On a chilly English November morning, Alice Dearing has woken up before sunrise to do what she does every day of the week; swim back and forth, length after length, hour after hour, in her university’s swimming pool. England is in the midst of a global pandemic, but the 23-year-old has history in her sights.
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Wednesday’s city council meeting covers the COVID timeline and where we stand today on the pandemic.
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Wednesday brought more bad and good news as the US endures the 10th month of the coronavirus pandemic. There was a trio of all-time highs in the data. A record number of new deaths — more than 3,500 — was reported Wednesday and there were more than 240,000 newly reported coronavirus cases. And the number
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MEXICALI, B.C., Mex. (KYMA/KECY) – Private companies who offer sanitation services in Mexicali banned together to extend a helping hand by offering free disinfecting services to hospitals and police departments. For the next two weeks, Quersa, Deinfx y Clinsol, the companies based in the Mexican border town of Mexicali, will be conducting the generous sanitation
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Even though the Northeast is getting hammered with snow, the Desert Southwest continues to stay chilly.
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Liam Hoffmeyer officially signs with the Air Force Academy!
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After all his effort on the field and the classroom, Hoffmeyer signed his letter of intent with the Air Force Academy for a full ride football scholarship.
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Jolly old Saint Nicholas will be handing out gifts at the Yuma Landing Restaurant on Dec. 21. YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA) – Gather the kids and hop in the car Monday, Dec. 21 to receive a special gift from Santa Claus in Yuma. The Yuma Landing Restaurant is hosting a ‘Santa gift drive-by’ from 5:30 to
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Friday, September 4 was one of the happiest days in recent memory for Mayila Yakufu and her family. That day, Yakufu, a 43-year-old ethnic Uyghur, had been freed from a Chinese detention camp and allowed to return home to her three teenage children and aunt and uncle in Xinjiang, western China. It was the first
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CALEXICO, Cal. (KYMA, CBS13) – A family in Calexico is now in the care of the Imperial County Red Cross after their home caught fire Wednesday. Fire officials are unsure how the fire started but their home on Heffernan and Rosemont Street caught fire around noon Wednesday and is deemed a complete loss. “All we
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Champion Church is continuing the tradition by gearing up for its annual Christmas performance. The church is known for several events during the holidays, but due to the pandemic, Champion Church was forced to cancel the annual pumpkin patch.
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Married for 30 years, they died together from Covid-19 complications sharing one final embrace — holding each other’s hands and the hands of their children. Paul Blackwell, 62, and Rose Mary Blackwell, 65, passed away on Sunday after two weeks in intensive care and several days on ventilators at Harris Methodist Hospital, their son Shawn
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Covid-19 vaccines are starting to roll out in several countries, a momentous breakthrough that hopefully signals a light at the end of this dark pandemic. For Katalin Karikó, the moment is particularly special. Karikó has spent decades of her career researching the therapeutic possibilities of mRNA, a component of DNA that is considered to be
Continue Reading An Alaska healthcare worker who suffered an allergic reaction to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday felt flushed within the first 10 minutes of receiving the vaccine, and later reported symptoms including shortness of breath and elevated heart rate, doctors said Wednesday. The case is the first allergic reaction to the vaccine to be reported in
Continue ReadingThe House Judiciary Committee told a federal appellate court on Wednesday that it would reissue its subpoena to Don McGahn in the next Congress, almost two years after it first sought the former White House counsel’s testimony about witnessing attempts by President Donald Trump to obstruct justice during the Mueller investigation. The pledge to re-subpoena
Continue ReadingUS Rep. Joe Wilson announced Wednesday evening that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and will go into isolation through the holidays. The South Carolina Republican, who spoke on the House floor earlier in the day, said in a statement: “Earlier this evening I learned that I have tested positive for COVID-19. I will be
Continue ReadingFirst lady Melania Trump plans to slip down to Palm Beach via government jet on Friday for a weekend walk-through of renovations underway at the Trump family’s private quarters at Mar-a-Lago, according to a source familiar with the first lady’s schedule, to make sure it’s to her liking before she and President Donald Trump move
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Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday spoke to the historic nature of being named President-elect Joe Biden’s transportation secretary nominee, and said he was “mindful that the eyes of history are on this appointment.” If confirmed by the US Senate, Buttigieg would be the first out LGBTQ Cabinet secretary approved by the
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Tyson has fired seven management employees at its biggest pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa as a result of an independent investigation into allegations that some bet on how many workers would get infected with Covid-19. In November, a wrongful death lawsuit filed this summer was amended to include new allegations about the behaviors of
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The City of Yuma’s recreational marijuana ordinance has passed.
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