Month: March 2019

The Arizona Department of Transportation is alerting drivers of the upcoming Interstate 8 ramp closures scheduled this month. ADOT officials said the restrictions will happen from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. beginning Wednesday, March 27, and continuing through Friday, March 29. As part of the Interstate 8 pavement treatment project, ADOT crews will be applying

Netflix is canceling “One Day at a Time” after three seasons. In a statement Thursday, the streaming service’s chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, called it “disappointing” that more viewers didn’t discover the sitcom. A tweet on a Netflix company account said not enough people watched to justify renewing it, and called the cancellation a difficult

A 35-year-old man from Mexico has admitted to driving 10 undocumented adults and three children from Mexico and Central America to various locations in the U.S. Rene Flores-Calderon pleaded guilty Thursday to eight counts of transporting undocumented immigrants and one count of illegal re-entry. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports police caught Flores-Calderon and his passengers

The Mexican army says it has freed 34 Central American migrants who had been kidnapped in the northern state of Tamaulipas, across from Texas. The Defense Department said Thursday in a statement that the migrants had been held at a property in the municipality of Altamira and were located by patrols. Twenty-five were Hondurans, eight

Authorities say small animals including turtles, snakes and parakeets are feared dead in a fire at a Southern California reptile museum. Jenny Smith with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department tells the Los Angeles Times that firefighters on Thursday were able to rescue some macaws and African grey parrots. Crews responding shortly before noon found

A former doctor in southern Arizona has been charged with conspiring to have a former patient killed. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office says 50-year-old Glenn Gary Robertson was arrested on March 5 at his home in Benson on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder. The agency declined to provide other details, including whether others

A man crashed his car into a house in El Centro, and police believe he was under the influence at the time. The crash happened around 2:16 a.m. Thursday at a home in the 300 block of East Holt Avenue, according to El Centro police. The driver, 44-year-old Monico Avila, was driving his 1999 Ford

Son proyectos inovadores que ayudan al cuidado del medio ambiente y simplifica la vida del ser humano como; la elaboración de plástico con cáscaras de mango, la purificación de agua a traves de la utilización de carbón activo o una silla de ruedas que funciona con el movimiento de los ojos. El ingenio de estos

A trend Yuma sector border patrol agents have been seeing for months has continued with nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants crossing into the Yuma area in the last few days, according to Yuma sector border patrol. Most of these entries are happening near County 9th street, an area where there’s only a shallow body of water,

A local vendor is speaking out after she was told not to sell ‘Make America Great Again’ hats because park owners say it is too political. This is Naomi Jacobson’s first craft show at the Gila Mountain Resort in Yuma. Halfway through the show, she was told to remove the hats from her table and

Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, says a new U.N. report. Climate change, a global major extinction of animals and plants, a human population soaring toward 10 billion, degraded land, polluted air, and plastics, pesticides and hormone-changing chemicals in the water are making the planet an increasing

The U.S. is issuing an emergency order Wednesday grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 aircraft “effective immediately,” in the wake of the crash of an Ethiopian Airliner that killed 157 people, President Donald Trump said. Many nations had already barred the Boeing 737 Max 8 from its airspace, but until Trump’s announcement,

The Mexican government said Wednesday it is launching a formal search for 19 migrants who were pulled from a bus last week by armed men in the northern border state of Tamaulipas. Tamaulipas state police, the army, federal police and prosecutors will participate in the search, according to the National Search Commission for Missing Persons.

The Yuma Armed Forces Park is honoring the men and women who served their country with an engraved plaque, however , those plaques have been falling apart at the seams. The park is one of its kind in the state of Arizona because it is designed to honor all military veterans, those currently serving, and

Mayor Douglas J. Nicholls will present the ‘State of the City’ address at the ‘Goodmorning Yuma’ breakfast Thursday morning. These monthly breakfasts are put together every month by the Chamber of Commerce in hopes to bring the community together. Mayor Nicholl’s will be discussing what he is looking forward to for the upcoming year as

Arizona Sen. Martha McSally said Wednesday she’ll vote to uphold President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration freeing up money to build a wall on the southern border. McSally, a Republican appointed to her seat in January, had avoided taking a position on Trump’s emergency declaration ahead of an expected vote in the Senate to nullify it.

A 20-year-old man is proving skeptics wrong with his recovery after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a plane crash in the year 2017. Not many thought Brody Burnell would make it after crashing near Deer Valley Airport in 2017, but he is now walking and talking. “I don’t know why am so funny. Nothing

One man has been taken into custody after barricading himself inside a trailer. Yuma Police identified the man as 33-year-old Alejandro Cunningham. YPD said a court order violation sparked the entire situation near 8th Street and G. Bell Avenue. They said Cunningham then made threats leading them to call in the special enforcement team. “We

The man who police said barricaded himself inside a Yuma mobile home for hours Tuesday made his initial appearance in Yuma Justice Court Wednesday. Alejandro Cunningham was arrested on 9 charges after police said they released gas to get Cunningham out of the home. “As far as it happening, I’m not real comfortable with that,