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We’ll take a break now from our paean to the Arizona Diamondbacks successes in the 2011 season to get back to our regular gig digging up dirt and what-have-you. Will add five more tomorrow as the D-Backs open their best-of-five series against the Milwaukee Brewers in Wisconsin…
For the second time in just over a year, an Arizona prison inmate has stolen a car and escaped custody.The latest con to escape the clutches of the Arizona Department of Corrections: 40-year-old Dyan Castorena.According to the DOC, Castorena was was working at the Manheim Auto Auction in Tolleson this…
James Louis Baker, 54, is a bus driver for the Paradise Valley Unified School District. He also seems to think 13-year-old girls are scouring the Internet for 54-year-old bus drivers to have sex with.We hate to break his heart, but they’re not. However, cops posing as 13-year-old girls are another…
One of the greatest moments of the 2011 season came at Chase Field in early May against the Colorado Rockies. We were about to leave after the 7th inning with the D-Backs down 2-0 and stinking up the joint offensively, but decided to stick it out until the end–sure glad…
The Diamondbacks opened a ten-game home stand on a Monday night against arguably baseball’s best team, the Philadelphia Phillies. On paper, it was something of a mismatch, little right-hander Ian Kennedy against southpaw Cliff Lee, one of the game’s most dominating pitchers.But Kennedy was the star on this night, throwing…
We don’t have video highlights for this one, but the D-Backs’ early-season come-from-behind win over the Giants to salvage the final game of a three-game series at Chase Field was a beaut. We were there as Arizona squandered an early three-run lead to the world champs, and it looked like…
It was the kind of game that the D-Backs lost just about every time last year — a game in which they lost a lead late and had to go into extra innings.Arizona opened its season in Denver against the Rockies, a team that many pundits expected to give the…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced yesterday that CNN will produce a “major” debate in Arizona between GOP presidential candidates.Jan’s “thrilled.””I’ve been in politics a long time, but I can’t remember a more critical election than this,” she says. “When it comes to some of the hallmark issues facing our country…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s Human Smuggling Unit arrested a U.S. Border Patrol agent last night as he was allegedly speeding down State Route 85 in possession of oxycodone and fake marijuana.According to the MCSO, the HSU was patrolling a known drug-smuggling route when they bumped into Michel Atondo, who…
More than four years ago, we wrote about the quirky kidnapping case involving (then) 4-year-old Raven Laws, some local Native-Americans and a quasi-Indian tribe based in Alabama. The name of the story was “Indian Givers,” and here it is. Interested readers should hit that link button for a primer,…
Election law attorney Tom Ryan may not get Legislative District 18 recall candidate Olivia Cortes booted from the November 8 ballot, but on Thursday, with the assistance of co-counsel H. Michael Wright, Ryan effectively put the Tea Party on trial. And at least metaphorically, the verdict was guilty.Through the examination…
Days after helping Phoenix police take down violent gang members, the DEA has gone after a softer target: A medical marijuana club in Tempe.Agents began showing up at the AZ Go Green Co-Op at 426 East Southern Avenue around 8 a.m., according to a news report by Channel 10 (KSAZ-TV)…
The only reason we requested the arrest report for Bruce Nicholas Wardell was because we were so impressed/terrified by his epic mullet. What he allegedly did to get arrested is just as horrific as his frizzy “party in the back.”Wardell is accused of watching porn in front of his girlfriend’s…
The U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau — which, as we noted earlier this week, is the same agency that lets drug cartel members buy guns — is warning firearms dealers not to sell guns to medical marijuana users.The ATF wrote a letter to firearms dealers earlier this week warning…
Russell Pearce gets the stuck pig treatment in this CBA ad.State Senate President Russell Pearce, a wholly owned subsidiary of sleazy fatcat lobbyists, with his hand out, ready to take pricey trips and football tickets for himself and his family, while cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid…
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:…
Steve Chucri, CEO of the Arizona Restaurant Association, announced plans today to run against Don Stapley in 2012 for a seat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.”It’s time for new ideas … it’s time for a new day at the county,” says Chucri, who’s been head of the restaurant…
As if rush hour in Phoenix isn’t miserable enough, about 8 this morning, the southbound State Route 51 was briefly closed by Department of Public Safety officers as they chased a wayward rabbit off the freeway.That’s right — they shut down the highway to rescue a rabbit.DPS spokesman Bart Graves…
Arizona kids have about a 15-percent success rate when trying to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from retail outlets across the state — and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is pissed.”For every 20 minors that walk into a store in Arizona to buy cigarettes, three of them — without…
Bad morale persists at the Arizona Department of Public Safety because of poor leadership, and officers aren’t hopeful for change, says a police association official.A committee formed by DPS Director Robert Halliday recently suggested, among other things, that Halliday demote his second-in-command, Lieutenant Colonel Jack Hegarty.John Ortolano, president of the…
The overall ineffectiveness of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal immigrant roundups aside, one of our biggest criticisms recently has been that they’re conducted under the guise of “employer sanctions” operations, despite the MCSO’s having never arrested a single employer — only employees (all of whom tend to have brown…
