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Democratic-led cities pay for migrants' tickets to other places as resources dwindle
DENVER (AP) — As weary migrants arrive in Denver on buses from the U.S.-Mexico border city of El Paso, Texas, officials offer them two options: temporary shelter or a bus ticket out. Nearly half of the 27,000 migrants who arrived in Denver since November 2022 have chosen the bus,...
Texas man executed for 2001 killing of 5-year-old girl abducted from a store
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man convicted of strangling a 5-year-old girl who was taken from a Walmart store nearly 22 years ago and burning her body was executed Thursday evening. David Renteria, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:11 p.m. CST following an injection at the state...
Photographer found shot to death in violence plagued Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A photographer for a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, which has been dominated by drug cartels, was found shot to death, prosecutors said Thursday. The body of news photographer Ismael Villagómez was found in the driver’s seat of a car...
Texas judge rules against GOP lawsuit seeking to toss 2022 election result in Houston area
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has denied a Republican effort to overturn election results in the nation’s third-most populous county, a Democratic stronghold that’s been beset by GOP efforts to dictate how ballots are cast. A losing GOP candidate in a November 2022 judicial...
2 Guatemalan migrants were shot dead in Mexico near US border. Soldiers believed to be involved
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two Guatemalan migrants were killed and three others — along with a Honduran man — were wounded in a shooting in northern Mexico near the U.S. border that apparently involved Mexican army soldiers. Prosecutors in the northern state of Chihuahua said the army...
