Arizona Governor Jan Brewer plans to attend two memorial ceremonies honoring fallen peace officers. She will speak at the Arizona Department of Public Safety's fallen officer memorial ceremony at DPS headquarters this morning. Then she is scheduled to speak at the annual Arizona Peace Officers Memorial Service at the Capitol tonight. Two officers who died last year are being honored. Read More »
Former United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords has received the 2013 Profile in Courage award at the John F. Kennedy Library. Giffords received the award Sunday in recognition of the political, personal, and physical courage she has demonstrated in her fearless public advocacy for policy reforms aimed at reducing gun violence. Giffords, who was seriously wounded in a 2011 shooting, and ... Read More »
Family members say David Morris Kern, the creator of Orajel, a medicine aimed at fighting toothaches and later mouth sores, has died. He was 103. Kern died peacefully Friday at a group home in Paradise Valley. Born in 1909 in Manhattan and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Kern worked as a pharmacist before becoming a salesman for Norwich and Warner ... Read More »
United States Border Patrol agents from the Yuma Sector arrested 21 drug smugglers and seized a combined 783 pounds of marijuana in two days valued at more than $390,000. Agents working 20 miles west of Gila Bend Wednesday night apprehended a group of 17 drug smugglers after an agent spotted the group using night vision equipment and guided other agents ... Read More »
C-SPAN’s Yuma Weekend is here. Yuma themed programming that will air throughout this weekend on the C-SPAN Networks. Filming crews spent a week in Yuma back in March in order to get footage and interviews about what is special about Yuma and who makes it special. In addition to having the pieces sprinkled in throughout the weekend on the respective ... Read More »
United States Border Patrol agents from the Yuma Sector arrested 13 drug smugglers and seized over 1,200 pounds of marijuana in two days. Agents working north of Davidson Canyon, within the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, found a cache of 197 pounds of abandoned marijuana Tuesday. The drugs were seized for destruction. Wednesday, agents working southeast of Gila Bend with ... Read More »
The Yuma Fire Department responded to a mobile home fire Wednesday afternoon at the Chaparral Mobile Home Park on South Avenue “B”. The department arrived to find power lines down and arcing on approximately six mobile homes. The arcing lines caused a fire at one home, and a small brush fire. All occupants were able to safely evacuate the homes. ... Read More »
Two pairs of Mexican wolves are to be released in Arizona and New Mexico, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced that a Wildlife Services agent shot and killed a wolf. The shooting happened back in January, but was not made public at the time. Michael Robinson, conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, says while he ... Read More »
At a conference hosted by Arizona Common Sense Thursday, speakers talked about the pressure Yuma County is under to sell or lease its water rights. Herb Gunther says it is a hotly contested issue. In January, Arizona house speaker Andy Tobin introduced a bill, which would allow Regional Water Augmentation Authorities to establish and have more access to the river. ... Read More »
New Mexico is teaming up with other states as part an effort to get drivers along historic Route 66 to wear their seat belts. The crackdown begins today and will last 24 hours. The effort started in 2010 with a handful of law enforcement agencies in central Oklahoma. It has now expanded to include highway patrol troopers, state police officers ... Read More »
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