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John Drayman, the former mayor of the city of Glendale, California, has been sentenced to a year in prison after being found guilty of embezzling over $300,000 at a Montrose farmer's market.
Without a doubt these are difficult times for undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
The boring ride of subway users in New York City suffered an unexpected change on the morning of Monday when a small stowaway jumped onto an MTA car in Fulton Street before it closed its doors, and rode on one of the longest stations of its route.
Democrats in the Senate and Republicans in the House of Representatives clashed once more, this time regarding a law project which seeks to reestablish unemployment benefits which have expired for 2.4 million American who have been unemployed for the last six months.
Despite that in recent years the number of teenage mothers between 15 and 17 years of age has been reduced in the U.S., a new report revealed that Latina teenagers are still the group with the biggest number of pregnancies.
Zeituni Onyango, aunt of President Barack Obama, who was denied asylum in the US and resorted to illegally living in the country for years, died on Tuesday, a victim of cancer.
Two-year-old twins lost their lives on Tuesday night when they accidentally fell into a pool in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
On Monday, April 7, California police requested to present charges against two students involved in a fight with a high school teacher in Santa Mónica, local media reported.
The number of deportations in California has been drastically reduced at a time when the national number of deportations in the U.S. has reached a historical record, according to a recent poll.
Known California democrat legislator Leland Yee was indicted along with 28 others for various crimes, including corruptions and conspiring to traffic in firearms, local authorities reported.
The record number of deportations that the Obama administration has reached in recent years has earned the President numerous criticisms, who was thought to be one of the main promoters of long awaited immigration reform, which is still stuck in the House of Representatives.
Demián Bichir, one of the most successful Mexican actors in recent times, was named Ambassador for Immigrant Rights in the U.S. by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), local media reported.
David Letterman, one of the most successful TV hosts of all time and an American TV icon, announced on Thursday that he would retire in 2015 as the host of "The Late Show", which he hosted for 32 years.
The doorman of a building in the city of St. Petersburg, in Florida's east coast, was fired after confusing the body of a 96-year-old neighbor with a mannequin, local media reported.
A few hours before the deadline to register for the new system of Affordable Health Care, better known as "Obamacare", the White House announced that more than 7.1 million people have registered for the new insurance.
