Month: November 2018

Community leaders and students from Ed Pastor Elementary School gathered in San Luis to pay tribute to the late congressman Ed Pastor. Pastor died Tuesday night after suffering from a heart attack at age 75. A slide show presentation was given to students and the community that displayed Pastor’s commitment to the schools in San

El ex presidente George H.W. Bush murió la noche del viernes a la edad de 94 años, según un portavoz en un comunicado. A continuación se muestra la declaración emitida en nombre de la familia de Bush: “Jeb, Neil, Marvin, Doro y yo nos sentimos tristes al anunciar que despues de 94 años extraordinarios, nuestro

UPDATE (8:20 p.m.) A deputy of the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office was hospitalized after being involved in a collision at the intersection of Avenue B and 32nd Street Friday evening. The Yuma County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy was responding to a collision on Avenue A and County 16th 1/2 Street in his patrol truck

A possible annexation of a specific area that is under Yuma County’s control could be in the works. “We’ve had some discussions with far west and we’re looking, assessing that situation to see if there’s a possibility to do something with them,” said Greg Wilkinson, City of Yuma administrator. Wilkinson said Mesa Del Sol Homeowners

Calexico Police said 21-year-old Jesse Garcia allegedly stole a store vest and entered the store’s building through the back area. A store employee asked Garcia what he was doing in the back area. Police said Garcia pulled out a box-cutter in a threatening way and followed the employee inside the store. Police arrived and arrested

A white former Dallas police officer was indicted on murder charges Friday, nearly three months after she fatally shot an unarmed black neighbor whose apartment she said she entered by mistake, believing it to be her own. Amber Guyger told fellow officers that she opened fire when Botham Jean appeared in the darkness. Jean’s relatives

Ante la llegada de Andres Manuel López Obrador como el nuevo presidente de Mexico, el partido político MORENA, se ha preparado para aquellas personas que quieran presenciar este acontecimiento. En las oficinas del partido en Mexicali, se instalarán pantallas donde se estará transmitiendo el cambio de poder. El lugar tiene capacidad para 150 personas. Acto

One individual was taken to the hospital following a three-vehicle collision that occurred on County 15th Street and Highway 95 Friday evening, according to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office. The individual hospitalized suffered non-life threatening injuries. Please use precaution and avoid the area. We will update this story as more details become available.

E l Aeropuerto de la Ciudad de Mexicali, se convierte en uno de los aeropuertos más importantes de la Republica Mexicana teniendo un crecimiento de cerca del 50% económico, en comparación del año pasado. En las cercanías del Aeropuerto de Mexicali ya se pueden observar que existen proyectos de infraesttructura debido al crecimiento en toda

The U.S. plans to cut the number of active-duty troops along the border with Mexico but extend the unusual deployment for another 45 days, U.S. officials said Friday. Overall troop levels assigned to assist the Department of Homeland Security with border enforcement will drop from 5,600 to about 4,000 under a new proposal from the

Arizona Department of Transportation will implement a new public safety fee after Dec. 1 when registering any vehicles in Arizona. The $32 mandatory fee for motorists per year will help with Highway Patrol operations like collision teams, assisting motorists in distress, air rescue operations, and patrolling more than 6,800 highway miles, according to the Arizona

A convicted murderer from Honduras was apprehended Saturday by Border Patrol after he entered the United States illegally with members of the migrant caravan, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. CBP officials said agents noticed three people crossing the border illegally about a mile east of the San Ysidro Port of Entry at around

The Arizona Department of Public Safety said a sergeant acted quickly and heroically by creating a traffic break moments before a wrong-way driver collided head-on with his patrol vehicle on Interstate 40 (I-40), likely saving the lives of other motorists. The incident happened on November 17 along I-40 near Flagstaff. Shortly after 3:30 p.m., AZDPS

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising drivers to plan for the temporary full closure of Business Loop on Interstate 8 (Pima Street) in Gila Bend on Monday, December 3. The closures will begin at 5:30 p.m. Gila Bend’s Holiday Light parade route will require a full closure. Drivers should plan to use detour routes

The Bureau of Reclamation’s Yuma Desalting Plant will conduct a test of its emergency chemical alarm system on Thursday, December 6. The test will be conducted to verify that the plant’s emergency readiness system is fully operational in the event the facility experiences an incidental chemical release. The test will be conducted from 9 a.m.

Aid workers and humanitarian organizations expressed concerns Thursday about unsanitary conditions at the sports complex in Tijuana where more than 6,000 Central American migrants are packed into a space adequate for half that many people and where lice infestations and respiratory infections are rampant. As a chill rain fell, the dust that coated everyone and