Yuma

Should State Senator Don Shooter Be Charged for His Episode at a Yuma School?

Word on the street is, Yuma police are recommending misdemeanor charges against Republican State Senator Don Shooter, for his recent episode at a Yuma school.According to a Yuma PD report, Shooter barged in to his grandson's classroom at a charter school and started shouting at the teacher, only aft ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World Releases New Song, Announces Arizona Tour Dates (Basically Everywhere but Phoenix and Tucson)

Jimmy Eat World's new album is due out this June, and the Arizona natives announced today that they'll be touring the state in May. If you're in Phoenix or Tucson, though, you might have a drive ahead of you -- they're eschewing the usual venues for dates in Yuma, Flagstaff, Casa Grande, Wickenburg ... More >>

Maria Robles' Baby Daughter Hospitalized for Suspected Scorpion Sting, Doctors Discover She Actually Had Some of Mom's Meth and Ecstasy

A 10-month-old girl was flown from a Yuma hospital to Phoenix Children's Hospital last week, as it was believed that the girl had been stung by a scorpion.Turns out, there was no scorpion -- the little girl had eaten mom's meth and ecstasy.

Yuma City Employee Crushed by a 16-Foot Cactus

A City of Yuma employee was crushed by a 16-foot saguaro cactus this week, according to city officials.William Mason, a water-distribution technician with the city's utilities department, has been in the intensive-care unit at a hospital since Tuesday.According to the city, Mason was checking out a ... More >>

Koffin Kats' Vic Victor on Punk, Psychobilly, and Playing in Arizona

It can be tough to get into rockabilly or psychobilly because, let's face it: a lot of the bands blend together. Yeah, upright bass and horror movies are cool, but watching a guy with a pompadour stand on top of his bass while singing about cars gets a little old. The Koffin Kats aren't your typica ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Favorability With Arizona Voters Hits the Toilet; Joe Arpaio's Support Split

Public Policy Polling released the last of the results from its probe of Arizona voters today, which show that if you're one of Arizona's two most-famous sheriff's, most people don't like you.More people said they liked the City of Yuma than said they liked Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu. Yuma.A fu ... More >>

Yuma Farmers Sally Nakasawa and Robert Nickerson Sue Over $12 Million Worth of Poppies Destroyed by the DEA

Yuma farmers Sally Nakasawa and Robert Nickerson have been major growers of poppies for years, selling them for use in floral decorations.Their flowers could be seen by the public off U.S. Highway 95, and in 2008 a photo of them were featured in a Yuma Daily Sun article that pegged poppies as the "c ... More >>

Local Marine Sets a Geek-Worthy World Record (and Joins the Ranks of Celebrity Military Nerds)

​Before I was your devoted Fanboy, I was Corporal Beard, R.J., United States Marine Corps, so believe me when I tell you that the Armed Forces are rife with nerdery. For every pack of tattooed hard chargers cleaning their rifles on a Sunday night, there's also a DM organizing the weekly game ... More >>

Army Private Busted Trying to Board Airplane With C4 Explosives

www.scifihero.net.​A Colorado-based Army private getting explosives training in Yuma was arrested yesterday after police say he tried to board a commercial airplane while carrying explosives.U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Robbie Sherwood says Army Private First Class Christopher Eric Wey, 19, tr ... More >>

Army Private Busted Trying to Board Airplane With C4 Explosives

www.scifihero.net.​A Colorado-based Army private getting explosives training in Yuma was arrested yesterday after police say he tried to board a commercial airplane while carrying explosives.U.S. Attorney's Office spokesman Robbie Sherwood says Army Private First Class Christopher Eric Wey, 19, tr ... More >>

Yuma Shooting: At Least Five Dead

​A shooting in Yuma this morning has left at least five people dead and forced a school and a courthouse to go into lockdown.Details about the victims and shooter are unclear at the moment.One of the victims is reportedly an attorney and he was shot in his office.

Yuma Shootings Happened at Different Locations But Are Related, Police Say

www.owegopennysaver.com​Details are emerging about this morning's shootings in Yuma that have left at least five people -- and potentially the shooter -- dead.Clint Norred, Yuma police spokesman, didn't immediately get back to us this afternoon, but tells the Yuma Sun the shootings happened at dif ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 14, 2011

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 7, 2011

Yuma: "It City" or Armpit?

Missing Marine Found Dead in Yuma Canal

The body of Corporal Joshua Barron was found in a canal last night.​The body of a Marine reported missing a week ago was recovered in a canal in Yuma.Yuma County sheriff's officials confirm that the body of Corporal Joshua Barron, a Marine from Standish, Maine, was found dead in a canal last night ... More >>

Another Marine Reported Missing in Yuma

MCAS YumaCorporal Joshua Barron was last seen on March 15.​For the second time in just over a month, a Marine stationed in Yuma has been reported missing.The Naval Criminal Investigation Service and local police are investigating the disappearance of Corporal Joshua Barron, a Marine from Standish ... More >>

Ocean Spray Cranberry Thief, Thought to be Lost at Sea, Arrested in Yuma

Jim Repetto's alive and well -- and chances are he's going to prison.​If you're awaiting sentencing after being convicted of ripping off a large-scale cranberry juice manufacturer for more than a million dollars, lost at sea isn't a bad place to be. Assuming you don't want to actually be lost at s ... More >>

Shark Found in Yuma Canal. WTF?

www.moviemobsters.com​The Arizona Game and Fish Department is asking the public's help in finding the person responsible for putting a shark in a Yuma canal.As you probably know, no shark species are native to Arizona, so when one's found in a freshwater irrigation canal it tends to raise a few ey ... More >>

Yuma Substitute Teacher Accused of Gettin' a Little Grabby With Female Student -- an Elementary School Student, That is

David Remmy​For anyone out there who may think otherwise, substitute teaching at an elementary school is not a good way to meet chicks.Be that as it may, a substitute teacher at a Yuma elementary school is behind bars after police say he inappropriately touched a female student during class. David ... More >>

Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

R. Lee Ermey, a.k.a. the Badass Drill Sergeant in Full Metal Jacket, to Appear With J.D. Hayworth

www.juliolamas.com R. Lee Ermey​ We just got word that R. Lee Ermey -- best known for playing the no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket and later for making out with Steve Zahn in Saving Silverman -- will appear at an event with Senate hopefu ... More >>

Date Shake: Shouldn't a Date Shake Come With Two Straws?

​With State Parks closing left and right all over the state (Twenty one are scheduled to close by June) we decide we'd better check a few out before they get padlocked. This is how we ended up on Interstate 8 between Phoenix and Yuma, headed to the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park. ... More >>

Heart Attack

Get that blood pumping on V-Day

Hot Links: Prostitution, Luke Air Force Base, and Chihuahuas

​Three women who worked at a massage parlor in Yuma have been arrested for allegedly running a prostitution ring out of the business. Won Shil Shim, Muae Park, and Hyun Joo Song, all Korean citizens, were charged after an ongoing investigation into the Somerton parlor. Shim was released on more th ... More >>

Two Teenagers Set Record for Largest Attempted Meth Smuggling Ever at Yuma Checkpoint

www.shoelace.org Let's just hope her kids aren't in the backseat.​Two teenage girls made history at a border checkpoint in Yuma, but it's hardly a record that will make their families swell with pride. The two unnamed girls, ages 18 and 19, were arrested by border patrol agents for attempt ... More >>

Hot Links: Standoffs, Ripoffs, and Blackouts

​A Yuma man is in custody after an almost nine-hour standoff with police. Michael McCormick was wanted in connection with several vehicle thefts and burglaries. When police tracked him to a motel, he fled and broke into a trailer home, where the standoff ensued. He eventually surrendered and was t ... More >>

Oct. 2 In Blogs: 2012, Brian Setzer, Saturday Morning Cartoons, and Lil Wayne

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: 2012 Survival Conference Rocks Scottsdale October 17, Teaches You to Survive Mayan Apocalypse ... More >>

Hot Links: 1200 Pounds of Pot, a Plane Crash, and a Sheep Drive

​Border Patrol agents seized nearly 1200 pounds of marijuana from a truck near Yuma. Agents say they spotted the vehicle using night vision equipment, and used deflation devices to cripple the truck's tires. The driver and passenger fled on foot, leaving behind their haul, which has an estimated s ... More >>

Hot Links: County Suits, Lil Wayne, and the Asparagus Tribe

An analysis released Monday by the Office of Management and Budget shows that legal disputes between Maricopa county officials cost taxpayers about $1.1. million in fees. In the past year, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, County Treasurer Charles Hoskins, and the Board ... More >>

Swine Flu Arizona: Policy of Closing Maricopa County Schools is Lifted, But 10 Schools Closed in Nogales

The most pressing question about the H1N1 "swine flu" virus now seems to be: Will the thing return this fall and kill millions?Locally, the panic has ratcheted way down, with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health declaring on Saturday that new cases of swine flu would not result in sch ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 9, 2009

Tomatoes at Farmers' Markets -- Yuma Crop at Borgata Fridays

Julie PetersonTomayto, tomahto, potayto, potahto: Fresh from the Yuma farm.Ever since grocery-store tomatoes got as costly as meat, we've been garnishing our routine sandwiches with other things. If the love apple is a luxury anyway, might as well hold out for the ripeness, taste, and texture of a l ... More >>

Residents in Maricopa and Other Counties Had Fewer Babies in 2007

Border Patrol checkpoints near Yuma nab hordes of pot users headed back from the beach

New on DVD: Parenthood never looked scarier in the underrated Joshua

KTAR's redneck fans ready to starve themselves if Mexicans don't pick their food.

Still Waiting for That Train

A classic Western remade for our ADD times

New Times' top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

AZPunk.comp CD release party

We feel lucky, punks

Punk Rock Paradise

Our demon scribes hit the Rogue, the best place to see girls take off their tops and French kiss

Letters

From the week of 28, 2001

Care Tactics

U.S. Border Patrol shoots down an agent's request to be near his ailing mother

Paper Machete

After a drug bust at his home, Yuma publisher creates a newspaper to investigate cops

End of a Smear

County Attorney Richard Romley thought he had parlayed a trivial investigation into the resignation of one of his chief political rivals. But Attorney General Grant Woods decided that his top assistant would not be sacrificed to prosecutorial overreaching

FLASHES

OF YUMAN BONDAGE

DON'T TREAD ON JESSE

HIS FEDERAL EMPLOYER SUBJECTED HIM TO A DIZZYING ARRAY OF INDIGNITIES. NOW HE'S FINDING JUSTICE.

ARIZONA'S BETTOR SITES

YES, OUR CASINOS HAVE ATMOSPHERE. THEN AGAIN, SO DOES NEPTUNE.

WHERE IS ARAZI?