Yuma News

The city of Yuma says we have a traffic problem. It seems there's a lot of congestion and traffic doesn't move as freely as it should.

As U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly showered fellow soldiers with gunfire Nov.

His mother wouldn't have wanted people to "sit around sobbing" at her funeral, reflected Dorothy Young's son.

A group of Yumans changing the way they eat want to make sure others simply have the chance to eat.

A 17-year-old Yuma boy is in custody on weapons, drug and gang charges after being detained for questioning in two attempted homicide investigations that occurred earlier this year, Yuma police said.

THE YUMA POP WARNER Pee Wee Scorpions football team won the Imperial Valley title.

People usually have a variety of reasons for deciding whether to vote for candidates in an election, including the just-concluded city of Yuma election for mayor and council, so care needs to be taken in interpreting what it all means.

Authorities say a Yuma man has been arrested for forgery and sexual conduct with a minor after allegedly posing as a high school student.

All of the soldiers, including two from Yuma, who are serving in the Arizona National Guard's 158th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion and are training in Fort Hood were not involved with the incident that occurred there today.

A 22-year-old man was arrested Wednesday for forgery and sexual conduct with a minor after allegedly posing as a high school student, a spokesman from Yuma Police Department said.

A Phoenix pastor who earlier this year claimed he was beaten by an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer and Border Patrol agents while at a checkpoint outside of Yuma will have a hearing later this month.

A mistrial has been declared in the murder trial of a Yuma woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her husband in 1997.

Astronaut Scott Altman has something very personal at stake with the work NASA will be doing out of the Pappy Boyington Hangar at the Yuma County International Airport.

The Adidas Phenom Basketball Camp, training ground for national-caliber players, is giving a two-day clinic in Yuma and invites all interested youths to attend, say organizers.

It's "B Day" in Yuma. That's "Ballot Day," meaning today is when the Yuma County Recorder's Office needs to have early mail ballots in hand to get them counted in a timely fashion before Tuesday's Yuma general election to select the mayor and three city council seats.

Yuma High's Magaly Gallegos may have only sat five feet from the volleyball court, but her presence was missed by her teammates who lost the regular season finale to Cibola 25-18, 25-22, 21-25, 25-22. The win clinched the Gila Valley Region regular season title for the Raiders , who owned a tiebreaker against the Criminals , and gave Cibola home ...

There's not as much on the line in this year's Kofa-Yuma High clash. Both teams are a long shot to win the 5A Gila Valley Region, whereas last year's winner virtually clinched the crown.

On one of her scheduled stops Wednesday, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer stopped by a statewide county supervisors summit and signed two bills affecting Yuma County that were passed during the last legislative session.

A convicted sex offender from California is now residing in Yuma. Michael J. Grady, 28, lives at 450 S. 2nd Ave.

Yuma's weight loss challenge with Yakima, Wash. is truly tipping the scales, not in pounds - but in participants.