A 3-year-old Phoenix girl died yesterday after she was crushed by a television at her parent’s home.In a press release, Phoenix police say the girl pulled a 27-inch television off of its stand in her home near 64th Avenue and Flower Street. …

The Arizona Game and Fish Department is at the center of a legal debate over the death of a jaguar back in March.A lawsuit, filed by the Center for Biological Diversity in federal court in Tucson this morning, alleges that the department doesn’t have the authority to trap jaguars.In February, Game…

The Phoenix Coyotes’ now former-coach, who also happens to be the greatest hockey player in the history of the sport, is attributing his somewhat expected resignation to the “future plans” of potential owners. Wayne Gretzky resigned as the coach of the Phoenix Coyotes this morning, in the midst of an…

At a meeting with state Republicans in Tucson last night, Governor Jan Brewer is caught on tape saying “It’s a great relief, to say the least, to get out of that hellhole in Phoenix.” While we appreciate the material, rather than crush this softball out of the park, we’re going…

Arizona Cardinals’ wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald is laughing off his brother’s controversial Twitter remarks and has offered the younger Fitzgerald to QB Kurt Warner Sunday as penance for the statements.”He’s going to be taking out the garbage, whatever Kurt wants,” Fitzgerald tells the Associated Press…

Two Arizona nitwits decided to take their own version of the Arizona Meth Project on the road this week and found themselves arrested and facing drug charges.As one of the national leaders in meth use, this ought to buff Arizona’s gleaming reputation.Police in Hall County, Nebraska arrested 18-year-old Ruben Torres…

The infamous Hells Angels motorcycle gang is no longer just that cuddly group of unorganized bike enthusiasts from our parents’ generation. Now, according to a jury and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, they are officially a “street gang.”Thanks for clearing that up.The gang’s new label comes as the result of…

An ASU researcher in collaboration with a Canadian research team made some interesting discoveries about the amount of food we eat and the company we keep.Andrea C. Morales, an assistant professor of marketing at ASU and her Canadian counterparts recruited 210 students to participate in the study and told them…

Now that parts of Georgia are beginning to resemble the lost city of Atlantis after recent flooding, Arizona-based U-Haul wants to help out. U-Haul is offering a free month’s storage to anyone who has fallen victim to the flood. “We know that this is a very difficult time for individuals,”…

Now that Republican Governor Jan Brewer is officially not one of the popular kids in the high school that is state government, Republican gubenatorial hopefuls are starting to come out of the woodwork. Brewer, whose approval rating is now less than 25 percent, yet still hasn’t ruled out running herself, has opened…

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon blamed the media today for doing our job and reporting on governmental and corporate waste and stupidity.What do we have to say about that here at New Times? Guilty as charged.Gordon says the way the media covered corporate and governmental “training seminars” held here in the…

Is there any negative national list that doesn’t have Arizona in the top 10?Recently, Phoenix was picked as one of the worst places to raise kids. We are annually one of the worst states in terms of education , and we have some of the worst air quality in the…

A new poll released today sheds light on something most of us probably already know: We’re fed up with Governor Jan Brewer.Sure, she’s fine in that grandmotherly sort of way, but after a state budget battle that’s somehow still waging, heads are gonna have to roll.According to the poll, conducted by…

Some people just don’t know how to bow out gracefully.A guidance counselor with the Phoenix Union High School admittedly forged tickets to the schools prom and then sold them to students, pocketing the money.Sure, teachers are underpaid, but come on?!Tim Berra admitted to the district’s governing board that he forged…

If for some reason you type “white people stole my car” into a Google search, it will take you to a plethora of Web sites filled with spam and viruses as a result of a breach of cyber security. Google officials say they have been trying to fix the glitch since…

If Skeet Ulrich is “the poor man’s” Johnny Depp, the pig flu vaccine on its way to Arizona right now is the Skeet Ulrich of preventative measures. State health officials said yesterday Arizona is set to receive at least 70,000 doses of a nasal-spray version of the H1N1 vaccine ahead of…

To be honest, we didn’t think he had it in him, but in a new Vitamin Water Web ad, Steve Nash proves that Shaq and Charles Barkley weren’t the only Phoenix Suns with a sense of humor.Nash plays himself, “Canadian celebrity Steve Nash,” as a gruff-voiced infomercial spokesman that would…

The wheels of international law are spinning as an American murder suspect, awaiting possible extradition to the United States from his native India, may have the Canadian government advocating for him.Authorities believe that in 2007, now 34-year-old Avtar Grewel murdered his wife, Navneet Kaur, who at the time was 30-years-old, in her Ahwautkee…

Honestly, how many “adults” in this town really own swords? At what point does someone say to them self “hey, this is a dangerous part of town, I should probably get myself a sword?”Hey idiots; this is not the Middle Ages. We no longer joust, women are no longer damsels,…

When you’re a radio talk-show host, it’s fairly important that you’re capable of formulating rational thoughts and not speaking like Maricopa Community College’s Colleen Clark as she’s drunkenly reciting her ABCs.Not to say Darrell Ankarlo’s thoughts were ever all that rational, but someone ought to share this concept with the 92.3 FM…