Yuma police inform community of level three sex offender, Robert Laxson
The Yuma Police Department (YPD) said it is informing the community of a level three sex offender.
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Justice Department report finds ‘cascading failures’ and ‘no urgency’ during Uvalde, Texas, shooting
Police officials who responded to the deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, “demonstrated no urgency” in setting up a command post and failed to treat the killings as an active shooter situation, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of one of the deadliest massacres at a school in American history.
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Former high school teacher formally charged with 10 felonies
A former San Luis High School (SLHS) teacher was formally charged Wednesday after being accused of sexually abusing a student who was a minor.
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El Centro PD investigates armed robbery, no injuries reported
El Centro police said they’re still looking for a robber who targeted the Wells Fargo branch in El Centro.
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Club Q shooting suspect faces federal charges
Anderson Aldrich is charged with 50 federal hate crimes and 24 firearm violations. The gun charges alone can carry a maximum penalty of death.
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California emergency services official sued for sexual harassment, retaliation
Ryan Buras, an appointee of Gov. Gavin Newsom, harassed Kendra Bowyer for a year beginning in 2020 despite the agency’s knowledge of similar previous allegations made by other women employees, the lawsuit contends.
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Imperial County inmate killed in prison yard attack
An inmate who was serving a 14 year sentence for weapons and drug charges was killed in an attack by two other inmates at Centinela State Prison in Imperial, according to officials.
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Two dead, four injured in Philadelphia’s first mass shooting of the year
The shooting took place in the city’s Strawberry Mansion neighborhood just before 1:00am Sunday. Police officials say the incident appears to have happened in an illegally operating speakeasy at a home.
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Two teens shot on freeway, CHP investigates
Authorities said the two victims were injured by a single bullet that went through the door and hit both teens. One was shot in the leg and the second victim was shot in the stomach. CHP said both victims suffered injuries that were non-life threatening.
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Four adults and one child dead in mass shooting in Texas
Police said the shooting appeared to be a case of domestic violence. Police also said the shooter is among the dead, but two children survived the shooting unharmed.
Continue Reading Former San Luis High School teacher arrested following sexual abuse of a minor
25-year-old Ivan Martinez was arrested by the San Luis Police Department (SLPD) this past Thursday. Martinez is being held on a $250,000, and is expected to be back in court early next week.
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Los Angeles man pleads not guilty to killing wife and her parents, putting body parts in trash
Samuel Bond Haskell IV, 35, entered pleas to three counts of murder with special circumstances of committing multiple murders. If convicted, he could face life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Triple murder suspect back in court
The man accused of murdering three people in September 2022 made another appearance in court.
Continue Reading Prisoner allegedly killed by two inmates in Centinela State Prison
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said it is investigating the death of an inmate at Centinela State Prison as a homicide.
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Woman facing charges after wrong-way crash
A young woman from Wellton, tied to a wrong-way DUI crash that killed a man in the Fortuna Foothills is facing eight felony counts including second-degree murder.
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Prosecutors to seek death penalty for man who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket
Federal prosecutors said Friday that they will seek the death penalty against a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket.
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Mother of murder suspect in court
The mother of the man charged with murdering an elderly couple in their Brawley home appeared in court for her preliminary hearing Thursday morning but the hearing was continued.
Continue Reading Woman arrested for wrong-way crash on I-8
One Wellton woman is behind bars and tied to a wrong-way DUI crash on Interstate 8 that led to the death of one man.
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Retired Arizona prisons boss faces sentencing on no-contest plea stemming from armed standoff
Former Arizona prisons chief Charles Ryan is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday after pleading no contest to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from when police say he fired a gun inside his Tempe home and pointed a firearm at two officers during a three-hour standoff in 2022.
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32-year-old man sentenced to 39 months in prison
Yuma Sector Border Patrol said a man who was arrested in 2023 for illegally entering the U.S. has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
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