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OPINION I can see something like this happening on one of the Critical Mass rides in Vancouver.  " 1 dead as car plows into Mexican bike racePolice say American driver was apparently drunk and fell asleep at wheelA car collides with cyclists participating in a race...

Alleged drunk driver plows into bike race

One is confirmed dead and 10 injured after an alleged drunk driver fell asleep at the wheel and careened into a bike race in Mexico. The photo that accompanies the story is truly horrific--I've never seen anything like it."(AP) A car plowed into a bike race along a...

Texting may be hazardous to your thumbs

" Well, it had to happen sooner or later. The first recorded case of “Text Messagers Thumb”. In New Zealand.  "The 20-year old student is thought to have sent up to 100-text messages/day, which resulted in inflammation of the tendons in her thumb, causing grave...

It Depends on the Definition of a Crime

Imagine your purse gets snatched and you fill out a police report for the Miami Police Dept. Well,  you might consider yourself the victim of a crime, but were you really the victim of a crime? "The woman...

Firefighters May Never Know What Sparked Blaze

" March 6, 2007 Texas - Fire officials said Monday that they might never know what caused a massive weekend fire that destroyed a downtown warehouse. The blaze gutted the warehouse in the 300 block of West St. Charles Street early Saturday. Brownsville Fire Marshal Ben Nunez...

Fire Destroys Downtown Warehouse

" March 4, 2007 Texas - Brownsville firefighters got an early wake up call Saturday after they learned a warehouse being used to store secondhand clothes was fully engulfed in downtown. While a Brownsville fire crew was in route back to Brownsville Fire Station No. 2 on St....

Relative: Slain Fla. family had no foes (AP)

" FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Yessica Guerrero Escobedo and Jose Luis Escobedo were high school sweethearts, a relative said, who fell in love and married. Recently, they packed up their two children and left their Texas home, headed for Florida in search of a new life. "Everybody...

War on Terror Has Turned Texas Into War Zone

"Five years after the events of 9/11, this is what the war on terror looks like on the West Texas border. During a rare, prime-time television address to the nation in May, President Bush announced Operation Jump...

Iraqis cross border into United States

Border Patrol caught them crossing from Mexico near the Los Indios International Bridge.

This will be news to some Mexicans

The Official Mexican Border Ports of Entry (scroll down the page):

World Refugee

This website includes news about illegal immigrants.

The Invasion of the United States

The Border Patrol is using hi-tech gizmos to beat back the hoards.

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