LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A speeding case against a former state legislator caught bragging on video about driving over 120 mph (193 kph) remains in fact-finding stages. The Today’s News-Herald reports that another status conference was set for Aug. 9 in La Paz County Justice Court in Parker after Lake Havasu Republican Paul
Continue ReadingPHOENIX (AP) — Paz Lopez was set to spend Mother’s Day behind bars. The 42-year-old mother of six had been locked up in a Phoenix jail for the past month on forgery and other charges. She couldn’t post her $2,050 bail. But on Thursday night she walked out and into a car waiting to give
Continue ReadingCalexico Police said 29-year-old Steven Gonzalez tried to cash an alleged fraudulent check at a cash exchange business on South Imperial and Fourth Street. The business refused; Gonzalez called the police. Office Anthony Aguirre, “He was in front of the business kind of angry. That’s when I made contact with him and that’s when I
Continue ReadingLa electricidad se restauró luego de un apagón que se informó el viernes por la tarde y que afectó a 3,500 clientes, según funcionarios de APS. Trabajadores de APS estaban trabajando en el mantenimiento planificado y encontraron cables defectuosos que causaron el apagón. NOTA ORIGINAL Más de 3,500 personas están sin electricidad luego de un
Continue ReadingArreglos florales ya sean chicos o grandes, globos o bombones, no importa el tipo de detalle, ni el precio, sino el símbolo que representa mostrar el amor a mamá, aquella que nos dio la vida, nos ha guiado, apoyado y hasta aguantado. Es la madre el pilar fuerte de toda familia mexicana, por este motivo
Continue ReadingThe Imperial Valley Continuum of Care Council has taken on the task of counting the homeless population in the Imperial County. The council’s committee has released a summary report of this years point in time count. This year’s results show over 1,413 homeless people are living in the Imperial County. The IV Continuum of Care
Continue ReadingIt’s the sad reality of our nation, schools zones becoming danger zones. Safe spaces, like schools, now have to worry about the possibility of an active shooter at any moment. According to the New York Times, after Sandy Hook in 2012, more than 400 people have been shot in over 200 school shootings. This sense
Continue ReadingLa Patrulla fronteriza del Sector de Yuma reporta múltiples casos de familias fraudulentas que detienen cruzando la frontera. De acuerdo con la Patrulla Fronteriza estos grupos pretenden ser unidades familiares con menores de edad con el objetivo de ser liberados despues junto con el resto de los migrantes que solicitan asilo Anthony Porvaznik, jefe de
Continue ReadingAgents at the Yuma Sector Border Patrol has detected over 450 fraudulent family cases in the fiscal year 2019, during the hundred of apprehensions that happen on a daily basis with undocumented immigrants. In some cases, agents said adults in these groups are lying by claiming they are the father or mother of these children
Continue ReadingEl Centro police said the vehicle believed to be linked to the drive-by shooting reported Tuesday has been located but the search for the suspects continues. In a Facebook post Friday, police said detectives located and recovered the vehicle believed to have been involved. Investigators continue to identify the suspect(s) described as having been in
Continue ReadingTucson Sector Border Patrol agents, along with Air and Marine Operations crews, rescued a Mexican man Tuesday on Diablo Peak who could no longer walk. Customs and Border Protection said agents found the man after he called 911. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1126945003245166593″,”author_name”:”CBP Arizona”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/CBPArizona”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;&#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/AMO?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#AMO&#lt;/a&#gt; Tucson Air Branch &#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/rescued?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#rescued&#lt;/a&#gt; a Mexican man on Diablo Peak
Continue ReadingPower has been restored following a power outage that was reported on Friday afternoon that affected 3,500 customers, according to APS officials. APS crews were working on planned maintenance and found faulted cables that caused the power outage. ORIGINAL STORY Over 3,500 people are without power following an outage that was reported Friday. Power outages
Continue ReadingYuma Sector Border Patrol has made over 1,100 apprehensions that include Central American families crossing illegally and surrendering to agents in the past three days, Customs and Border Protection said in a tweet Friday. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1126957625554362368″,”author_name”:”CBP Arizona”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/CBPArizona”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;&#lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/YumaSector?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”&#gt;#YumaSector&#lt;/a&#gt; Border Patrol continues to be overwhelmed with waves of Central American families crossing illegally and
Continue ReadingEl Centro Mayor Edgard Garcia is being charged on two counts of driving under the influence. Police said Garcia was stopped at Aurora and Cypress Drive on Tuesday around 10 p.m. Police said Garcia refused to take a sobriety test, was taken to the station, cited and released. This has the community speaking out. I.V.
Continue ReadingThe House has passed a $19 billion disaster aid bill that would deliver long-sought relief to farmers, victims of hurricanes and floods, and rebuild southern military bases. Democrats controlling the chamber are trying to dislodge the legislation from a Senate logjam over aid to hurricane-slammed Puerto Rico. Friday’s measure passed by a 257-150 vote over
Continue ReadingScrap “Obamacare”? Well, maybe not all of it. The Trump administration is arguing in court that the entire Affordable Care Act should be struck down as unconstitutional. But at the same time, Justice Department lawyers recently suggested that federal judges could salvage its anti-fraud provisions, raising questions about keeping other parts as well. Serving up
Continue ReadingArizona’s medical marijuana law doesn’t allow smoking the drug in public places and a court ruling says people with state-issued cards entitling them to use cannabis don’t have immunity in a car in a parking lot. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruling Thursday affirms misdemeanor convictions of two people caught smoking marijuana inside a car
Continue ReadingIllegal border crossings, migrant caravans, detention centers, and asylum are all words that we hear every day when it comes to immigration. The question is what do these words mean for those affected most? The stories of undocumented immigrants start almost 3,000 miles away in Central America as they begin their journey to eventually surrender
Continue ReadingAn attorney for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman asked a federal judge to intervene over what she described as “cruel and unusual” prison conditions for the drug kingpin who is in custody in a federal prison in New York. Guzman, once the leader of a murderous drug cartel in Mexico, was convicted in February of running
Continue ReadingA 30-year-old Honduran national man was arrested Monday morning as he attempted to enter the United States at Port of Nogales. The Office of Field Operations officers from the Dennis DeConcini Crossing say Alex Josue Mendez-Maldonado presented a Honduran birth certificate telling the officers he was seeking asylum. Officers say they referred the man to
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