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This undated image provided by the US Marines shows a AH-1W "Cobra" helicopter. Seven Marines were killed in a collision of two helicopters, one of them similar to this one, near Yuma, Ariz., during night training exercises, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012. Lt. Maureen Dooley with Miramar Air Base in California said the service members with the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing were based at Camp Pendleton north of San Diego. The crash involved an AH-1W "Cobra" and UH-1 "Huey" helicopter. (AP Photo/US Marines)

7 Marines killed in chopper collision

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:18am

YUMA, Ariz. — Seven Marines were killed late Wednesday in a collision of two helicopters near Yuma, Ariz., during night training exercises, the Marine Corps said Thursday.

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Prominent Mormon attorney killed in Arizona shootings

Bob Christie, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 5:48pm

YUMA, Ariz. — A 73-year-old man shot and killed five people, including a prominent Mormon attorney who represented his ex-wife in their divorce, in multiple locations Thursday in a rampage that rattled this Arizona border city.

The suspect also wounded one person before being found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound roughly two hours after the first shots were fired in Yuma, a city of about 200,000.

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Yuma County Sheriff’s detectives investigate the scene of a homicide at a residence east of Wellton, Ariz. on Thursday, June 2, 2011. At least five people were killed and one was wounded in a series of shootings in southwest Arizona that forced officials to lock down a courthouse and area schools. (AP Photo/The Yuma Daily Sun, Craig Fry)

Another shooting rampage in Ariz., five dead

The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 5:13pm

YUMA, Ariz. — A 73-year-old man shot and killed the attorney who represented his ex-wife in their divorce and four others in multiple locations in a rampage that rattled an Arizona border town.

He also wounded one person before being found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound roughly two hours after the first shots were fired in Yuma, a city of about 200,000. The lawyer was killed while packing up his office on his last day of work.

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Cracks found in 3 grounded Southwest planes

The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 4, 2011 - 5:21pm

YUMA, Ariz. -- Three more Southwest Airlines jetliners have small, subsurface cracks that are similar to the ones suspected in the fuselage tear on another of its planes. Federal aviation officials are considering an order for other airlines to inspect their aircraft.

The 5-foot-long hole tore open Friday in the passenger cabin roof shortly after the Southwest plane carrying 118 people left Phoenix for Sacramento, Calif. It made a rapid descent, landing at a military base in Yuma, 150 miles southwest of Phoenix. No one was hurt.

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