Category Archives: Illegal

Mindy McCready’s son found in Arkansas

By doris | Published: December 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Country music singer Mindy McCready was hiding in the closet with her son when authorities took the 5-year-old boy into custody in Arkansas, officials said early Saturday. Authorities found Zander McCready and his mother in a home in Heber Springs, Arkansas, according to David Rahbany, the chief deputy U.S. [...]

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Mass. AG sues five major banks over foreclosures

By doris | Published: December 1, 2011

Full Story at BottomLine.msnbc.msn.com Massachusetts’ top law enforcement official has sued five top U.S. banks, charging they foreclosed illegally on homes in the state and used deceptive loan servicing practices, including robo-signing. Attorney General Martha Coakley filed suit against Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and GMAC. “The single most important thing [...]

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Twisted government accounting behind Postal Service woes

By doris | Published: October 10, 2011

Full Story at RedTape.msnbc.msn.com You might have heard that the United States Postal Service is in trouble: that it’s losing billions, that it will have to end Saturday service and close branches — and most inflammatory, that it might need a government bailout. Perhaps you heard that the Postal Service couldn’t pay $5.5 billion bill [...]

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More illegal immigrants from India crossing border

By doris | Published: July 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com LOS FRESNOS, Texas — Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was furnished only [...]

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FBI: Man took cab from home to rob bank, then rode to work

By doris | Published: June 24, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com MIAMI — The FBI has arrested a man accused of putting on a suit and tie, robbing a South Florida bank and then leaving in a taxi. Jeffrey Harrington, 27, of North Miami, is accused of robbing the Bank of America branch in Hallandale Beach on Tuesday morning. He was arrested [...]

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Ariz. Senate rejects illegal immigration bills

By doris | Published: March 17, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com PHOENIX — The Arizona Senate soundly defeated five bills aimed at illegal immigration on Thursday in a marked departure from last year, when enactment of a tough local enforcement measure put the state at the heart of a fierce national debate over the issue. Majority Republicans were split in their votes [...]

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Daughter snatched from hospital reunited with mom 23 years later

By doris | Published: January 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — In 1987, an anguished, trembling Joy White pleaded for someone to help her find her infant daughter. “I hope she’s all right,” the heartbroken mother told reporters at the time before collapsing in tears. Now, 23 years later, White is crying tears of joy as the decades-long mystery of [...]

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Spanish police seize ‘largest, most sophisticated’ cocaine lab

By doris | Published: January 18, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Madrid, Spain (CNN) — Police in Madrid seized what they called the “largest and most sophisticated cocaine laboratory” in Europe known to date, and arrested 25 people, Spain’s national police said in a statement on Tuesday. Anti-drug agents confiscated 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of cocaine ready for distribution, 2 million euros [...]

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Calif. court upholds in-state tuition for illegal immigrants

By doris | Published: November 16, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com It is not right to give something to some one that is not in this country legal. Let them go back and do it the right way. No one gives us a break. SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court weighed in Monday on the politically charged immigration fray when it [...]

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Number of illegal immigrants in U.S. declining

By doris | Published: September 2, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON — The number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing by 8 percent as the sour economy dried up jobs and increased enforcement made it harder to sneak across the border with Mexico, a new study finds. Much of [...]

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ICE: 370 illegal immigrants arrested in 10 states

By doris | Published: August 28, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested nearly 400 illegal immigrants — including 347 with prior criminal convictions — over a three-day operation throughout the Midwest, the agency announced Friday. The arrests in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska were part of the agency’s [...]

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Utah moves to fire 2 over immigrants data list

By doris | Published: July 21, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Utah Department of Workforce Services has moved to fire two employees believed to have created and distributed a list containing personal information of 1,300 purported illegal immigrants, officials said Tuesday. The agency terminated a temporary worker and issued an “intent to terminate employment” notice to the other, spokesman [...]

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Arizona bill would deny citizenship to children of illegal immigrants

By doris | Published: June 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — A proposed Arizona law would deny birth certificates to children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents. The bill comes on the heels of Arizona passing the nation’s toughest immigration law. John Kavanagh, a Republican state representative from Arizona who supports the proposed law aimed at so-called [...]

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Ariz. lawmakers OK sweeping immigration bill

By doris | Published: April 20, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com PHOENIX – Arizona lawmakers approved a sweeping immigration bill Monday intended to ramp up law enforcement efforts even as critics complained it could lead to racial profiling and other abuse. The state Senate voted 17-11 nearly along party lines to send the bill to Gov. Jan Brewer, who has not taken [...]

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Sex abuse scandal in US, Italy taints papacy

By doris | Published: March 26, 2010

Full Story at news.yahoo.com VATICAN CITY – Revelations that the Vatican halted the investigation of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys have eerie echoes in Italy, where 67 deaf men and women accused two dozen priests of raping and molesting children for years. Only now — a year after the Italian [...]

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Immigration rally draws thousands to Washington

By doris | Published: March 22, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Tens of thousands of people turned out on Washington’s National Mall on Sunday to support the Obama administration in its next big battle, a renewed effort to overhaul U.S. immigration laws. Speaking by video to the crowd, President Obama said he would do “everything in my power” to [...]

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Cyber crime poses threat to e-commerce

By doris | Published: December 14, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce. “At current trends, in three or four years people will start to think twice about transacting on the Web, individuals and businesses,” said Michael Fraser, director [...]

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Ex-U.S. official, wife plead guilty in Cuba spy case

By doris | Published: November 22, 2009

Full Story atCNN.com Washington (CNN) — A former State Department employee and his wife, accused of illegally aiding the government of Cuba for nearly 30 years, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges. Walter Kendall Myers, 72, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit espionage and two counts of wire fraud. He agreed to [...]

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Police arrest sixth member of family accused of child sex abuse

By doris | Published: November 16, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Lexington, Missouri (CNN) — Police arrested a sixth member of a Missouri family under investigation for allegations of child sexual abuse, police said. Darrel Mohler has been charged with two counts of rape, Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh said at a news conference. Missouri police did not have Mohler in custody [...]

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For long-separated families, reunions can be a struggle

By doris | Published: September 13, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Jaycee Dugard is reuniting with her close relatives for the first time in 18 years, after having been found on August 27. Dugard was 11 years old when she was abducted in 1991 from a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe, California. She allegedly was kept in a series of backyard [...]

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