National Work Zone Awareness Week (NWZAW) in Yuma County is to be observed April 26-30, with a unique approach to this year’s theme of “Drive Safe. Work Safe. Save Lives.”
Continue ReadingAs President Joe Biden nears the milestone of his first 100 days in office, anti-death penalty advocates are growing frustrated with his silence and inaction on a campaign promise to end capital punishment. While there haven’t been any federal or state executions since Biden took office, about 2,500 men and women sit on death row
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Former UK soccer player turned reality TV star, Ashley Cain, has announced on social media that his baby daughter, Azaylia, died on Saturday after battling a rare, aggressive cancer. She was 8 months old. Azaylia Diamond Cain was born August 10, 2020, to parents Cain and partner Safiyya Vorajee. Cain, a former Coventry City soccer
Continue ReadingRep. Dan Crenshaw says he is “hopeful and confident” in his recovery after undergoing emergency eye surgery earlier this month, but cautioned he has “a while to go.” “I can lift my head again and no longer have to position myself face down which is a relief. This is obviously good news, but it doesn’t
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One of this year’s Oscar nominees, “Do Not Split,” is a documentary about the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests. But residents of Hong Kong who participated in — or were affected by — the movement cannot watch the awards ceremony this year. That’s because Hong Kong’s leading broadcaster, Television Broadcasts Limited (TBL), is not airing the
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Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin said Sunday that he’s not a “roadblock” for President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda, even as he uses his key position in the Senate to push against some aspects of Biden’s massive infrastructure proposal. “I’m not a roadblock at all,” Manchin, a moderate from West Virginia, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State
Continue ReadingDemocratic Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri said she would refuse to vote for new policing reform legislation that compromises on civil lawsuit protections currently afforded to police officers, as negotiations on a federal police accountability bill are underway on Capitol Hill. “We compromise on so much. You know, we compromise, we die. We compromise, we
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Customs and Border Protection officers recently seized more than $4 million worth of suspected methamphetamine at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge cargo facility, the agency said. On April 17, CBP officers examined a tractor-trailer hauling a commercial shipment of fresh cucumber pickles into Texas with a non-intrusive imaging system and found it was hiding 114 packages
Continue ReadingGen. Austin Scott Miller, commander of US Forces Afghanistan and NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, confirmed Sunday that the US has begun to withdraw troops from the country in local areas. “All of our forces are now preparing to retrograde. Officially the notification date will be the first of May, but at the same time as
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(CNN Español) — El paisaje cambió en una pequeña localidad de Carillo, Guanacaste, en el pacífico norte de Costa Rica, a unos 250 kilómetros de San José, la capital. En medio de extensos terrenos agrícolas y con una población dedicada a este tipo de labores y al turismo, empezó a operar un radar espacial que Franklin
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When Ally Cole, a sophomore at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, sat next to freshman Ruby Wierzbicki on a bus on April 14, she struck up a conversation just so she didn’t have to sit in silence on her way to class. After some small talk, she realized she was sitting next to someone she
Continue ReadingThe Biden administration is working to deploy additional supplies and support to India as the country faces a worsening Covid-19 outbreak, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan tweeted on Sunday. “The U.S. is deeply concerned by the severe COVID outbreak in India. We are working around the clock to deploy more supplies and support
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The Ingenuity helicopter has successfully flown for the third time on Mars in a week. This time, the helicopter logged a flight that was faster, further and bolder than the previous ones, according to NASA. Ingenuity exceeded speeds and distances beyond what it proved capable of doing during testing on Earth before launching to Mars.
Continue Reading Although 2020 was rough for most companies — to say the least — some bucked the trend. The pandemic forced consumers to learn, workout, socialize and more in new ways. That boosted businesses using technology to improve remote access to their services, and condensed years’ worth of digital adoption into several months. Those business models
Continue ReadingStates and cities are racing to use the billions in federal relief aid approved by Congress to fight the growing crisis of homelessness — but the approaching end of some pandemic benefits threatens to make the problem worse. The federal government has made a historic $70 billion investment across successive Covid relief packages in helping
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A reckoning with the deaths resulting from institutionalized racism, a resurgence of almost-daily gun violence and 3.1 million pandemic deaths worldwide, there has been trauma piled upon trauma upon trauma. It turns out these collective traumas are taking a toll on all of us, according to Roxane Cohen Silver, a professor of psychological science, medicine
Continue Reading (CNN) — Si los Oscar necesitaban un tema general este año más allá de solo honrar lo mejor de las películas, el cierre de la cadena de cines Arclight and Pacific quizás les haya dado uno. Difundir el mensaje para salvar los cines. El anuncio de que «Pacific Theatres» no veía un camino económico para
Continue Reading Live from New York, it’s … Elon Musk? In one of the more surprising announcements in the recent history of “Saturday Night Live,” the NBC variety show said Saturday that its next host will be Musk, the eccentric CEO of Tesla and one of the richest people on the planet. Miley Cyrus will be joining
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At least 82 people died in a huge hospital fire Saturday night in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said Sunday. Another 110 people were injured in the blaze at Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, according to ministry spokesman Major General Khaled Al-Muhanna. The fire started after oxygen tanks exploded, two health officials at
Continue Reading The Oscars have always been an ad for going to the movies, but as we head into this year’s ceremony on Sunday, the future of movie-going and the Academy Awards themselves are as uncertain as they’ve ever been in the show’s 93-year history. Popular box-office hits have been few and far between when it comes
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