Looking to actually watch some decent baseball this weekend? The D-Backs suck, but you’re in luck — the Arizona State baseball team, the number-one overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, play a best-of-three series against 15th-ranked Arkansas this weekened at Packard Stadium in Tempe. The winner of the series gets to…
A Gilbert man was arrested Wednesday after police say he and a friend posted an ad on Craigslist hoping to trade an iPod Touch and some weed for an iPad. Based on what we’ve heard about the iPad, 20-year-old Jacob Walker probably would have had more fun with the weed,…
On Wednesday, both the Chicago City Council and the San Jose City Council approved resolutions that call for a quasi-boycott Arizona. Unlike other cities that have opted to boycott Arizona in retaliation for SB 1070, the San Jose and Chicago boycotts don’t end any current contracts the cities have with…
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:…
This one’s gotta sting for the Arizona Diamondbacks. First, their hitters are shut down for six innings against young Atlanta Braves future star Tommy Hanson. Then, two big hits — a two-run pinch-hit homer by Chris Young in the seventh and a three-run double by Kelly Johnson in the eighth…
Following our post today about Augustus Shaw, who’s running for the State Legislature, a reader pointed us to an Arizona Guardian article published today that spells even more trouble for the ethically challenged HOA lawyer. Shaw lied about where he lives in official election documents, according to the law firm…
Nativist attorney Kris Kobach, the man who essentially wrote Arizona’s new “papers, please” law and who had been retained by Sheriff Joe Arpaio to train his deputies on immigration matters to the tune of $300 per hour, has been cut loose by Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley, albeit in a…
The attorney for the Mesa-based doctor who was arrested and charged with sexual abuse yesterday claims the charges are baseless and that police failed to complete a full investigation before charging her client.Among other claims, Jan M. Buescher, the attorney for Doctor Gabriel Ogbonnaya, tells New Times she believes the…
An Iraqi man was subjected to months of bigoted, insulting statements by his boss at a Valley Sheraton hotel, federal officials allege in a lawsuit filed today. Two years after starting work as an executive chef at the Four Points by Sheraton Phoenix North at Metrocenter, Basil Massih’s supervisors…
For the first half of last season, the best offensive player on the Phoenix Coyotes was undoubtedly left winger Scottie Upshall. A knee injury in late January ended Upshall’s season prematurely, however, and others stepped up as the Yotes made surprising run to the playoffs. Now, Coyotes fans will see…
There’s a new bank robber on the loose who bares a striking resemblance to one of our favorite, horribly-named bank-robbing “bandits.”You may recall the “First-Aid Bandit,” later re-named the “Band-Aid Bandit,” who was arrested in January after a string of robberies stretching from Gilbert to Queen Creek…
The first domino fell when Nebraska decided to leave behind the Big 12 and move to the Big 10. The second came tumbling down this morning when Colorado announced it was also deserting the Big 12 and coming to the Pac-10. Now, it looks as all hell is about to break…
Know that old song by Elvis Costello, “Watching the Detectives”? Well, Phoenix Copwatch does it for real. The volunteer organization monitors all cops in the area, but pays particular attention to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige, especially when the MCSO is doing one of its notorious anti-immigrant sweeps of Hispanic communities. Copwatch…
A Mesa-based primary-care physician with the Healing Touch Internal Medicine group was arrested yesterday after police say he sexually abused two of his patients.Victims say Gabriel Ogbonnaya, a doctor with the Healing Touch group, made sexual advances toward them — including patting their vaginas and insisting they “have more sex”…
Augustus Shaw IV, a Republican candidate for state representative in Tempe’s District 17, has been disciplined twice by the State Bar and was scolded by a judge in 2006 for his aggressive tactics as an HOA lawyer. The case, easily findable with a Google search for Shaw’s name, spurred a Maricopa Superior Court judge to write in…
AshleyMadison.com, a dating Web site for people who are already married, reportedly has offered $25 million for naming rights of the new Meadowlands football stadium — the home of the New York Giants and Jets — in East Rutherford, New Jersey. And it wouldn’t be the first time the company tried to…
A few years ago, we wrote a wild yarn entitled “I Dunnit,” about a Kentucky knucklehead named James Mullins who confessed to a murder he didn’t commit — the first known homicide victim of the infamous Baseline Killer. reporting the piece (that’s the cover illustration from the story), we…
We have made many a visit over the years to the law library at the downtown Phoenix county court complex, to do legal research (believe it or not) or to write our stories away from the distractions (i.e. procrastination) over at the newspaper. During that time, we have come…
Guidettes across the country have a new ally in the war against a new tax on tanning, and it happens to be a guy who developed skin cancer after spending five years with the sun beating down on him in a Vietnamese prison camp.Senator John McCain and “Snooki,” of Jersey…
Through seven innings of Wednesday night’s 2-1 win over the Atlanta Braves, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ offense was non-existent. That all changed with one crack of the bat, and that was all the Snakes needed. Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the eighth, with Mark Reynolds on second, D-Backs left fielder Gerardo…
We didn’t think a story about a 94-year-old man roaming around a trailer park allegedly feelin’ up kids could get any more bizarre, but (guess what?) it just did. We spoke to Payson police Chief Donald Engler yesterday who told us about 94-year-old Dale Warren Graham…
Yesterday, disgraced, former Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff was released from the Maryland prison he’s called home since 2006. Simultaneously, Senator John McCain and his opponent in the GOP Senate primary, J.D. Hayworth, are bickering over which of the two is more of a lobbyist. As you’re probably aware — and…
