Subject: Yuma

• KTAR's redneck fans ready to starve themselves if Mexicans don't pick their food.

  October 9, 2007

• Residents in Maricopa and Other Counties Had Fewer Babies in 2007

  August 1, 2008

• WHERE IS ARAZI?

  May 6, 1992

• PLEADING POVERTY

  May 6, 1992

• ARIZONA'S BETTOR SITES

  YES, OUR CASINOS HAVE ATMOSPHERE. THEN AGAIN, SO DOES NEPTUNE.

  April 21, 1993

• OF THEE I STING

  THERE ARE 34 SPECIES OF SCORPIONS IN ARIZONA. ONE OF THEM IS IN YOUR SHOE.

  August 11, 1993

• BUYING A GILA MONSTER

  FARMERS IN THE GILA RIVER BASIN HAVE ALREADY SUCKED DOWN $500 MILLION IN GOVERNMENT PORK. NOW THEY WANT ANOTHER $20 MILLION FOR A SENSELESS FLOOD-CONTROL PROJECT.

  November 24, 1994

• FLASHES

  September 14, 1995

• Kid Pics for the week

  October 19, 1995

• HOMELESS ON THE RANGE

  GOP leaders want local governments to run social programs and charities to assume more of the burden. Neither idea is working in Kingman, where no good deed goes unpunished.

  November 16, 1995

• Another Maquiladoraville

  July 9, 1998

• A Madam, A Murder, A Mystery

  Exhuming Arizona's most notorious prostitute

  August 12, 1999

• Letters

  From the week of 28, 2001

  June 28, 2001

• Punk Rock Paradise

  Our demon scribes hit the Rogue, the best place to see girls take off their tops and French kiss

  May 13, 2004

• Lil Wayne Alive and Present at Yuma Court Hearing Today

  November 6, 2008

• BEST CHICKEN AND WAFFLES

  Lo-Lo's Chicken and Waffles

  September 30, 2004

• The Phoenix Music Community Hosts a Benefit Show for the Family of Former New Times Staffer Megan Irwin

  A benefit show featuring some of the Valley’s brightest music stars is always an event worth attending, but in the case of the “Purpose” benefit show on Sunday, November 23, the cause hits close to home for us at New Times.

  November 21, 2008

• Hot Links: West Valley JP Challenges Photo Enforcement; News Chopper Crash Findings to be Released; Trapeze Artist has Fatal Fall in Scottsdale

  A West Valley Justice of the Peace says he issued a court order declaring photo enforcement invalid because the fines are much lower than a regular speeding ticket. It's doubtful he'd love the system much more if the fines were raised, though. The government's findings on last year's news chopper crash that killed four people are due out. Shoulda had a net: A trapeze artist falls to his death in Scottsdale during an FBR Open show. Another place to waste your money: A new Indian casino is about t

  January 28, 2009

• Tomatoes at Farmers' Markets -- Yuma Crop at Borgata Fridays

  Julie PetersonTomayto, tomahto, potayto, potahto: Fresh from the Yuma farm.Ever since grocery-store tomatoes got as costly as meat, we've been garnishing our routine sandwiches with other things. If the love apple is a luxury anyway, might as well hold out for the ripeness, taste, and texture of a locally grown, recently harvested 'mater like the ones currently available from Brent McCaleb of Sunny Boy Produce. McCaleb vends the produce of his uncle's Yuma farm at the Borgata of Scottsdale's Fr

  March 19, 2009

• Curtains: New Carpa Theater's A Boy Named César at Herberger Lunch Time and Beyond

  Yuyi MoralesSince 2002, the Herberger's Lunch Time Theater program has been a place for emerging companies and artists to stretch their wings and give downtowners a mental mini-break in the work week. Every season, several quite different troupes present a short play for two or three weeks each. Writers, in particular, enjoy the opportunity to try out new scripts in a relatively friendly, low-budget environment. The current Lunch Time production, New Carpa Theater's A Boy Named César, is a wor

  March 25, 2009

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 9, 2009

  April 9, 2009

• Border Patrol checkpoints near Yuma nab hordes of pot users headed back from the beach

  March 13, 2008

• New on DVD: Parenthood never looked scarier in the underrated Joshua

  January 10, 2008

• Still Waiting for That Train

  A classic Western remade for our ADD times

  September 6, 2007

• New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

  August 30, 2007

• AZPunk.comp CD release party

  We feel lucky, punks

  November 17, 2005

• Pastor Claims Abuse at Border Patrol Checkpoint on Interstate 8

    A local Baptist pastor who was left bloodied and indignant Tuesday night after a stop at the Border Patrol's checkpoint on eastbound Interstate 8 wonders in a recent video, "Why is this happening in the United States of America?" New Times readers who remember our February 2008 article on the infamous checkpoint know the answer: Because of a disputed -- but still potent -- U.S. Supreme Court ruling. As the article states, the Border Patrol was grant

  April 16, 2009

• Flame and Fortune

  The Olympic torch makes hot spots of two Valley sites

  January 10, 2002

• Buzz Kill

  Crop dusters spray pesticides on homes, animals and people while the Arizona Department of Agriculture does little to stop them

  June 14, 2001

• Care Tactics

  U.S. Border Patrol shoots down an agent's request to be near his ailing mother

  May 24, 2001

• Paper Machete

  After a drug bust at his home, Yuma publisher creates a newspaper to investigate cops

  January 18, 2001

• Up in the Air

  Why isn't DEQ cracking down on an alleged law breaker?

  June 1, 2000

• End of a Smear

  County Attorney Richard Romley thought he had parlayed a trivial investigation into the resignation of one of his chief political rivals. But Attorney General Grant Woods decided that his top assistant would not be sacrificed to prosecutorial overreaching

  March 14, 1996

• Class Reaction

  Legal aid to farmworkers and Indians slashed as Congress seeks end to mass lawsuits

  December 7, 1995

• A TRIM FOR WELLTON-MOHAWKIN A VICTORY FOR ECOLOGISTS, FEDS DENY FUNDS FOR IRRIGATION DISTRICT'S GILA RIVER CHANNEL

  August 31, 1995

• OF YUMAN BONDAGE

  August 24, 1995

• DON'T TREAD ON JESSE

  HIS FEDERAL EMPLOYER SUBJECTED HIM TO A DIZZYING ARRAY OF INDIGNITIES. NOW HE'S FINDING JUSTICE.

  August 4, 1993

• Swine Flu Arizona: Policy of Closing Maricopa County Schools is Lifted, But 10 Schools Closed in Nogales

  The most pressing question about the H1N1 "swine flu" virus now seems to be: Will the thing return this fall and kill millions?Locally, the panic has ratcheted way down, with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health declaring on Saturday that new cases of swine flu would not result in school closures. The scare continued in other places, though.In Nogales, ten schools will be closed for a week beginning today after a child caught the disease -- even though the kid ended up fine.

  May 4, 2009

• Sprouts, Golden Door, and Other Phoenix Spas That Will Feed and Relax You

  May 7, 2009

• Hot Links: Home Invasions, Sarah Palin, and Oprah Winfrey

  Incoming Arizona Board of Regents president Ernest Calderon is proposing a plan that would cut the cost of four-year degrees. The proposal would allow students to attend community college for three years, and then an Arizona university their final year...A Mesa woman reportedly shot two home invaders Wednesday night. The men had broken into her home and forced her and three roommates into one room when the woman grabbed a shotgun and fired on the invaders. One of the men was killed, and the

  June 19, 2009

• Hot Links: County Suits, Lil Wayne, and the Asparagus Tribe

  An analysis released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget shows that legal disputes between Maricopa county officials cost taxpayers about $1.1. million in fees. In the past year, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, County Treasurer Charles Hoskins, and the Board of Supervisors have battled in court...Albert Thomas Rogers, the superintendent of a Tucson-area school district, was arrested on charges relating to the sexual exploitation of minors. Rogers had pai

  June 23, 2009

• Dlubak Recycling Company Violates Standards in Yuma, Spreads Lead, Says DEQ; E-Waste Going to South Korea, Not Philippines

    Lead-contaminated glass at the Yuma location of Dlubak Glass recycling company is being shipped to South Korea, not the Philippines, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality now reports. Mark Shaffer, spokesman for the agency, tells us state officials named the wrong destination for the toxic garbage when we spoke with him last week about the problem first identified by a California TV news crew. Not that it matters, we suppose -- the point is, that stuff is outt

  July 17, 2009

• Hot Links: 1200 Pounds of Pot, a Plane Crash, and a Sheep Drive

  ​Border Patrol agents seized nearly 1200 pounds of marijuana from a truck near Yuma. Agents say they spotted the vehicle using night vision equipment, and used deflation devices to cripple the truck's tires. The driver and passenger fled on foot, leaving behind their haul, which has an estimated street value of almost a million dollars...A man is dead and his son is in critical condition after their small plane crashed in the mountains south of Flagstaff. A Coconino County Sheriff's spokesman

  August 5, 2009

• Arizona Pot Seizures at All Time High

  ​Pot is one hot commodity this year -- at least, judging by the insanely large loads the U.S. Border Patrol have seized this summer. During the month of July alone, Tucson seized more than 100,000 pounds of pot -- bringing the total poundage to 1,065,325 this year. That's well above the 722,000 poounds the Border Patrol had seized by the end of last July. Why the dramatic increase? Tucson sector spokesperson Mario Escalante believes it's because the Border Patrol is getting so damn good

  August 14, 2009

• Steven Anderson's Yuma City Warrant for "Disorderly Conduct," and RP4409's Moronic Misuse of the Word "Nazi" (w/Update)

    Watch this, and tell me truthfully, who do you feel for, these two guys, or the nudnik operating the camera? Look, I'm no fan of the U.S. Border Patrol. Or of checkpoints. Or of police power in general. I think anyone familiar with this blog knows that. But it's a tribute to both Obama-hating pastor Steven Anderson and to his Ron Paul-y supporters at the RP4409 YouTube site that they actually make me feel a sort of  reluctant sympathy for the U.S. Border Patrol and Yu

  September 3, 2009

• Cold Comfort From Crave Artisan Ice Cream

  ​Yesterday I stopped by Lisa G for lunch and got a taste of some delicious ice cream made just a few doors down on 7th Street. Salted caramel with almonds, fresh mint with chocolate, and chocolate with cocoa nibs . . . all delish. Crave Artisan Ice Cream is now operating out of the space formerly occupied by The Art of Soup, and although it's a wholesale business, not a retail ice cream shop, there are places to get it around town, including the Downtown Phoenix Public Market. Owner Sh

  September 15, 2009

• Oct. 2 In Blogs: 2012, Brian Setzer, Saturday Morning Cartoons, and Lil Wayne

  ​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: Feathered Bastard: 2012 Survival Conference Rocks Scottsdale October 17, Teaches You to Survive Mayan Apocalypse Up on the Sun: Arty Girl: Two Botanical Art Exhibitions Come to Phoenix Incoming: Dierks Bentley, Jello Biafra, fun., Brian Setzer Chow Bella: Top 5 Saturday Morning Cartoon / Breakfast Cereal Pai

  October 2, 2009

• Hot Links: Standoffs, Ripoffs, and Blackouts

  ​A Yuma man is in custody after an almost nine-hour standoff with police. Michael McCormick was wanted in connection with several vehicle thefts and burglaries. When police tracked him to a motel, he fled and broke into a trailer home, where the standoff ensued. He eventually surrendered and was taken into custody about 4 p.m...A Tempe woman is accused of stealing more than $1 million from her employer over the course of eight years. Lorena Laverne Fortuna worked as a Human Resources Manager f

  October 7, 2009

• Hot Links: Surprise Suicide, Yuma's Race, and "A" Mountain

  ​A traffic stop in Surprise ended in suicide Tuesday when the driver slit his throat. According to police, George Lajeunesse, 43, was stopped because he was wanted for questioning in connection with a domestic violence call. Lajeunesse reportedly wielded a large knife at the traffic stop, and slit his throat after being Tasered by police...The mayor of Yuma lost his re-election bid Tuesday. Initial voter results show that challenger Al Krieger is winning the mayoral race over incumbent Larry N

  November 4, 2009

• Yuma High School Duped By 22-Year-Old Man Posing as Student So He Could Play Basketball

  Anthony Avalos​For about four months, Yuma resident Anthony Avalos was your typical high school student. He went to class, chased some tail, and played basketball. So, when Yuma Union High School District officials found out that Avalos was actually a 22-year-old man, not a 17- or 18-year-old high school senior, it goes without saying they felt a little duped.Oh, and the underage high school chick he admitted to police he had sex with while claiming to be a student himself -- she ca

  November 6, 2009