A Phoenix woman is dead after apparently running herself over with her own vehicle in what police are describing as a tragic “accident.”Phoenix police say they found the body of 33-year-old Mendy E. Brooks pinned underneath her SUV in the middle of the road in a neighborhood near Campbell Drive…
Despite an 11th hour motion asking for a delay in a ruling in the lawsuit aimed at sham recall candidate Olivia Cortes, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Edward Burke denied the plaintiff’s application for a temporary restraining order, leaving Cortes on the November 8 ballot in Legislative District 18.In his…
Arizona was playing poorly on this homestand, and against the team with the worst record in baseball, the lowly Houston Astros. Just like that, the home boys fell behind 7-1, and the relatively small crowd at Chase Field (announced attendance was 17,814, but it seemed about half that to those…
Phoenix firefighter Mark Nehrenz was arrested Saturday afternoon after he hit a teenager with his truck and then just drove off, according to police.The victim suffered a broken hip and is expected to recover.According to court records obtained by New Times, police suspect that Nehrenz was drunk when he hit…
A few weeks earlier, Milwaukee’s power-hitting first-baseman Prince Fielder chose not to pick the D-Backs’ Justin Upton for the All-Star Home Run Derby in Phoenix, which pissed off a lot of Arizona fans. Though Upton publicly took the high road, it surely had to bother him, and he took it…
The St. Louis Cardinals long have been an upper-echelon franchise with perhaps the greatest fan base in all of Major League Baseball. For sure, they are a passionate bunch, as we found out one night some time ago when we almost found ourselves in a bar fight with Cards fan…
They’re pissed off at American greed and social injustice. They’re relatively leaderless but well connected through social media. And they’re gonna Occupy Phoenix on October 15.The “Occupy Wall Street” movement that led to 700 or so arrests in New York City over the weekend is catching like wildfire, with more…
It was a sellout at Miller Park in Milwaukee (same as it was in the first two games of the ongoing National League playoffs) on a beautiful Fourth of July. The Brewers were cruising, up 6-1 after the fourth inning. But this was becoming a special D-Backs team. Over the…
UPDATE: Judge Burke has just ruled thrown out the complaint, despite this 11th hour effort by Wright and Ryan. Will post decision shortly.UPDATE 2, 1:30 PM: You can read Burke’s ruling, here.CORRECTION: The judge denied a request for a temporary restraining order. The lawsuit is still alive, though Cortes will remain…
Alleged Phoenix scammer Donald Lapre, the owner of the company The Best Vitamin in the World, was found dead in his prison cell in Florence yesterday morning in what authorities say was an apparent suicide.Lapre, who was indicted in June for fraud, was found unresponsive in his cell in a…
Yeah, we know that the 2011 Arizona Diamondbacks are but one game from extinction at the hands of the formidable Milwaukee Brewers. But it ain’t over yet–and, besides, it was a blast getting here. Back on June 24, in a seesaw battle up in Detroit, the D-Backs somehow snuck past…
By this point in the season, it was beginning to become ever more clear to Arizona fans that this team might just be a little bit special. The exciting come-from-behind 6-5 win over the Florida Marlins at Chase Field was a case in point, the D-Backs’ 17th such win from…
With the Arizona Cardinals ahead by four points with about four minutes remaining in their 31-27 loss to the New York Giants yesterday, we said to a friend “and now Eli Manning’s gonna march the G-men down the field and win this game.Then Eli Manning marched his team down the…
When the Arizona Diamondbacks return to Chase Field on Tuesday for Game Three of the National League Division Series, it will be a do-or-die situation after a disappointing weekend in Milwaukee. While every other team in the 2011 playoffs split over the weekend, the D-Backs were swept and now find…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above booking photo of Bruce Wardell for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest.Wardell is accused of watching porn in front of his girlfriend’s 6-year-old daughter. His girlfriend, Latease Coddington, who lived in…
Channel 5 ganks footage from Gilman, presents it as its own…The Gilman video KPHO swiped from…My colleague, indie videographer Dennis Gilman, founder of the PearceWatch Facebook page, is passionate about the YouTube videos he creates. Though he has a day job, in his off hours, he is essentially the Michael…
Butter wouldn’t melt in Constantin Querard’s mouth. Querard’s one of the sleazy backers of state Senate President Russell Pearce, and as you all now know, he’s suspected of being the “brains” behind the sham candidacy of recall queen-for-a-day Olivia Cortes. He also has a history in Arizona politics of shady deals…
Good teams win more than their share of close games, but the Arizona Diamondbacks weren’t doing much of that in April and into May of the regular season.As the D-Backs entered a three-game series against the Minnesota Twins at Chase Field, they had lost six straight one-run games in a…
Going into this game at San Diego’s Petco Park, the Diamondbacks were six games below .500 and a half-game out of last place in the not-so-great NL West division. Another one-run loss on the previous evening had hurt. Big relief pitcher Chad Qualls, whom had been a disaster zone when…
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:…
Thomas Vickery lit a fire under the butts of city officials earlier this year, shaming them into finally moving a fire hydrant that blocked a curb ramp on a sidewalk.Now he wants the city of Phoenix to move up its schedule to do more improvements along Bethany Home Road that…
An illegal immigrant with epilepsy who crashed into the squad car of Phoenix police officer Jason Schecterle in 2002, burning the officer severely, has been deported to Mexico.Rogelio Gutierrez, 45, was marched across the border in Nogales on September 12 after spending the last nine years in an Arizona state…
