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…
I’m anticipating a silly press release from Governor Jan “We Have Did” Brewer’s camp tomorrow condemning the U.S. State Department, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the United Nations, as well as the New World Order and the Bilderbergers, if her scribes can work those last two into the text.See,…
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…
A couple of weeks back, I blogged on the obscenity of Arizona’s business elite feting “Bush’s brain” and “war criminal” Karl Rove on November 9 at the Sheraton as part of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce’s “Phoenix Forum” speaker series.Rove was part of the Bush administration scheme to sell the American public…
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…
The man who police say shot his ex-wife in a church parking lot on Tuesday was found dead in the desert from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.We hate to say it, but we kinda had a feeling this was how this story would end.The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office found the…
It’s so early in the season for us to call the Phoenix Suns 112-110 loss last night to their arch-rival San Antonio Spurs last night a game with “playoff-like intensity,” but it was. Both teams fought as if the game really meant something, not just one of 82 regular season…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s panties are in a bunch over a t-shirt that’s being distributed by Arizona’s “Weed Party.” The t-shirt is pro-prop-203, shows a picture of a pot leaf, and pictures Arpaio suckin’ on a weed pipe.We have one in our office — it’s very hip.The sheriff took…
INVESTIGATING JOE A delicious moment occurred during a recent Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting, one discussing the board’s findings that the MCSO has kept a second set of books on the estimated $80 million the MCSO’s misspent in jail-enhancement funds. Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s interim chief deputy, Jerry Sheridan, sat…
Update, 1 a.m. – Steve Nash Confirms Political Plans After Story Breaks A mere week into the 2010 NBA campaign and the Phoenix Suns’ season hopes have been annihilated for this year and many years to come. Superstar point guard Steve Nash has informed Suns management he’s leaving the team…
In the aftermath of the New Times story, which revealed that Steve Nash was leaving the Suns this month to run for mayor of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (Provide Link), the Phoenix Suns blanketed both their official Web site and the Internet with denials that their star point guard was…
If you thought Senate Bill 1070 was bad, there’s far worse on the way. That’s because Senate Republicans have picked a new president: 1070 “author,” state Senator Russell Pearce, Arizona’s Pope of Prejudice. Pearce figures Governor Jan Brewer “owes” him for saving her career, bullying 1070 through the legislature, giving her…
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Although Phoenix City Councilman Claude Mattox is the only one listed for a Sunday afternoon musical performance at the CityScape Block Party, rest assured that the 90-minute set also includes the rest of Mattox’s band — the Screamin’ Javelinas.Speculation ran rampant (in at least one New Times’ office) about whether…
We’ve crunched the latest numbers, analyzed the trend and spoken to campaign experts about the incredibly close race of Proposition 203. Our take: Arizona’s medical marijuana measure will fail without a minor miracle. But we won’t burst anyone’s bubble yet, ’cause the race isn’t finished. As you’ll see below, the Prop…
The CityScape Block Party is taking over downtown Phoenix starting Thursday night … and the musical lineup is mind blowing.Macy Gray! Third Eye Blind! And Phoenix City Councilman Claude Mattox?Yep. He is expected to make a solo appearance on stage Sunday afternoon for a 90-minute set. What happened to his…
Remember the story about the 11-year-old girl who said someone tried to abduct her this morning? About that…We just spoke with Tempe police Sergeant Steve Carbajal and it turns out the girl made the whole thing up.To avoid humiliating an 11-year-old girl, Carbajal wouldn’t say why the girl made up…
Police in Pinal County are looking for a man they believe shot and killed his ex-wife in the parking lot of a church last night.The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office got a call around 7 p.m. yesterday from a man at the Christ the Victor church in Florence saying shots had…
Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt is smack-dab in the middle of a game of musical quarterbacks — and he loses almost every time the music stops.Whisenhunt announced this morning that Derek Anderson will make the start at quarterback for the Cards when they head to Minnesota to take on the…
Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd got trampled in the District Three Congressional race by Congressman-elect Ben Quayle last night. But he wasn’t a dick about it, which is more than we can say about former TV pitchman — and one-time candidate for U.S. Senate — J.D. Hayworth.By about 9 p.m…
Don’t exhale just yet, because Proposition 203 could still win. The medical marijuana measure is behind by only 6,732 votes out of 1.3 million cast, as of 9:47 a.m., the most recent update on the Arizona Secretary of State’s Web site. All but two of 2,239 voting precincts in the state…
Mesa voters essentially gave the Chicago Cubs a blank check on Tuesday, approving a measure that gives the team a boat-load of cash to build a new spring training facility.Yesterday, voters approved Proposition 420 (we know what you’re probably thinking, but the medical weed proposition was Prop 203), which gives…
