The Yuma Public Works Department has launched its annual lane striping operations on city roadways, and the city asks area motorists to obey traffic control devices and stay clear of slow-moving equipment in work zones.
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With declining admissions of COVID-19 patients and the end of Arizona’s COVID-19 health emergency declaration, Yuma Regional Medical Center no longer requires visitors to wear a mask.
PHOENIX – Arizona House Republicans on Monday gave preliminary approval to $10,000 per year raises for public school teachers over the objections of Democrats who say the plan is a fake effort they know GOP lawmakers can’t fund in the long term.
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There’s nothing like having bragging rights over a sibling. For Yuma Catholic junior Trenton Blomquist, it’s a new experience.
I am so very glad to be back from the “time out” I spent first in the hospital, then in rehab after falling and breaking my left hip. A hard lesson learned the hard way – “don’t play Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz and try flying in the air, then coming back down, connecting hard to the sidewalk…
Arizona Western Baseball (18-7, 11-5) held Paradise Valley (9-16, 9-11) to just three runs in two games, sweeping a doubleheader with the Pumas, talking game on 11-2, and hanging on for a 2-1 win in game two on Saturday afternoon.
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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Lady Gaga, 37; Julia Stiles, 42; Vince Vaughn, 53; Reba McEntire, 68.
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Fergie, 48; Nathan Fillion, 52; Mariah Carey, 54; Pauley Perrette, 54.
Editor’s Note: The Yuma Sun is reprinting articles from past newspapers honoring Yuma’s unique history. This column is one in a series written by local historian Frank Love that appeared periodically in the newspaper.
Local Opinion
When a drug’s street name is “Zombie Drug” or “tranq,” we have to think it’s bad news.
As we await word of a seemingly imminent Trump indictment, it has been highly entertaining to hear his defenders twist themselves into pretzels in order to excuse the fact he paid a porn star $130,000 on the eve of the 2016 election to hide an extramarital tryst.
Last year as the sport world closed in on the Final Four of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, everyone who knew even a tinge about college basketball recognized Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and Villanova.
Local Business
It’s that time of year again! Folks are thinking about where they are living with school out in a few weeks, maybe looking to move to a new-to-them house.
State and National News
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has personally opened his state’s lawsuit against Juul Labs and tobacco giant Altria. The state is seeking more than $100 million in damages. It's the first of thousands of cases against the e-cigarette maker to reach trial. In opening statement Tuesday, Ellison accused Juul of unlawfully targeting young people with vaping products to get a new generation addicted to nicotine. But David Bernick, an attorney for Juul, said its purpose was always to convert adult smokers of combustible cigarettes to a less-dangerous product — not to lure kids. The trial in Minneapolis is expected to last around three weeks.
Skier’s etiquette has emerged as a sticking point in a highly publicized trial where Gwyneth Paltrow is accused of causing a 2016 ski collision. Nearly every witness who has testified so far has been questioned about the tenets of a ubiquitous but mostly unknown skier’s responsibility code. Both Paltrow and the man who is suing her have claimed they were downhill on the slope, claiming they had the right of way when the crash happened. The trial has made “uphill” synonymous with “guilty,” and shone a spotlight on the legal implications of the etiquette rules that govern the expensive snow sport.
America will probably get more killer tornado- and hail-spawning supercells as the world warms, according to a new study that also warns the lethal storms will edge eastward to strike more frequently in the more populous Southern states, like Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
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