Washington D.C. – Last night, the CARA Family Detention Pro Bono Project succeeded in halting the deportation of four Central American families apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend, who had been scheduled for deportation this morning. Based on interviews with the families, who are currently detained at the South Texas Family […]readmore
VOA – NEWS Ken Schwartz -Baltimore is about to embark on a $700 million effort to tear down empty and crumbling buildings in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods and replace them with affordable housing, stores and parks. The first area to be transformed is Sandtown-Winchester — the primarily African-American neighborhood where Freddie Gray grew […]readmore
Boston, Mass. – Ex estudiantes que según dicen fueron abusados sexualmente en un prestigioso internado mixto de Rhode Island, tres de ellas ofrecieron el martes una conferencia de prensa en Boston y pidieron una investigación independiente. La Escuela St. George en Middeltown anuncio el mes pasado que encontró que 26 de sus estudiantes fueron abusados […]readmore
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Steven F. Pagliarini, 57, Executive Vice-President and Treasurer of Central Landscaping Construction Company, located in Johnston, R.I., and Executive Vice-President of Central Nurseries, Inc., located in Chepachet and Johnston, R.I., has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to charges that he allegedly orchestrated a scheme in which Central Landscaping avoided paying […]readmore
VOA News January 05, 2016 Authorities in the southern state of Florida have arrested a man accused of vandalizing a mosque with a machete and leaving pork products at the scene. Michael Scott Wolfe, 35, was arrested Monday in Titusville, Florida. He is being charged with criminal mischief of a religious building, a third degree […]readmore
Chris Hannas January 05, 2016 Armed anti-government activists pressed on with their occupation of a wildlife reserve in the northwestern U.S. state of Oregon on Tuesday, despite the father and son at the center of the group’s protest returning to jail and distancing themselves from the activists. What began with a splinter group from peaceful […]readmore
VOA News January 04, 2016 U.S. officials say immigration authorities have taken 121 people into custody since Friday, in the first raids targeting the deportation of families who have entered the United States illegally since May 2014. Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson said the detainees were taken into custody in the states of Texas, Georgia […]readmore
NEW YORK —Darius McCollum’s addiction isn’t for booze and pills — it’s for buses and trains. The New York transit impostor who first commandeered a train at age 15 has been arrested 30 times over the years for transit-related crimes. Most recently, he was nabbed in November behind the wheel of a Greyhound bus that […]readmore
WASHINGTON— Statement from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, on the executive actions announced today by President Barack Obama to reduce gun violence: “The AFT strongly supports President Obama’s effort to take action against our national epidemic of gun violence—in 2015 alone, there were more than 52,000 incidents of gun violence in […]readmore
VOA News The U.S. Justice Department filed a civil lawsuit Monday against Volkswagen AG for installing illegal software to make diesel engines meet federal emissions standards in 600,000 suspect vehicles. A Justice Department statement described the complaint as «the first stage in bringing Volkswagen to justice» for failing to disclose what it said was a […]readmore