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Salinas >> Touting the importance of protecting victims and witnesses of crime and human trafficking, Rep. Jimmy Panetta unveiled legislation Thursday aimed at expanding an existing visa and legalization program for those in the country illegally who cooperate with law enforcement in reporting crimes and testifying in court. At a news conference at the Salinas Rotunda, Panetta announced he plans to introduce the Immigrant Victim Protection Act in Congress next week.
In this February 1964 file photo, Henry Montgomery, flanked by two deputies, awaits the verdict in his trial for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Charles H. Hurt in Baton Rouge, La.
Immigrant supporters protest during the Los Angeles City Council ad hoc committee on immigration meeting to discuss the city's response to threats by the Trump administration to cut funding from Los Angeles and other jurisdictions which federal officials say are providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants arrested for crimes, in Los Angeles on March ... (more)
Mayor Bill de Blasio abruptly canceled what would have been his first White House meeting with President Trump on Wednesday - citing Department of Justice action on immigration as the reason. Hizzoner was scheduled to visit the White House with more than 100 other mayors to discuss issues that include infrastructure spending and the opioid crisis.
An adult in Mariah Woods life has been charged the morning with 1st degree murder and felony child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury/death. Adolphus Earl Kimry II has been charged and been placed under no bond and is being held for a first apperance this afternoon.
Among the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States today, 60 percent have lived here for a decade or more. Many have built deep family and community ties, through U.S.-citizen spouses, children, jobs, homes and mortgages.
Alabama is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let it proceed with this week's scheduled execution of a 67-year-old inmate whose lawyers say can no longer remember his crime. The Alabama attorney general's office told justices in a filing Monday that the state's high court last year ruled the execution could proceed and should do so again.
Bob Meyers doesn't want partial justice for his brother. He wants full justice. And to him, that means leaving D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo's sentence just the way it is: life in prison, with no chance of ever getting out.
In his first interview since acknowledging an extramarital affair, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said Saturday that there was "no blackmail" and "no threat of violence" by him in what he described as a months-long "consensual relationship" with his former hairdresser. Greitens told The Associated Press that he has no plans to resign from office as a result of the affair, despite calls to step aside from several Republican and Democratic state lawmakers.
On a Thursday morning in early January, most of official Washington was contending with a road-clogging snowstorm when Attorney General Jeff Sessions triggered another form of chaos on Capitol Hill and inside the federal banking agencies. Sessions announced that the Justice Department was rescinding an Obama-era memo on marijuana enforcement, a move that carried big implications for banks and credit unions in California, Colorado, Oregon and a handful of other states that have legalized recreational pot use.
The controversial firing of two veteran deputy assessors by Cunningham Township Assessor Wayne Williams has taken a new turn with the female former employees claiming that they are owed more money than Williams has paid them. Williams, who was elected assessor unopposed last year and took office on Jan. 1, immediately dismissed Jamie Willard, the chief deputy assessor, and Kim Hooper, a deputy assessor.
Local civil rights attorney and congressional candidate James Thompson spoke before the Wichita City Council on Tuesday and used national statistics to point out that the number of police shootings in Wichita is abnormally high and that funding for officer training and staffing is too low. Local civil rights attorney and congressional candidate James Thompson spoke before the Wichita City Council on Tuesday and used national statistics to point out that the number of police shootings in Wichita is abnormally high and that funding for officer training and staffing is too low.
The raids by federal agents on dozens of 7-Eleven convenience stores last week were the administration's first big show of force meant to convey the consequences of employing undocumented people. "We are taking work-site enforcement very hard," said Thomas D. Homan, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in a speech in October.
In this July 5, 2016 file photo, the Triple S Food Store, the scene of a police shooting is shown in Baton Rouge, La. A deadly confrontation between two white Louisiana police officers and a black man lasted less than 90 seconds.
People pay their respects to the Las Vegas mass shooting victims at makeshift in front of the Fountains of Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nev. on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017.
Texas authorities announced that no charges would be filed against pastor Andy Savage for his 1998 sexual assault against a teenage girl, outraging his critics. The Montgomery County District Attorney's office in Texas released a statement Wednesday night explaining that the statute of limitations for Savage's sexual assault against Jules Woodson had passed and that they could not pursue any legal means against Savage.
It's hard to imagine how the 2014 federal effort to impound Cliven Bundy 's cattle could have gone any worse, but environmentalists are demanding that the Bureau of Land Management go back and try it again. Days after a federal judge threw out the case against Mr. Bundy and two of his sons, environmental groups urged Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to remove the family's cattle from the property near Bunkerville, Nevada.
Sen. John Kennedy said Wednesday that the problem in America isn't guns but the "idiot" government workers who fail to enforce already existing gun-control laws. Mr. Kennedy , Louisiana Republican, said he opposes a bipartisan gun-control bill put forth by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn that reinforces the requirement for federal agencies to report criminal offenses to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System database, the Washington Free Beacon reported .
A coalition of liberals and conservatives is increasingly optimistic they'll be able to curtail the government's chief foreign intelligence snooping law in a major showdown on the House floor Thursday. GOP leaders and the intelligence community are fighting to preserve the government's flexibility to act under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which governs collection of communications from foreign targets.
Fresh from his federal court triumph, Nevada cattleman Cliven Bundy wasted no time in renewing his range fight, asking why the local sheriff hadn't protected his family and property when government agents tried to round up his cattle in 2014. The ranching patriarch urged Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of Clark County, Nevada, not to take direction from the federal government, describing it as a "foreign" power.