Month: November 2018

Adelitas, tablas gimnásticas, bandas de guerra, carros alegóricos y hasta demostraciones de defensa policiaca y escuadrón de rescates, formaron parte del tradicional desfile revolucionario que se llevo a cabo a lo largo de la avenida Reforma en Mexicali. Fueron más de 3 mil 500 personas que participaron en el desfile a fin de conmemorar los

The Yuma Police Department is informing the public of a level three sex offender who is now residing in Yuma. Forty-five-year-old Charles Edward Eaves now lives in the 1600 block of South Magnolia Avenue in Yuma. He is described as 6 feet, 230 pounds, with auburn hair, and hazel eyes. According to YPD, Charles Eaves

Yuma Sector Border Patrol welcomed 50 new Border Patrol agents Monday in efforts to increase border security as migrant caravans continue to arrive at the U.S./Mexico border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the new agents began their detail Monday morning as part of Operation Secure Line. The lengths of tours will alter and could

UPDATE: The victims in the two-vehicle collision that happened Saturday have been identified, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety. DPS said 52-year-old Sheldon Durand, of Yuma, was driving a 1996 Mazda sedan in the southbound lanes when his vehicle crossed into the northbound lanes striking a 2001 Dodge pickup driven by 77-year-old Juan

President Donald Trump’s recent decision on sending fifteen-thousand troops to the Southern border is now leaving residents in San Luis on alert. One resident of San Luis, Arizona who crosses daily to drop off his daughter at school said that since that has happened, traffic in the area has worsened.

The Arizona Department of Transportation is advising drivers to plan ahead for lane restrictions on Interstate 8 in Yuma beginning Tuesday, November 27. The restrictions will begin near the Telegraph Pass at 7 a.m. Contractors are scheduled for work that will require aerial crossings between the I-8 U.S. Border Patrol immigration checkpoint east of Yuma

Charles Flynn, was a local man who served almost two decades committed to the development and improvement of the East and West Wetlands park, trails and beaches. Flynn, who recently retired from his position of executive director of the heritage area, now has a legacy left in Yuma County. On November 9, the “Charles Flynn

A suicide bomber targeted a gathering of hundreds of Muslim religious scholars in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 43 people, Afghan officials said. Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahid Majroh said another 83 people were wounded in the attack, which took place as Muslims around the world marked the birthday of the Prophet

A trucker, who made a stop in Yuma, is behind a group that helped confront a local man accused of child sex crimes. Anthony Greene is the brainchild behind ‘Truckers Against Predators’ – or TAP and Monday turned out to be an eventful morning for the 20-year trucker. Thirty-year-old Matthew Sanchez turned himself into police

A Red Cross paramedic was killed and six others wounded in a rare attack by a gang of young gunmen on a Red Cross aid distribution event in southern Mexico. Three police officers providing security at the event also died in the attack Sunday in the township of Taxco, in the southern state of Guerrero.

A California woman who won $5.2 million in a lottery has pleaded guilty in federal court in South Dakota to scamming six people in the wake of her win. Judy Carroll, 59, of El Cajon, California, and her husband won the California lottery in 1989. Authorities say Carroll later scammed people, including a friend in

The FBI says an 82-year-old man arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank in Goodyear was wanted by federal authorities for leaving a halfway house. Charles Manrow was ordered held behind bars Monday while he awaits trial. According to a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Arizona, Manrow was armed with a BB gun

Porque Tijuana es su destino final, migrantes centroamericanos que albergan en Mexicali, empezaron a organizarse para continuar su viaje pese a manifestaciones de rechazo y xenofobia de algunos tijuanenses. Fueron más de mil 500 migrantes que caminaron por la línea fronteriza Mexicali Calexico. Edgar, guatemalteco, ha caminado kilómetros, busca a su familia, a su hijo

Esta mañana grupos de la caravana se reunieron en el centro de la ciudad para organizarse y continuar su camino a Tijuana. “En el centro hay una asamblea para ver hacia donde nos vamos a dirigir” dijo Estefania Cruz, mientras caminaba con su familia al centro de Mexicali. Cruz es originaria de Guatemala y comento

A convicted sex offender was arrested by Border Patrol agents early Monday morning near the Calexico Port of Entry. According to CBP, agents patrolling the three miles east of the Calexico Port of Entry noticed a man running north from the international border. Agents approached the man and determined that the man was illegally present