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Martin Sheen Stands Up for Latino Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder
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Hollywood actor Martin Sheen is using his political muscle to try and help a Latino man he says was wrongly convicted of murder.
At a press conference Monday, Sheen, who is Latino himself, said he met with the man, Jon-Adrian Velasquez, hours earlier and believes his case “cries out for...
Miss Brazil Robbed at Gun Point in Sao Paulo
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Debora Lyra, also known as Miss Brazil, was held up at gunpoint in front of her condominium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, according to multiple press reports. Lyra was robbed of her purse, cellular phone and her car, which was given to her as the winner of the Miss Brazil pageant last year. The 2010 beauty queen expressed her reaction via...
Murderers of Luis Ramirez Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison
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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.
A...
UPDATE: Former Minuteman Shawna Forde Sentenced to Death for Murder of Latino Family
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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...
Star Tracker: Jennifer Lopez, Paulina Rubio and Cheech Marin
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— 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...
Update: Food Network Star Juan-Carlos Cruz to Eat Prison Food for Nine Years
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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...
Technology Fills Gap in Reporting Mexican Drug Cartel Violence
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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...
Families Mourn Massacred Migrants
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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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