Uber-Liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, after learning his suspension from the network would last all of four days (including a weekend), has issued an apology to the viewers of Countdown. As for an apology to the network: don’t hold your breath.Olbermann “tweeted” a prepared statement last night and, like his…
Hallucinogenic mushrooms, as far as drugs go, aren’t all that damaging to the human body. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control considers “magic mushrooms” less toxic than aspirin. But it’s the things people do while under the influence of mushrooms — like take a header out of an eighth…
The Phoenix Police Department has identified the boy found shot to death on a Phoenix sidewalk yesterday morning.The victim is 13-year-old Jonathan Garcia-Valladares. His body was found just blocks from the Phoenix home where he lives with his parents.According to police, Garcia-Valladares was jogging near 28th Street and Thomas Road…
Here at New Times, we always thought the day we applauded Meghan McCain — the daughter of Senator John McCain — for anything at all would be a cold day in hell. Well, it’s about 75 degrees outside and the younger McCain deserves some credit where credit is due.Meggie-poo was…
A Phoenix man accused of beating his mother and nephew to death with a shovel earlier this year pled guilty to murder in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning.Erik Lampert, 35, copped to murdering his two relatives, 14-year-old Logan Lampert and 61-year-old Sheila Lampert, on June 20.Lampert, described as…
The Chandler Police Department has arrested two additional suspects in a 2006 drive-by shooting that left a 19-year-old mother dead.Lindsay Key was gunned down outside of a house party in Chandler in December of 2006. Two suspected gang members, Rodrigo Romero and Francisco Cervantes, were arrested late last year and…
The wrist-slap that is the MSNBC suspension of liberal talk show host Keith Olbermann will be coming to an end, the network announced last night.Olbermann was suspended last week after news broke that he contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of two Arizona Congressional candidates — a violation of…
The Phoenix Coyotes are off to a rough start this season and this past weekend didn’t help. The Coyotes dropped two games over the weekend — one to the Dallas Stars, and one to the Pittsburgh Penguins — and penalties were a big factor.On Friday, the Coyotes were in Dallas…
There is a silver lining to the Arizona Cardinals 27-24 overtime loss to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings — sure, for the second week in a row they blew a lead in the fourth quarter, but, for the first time all season, the man coach Ken Whisenhunt chose to…
The Arizona Cardinals will be in Minnesota this weekend to take on Brett Favre and the Vikings, and, as has been the case all season for the Cards, the quarterback situation remains dire.Too bad for the Cards, quarterback is a pretty important position and they don’t have one — that…
In wake of several incidents that have strained the relationship between the Phoenix Police Department and the community, the department announced today that several changes will be made in one its most trouble-plagued precincts.Whenever there’s a problem regarding the Phoenix PD, it seems to almost always have something to do…
Picture your morning routine. Now picture it with a naked meth-head yelling and banging on the front door of your house. That’s what some people in a Surprise neighborhood woke up to last week, and, needless to say, the man was arrested.Surprise police got a call just before 8 a.m…
This week’s New Times feature about the imminent retirement of Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash has received a lot of attention from local — and national — news outlets. A lot of people are saying the story is a hoax. But for many Suns fans, the news that their…
Since our earlier post about MSNBC’s most obnoxious liberal commentator, Keith Olbermann, and some controversial donations he made to the campaigns of two Arizona Congressional candidates, MSNBC has suspended the Edward Murrow wannabe indefinitely and without pay.News of Olbermann’s suspension came in a one-sentence statement from MSNBC TV President Phil…
When inmates escape from prison, mobilizing thousands of people to track down the escapees costs money, and Mohave County, apparently, doesn’t want to pick up the tab for its part in fixing the prison’s blunder.You may recall, three inmates escaped from the Kingman Prison last summer, and now, the county…
Liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann apparently took a few minutes away from ripping off Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow to drop some cash on a couple of Arizona’s Democratic Congressional candidates. Only problem is he may have violated NBC’s ethics policies in doing so.Olbermann acknowledged donating money to the…
Police in Las Vegas, Nevada, arrested a man on Tuesday suspected of committing armed robbery in Tempe. The robbery happened on October 17 — which happens to be same day Arizona State University student Zachary Marco was murdered, and police have a few questions for the alleged thug.Tempe police were…
Bieber Fever: either you got it or you don’t. A Surprise mom seems to be burnin’ up with the affliction because she banned her 12-year-old son from dressing as a “gay Justin Bieber” for Halloween. He wasn’t happy, and, in a very un-Bieber-like move — responded by pulling a knife…
Strip poker can be a fun party game when played by visually — and age — appropriate gamblers. It’s a problem, however, when one of those playing is a preacher — it’s an even bigger problem when the only other player is a 14-year-old boy.The former preacher at a Jehovah’s…
The star of the We Network’s family reality TV show, Raising Sextuplets, was in a Yavapai County courtroom this morning, where he pleaded guilty to a pair of charges stemming from a September outburst, in which he threatened his wife.Bryan Masche, the 32-year-old father of six featured on the show…
Super glue isn’t just for dangling from things by your head anymore. Aside from being used as eye-drops — as a Valley woman learned the hard way is a bad idea — it’s also being used to attempt to keep the man from finding out a person’s true identity. A…
Big ups to Phoenix Coyotes defenseman Ed Jovanovski, who became the first defenseman in Howlers history to get a hat trick, which he did during the team’s 4-3 win over the Nashville Predators last night.Defenseman aren’t the primary scorers in hockey, so the fact that one put the biscuit in…
