Univision came out on top in the Valley, and according to numbers crunched after February sweep, the Spanish-language station emerged the most watched among 18- to 49-year-olds during all time slots -- even when compared to its English-language competitors.

Nationwide, it ranked fourth -- for the first time beating out NBC.

Is it better programing? Those titillating novelas? Or simply a reflection of a growing Latino population?

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Peter Griffin from Family Guy

Family Guy fans are no doubt familiar with Consuela, the Griffin family's dutiful Mexican housekeeper.

And Family Guy creators are clearly familiar with Arizona and its anti-immigrant reputation.

In last night's Valentine's Day episode, watched by millions of people across the country, they took a shot at the state by having U.S. Border Patrol agents take several shots at Consuela.

Video below.

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#TheVomit

Imagine that -- people at Go Daddy are happy the company's Super Bowl commercial caused controversy, as watching and listening to some fatso make out with a supermodel made people feel like they wanted to vomit.

In fact, the Scottsdale-based company that has relied on cleavage for many of its previous Super Bowl ads sent over the press release to explain how happy the Go Daddy people are that people are grossed out.

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Does Go Daddy's Super Bowl Commercial Make You Want to Vomit?


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Today in news only marginally related to elections, Senator John McCain transformed from a grumpy old man to a kid on the playground in about three seconds.

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Sometimes it's hard to ignore how adorable local TV reports are -- like the endless chupacabra chases from KPHO.

This time around, it's ABC 15, which sent its reporters northwest to Wittmann to find out if serial cat-hoarder Lucienne Touboul -- an 81-year-old woman -- was really eating her cats.

For the third cat-bust at Touboul's house in recent years, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office found more than 60 cats at her place, just two years after deputies found more than 100 cats there -- more than half of them dead.

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Michael DeSisto, (pictured center) founder of DeSisto School, appointed Paul Babeu as headmaster from 1999 to 2001.

Speaking recently to reporters who showed up for a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting, embattled Sheriff Paul Babeu said that cease and desist notices were filed with a "one news station in particular" and that "there's likely legal action that will follow with that."

ABC 15, along with other media outlets, have reported extensively on Babeu's ties to the DeSisto School, a private boarding school for troubled teens. Babeu was the headmaster and executive director at the Massachusetts school from 1999 to 2001.
We left messages for ABC15 regarding Babeu's statements, but haven't heard back.

Babeu remains twisted up over allegations that he was involved in a relationship with a 17-year-old at DeSisto School in Massachusetts while he served as headmaster and executive director of the school. The source of that allegation is Lucy Babeu, the sheriff's sister.

While Babeu and his attorneys have tried to discredit her, and Babeu's apologists have poked fun of her as being "paranoid," her allegations are backed up by several individuals who attended the private boarding school during Babeu's tenure.

Chris DeRose, one of Babeu's attorneys, didn't immediately respond to New Times request for clarification of the sheriff's statement.

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Scene from last week's Medium episode, which featured a fictional sheriff who's just like Sheriff Arpaio -- except for the rapist/murderer part

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A fictional sheriff whose policies bear an uncanny resemblance to those of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was featured as a child rapist/murderer last week on CBS' Medium show.

At least one Arpaio-lovin' blogger blew a gasket over the depiction, which comes a few weeks after news that a racist character in the movie Machete might be based on the sheriff.

According to conservative writer Warner Todd Huston:

Guest star Tom Wopat portrays a sheriff that is dismissive of the health and welfare of his prisoners, he's a man that snickers at them, and treats them as less than human. This sheriff makes his prisoners wear -- gasp! -- pink jumpsuits and work on chain gangs! Oh the horrors.

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Joe Watson, former New Times writer and convicted "Salon Bandit," was one of the inmates featured on a recent episode of MSNBC's Lockup

​The "stars" of last Saturday's episode of MSNBC's inmate reality show, Lockup, were a couple of guys who should be familiar to regular readers of New Times:

One is former New Times writer Joe Watson, a.k.a. the "Salon Bandit.

The other: Former karate instructor Jonathan Antonucci, the key figure from a fatal arson fire featured in our January 21 issue.

The two shared a cell for a time in Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail, a fact that Lockup called "ironic." We think it's just plain weird.More »