Murder Suspect Extradited to El Salvador (FOX 10 Phoenix)
Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:32:42 GMT
A man suspected of aggravated homicide in his home country of El Salvador has been extradited by U.S. immigration authorities.
Bay Area local scoreboard for March 12 (Contra Costa Times)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:32:56 GMT
baseball-jcBig 8 Diablo Valley 9, American River 5DVC 004 001 040— 9 10 1ARC 020 300 000— 5
3 men held in teen's shooting (The Charlotte Observer)
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:40:47 GMT
Three men charged Thursday in the shooting of a teenage girl as she walked home from school have gang ties, police say, including one who was previously convicted in a drive-by shooting in Charlotte.
Bay Area concerts: Maxwell, Jill Scott coming to Oracle Arena June 4 (Contra Costa Times)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:32:53 GMT
Also: Sugarland booked at Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord April 30.
Venezuela murder-rate quadrupled under Chavez -NGO (AlertNet)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:59:10 GMT
Source: Reuters * Caracas most violent capital in Western Hemisphere * Chavez's popularity affected by crime wave CARACAS, March 11 (Reuters) - Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez' ...
Venezuela murder-rate quadrupled under Chavez: NGO (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:52:26 GMT
Homicides in Venezuela have quadrupled during President Hugo Chavez's 11 years in power, with two people murdered every hour, according to new figures from a non-governmental organization.
Recession drives Salvadoran couple home (Gazette.net)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:19 GMT
Jose and Maria Campos relax in their San Salvador home in February. They built the house with money they earned working in Langley Park and Silver Spring and returned to El Salvador in October, partly because of a lack of work.
A family struggles to stay connected (Gazette.net)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:57:08 GMT
Vladimir Vasquez, 14, talks to his mother using a Web camera at home in San Salvador. Rosa and Luis Vasquez live in Wheaton and send money to support their three sons in El Salvador. They see their boys daily online, but have not lived in the same country for years.
Remarks by President Obama and President Funes of El Salvador after Meeting (The White House)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:22:44 GMT
Oval Office 3:56 P.M. EST PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. I want to welcome President Funes and the First Lady of El Salvador to the United States. Bienvenido. We are very grateful and honored by his visit. I’ve been following the President since his election nine months ago and have been very favorably impressed by the steps that he’s taking to try to break down political divisions ...
Sarah Stephens: Why should we care about El Salvador? (The Huffington Post)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:29:57 GMT
Today, President Obama welcomes Mauricio Funes, the president of El Salvador, in what is his first meeting with a Central American head of state at...
