Month: May 2019

Calexico High School held its annual awards ceremony at Varner gym in Calexico where a group of criminal justice students was featured. Mr. Davies is a criminal justice teacher at CHS, and this year his students participated in The Law Enforcement Academy Training with Border Patrol. The students had the opportunity to train the way

El fenómeno migrante ha impactado a Mexicali, ahora se registra una caravana de cubanos que está llegando a esa frontera. S on más de 40 cubanos que han llegado a Mexicali a diferentes albergues desde hace varios días. En su mayoría llegaron hombres que iniciaron su viaje desde la otra frontera de Mexico, es decir

Según el Departamento de Policía de El Centro, se reportó un tiroteo en el área de avenida Imperial y avenida Commercial el martes. La policía dijo que el incidente fue clasificado como un tiroteo / intento de homicidio y no se reportaron lesiones físicas a las personas involucradas. Un vehículo parece ser lo único dañado

Agents from The Yuma Sector Border Patrol apprehended over 140 undocumented immigrants just 19 miles East of the San Luis port of entry. Agents said this is a remote area where mostly single adults cross through and are used by smugglers. “Your single adult males that are looking to push drugs through, this is an

A jury has sentenced a man convicted in the killing of an Arizona police officer to life in prison, sparing him a possible death penalty for fatally shooting the officer during a 2010 traffic stop. Christopher Redondo was previously convicted of murder in the killing of Gilbert Lt. Eric Shuhandler. He also was convicted of

A car crashed into Arizona Lighting Company located at 1152 South 4th Avenue Tuesday afternoon. The crash may have been caused by a medical issue, Yuma police said. No injuries were reported inside the business. The driver was transported to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. Stay tuned for more information.

111 Central Americans, consisting of mostly families, and children surrendered to Border Patrol agents near San Luis, Ariz., Tuesday morning, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The group crossed illegally through a breach in infrastructure with the help of a smuggler, CBP added. {“url”:”https://twitter.com/CBPArizona/status/1125870239122509824″,”author_name”:”CBP Arizona”,”author_url”:”https://twitter.com/CBPArizona”,”html”:”&#lt;blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”&#gt;&#lt;p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”&#gt;111 Central Americans, mostly families and children,

Leilani Wesley is a senior at Kofa High School and is about to be a freshman at Harvard University. She was accepted to several Ivy League universities that include Columbia University and Yale. “I cultivated my dream to succeed from a young age. My mother was a single mother who didn’t have an education. She

May 7th is recognized globally as World Asthma Day. El Centro Regional Medical Center held a resource fair today for asthma awareness. In 2016, the California Department of Public Health recorded that 23,000 children and adults have been diagnosed with asthma in Imperial County. Imperial Valley Child Asthma Program provided information and resources for families

Kofa High School’s Concert Band was given a score of “superior” and the title of “Overall Best High School Concert Band” on April 26, at Six Flags Magic Mountain Music in the Parks festival in Valencia. Kofa’s Concert Band was invited to the festival after a successful season during the 2018-2019 school year. Kofa’s Concert

Tennessee police say DNA evidence led to the arrest of an Arizona man in a 22-year-old unsolved slaying. Clarksville Police spokesman Jim Knoll said in a news release that DNA evidence from the autopsy of 23-year-old Christa Bramlitt was entered into a national database in 1996 in hopes of a possible match. After more than

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday signed into law one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws, a measure that bans the procedure once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can be as early as six weeks before many women know they are pregnant. Kemp, a Republican, said he approved the bill “to ensure

Muqadas Ashraf was just 16 when her parents married her off to a Chinese man who had come to Pakistan looking for a bride. Less than five months later, Muqadas is back in her home country, pregnant and seeking a divorce from a husband she says was abusive. She is one of hundreds of poor