Crime

Murderers of Luis Ramirez Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison

By Mariela Rosario | 02/23/2011 - 18:49 | 0 Comments

The young men convicted of murdering Luis Ramirez by ruthlessly beating him in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania on July 12, 2008 were finally sentenced today, more than two years after the fatal beating.

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Arizona Vigilante Found Guilty of Murdering Latino Family

UPDATE: Former Minuteman Shawna Forde Sentenced to Death for Murder of Latino Family

By Mariela Rosario | 02/23/2011 - 10:00 | 0 Comments

UPDATE: Yesterday, February 22, Shawna Forde recieved the death sentence for her role in the murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father Raul. After four hours of deliberation over two days, the jury handed down a death sentence against Forde, 43. Forde's acoomplices will go on trial later this year...

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Star Tracker: Jennifer Lopez, Paulina Rubio and Cheech Marin
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Star Tracker: Jennifer Lopez, Paulina Rubio and Cheech Marin

By Irasema Romero | 02/17/2011 - 12:32 | 0 Comments

—   Love sometimes hurts, as is the case for Jennifer Lopez and her fashionable Christian Louboutin shoes. The star hurt her left ankle with the heel of her stiletto shoe minutes before presenting at last Sunday’s...

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Food Network Star Juan-Carlos Cruz Facing Nine Years Behind Bars

Update: Food Network Star Juan-Carlos Cruz to Eat Prison Food for Nine Years

By Lee Hernandez | 12/13/2010 - 16:03 | 0 Comments

Former Food Network star Juan-Carlos Cruz pleaded no contest to charges of soliciting two homeless men in Santa Monica, California to kill his girlfriend, Jennifer Campbell, People.com is reporting.

Cruz, 48, was arrested in May...

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Technology Fills Gap in Reporting Mexican Drug Cartel Violence
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Technology Fills Gap in Reporting Mexican Drug Cartel Violence

By Mariela Rosario | 09/29/2010 - 09:30 | 0 Comments

Journalists have been murdered at an alarming rate in Mexico over the last few years, and the frightening trend has effectively paralyzed the local news industry. After the murder of a photojournalist at Ciudad Juarez's biggest paper, the Diario de Juárez, the staff responded with a front page editorial pleading with the cartels: "We need you to...

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Migrants Mourned
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Families Mourn Massacred Migrants

By Mariela Rosario | 09/08/2010 - 09:00 | 3 Comments

72 Central and South American citizens were found murdered along the northern Mexico border on August 24, and since then there has been an international outcry to bring those responsible to justice. The bodies were found after a shoot-out between suspected drug cartel members and local authorities.

There were two survivors of the gruesome mass murder, 18-year-old...

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Fifteen-Year-Old Mexican Boy Shot Dead By Border Agents

By Mariela Rosario | 06/11/2010 - 12:30 | 1 Comment

A fifteen-year-old boy was killed earlier this week by US Border patrol agents, setting off a string of protests and a possible homicide investigation by Mexican authorities. Although the Border Patrol claimed that the boy, Sergio Adrian Hernandez, was shot after he unsuccessfully tried to cross the border illegally and began to throw rocks at agents, two...

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WATCH: Q'orianka Kilcher Arrested

By Verky Arcos | 06/03/2010 - 13:00 | 9 Comments

Actress Q’orianka Kilcher—best known for playing Pocahontas in the 2005 film New World opposite Colin Farrell—was arrested on Tuesday for tying herself to the fence of the White House while her mother, Saskia Kilcher, poured a black substance over her.

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