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SAN LUIS, Ariz. — A unionization vote among Factor Sales employees is on hold indefinitely amid what both sides are describing as a hostile climate leading up to the election. Read more: http://www.yumasun.com/articles/union-75231-factor-sales.html#ixzz1gfGaQz8Y

A knife-wielding, would-be thief should have thought twice about trying to steal the purse of local sword-wielding belly dancer. “It was one of the weirdest things, one of those things you only see on TV,” said dancer Zarmineh Moody. “I guess it was like the police officer said: I had the bigger knife.” The Yuma woman was the victim of an attempted armed robbery at the Fry's parking lot on 24th Street and 4th Avenue.

Federal officials ranging from the Yuma Sector Border Patrol chief up to the Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff expressed outrage Wendesday at the release in Mexico of a man accused in the death of Yuma-based patrol agent. Navarro was the suspected driver of a smuggling vehicle that struck and killed Aguilar on Jan. 19 as Aguilar tried to deploy spike strips to stop the vehicle in the Imperial Sand Dunes. The vehicle was fleeing U.S. law enforcement officers at the time.