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CBS 5 is once again showing purported video of Bigfoot, which is remarkable, considering Bigfoot doesn’t exist.Looks like the local TV news crew that claims to be “telling it like it is” got abducted by aliens again…

The Phoenix Coyotes season starts tonight in Glendale.The team missed the playoffs last season, which was a shortened season, but maybe new ownership and a couple new players will make a difference this year…

I’m a Mexican-American Catholic who is really upset about something I saw after Mass last night. As I waited for my son to come out of Confirmation class (yes, I had already attended Mass myself), I noticed something really odd. I saw a grocery cart parked by a curb. It…

Bill Macumber stares over the crowd of young heads shuffling into Coors Field in Denver. He observes that people dress much more casually at baseball games than in 1974, when he began his long incarceration in Arizona. Sun shining on his gray hair, Macumber wears a bola tie, a red…

Nothing went wrong in the Yarnell Hill Fire, which killed 19 firefighters in June. This according to the “Serious Accident Investigation Report” into the fire, released recently by federal, state, and local firefighting officials in Prescott. “The [interagency] Team found no indication of negligence, reckless actions, or violations of policy…

A 24-year-old Phoenix woman is dead after being shot by her boyfriend.Phoenix Police Sergeant Tommy Thompson says the shooting appears to be an accident…

Although it’s been nearly three months since the deadly Yarnell Hill Fire was contained, the signs of the fire still remain in the small town.Consider the photo above of what used to be a home, which was completely burned down. Notice that the grass surrounding the foundation is almost perfectly…

Jim Morrison was really onto something with that whole “People Are Strange” theory.If you’ve ever wondered why so many conspiracy-theory-based bills are actually discussed at Arizona Legislature, it appears there’s an explanation for that: Many people actually believe in these things (and also use tinfoil hats to deflect the government’s…

A third person has been arrested for having sex with a German shepherd.That German shepherd was owned by one Christopher Lynn Jackson, of Chandler, who first came to New Times’ attention earlier this month upon his arrest for allegedly drugging his ex-girlfriend and branding his initials onto her vagina…

Governor Jan Brewer “has did” it again — she came down with another severe case of brain flatulence in public.Upon Brewer commemorating the Tuskegee Airman — by repeatedly stumbling over the word “Tuskegee,” and eventually using eight different pronunciations — we put together a list of Brewer’s five smelliest brain…

Nobody did anything wrong in fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire, which killed 19 wildland firefighters in June, according to the team assigned to investigating the incident.Thanks to videos shot by reporter John Dougherty, you can watch as firefighting officials explain how everything about the events surrounding the deaths of the…

In case you’re just tuning in to reality today, the federal government’s closed.Well, kind of — things like military paychecks, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid payments are still expected to be doled out. Border Patrol’s still operating, so is the Postal Service, and if you’re accused of a federal crime,…

Remember Sheriff “Nickel Bag” Joe Arpaio’s last immigration raid, which included the arrests of four cleaning ladies?Arpaio’s office says the county is now safe from 20 more janitors/cleaning ladies as a result of the same investigation…

Governor Jan Brewer will likely be remembered for years to come, not for her policy work as governor, but for her excessive brain farts.Check out Brewer’s five biggest, er, smelliest, brain farts:…

A local poison-control center reported what appears to be the first reported cases of people using the drug “Krokodil” in the country.The drug, which apparently gets its name from the appearance many of its users get, due to sores, is described as a “moonshine” version of heroin…

In honor of this year’s edition of Best of Phoenix, we bring you the year’s best local TV moments…