A Phoenix mom, who plead guilty to the second-degree murder of her 4-month-old son, was sentenced to decades in prison today in Maricopa County Superior Court.The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced that 25-year-old Katherine Hatten got 37 years in prison for the murder of her infant…
Rochelle Lambert and her two sons have been locked in a heated prank war for nearly 15 years.As the battle waged, everything from Vaseline on the toilet seat to blue food coloring in the shower heads have been used as weapons, but a little baking soda and a jar with…
Senator John McCain’s GOP primary opponent, J.D. Hayworth, is using the killing of a prominent Cochise County rancher to question McCain’s stance on immigration, despite there being no confirmation that an illegal immigrant had anything to do with the murder.Robert Krentz was found shot to death on his ranch just…
Samuel Wurzelbacher, better known as “Joe the Plumber,” the conservative icon from the 2008 presidential election, paid a visit to the state capitol to oppose Governor Jan Brewer’s proposed one-cent sales tax increase and to help organize Arizona’s budding Tea Party movement.”The Plumber” spoke to dozens of tea-baggers as part…
It’s not often that a team clinches a spot in the playoffs and a player musters a Gordie Howe hat-trick in the same game, but both happened on Saturday during the Phoenix Coyotes thrilling 6-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche in Glendale. The Coyotes clinched a spot in the Western Conference playoffs…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Reds fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs): Arizona Diamondbacks: The…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Reds fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The D-backs…
We’re not sure what’s grosser, little kid beauty pageants or ones for wrinkled old ladies, but in either case, we’d advise you keep a firm grip on your lunch.That being said, the Ms. Senior Arizona Pageant is tomorrow night, and if you’re interested in watching some youthfully challenged ladies strut their…
You betchya Sarah Palin was in Arizona today, and the former GOP vice presidential candidate used a campaign event for her former running mate, John McCain, to kick off the “revolution” against the healthcare reform bill signed by President Obama earlier this week.McCain and Palin appeared together at the Pima County…
Any Valley fatties lookin’ to shed a hundred pounds may be in luck — NBC is looking for a new group of chunkers for its popular weight-loss reality show, The Biggest Loser, and the network is coming to the Valley to hold auditions.Casting agents from The Biggest Loser will be…
The parents of missing baby Gabriel Johnson were in Maricopa County Family Court this morning for a custody hearing unrelated to the criminal charges against the baby’s mother, Elizabeth Johnson.Logan McQueary, the baby’s father, was awarded full custody of the missing baby and Johnson, who is currently in jail on…
A voter initiative to legalize medical marijuana in Arizona probably will go to the voting booth in November, and if it passes, the state hopes to tax the ever-loving crap out of medicinal weed.The Arizona Senate passed SB 1222 yesterday, which allows the state government to levy huge taxes on…
The Phoenix Coyotes are in a cooling phase right now. The team’s franchise-tying nine-game winning streak came to an end on Tuesday with a loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, and the Coyotes eight-game shootout victory ride came to an end last night with a 4-3 shootout loss to the Nashville…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Mariners fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The Diamondbacks…
With John McCain and J.D. Hayworth engaged in an all-out war for the Republican nomination for Senate, you may have forgotten that at some point one of them will have to run against a Democrat. That Democrat is likely to be Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, who announced today that…
There’s been a rumor floating around the sports world that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb could be coming to the Arizona Cardinals to take the spot of the now-retired Kurt Warner, but it’s time to put those rumors to bed, Cardinals General Manager Rod Graves says today.The McNabb/Cardinals rumor has…
Scottsdale police arrested a man who is admittedly responsible for a string of indecent-exposure cases that stretch back to December.Police arrested 20-year-old Kiere Taylor yesterday on charges of public sexual indecency and disorderly conduct after witnesses identified him as the serial flasher…
Wanna be a “tequila legend” without passing out, starting a fight, or throwing up on yourself? The Jose Cuervo tequila company is coming to Tempe next week to give you that chance.In what the folks at Cuervo are calling “Cuervo Games 2010,” the company will give Valley residents a chance…
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps announced this week that it will disband as a corporation. However, as a hate-mongering group of anti-immigration fanatics, local factions of the organization will continue to “stand guard” at the border, according to the group’s president.Carmen Mercer, president of the Minutemen, tells New Times that…
With Phoenix police looking on, Hispanic community representatives gathered in Caesar Chavez Plaza downtown this morning to show their support for City Councilman Michael Johnson and to slam the Phoenix Police Department’s South Mountain Precinct for continued reports of abuse of force.Johnson, at the center of an abuse-of-force incident in which a young Phoenix police…
Who woulda thought the phrase “hey, I’m from Arizona” could be used as a pickup line? It’s time to put away those rulers and stop the borderline-homosexual competitions, gentlemen, because a New York condom company has put together a list of states and cities with the largest average penis size, and Arizona wieners rank…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Royals fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The D-backs…
