More than 50 gifts - including new clothing, shoes, toys and bicycles - were delivered to the Salvation Army for its Christmas Angel Tree program. Santa, who was escorted by deputies from the Yuma County Sheriff's Office, helped deliver.

Plaques bearing the names of the three Yuma Marines and a sailor who lost their lives in the crash of a search and rescue helicopter were placed on the wall of the city's Armed Forces Park Wednesday morning.

The Phoenix-based 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Army National Guard unit was one of the most heavily engaged Army units in Afghanistan in 2007. Sgt. Chris Dempsey from Yuma was part of this unit and is shown in this footage from a mission.

Approximately 88 members of the Harrier squadron that lost its commanding officer and the aviation support unit that lost one of it’s fellow Marines to an insurgent attack on their base in Afghanistan returned to friends and family in Yuma Thursday.

A capsule-shaped object is being loaded onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 at Yuma International Airport Monday morning as part of a test for the Orion space capsule paracute system.