New Mexico Gov. Martinez signs version of 'Kendra's Law'
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has signed a bill that would require some state residents with severe mental illness to receive court-ordered outpatient treatment. Martinez...
View ArticleMexican media mogul Rolando Gonzalez Trevino receives probation for role in...
A judge sentenced Mexican media mogul Rolando Gonzalez Trevino to 10 years of probation Thursday for his role in the theft of public funds in Mexico that involved meetings and wire transfers in Texas....
View ArticleEx-Mexican banker living in San Antonio sentenced for bilking millions of...
Armando Jesus Hernandez Leal, 53, was ordered to pay back $25 million to a Mexican client and his family. The banker had used it to live large, buying a mansion in Shavano Park, prime ski property in...
View ArticleJudge in San Antonio sends Somalian accused of terror links to prison for lying
FBI claims Abdullah Omar Fidse had ties to a man suspected in bombings in Uganda in 2010 that killed more than 70 people. Fidse has denied the ties and denied making statements supporting anti-Western...
View ArticleMan who ran child porn site sentenced to 17 years
Andrew Dale Hoff, 34, of Live Oak, was one of five administrators of the unnamed website, ......
View ArticleMan paralyzed after San Antonio police beating sues city
A man mistakenly beaten by San Antonio police officers - and left paralyzed by surgery months later to treat his injuries - has sued the city as a criminal investigation by federal authorities into the...
View ArticleNew Mexico college seeks immigrant students in US illegally
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - When Grecia Rivas graduated from a Tucson high school a few years ago, she thought her days in a classroom were over. She was an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally and...
View ArticleFeds arrest two Laredo men accused of buying 30 guns for Zetas in San Antonio
Undercover agents in San Antonio set up a sting to sell machine guns and assault rifles for $25,000 to Zetas operative who requested them, federal authorities report. ......
View ArticleNew Mexico fires women's basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — After five seasons and an ouster from the Women's Basketball Invitational this week, New Mexico fired women's basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez in a move the coach says "blindsi...
View ArticleSilence and Its Use Against People of Color
Silence contains power. Whether it is imposed upon someone or chosen to withhold information (and thus exert control), silence - all the things left unsaid - is as telling in its form of communication...
View ArticleReputed Mexican Mafia hit man charged in Balcones Heights cop’s slaying
Ruben “Menace” Reyes reportedly admitted to killing at least 16 people, but the feds believe he was involved in deaths of many more. ......
View ArticleEx-Southside ISD teacher to plead guilty in child porn case
Agents who were tracking alleged child porn users raided Ottogalli’s home in mid-October, and notified the school district. Initially, his elderly father tried to take the fall for him, saying he...
View ArticleSchool district consultant helped insurance firm get contracts
SAISD and Edgewood insurance contract process was corrupted by man who was paid by both the company and the districts, according to federal court documents. ......
View ArticleFormer San Antonio TV reporter pleads guilty to stalking
Gabriel Robert Caggiano, who worked at KMOL, harassed the CEO of the Witte Museum and her husband, who was Caggiano’s boss at a Corpus Christi station. ......
View ArticleFeds say bank employee stole from the dead
Meagan Hollis, 42, was a trust administrator assistant who resigned from Frost Bank as it looked into suspicions that she embezzled from customers’ accounts. ......
View ArticleNo ill feelings with Rosario Dawson over Sanders
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Mexican-American civil rights activist Dolores Huerta said she holds no ill feelings toward actress Rosario Dawson over her "open letter" criticizing Huerta for supporting...
View ArticleUS agents looting immigrants before deportations
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A complaint filed by advocacy groups alleges that U.S. Border Patrol agents are looting immigrants of possessions before deporting them to Mexico without their IDs or money....
View ArticleAdvocates in 2 states act to improve treatment of immigrants
Advocates took action on two fronts Wednesday to push for better treatment of immigrants in federal custody, claiming they are having their belongings taken by U.S. agents and are languishing behind...
View ArticleDocumentary on life of Chicano poet set for wide release
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A documentary based on Chicano writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is set for release in June and producers hope to get it into schools with Latino and Native American students....
View ArticleChicano poet Jimmy Santiago Baca film set for June release
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A documentary about Chicano writer Jimmy Santiago Baca is set to be released in June and producers hope to screen it in schools with Latino and Native American students. ......
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