A wildfire in Cochise County that started near the U.S.-Mexican border Sunday spread to about 1,000 acres south of Sierra Vista, officials said. The fire is the first sizable wildfire this year in Southern Arizona. The fire is in an area about 20 miles southeast of Sierra Vista near Palominas on Bureau of Land Management land. David Peters, a BLM spokesman, said the fire was believed to have been started by an illegal entrant. A Border Patrol agent saw a man believed to be an illegal entrant in some tall grass at about 10 a.m. As the agent chased...
