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12.08.2022 / 22:15

Gaps in Arizona border wall to be filled with double-stacked shipping containers

The sun sets behind a gap along the border wall at the Morelos Dam between the US and Mexico in Yuma, Arizona on May 31, 2022. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)YUMA, Ariz. - Governor Doug Ducey has issued an executive order to immediately close gaps in the U.S.-Mexico wall in Yuma.The border wall will be fortified with 60 double-stacked shipping containers, reinforced with razor wire.

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Title 42 ends: Here's what it did, and how US immigration policy is changing

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is putting new restrictions into place at its southern border to try to stop migrants from crossing illegally and encourage them instead to apply for asylum online through a new process.The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border for the past three years.

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18-hour fight for her life: Arizona woman recalls clinging to tree with her dog until being rescued

YUMA, Ariz. - An Arizona woman was stuck in a canal near Yuma for 18 hours after she tried to rescue her dog who fell in on June 6.She held onto dear life as help arrived just before she was about to give up. A train conductor luckily saw her and called for help.The canal current is strong and fast, making the 18-hour fight for her and her 50-pound dog's life nearly impossible while holding onto a tree.The 12-foot embankment was so steep they couldn’t get out."The will to survive is what makes this a great story," says Sgt. Juan Salcido with Wellton Police, who was first on the scene to assist her and pull her and her dog out of the canal.The conductor who saw the woman and her dog was in the eighth train that went by that day."Her body told the story of her constant fight.

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'Baby Holly’: How an Arizona pastor adopted an infant left by nomadic ‘cult’ after parents’ murders

YUMA, Ariz. - The story of "Baby Holly" has made national headlines recently, and there’s a strong Arizona connection to the woman found alive and well more than 40 years after being separated from her murdered parents.Their killings are still unsolved, and authorities say a cult could be linked to the crimes.The beginning of Holly Clouse’s life is a mystery, but investigators know part of her life took place in the desert.Donna Casasanta is Holly’s biological grandmother."A nightmare. It was something that was on our mind constantly and I'm wondering what happened to her," Casasanta said.For more than 40 years, she had no clue where Holly or her parents could be."Every time the phone rang, I think, maybe this, that … you don't want them to be dead, mind you, but yet you want to lay it to rest, you want to find out what happened," Casasanta said.In the late 70s, her son Harold Dean Clouse Jr.

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Supreme Court allows Biden to end Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy

FILE - Sheets and mylar blankets flutter in the wind at a makeshift shelter at the U.S.-Mexico border wall as immigrants wait for transport to a U.S. Border Patrol processing center on Dec.

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US Navy helicopter crashes near U.S.-Mexico border

IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. - A U.S. Navy helicopter crashed at a training range in Imperial County Thursday.According to the Naval Air Facility El Centro, the crash took place in the Navy's training range.

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Title 42: Federal judge rules COVID-19 asylum restrictions must continue on southern US border

FILE - Immigrants wait to board a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle to be taken for processing after crossing the border from Mexico on May 18, 2022 in Yuma, Arizona.

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5 shot, 1 killed at Days Inn in DC; victims found in hallway, inside room

WASHINGTON - Authorities say one victim has died after five were shot early Thursday morning at a Days Inn in Northwest D.C.The shootings were reported around 3:30 a.m. at the Days Inn Wyndham hotel in the 4400 block of Connecticut Avenue.

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Dole salad recall: Products sold in 26 states at risk of listeria

According to the Food and Drug Administration, the recalled products can be identified by a lot code beginning with the letters “N” or “Y” in the upper right-hand corner of the package. (Source: FDA) Anyone with the recalled products should not consume them and throw them out immediately.

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Marine Corps veteran disarms robbery suspect at Yuma gas station

YUMA, Ariz. - Officials with the Yuma County Sheriff's Office say a Marine Corps veteran disarmed another man during an armed robbery incident on the morning of Oct. 20.The incident, according to a statement released by YCSO, happened at a Chevron gas station near Fortuna Road and the I-8.

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Oprah Winfrey offers vacation to ER doctor who spoke out about Arizona’s Covid challenges

Oprah Winfrey has offered an all-expenses-paid vacation to an emergency room doctor in Arizona who claimed that he was fired from his job after revealing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic in the state. Dr Cleavon Gilman, an ER doctor in Yuma, has been tweeting since November about the state’s Covid response and hospital bed shortages.

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US: Border tunnel found appears to be ‘most sophisticated’

SAN LUIS, Ariz. - An incomplete tunnel found stretching from Mexico to Arizona appears to be “the most sophisticated tunnel in U.S. history,” authorities said.The tunnel intended for smuggling ran from a neighborhood in San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico, to San Luis, Arizona, where it stopped short of reaching the surface.

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Man arrested for coughing on gas pump handle in Yuma while referencing COVID-19, police say

YUMA, Ariz. - A 23-year-old California man was arrested after police say he intentionally coughed on a gas pump handle in Yuma while referencing the spread of coronavirus.

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