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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.
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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.
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Donald Trump is using a one-day break from his New York hush money trial to rally voters in the battleground states of Wisconsin and Michigan. The visits on Wednesday come a day after Trump was held in contempt of court and threatened with jail time for violating a gag order. Judge Juan M. Merchan has said if Trump continues to violate his orders, he “will impose an incarceratory punishment.” The former president is trying to achieve a balancing act unprecedented in American history by running for a second term as the presumptive Republican nominee while also fighting felony charges in New York.
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Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has gone into effect, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care. Fertility specialist Dr. Leah Roberts says the anti-abortion laws being enacted by Florida and other red states are being vaguely written by people who don’t understand medical science. Many women don’t even know they are pregnant by six weeks. The ban went into effect Wednesday and affects not just women who want to terminate viable pregnancies because of personal choice, but also nonviable pregnancies for women who want to have babies.
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Campus police spokesperson Marc Lovicott says at least a dozen people have been arrested at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as police removed tents erected by protesters. Police pushed into the protesters with shields Wednesday morning, resulting in a scrum. Police have removed all but one of the tents that protesters erected. The protesters’ tents and belongings were loaded into a dump truck. The university says camping is prohibited under campus policy and state law.
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