Summer Swim programs are right around the corner, and the City of Yuma’s Parks and Recreation Division offers swim lessons for Yuma County’s youth, among its other water-based programs.
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What happens when six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir climb aboard a doomed roller coaster that spirals into a musical game of life or death with a mechanical fortune teller?
PHOENIX – House Democrats lost their privilege Tuesday of using meeting rooms after they conducted a “drag story hour,’’ what Speaker Ben Toma called “radical activism to promote dangerously perverse ideology.’’
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YUMA – The Arizona Western Lady Matadors Softball team (27-19, 19-11) was swept in the penultimate home doubleheader of the 2024 season by Eastern Arizona (34-8, 29-3) on Tuesday afternoon, losing 5-2 in game one before falling 3-2 in the second game at Charlie Dine Softball Field.
No. 3 Yuma Catholic baseball began its 2024 postseason campaign with a bang on Tuesday, responding to a first-inning run by No. 14 Safford with a nine-run bottom half of the inning, riding that momentum to a 16-1 win.
The Arizona Western Lady Matadors Softball team (27-17, 19-9) dropped its final two road games of the regular season, getting swept in a doubleheader by Central Arizona (20-17, 16-14) on Saturday afternoon, losing game one 11-2 before falling 19-1 in game two.
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CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Wes Anderson, 55; Tim McGraw, 57; Joanna Lumley, 78; Judy Collins, 85.
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Dianna Agron, 38; Kirsten Dunst, 42; Kunal Nayyar, 43; Johnny Galecki, 49.
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Andre Agassi, 54; Uma Thurman, 54; Michelle Pfeiffer, 66; Jerry Seinfeld, 70.
Local Opinion
John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles In Courage,” a series of essays that focused on eight senators throughout U.S. history who – despite serious pressures from their colleagues and constituents – did what they believed to be the right and moral thing.
The Wall Street Journal on a potential Trump-Biden debate:
One of the most life-altering transitions I’ve had to make upon moving to Yuma from the east is adjusting to life in the Pacific Time Zone. Everything just happens so early here.
Local Business
Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the February-March edition of BIZ magazine, a publication of the Yuma Sun.
Deployed Soldiers are constantly loaded down with gear, but nowhere more so than when operating in a cold weather environment.
Every year Earth Day, which this year was celebrated on April 22, reminds us to focus on environmental responsibility, and for many consumers, that means making more conscious purchasing decisions.
State and National News
Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riots shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied a building. They had watched the situation spiral as the protesters stood their ground, refusing to abandon Hamilton Hall. Several began sleeping on the floor in journalism classrooms or offices out of fear of missing something. But when a journalism professor began writing the phone number to call if they were arrested in permanent marker on their arms, that was the moment it became clear: They were capturing history.
Duane Eddy, a pioneering guitar hero whose reverberating electric sound on instrumentals such as “Rebel Rouser,” “Forty Miles of Bad Road" and “Cannonball” helped put the twang in early rock ‘n’ roll and influenced George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen and countless other musicians, has died at age 86. With his raucous rhythms, and backing hollers and hand claps, Eddy sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and mastered a distinctive sound based on the premise that a guitar’s bass strings sounded better on tape than the high ones.
The Arizona Legislature has approved a repeal of a long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions. The vote to undo the 19th century law sent the bill to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. Two Republicans joined with 14 Democrats in the Arizona Senate on Wednesday to give final legislative approval to the repeal, which narrowly won approval a week ago from the Arizona House and is expected to be signed by Hobbs on Thursday. The near-total ban permits abortions only to save the patient’s life and provides no exceptions for survivors of rape or incest.
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