Yuma News

Yuma Youth Hockey League is looking for players of all ages. Recreation league draft dates are set for Sept.

The Yuma Velocity 14-U softball team finished third at a Best of the West Tournament in Prescott last weekend.

I saw the article in The Sun on July 13 about the "other Yuma" and my immediate thought was "gee, what else is new?" I visited Yuma, Colo.

The Yuma community is doing its best to make sure Jacquelyn Johnson has a few familiar faces in the crowd when she begins her Olympic dream in Beijing.

The Main Street Library, which has been temporarily set up downtown at 185 S. Main St., will close at 5 p.m. Saturday in order to move back into its original location at 350 S. 3rd Ave.

Dr. Kristina Diaz's rural beginnings in the desert Southwest helped prepare her for her experience as a resident physician in a similar rural town in the Midwest.

Audiences will be able to watch the World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions perform their unique equine ballet numbers Thursday at the Yuma Civic Center.

A plea agreement is being negotiated in the criminal case against Ruben Solorio Valenzuela, who is accused of the 2005 murder of Amancio Corrales.

Yuman Jacquelyn Johnson is preparing for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing. Johnson qualified to compete in the games after finishing second in the heptathlon at the U.S. Track and Field Trials in Eugene, Ore.

As a public service, The Sun is publishing the names and photographs of the following people sought by the Yuma County Adult Probation Department or the U.S. Marshals Service as probation absconders.

A bond of $1 million has been set for the suspect in an attack on a clerk Saturday afternoon at the Circle K at 379 W. 1st St.

The First Things First Yuma Regional Partnership Council in collaboration with Cradle to Kinder, Yuma Community Foundation and Yuma County Association for the Education of Young Children will host a strategic ...

A 22-year-old male is in custody after assaulting a clerk at the Circle K at 379 W. 1st St., reported the Yuma Police Department.

SAN LUIS, Ariz. Residentes en Defensa del Pueblo , having gathered nearly 600 signatures of support, made it known that in August it will turn in recall petitions against the mayor and three councilmen.

When Yuma needs to beat the heat, there's no better weapon than water. Thank goodness there's a full arsenal of cool and wet events and activities offered each summer by the Parks and Recreation Department.

Some Yuma dancers will be in the national spotlight Sunday when they perform before the Diamondbacks baseball game in Phoenix.

A woman and her two children were rescued from the Colorado River late Thursday night, according to the Yuma Fire Department.

New half, same results for Scorpions. Yuma lost its first game after the All-Star break, losing 7-3 to Edmonton for its sixth loss in seven games against foes from Canada.

An excessive heat watch for Yuma County has been issued from Friday morning through Saturday evening, according to the National Weather Service.

At some point in their season, the Yuma Scorpions had to deal with the downside of playing their first 14 and last nine games at home.