The widow and the man who cheated her out of hundreds of thousands of dollars come from large Mormon families and lived in the same west Phoenix neighborhood back in the ’70s. Martha Mow, whose maiden name was Judd, is about 13 years older than Mark Bosworth and didn’t know…
By Ray Stern As expected, Sheriff Joe Arpaio threw a tantrum when he found out Governor Janet Napolitano was cutting his allowance. After first reading of the cuts to his immigration enforcement efforts in New Times, Arpaio held an impassioned, late-afternoon news conference on Tuesday to protest the governor’s move…
By Ray Stern Much of the money for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration-enforcement efforts lately has poured out of a special pool of state money. But New Times has learned that Governor Janet Napolitano’s turning off the spigot. In what appears to be a prelude to a major fight…
By Ray Stern The nephew of a woman killed in a Mesa DUI crash persuaded prosecutors and a judge today to cut Savannah Sutherland, whose parents founded Cold Stone Creamery, a break. As reported in this blog on Wednesday, Sutherland had reached a plea deal in her case two months…
Tepec wants Sutherland to serve 1,000 hours or more of community service, in addition to a term of probation when she gets out of prison.
By Ray Stern Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio acted all angry today when asked if he had any comment on the lawsuit New Times filed against him, County Attorney Andrew Thomas and fired special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Andrew Thomas respond to questions about New Times’…
“He said that they appeared to simply be some flares hanging from possibly a helium balloon or balloons.”
Even the Sky Harbor lookouts had “no idea” what the darned things were, Gregor says.
If you could total up all the energy it took to put on Earth Hour, it probably exceeded the savings in power, if this area’s experience is any guide.
A few years ago, the city of Phoenix owned about 1,400 light trucks and cars that can run on compressed natural gas as part of its effort to reduce dependence on gasoline and help clean the air. Now it has cut back to 1,073 such vehicles. And over the next…
The small sedan slowed as it approached the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on a deserted section of Interstate 8 east of Yuma. The car contained three middle-age women on their way back to the Valley after a planning retreat in San Diego. The past three days had been idyllic and…
The young labor union advocate is addressing the small crowd of immigrant neighbors in the carport like a fired-up schoolteacher. “How many people shop at Bashas’?” he asks in Spanish, following up his question with a call for a boycott of the grocery chain, which includes the Hispanic-oriented Food City…
Maricopa County law enforcement violated the constitutional rights of this newspaper and its readers in October, going so far as to subpoena the identities of anyone who’d looked at New Times online in the past four years. When the paper’s leaders revealed the apparent grand jury probe on our cover,…
The police lieutenant played golf every Tuesday afternoon, and his buddies were always welcome to join him. Sergeant Chuck Mount, a decorated veteran who helped supervise the Phoenix Police Department’s bomb squad, often took the lieutenant up on the open invitation. The cops hit the links dozens of times on…
On a warm November day two years ago, a gold, ’80s-model Mercedes sedan sped down Northern Avenue, jockeying through the thick lunchtime traffic. The driver, Atanas Ilkov, 18, was hurrying to pick up a friend at a car-repair shop when a police cruiser zoomed up behind him, lights flashing. As…
The glass glows dull red, like a campfire ember, above the gas torch. The young artist, sitting on a stool in front of a wooden bench with a metal top, works with confident, quick motions, creating a tube by fusing white glass sticks together around a one-inch-thick cylinder of graphite…
The phone call from the collection agency back in May should’ve been expected. The caller was looking for Todd Davis, the CEO of one of the nation’s fastest-growing anti-identity-theft companies, Tempe-based LifeLock. When Davis picked up the phone, the collection agency told him he had failed to pay back a…
In April 2005, local entrepreneur Robert J. Maynard Jr. was beyond broke. At 43, with an ex-wife and two kids, he told the government in his bankruptcy filing that he had $20 in his pocket and $15 in the bank. He was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Maynard,…
Health food was always on the menu at the small south Scottsdale apartment where Blair and Kimu Parker lived with their three children. The Parkers were vegan, a common but less-than-household term that sounds distinctly extraterrestrial, possibly because the star Vega has spawned numerous science-fiction aliens that bore the name…
Sofiane Laimeche isn’t a terrorist. Says he never has been. Doesn’t know any, either. True, U.S. authorities think his friend from boyhood, Lotfi Raissi, may have been a key player in the September 11, 2001, attacks. But the terrorist accusations against Raissi, the first person in the world arrested in…
The beginning of last year was hectic for Francesca Cisneros, an energetic young businesswoman who was heading up a new mortgage office in Phoenix. She was working 12-hour-plus days, zooming around town to meetings with her phone earpiece under her long, dark hair and her Blackberry within arm’s reach. Cisneros,…
Don’t speed or run red lights. (Don’t run red lights. Well, okay, but never speed? Hello!) Know where the cameras are: Paradise Valley: Three intersections with red light and speed cameras: Tatum Boulevard and Lincoln Drive, Tatum Boulevard and McDonald Road, and Lincoln Drive and Mockingbird Lane. The Town also…
