Month: August 2018

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has created the Arizona Medal of Valor for heroic public safety officers and first responders. The medal was established on Monday through an executive order issued by the governor. Ducey will appoint all members of a review board that will include a police chief and a fire chief to select medal

The FBI says two employees of a casino in the north-central town of Payson have been accused of robbing the business last month. They say 31-year-old Ryan Pearson and 32-year-old Armando Ochoa were arrested Monday in Payson. Two suspects dressed in black and wearing hoods and masks entered the Mazatzal Casino on the Tonto Apache

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says the legal door is open for the Legislature to use money from state’s medical marijuana program to pay for services to help people addicted to drugs. Arizona voters approved a 2010 law creating the medical marijuana program and Brnovich says providing funding for drug addiction services from medical marijuana

The 3-year-old boy with a bowl haircut and striped shirt silently clung to his father in the back of a U.S. Border Patrol truck. Their shoes still muddy from crossing the border, the father and son had just been apprehended at a canal near a border fence in Arizona on a muggy night in July.

The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah called out “fake news” this week when media agencies had falsely claimed President Donald Trump “lost 1,500 migrant children” and linked an incorrect 2014 photo to the story. New York Times Editor-in-Chief Jake Silverstein shared a picture taken during Obama’s term and tried to link it to President Trump’s administration.

A man who was out eating dinner with his girlfriend’s family on Mother’s Day was allegedly verbally and racially attacked by restaurant employees for wearing a hat. In a statement released Wednesday by the restaurant, two of the employees have been fired. The incident happened at Cheesecake Factory in Miami, while 22-year-old Eugenior Joseph was

A college graduate’s photo went viral over the weekend. Kaitlin Bennett graduated from Kent State University and posted a photo carrying a rifle with the words “come and take it” on her graduation cap. She posted the image on twitter with a caption that included, “Now that I graduated from @KentState, I can finally arm

An illegal immigrant with multiple previous felony convictions was arrested by Yuma Border Patrol agents in San Luis. Just after 4:30 p.m. Thursday, agents caught 50-year-old Deonicio Torres-Salazar from Jalisco, Mexico entering the United States illegally, two miles east of the San Luis Port of Entry. According to law enforcement, Torres-Salazar has felony convictions of

In a recent online article published Monday, Cosmopolitan asked Caucasian parents to not dress their kids as the Disney character Moana because it is “racially insensitive.” Cosmopolitan is a fashion magazine geared towards women internationally. They have been around for over a century, with their first magazine published in 1886. In Monday’s article, Cosmopolitan stated,

A man was arrested for allegedly trespassing and luring a child for sexual exploitation inside a Yuma home. The incident happened just before 8 a.m. Tuesday. According to Yuma Police Department, the incident occurred on the 2300 block of Walnut Avenue. Police say the man, Chad Edward Diener, walked into the residence. The victim is

UPDATE: Around 6:50 p.m., Yuma Police stated they requested Hill’s release pending further investigation. PREVIOUS STORY: A man is behind bars after law enforcement responded to an attempted kidnapping call in Yuma. Just before 8 a.m. Tuesday, Yuma Police responded to the E. 37th Street and Hinckley Drive area. The suspect, 25-year-old Cody Hill, was

WMT/Pennsylvania – Officials are searching for a man who shot his daughter’s boyfriend inside of a motel room. The incident happened Sunday afternoon at the Motel 6 on Altamont Blvd. 40-year-old Donald Jenkins Junior came into the room were his daughter and the boyfriend were. The daughter rented the room for two nights. Her boyfriend

An arrest has been made in the Amberly’s Place Thrift Shoppe burglaries. Yuma Police Department confirmed that Jaime Rodriguez was arrested Wednesday morning for theft and burglary. On May 31 and June 4 Rodriguez allegedly broke into the building and stole multiple items worth up to $1,000. Those items included electronics, accessories, and clothes. Police

A bear was captured on photo climbing over a border fence. The image was shared by CBS 13’s sister station in Tucson. They stated the photo came from Sonora Querida’s Facebook page, who claims the image was taken on a border wall at Naco, Sonora. Naco is southeast of Tucson.

Local police made multiple arrests Tuesday. Some of the calls they responded to included a reported burglary, stabbing, and carjacking incident. Before those incidents occurred, officers with the Calexico Police Department located a parolee who was wanted for a felony case in El Centro. He was arrested and handed over to El Centro Police Department.

A girl shown in a photo crying as a U.S. Border Patrol agent detained her mother, was never separated from her mom. However, the photo has gone viral and has been incorrectly shown to depict that she was separated. According to the Honduran girl’s father, the Honduran government, and multiple news agencies, the 2-year-old girl’s

The missing taxi cab, in connection with the missing driver that was found dead on Tuesday, was located Monday evening. One witness said the taxi was abandoned in broad daylight in an alley near 28th Street and Avenue A. “I walked around it for just a little bit to see if somebody might have been