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Author: John Dickerson

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25 stories found - 1 through 20

1. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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 scholarship. Clancy and his family had done all...
2. News

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

By John Dickerson
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 paintball-like pepper balls at him. Then...
3. News

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

By John Dickerson
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 like labor pains. She'd been...
4. News

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

By John Dickerson
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 against the Maricopa County officials...
5. News

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Jails Lose National Accreditation

By John Dickerson
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 take his jails out of his...
6. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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 four-button suit with a tie and...
7. News Sidebar

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

By John Dickerson
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 were warned in writing about...
8. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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 come through Sheriff Joe...
9. News Sidebar

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

By John Dickerson
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 — fell in the middle of a...
10. News

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

By John Dickerson
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 named Elliott Schmerler, is under...
11. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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' music was in the air, and a...
12. Feature

Former Korn guitarist Brian Welch finds Jesus

By John Dickerson
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 to be baptized. As his tears...
13. News

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

By John Dickerson
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 finally moving...
14. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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 across the country with his wife...
15. News

New Times adds 17 Arizona Press Club awards to our list

By John Dickerson
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 lifetime accolade was given for...
16. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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 concerned with their...
17. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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 breasts. A Utah doctor lost...
18. Feature

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

By John Dickerson
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 while doing sit-ups. She...
19. News

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

By John Dickerson
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 changing light bulbs and cleaning...
20. Feature

Inhumanity Has a Price

By John Dickerson
Published: December 20, 2007

Maricopa County law enforcement violated the constitutional rights of this newspaper's readers in October. Using secret grand jury subpoenas, County Attorney Andrew Thomas...

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