Email Author John Dickerson

Awards

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published December 18, 2008

  "Soccer Bomb"

• 2009 - Investigative Reporters and Editors

  Prescription for Disaster series

• 2009 - Investigative Reporters and Editors

  Arpaio Jails series

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  Prescription for Disaster series

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Prescription for Disaster series

• 2009 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 18, 2008

  "The Tangled Legacy of Scott Coles"

• 2009 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published July 31, 2008

  "The Rise and Fall of Scott Coles"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Prescription for Disaster series

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Arpaio Jails series

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published September 18, 2008

  "The Tangled Legacy of Scott Coles"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 31, 2008

  "The Rise and Fall of Scott Coles"

• 2008 - Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, published December 20, 2007

  "Inhumanity Has a Price"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 8, 2007

  "Walking on Water"

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2008 Stories by John Dickerson

• Arizona Club Soccer Produces Scholarship-Backed Players, but At What Cost?

  published December 18, 2008

  Kieran Clancy loved soccer. Like most club soccer players in Arizona, the 18-year-old had long hoped to land a college soccer... More >>

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Own Records Raise Serious Questions About Inmate Juan Mendoza Farias' Violent Death

  published November 20, 2008

  Juan Mendoza Farias was handcuffed and alone in a jail cell when guards opened the hatch on his cell door and fired more than a dozen... More >>

• Arpaio’s Jail Staff Cost Ambrett Spencer Her Baby, and She’s Not the Only One

  published October 30, 2008

  Ambrett Spencer sat up in bed. It was 2:40 a.m., and the pain in her stomach was not right. She was nine months pregnant, but this didn't feel... More >>

• New Times’ Lawsuit Continues, Stern’s “Disorderly Conduct” Charge Dropped, and We Ask a Judge to Force Joe to Release Video of a Suffocated Inmate's Last Minutes

  published October 16, 2008

  Almost a year after New Times' two top executives were arrested and jailed, a federal judge dismissed parts of the newspaper's lawsuit... More >>

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Jails Lose National Accreditation

  published October 9, 2008

  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail accreditation was terminated last month — even as he awaited a federal court ruling that could... More >>

• Scott Coles, the millionaire owner of Mortgages Ltd., leaves behind broke investors, unbuilt buildings and lot of unanswered questions

  published September 18, 2008

  Stacy Lee, a middle-aged African-American pastor, is standing in the entryway of the Covenant Christian Center in Peoria. He's wearing a... More >>

• Arizona Attorney General, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the other agencies who might have intervened with Mortgages Ltd.

  published September 18, 2008

  Four state and federal authorities had the power to investigate Mortgages Ltd. before the company declared bankruptcy. At least two of the four... More >>

• Was Juan Mendoza Farias beaten to death by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guards?

  published September 11, 2008

  On December 2, 2007, a 40-year-old man named Juan Mendoza Farias was arrested and booked into the Maricopa County Jail. Like a lot of people who... More >>

• Hart v. Arpaio civil rights class-action suit awaits verdict

  published September 11, 2008

  Juan Mendoza Farias' death came at a particularly inconvenient time for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The date — December 5, 2007... More >>

• A New Times “Prescription for Disaster” story leads to an investigation of a homeopathic doctor while another doc relapses

  published September 4, 2008

  All is apparently not well with two Arizona physicians, both subjects of recent New Times stories. One doctor, a plastic surgeon... More >>

• Scott Coles: The story behind the life — and death — of the flamboyant owner of Mortgages Ltd.

  published July 31, 2008

  It was February 2, 2008, and the sun had barely set on the usually quiet streets that snake up Camelback Mountain. The bump of rapper Ludacris'... More >>

• Former Korn guitarist Brian Welch finds Jesus

  published June 19, 2008

  Brian "Head" Welch, former lead guitarist and founding member of the band Korn, was standing in the murky waters of the Jordan River, waiting... More >>

• Judge Neil Wake takes action in the jail conditions lawsuit against Arpaio

  published June 12, 2008

  After a decades-long court battle with Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his predecessors, a lawsuit alleging poor conditions in the Maricopa County jails is... More >>

• Blind trust: Don’t assume you’re seeing a doctor — even at the Mayo Clinic

  published May 22, 2008

  At 65, Paul Phillips was ready to retire. He'd raised his four kids, sold his Phoenix produce company, and even bought a 40-foot RV to drive... More >>

• New Times adds 17 Arizona Press Club awards to our list

  published May 15, 2008

   New Times founder and executive editor Michael Lacey has been honored with the Arizona Press Club's Distinguished Service Award. The... More >>

• Recycling 101: What to recycle, what not to recycle,and does it even matter?

  published April 17, 2008

  If you've been swayed by a campaign to recycle office paper, you should feel ripped off. Those who really want to save the Earth should be more... More >>

• Arizona's homeopathic board is the second chance for doctors who may not deserve one

  published April 10, 2008

  A Florida doctor lost his license after he was diagnosed as a sex addict — he claimed he could cure his female patients by fondling their... More >>

• Arizona Medical Board's hands-off approach to relapsed addict physicians is endangering patients

  published March 6, 2008

  Laura Migliano was looking for some relief when she showed up for a doctor's appointment in April 2004. Ten years earlier, she'd herniated a disc... More >>

• A Paradise Valley homeless man who burned to death in December may have been tortured

  published January 17, 2008

  The day after Christmas, Wayne Liersch showed up for work at Paradise Valley Mall. He was a maintenance guy; normally, his day consisted of... More >>