Red-Light Camera Helps Stick It to Suspected Motorcycle Thief

One in a blue moon, photo enforcement cameras do something other than make a profit off of momentarily careless drivers like Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. One Phoenix red-light camera helped nab a suspected motorcycle thief recently, says the Arizona Department of Public Safety.  …

Dust Bowl Blues: Phoenix Suns at Oklahoma City Thunder

Recent headline: “Clippers Crush Thunder.” Let’s hope it’s “Suns Burn Thunder” (don’t think about that too literally) after tonight’s game. But we digress: In what mad otherworld does the NBA’s perennial doormat, the L.A. Clippers, crush anybody? Well, on November 19, the mantle of NBA’s worst was seemingly passed from…

Phoenix Athletes’ Blogs Bite on Yardbarker.com

Popular sports Web site Yardbarker.com hosts a slew of superstar bloggers from the world of sports — Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, tennis pro Rafael Nadal, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Dallas Mavericks owner Marc Cuban, golf legend Tiger Woods, and NASCAR driver Jeff Gordon are just a handful of the 80 or so notables who’ve signed up to write blogs on the site. Most of the guest bloggers are dedicated to maintaining a presence on Yarbarker, but the three athletes from Phoenix who have blogs there — Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi, Phoenix Suns shooting guard Leandro Barbosa, and Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald — have been slipping.

Phoenix Touts Artwork Embedded in ASU’s New Journalism Building

A “green” public art project incorporated into Arizona State University’s new journalism building in downtown Phoenix puts on a slow-moving light show during the day as it funnels warm air up and out of a stairwell. After the project received extra attention during last week’s official dedication of the Walter Cronkite…

Gay-Bashin’ Westboro Baptist Church Punks Out of Glendale Picket

Just a few of the folks WBC missed out on meeting Saturday night.I was expecting a hatefest, a yellathon, maybe even some fisticuffs. Instead, it turned into a love-in.I’m talking about the threatened picket of Glendale Community College by the gay-bashing Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. WBC is a…

Nov. 21 In Blogs: Twilight, Shaq, Q Tip and Meaty Girl

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Valley Fever: Twilight: the Early Show at Tempe Marketplace South Park Episode…

Onetime Divorce Mediator Gary Karpin Sent to Prison ‘Til He’s 70

Gary Karpin, the mouthy disbarred attorney-divorce mediator whose illegal courthouse antics cost his “clients” thousands of dollars and untold heartache, was sentenced on Friday afternoon to almost 16 years in prison. A courtroom packed mostly with the con artist’s victims listened intently as Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville…

Twilight: the Early Show at Tempe Marketplace

Hot Topic is selling Twilight shwag, but the homemade fashions were much more popular this morning at Tempe Marketplace. The crowd for the 10:30 movie was strictly 30 and over (except for the toddlers and babies eager moms hauled along — hey, this was local author Stephenie Meyers’ crowd, The…

Worst Foot Forward: Trail Blazers at Suns

However well they might do this year, your Sunnies are a team on the decline; Nash and Shaq are AARP members by NBA standards. Portland’s either the league’s team of tomorrow, or its biggest bust. And which way the Blazers go depends on the bum foot of presumed superstar Greg…