An HIV-positive woman wrongly linked to an alleged “sex for drugs” scandal has won a legal victory in her battle to clear her name. Without comment, the Arizona Supreme Court on April 6 declined to reinstate a marijuana-related criminal case against Ronda Crace. In so doing, the court upheld a…
It is about midnight when the cop from Norway cruises East Van Buren Street for the first time. “Wow!” says Einar Kristoffersen, three days into his first visit to the States. “My Godt!” His guttural exclamations are not evoked by the hookers and drug pushers who normally haunt Van Buren…
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Redfield Baum looked at the attorneys sitting before him and got right to the point. “I’m gonna tell you,” he told two representatives of the Phoenix firm of Hessinger and Associates, “in these fee applications, if you don’t show exactly what you’ve done, you’re not going…
“We feel our pain through the keys on this board, and we get goose bumps because we know what emotions are truly behind every note. We silicone sisters are here for one another. Please keep signing on.” –Subscriber to a national breast-implant computer bulletin board Teresa Butler recalls what she…
“We feel our pain through the keys on this board, and we get goose bumps because we know what emotions are truly behind every note. We silicone sisters are here for one another. Please keep signing on.” –Subscriber to a national breast-implant computer bulletin board Teresa Butler recalls what she…
“We feel our pain through the keys on this board, and we get goose bumps because we know what emotions are truly behind every note. We silicone sisters are here for one another. Please keep signing on.” –Subscriber to a national breast-implant computer bulletin board Teresa Butler recalls what she…
The twisted Bob Crane murder saga has taken yet another turn, as a prosecutor says he’ll allege that the accused killer had two classic motives–sex and money–in the 1978 slaying. But the problems with the case remain the same as when the bludgeoned body of the Hogan’s Heroes star was…
The twisted Bob Crane murder saga has taken yet another turn, as a prosecutor says he’ll allege that the accused killer had two classic motives–sex and money–in the 1978 slaying. But the problems with the case remain the same as when the bludgeoned body of the Hogan’s Heroes star was…
The twisted Bob Crane murder saga has taken yet another turn, as a prosecutor says he’ll allege that the accused killer had two classic motives–sex and money–in the 1978 slaying. But the problems with the case remain the same as when the bludgeoned body of the Hogan’s Heroes star was…
The twisted Bob Crane murder saga has taken yet another turn, as a prosecutor says he’ll allege that the accused killer had two classic motives–sex and money–in the 1978 slaying. But the problems with the case remain the same as when the bludgeoned body of the Hogan’s Heroes star was…
The television commercial sounded like a godsend to Ruthie Dennis. Pay nothing down! an authoritative male voice intoned. Get your financial fresh start today! A fresh start is what Dennis needed. Income-tax and other debts had haunted her since she’d retired from Honeywell in 1991 after 20 years on the…
Last Thursday morning, at the Maricopa County courthouse, Corliss Ford got her life back. It happened when a Superior Court judge rejected charges by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office that the Phoenix nurse had abused and neglected three elderly residents in her care. Judge Stanley Z. Goodfarb ordered the AG’s…
Someone raised the subject of “Steve’s ordeal” about midway through Stephen Wilson’s funeral service last week. “It’s hard to imagine what Steve and his family went through after his arrest,” a close friend of Wilson’s told those gathered at the Grimshaw Bethany Chapel. “But he stuck it out and stayed…
Someone raised the subject of “Steve’s ordeal” about midway through Stephen Wilson’s funeral service last week. “It’s hard to imagine what Steve and his family went through after his arrest,” a close friend of Wilson’s told those gathered at the Grimshaw Bethany Chapel. “But he stuck it out and stayed…
Someone raised the subject of “Steve’s ordeal” about midway through Stephen Wilson’s funeral service last week. “It’s hard to imagine what Steve and his family went through after his arrest,” a close friend of Wilson’s told those gathered at the Grimshaw Bethany Chapel. “But he stuck it out and stayed…
Department of Health Services inspection supervisor Cathy Rodriguez says the truth of her own mortality often hits her when she’s out in the field. “You’re looking at someone and you say to yourself, ‘That’s me 40 years from now,'” says Rodriguez. “This country does not realize what it’s facing. We’re…
The cavalry came to the rescue on the afternoon of June 12, 1992. State inspectors handed a restraining order to Corliss Ford, operator of the Autumn Rest adult-care home in west Phoenix. The order, signed earlier that day by a Maricopa County judge, instructed Ford to remove the eight elderly…
Cinthia Gannett says she’s “still waiting for justice for my grandma.” She may not have to wait much longer. Sources say the state Attorney General’s Office is about to take a huge step toward Gannett’s goal of “justice” with criminal indictments against prominent Mesa attorney Wayne Legg and Webber Mackey,…
Jerry Colangelo’s plan to build a glorious, open-air baseball stadium in downtown Phoenix has Norman King sitting somewhere in the infield. King, proprietor of King’s Onion House, is a 34-year-old farmer’s son who has run a produce operation in an almost-historic building at 425 East Jackson for seven years. He…
Our jaws dropped when news of Linda Turley’s new gig broke. She’s leaving an anchor job at Channel 5 to become head information wonk for Maricopa County. Salary: $72,000. This coming during a time in which our county government supposedly is broke and basic services to young, old and poor…
Carl Hayden High School running back Roy Moody faces his teammates in the Falcons’ silent dressing room. It’s moments before the team’s football game against the Moon Valley Rockets on a cool Friday night in west Phoenix. “No one cares about us, baby,” Moody starts, his strong voice bouncing off…
It is a key moment for the Phoenix Cardinals in last Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints. Cards’ quarterback Chris Chandler throws a pretty pass downfield–right into the hands of a Saints defender. High in the grandstand above the north end zone, the “Wild Cards” groan. So do most…
