience. Chief Willis states that he served with the Granite Mountain Hotshots on an 18-day deployment in 2011, on…
We can finally say we’ve been featured in “The Dirty.” And we’re not even embarrassed. Nik Richie, the gossip site’s operator, gave New Times a shout-out Tuesday for our walk down memory lane of some of his best news scoops, mentioned a few we missed, and announced he’s working on…
Remember the fable about the frog who does a scorpion a solid by giving him ride on his back across a river? In it, the scorpion promises not to sting the frog, observing that they would both drown if he did. So when the scorpion stings the frog midway across…
The number of people sickened in the “bloody diarrhea outbreak” in Maricopa County has reached 74 in the weeks after the outbreak, according to a county health department official.County health department workers believe the outbreak stems from E. coli at a Federico’s Mexican Food location…
A Mesa man is accused of pounding several beers before getting behind the wheel and hitting a man riding a tricycle, killing him.Matthew McIver, 36, has been arrested, a week after the fatal crash…
One proven method of escaping Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails has been corrected.At least one inmate proved that all you need is to switch wristbands with someone who is supposed to be released, pretend you’re that person, and walk out the door, but it looks like that might not work anymore…
Another wildfire is burning just about five miles east of Yarnell, where 19 firefighters were killed and several homes were ruined by a fire several weeks ago.Yarnell appears to be the closest community to the 850-acre French Gulch Fire, and although firefighters have been able to contain a small amount…
The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency suffered a meltdown this month, with two of the five members resigning, and accusations of mistreatment by one. As the Arizona Republic reported yesterday, Jesse Hernandez, the board’s chairman and executive director, abruptly resigned from on August 16 from his post without explanation. New…
Before this week, it’s hard to imagine why Sheriff Joe Arpaio would ever talk down the Minutemen, seeing as he always seems to be the one to back some sort of controversial fringe movement.However, he’s now talking about how lucky a Minuteman is to not get shot 30-or-so times…
Dalin Webb, a Phoenix police lieutenant who works with teens, admitted to Mesa police on Sunday that he may have choked his teenage son during a domestic dispute. Webb, 41, was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of aggravated assault-impeded breathing, a felony, and misdemeanor disorderly conduct-fighting…
California resident Brian Phillips insists that the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community stole his $25,000 Toyota Tundra pickup. The vehicle was seized under tribal law in December 2011 after a security guard caught him smoking pot in the parking lot of Casino Arizona, and appeals with the tribe and U.S…
Michael Mallory of Scottsdale has a cool job, judging by the pictures he posted on Facebook in 2010 of rappelling into a shaft and working outdoors. But none of Mallory’s Facebook friends enjoyed the shots as much as the fraud investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation…
Brian Fortner, a Peoria man whose duffel bag with child porn and his wallet was found in a dumpster last year, was sentenced last week to 14 years in prison. Meanwhile, a plea agreement guarantees that another Valley resident, Graham Roberts Drewes, will serve only two-to-four years in prison for…
Guadalupe Davila, known to his former parishioners as Pastor Lupe, is threatening court action against church members who ousted him from the El Mirage church his father shepherd for some three decades. It appears that Davila hired Wayne Gardner, an attorney at the Mesa offices of Gunderson, Denton & Peterson,…
In the scrum of reporters, lawyers and family members waiting to gain entry to federal Magistrate Michelle Burns’ courtroom Monday afternoon in downtown Phoenix, one question was bandied about above all others. Was Danny Hendon’s name listed in the indictment? Hendon is the owner of the Danny’s Family Car Wash…
On a deserted stretch of Interstate 8, “Minuteman” Richard Malley and two buddies hunt for illegal immigrants. Back in Phoenix, at 13 Danny’s Family Car Wash locations across the Valley, Obama’s modern-day INS, some dressed in ski masks and toting assault rifles, are basically the same thing. At least, they…
The Scottsdale-based “The Dirty” website has received plenty of attention for its gossip-mongering since Nik Richie founded it in 2007. But Richie, (whose real name is Hooman Karamian), has never had a summer like this. After posting the latest penis pics and sexting threads of New York mayoral candidate Anthony…
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, spoke at a Phoenix forum about racial profiling Saturday, saying she has found purpose in her son’s death, and new meaning in a Florida jury’s decision to acquit the man who killed him. “If [George Zimmerman] would have been convicted, then that would…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne wants the Keystone XL Pipeline project approved ASAP, citing its supposed benefits in a petition to the Obama Administration. Horne and 20 other state attorneys general have sent a petition to Secretary of State John Kerry urging the project’s approval. But the move seems to…
Buckeye will pay $30,000 to police-brutality victim and California resident Jerald Newman in a much-publicized 2011 case of Black Friday mayhem at a Walmart. The payoff is less than the $500,000 sought originally by Newman. But it still provides some justice in a case that saw the Maricopa County Attorney’s…
Absconders and armed robbers made this installment of New Times’ weekly post featuring scofflaws, including suspects in robberies, homicides and assault cases, sex offenders who’ve absconded, and even “dead beat” parents who aren’t shelling out court-ordered child support. Suspects featured here are presumed innocent — until a judge or jury…
Arizona prison escapee John McCluskey’s murder trial gets under way today in Albuquerque for the slaying of an Oklahoma couple during a three-week crime spree in 2010. Linda and Gary Haas, both 61, were General Motors plant workers on their annual trip to Colorado in August 2010 when they’re believed…
