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...A major turning of the page -- an historic cultural turnover, a generational changing of the guard -- would happen with an Obama victory. I wish there was some way to analogize this without comparing Team Obama -- a fairly unradical bunch with moderately progressive ideas and intentions -- to 20th Century communists, but the fact is that the "reds" in this country -- dominated by the insufficiently educated rurals over 55 -- are opposed to Obama in much the same way that the counter-revolutionary "white" Russians were opposed to the Bolsheviks, the conservative, plantation-owning Cubans were opposed to Castro,...

A local FBI agent who reportedly shot and killed a 3-pound Chihuahua named Sassy in front of his home near Lorena in February was indicted Wednesday on felony charges that could end his career. A McLennan County grand jury indicted 39-year-old Lovett Leslie Ledger Jr. for cruelty to animals, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in a state jail and a $10,000 fine. Before the grand jury decided to indict Ledger, prosecutor Crawford Long granted his request to tell them his side of the story. Ledger was in the closed-door grand jury room for about 25...

Full-size (for full effect). Basaseachi is a 312 meter waterfall.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Wednesday that he has seen an improvement in security along the U.S.-Mexico border. Problems remain, but increased policing by state and federal authorities has significantly helped, said Richardson, a former U.N. ambassador and former Democratic presidential candidate. "In my opinion, there has been a dramatic improvement in the last two months," Richardson told reporters in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, across from New Mexico, where he met with Chihuahua Gov. Jesus Reyes Baeza. Richardson said he would ask U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Tony Garza to reevaluate a travel alert, issued...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — At least three people were killed and three more wounded in a highway gunbattle in northern Mexico, officials said Sunday. The shootout took place Saturday in the southern part of the border state of Chihuahua, said Rene Medrano, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office. Authorities believe the battle was between rival drug gangs. Mexico City newspaper El Universal reported that 14 people died in the violence. Last month, the government sent more than 2,500 soldiers and federal police to crack down on soaring violence in Chihuahua. About 200 people have been killed this year...

A 52-year-old man has been booked for attempting to cook his landlady's pet dog. The man, identified as Park, took the pet Chihuahua into his room, while his 69-year-old landlady Jeon was in the bathroom. He then killed the dog and attempted to cook it at the boarding house in Jongno, Seoul, Monday afternoon. Park tried to scorch the dog before cooking it in his room, but his clothes in the room caught fire and emitted smoke. His neighbors called the firefighters and his attempt to cook the dog was detected by neighbors and firefighters, according to police. Police quoted...

A three-pound Chihuahua mix named Tink is being praised for helping police catch a Christmas Day fugitive. The dog's adventure began when four suspects who were fleeing police crashed a stolen minivan into a hillside. Auburn homeowner Wendy Anderson said Tink, her son's Pomeranian and Chihuahua mix, found a suspect hiding under a neighbor's motorhome and chased him into the woods. Her son and husband directed a law enforcement helicopter to where 20-year-old Marvin Gonzales was hiding. "The Chihuahua gave him up," California Highway Patrol officer Jeff Herbert told The Associated Press. The three other suspects, including the driver, were...

A 20-year-old man who pleaded no contest to burglarizing the home of a woman whose pet Chihuahua was stuffed in a freezer during the burglary was sentenced Tuesday to serve two years in a state prison. The sentence was part of a plea bargain Deavean Irvin of Lancaster made with prosecutors during his preliminary hearing Feb. 21. Irvin originally pleaded not guilty to residential burglary at his arraignment. In exchange for dropping a grand theft charge, Irvin pleaded no contest to residential burglary at Michael D. Antonovich Antelope Valley Courthouse in Lancaster. Irvin was not charged with cruelty to animals....

When intruders burglarized Kimberly Holzer's home, they not only stole DVDs, video games, a camera and other electronic gear, they urinated on maternity clothes given to her as gifts and stuffed her Chihuahua into a freezer. The Chihuahua, named Roxy, spent at least 90 minutes inside the freezer before he was found by deputies, who searched the house after Holzer's mother-in-law told them the couple had a dog. ... Roxy was checked by a veterinarian, who declared him in good condition, Holzer said. For Holzer, the ordeal was especially challenging because she is pregnant with twins and her husband is...

  SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. (AP) - Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least three dozen people in three states. The fast-food chain said preliminary testing by an independent lab found three samples of green onions appeared to have a dangerous strain of the bacterium. "In an abundance of caution, we've decided to pull all green onions from our restaurants until we know conclusively whether they are the cause of the E. coli outbreak," said Greg Creed, president of Irvine,...

Woman found guilty in dead puppy attack Wed Sep 6, 10:18 PM ET ST. LOUIS - A woman accused of pummeling a dog breeder over the head with a dead Chihuahua puppy was found guilty Wednesday of misdemeanor assault and trespassing. Lisa Hopfer, 34, faces up to 18 months in jail and a $1,500 fine. The trial featured X-rays and pictures of the dead dog, and testimony from Linda Hulsey, who said Hopfer assaulted her at least 30 times on June 7 with the corpse of the Chihuahua she sold to Hopfer. Hopfer told police that after buying the puppy...

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A man suspected of participating in the rapes and killings of at least 10 women in a border city made infamous by the deaths of more than 100 young women since 1993 has been arrested, U.S. officials said Thursday. U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza called Tuesday's arrest of Edgar Alvarez Cruz on immigration violations in Denver "a major break" in the investigation into the unsolved deaths in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas. "We believe Alvarez Cruz's arrest will help U.S. and Mexican law enforcement authorities solve numerous cases involving the murders and disappearances of women...

CHARDON, Ohio (AP) -- Though she's only a 6-pound Chihuahua-rat terrier mix who looks like she belongs in Paris Hilton's purse, Midge has the will, skill and nose of a 100-pound German shepherd.

Woman Accused of Attack With Dead Chihuahua Charged With 2 Misdemeanors Saturday, June 17, 2006 STORIES •Woman Attacked Dog Breeder With Dead Chihuahua, Cops Say ST. LOUIS — A woman accused of pummeling a dog breeder over the head with a dead Chihuahua has been charged with two misdemeanors and reimbursed the money she paid for the puppy. Lisa Lynn Hopfer, 33, was charged with trespassing and third-degree assault in the June 7 incident, authorities said. No listed phone number for Hopfer was available. A man at her home who declined to identify himself told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper...

The Mexican people aren't the only ones who realize that the "country" known as Mexico is no longer a civilized nation. Thousands of animals are leaving the 3rd world cesspool that should be an oil rich world superpower. El Cujo, a miniature Chihuahua who recently crossed the border complained about Mexico's poor health conditions. "I may eat crap, nibble my butt, and look like a rat with acromegaly, but I don't want to live in a country that has to send ambulances to another country for emergency healthcare. El Cujo also knows that US doctors don’t extort families of foreigners...

The drawn faces and melancholy expressions in the Mexican consulate here Thursday reflected the sadness surrounding the now-permanent delay of Cónsul Justiniano Menchaca Fuentes. Reyna Kat Olson, Del Rio consulate director of Mexican Communities Abroad, established media opportunities to meet and interview the Mexican consul recently appointed to his post here. Menchaca was to replace Cónsul Roberto Canseco who departed the position in Del Rio in July 2005. The Jan. 27 press conference was abruptly cancelled without explanation. “At this point, he’s not coming,” said Kat Olson Thursday, urging the News-Herald to discuss the matter with Cónsul Adscrito (designate) Fernando...

AUSTIN -- For years, El Paso officials have studied the multimillion-dollar plan to move hundreds of acres of rail yards out of Downtown to make way for more-attractive development. Texas voters might give the officials help with their plan next month. Proposition 1 on the Nov. 8 constitutional amendment ballot would create a state fund of up to $2 billion to help move and improve rail lines statewide. Proponents of the measure say the fund would be the only way to generate billions of dollars needed to move rail yards out of urban areas. Critics contend that the fund would...

LAS CRUCES, N.M., Aug. 27 (AP) - The governors of New Mexico and its southern neighbor, the Mexican state Chihuahua, agreed Friday to bulldoze or board up buildings in a semi-abandoned town just inside Mexico that is a haven for would-be immigrants and smugglers. Gov. Bill Richardson and Gov. José Reyes Baeza of Chihuahua also said they hoped to establish a police presence to end lawlessness in the border town, Las Chepas, which has been used as a staging ground for migrants and drug and human smugglers. It was the governors' first meeting since Mr. Richardson, citing growing violence, declared...

<p>COLUMBUS, N.M. and PALOMAS, Mexico -- Earlier this year, Dolores Sanchez's son locked his house in Columbus and went to work in the fields of Arizona for the summer. Four months later, he received a phone call from the police in Columbus.</p>

Hello everyone. I'm pinging all who responded to my original thread about the little Chihuahua mix who needed a home so desperately back in late March, early April. You all were so very kind in giving me tips on where to get help. Some of you offered to take the dog yourselves, and several of you sent checks to my vet where the dog who came to be named Ricky was being boarded after I balied him out of the pound. To the latter group, I would have sent each of you a personal thank-you note, except for the fact...

HOBART, Ind. (AP) - A tiny, ankle-nipping Chihuahua that recently had its name flashed around the globe for halting mail deliveries is in hot water again. The Hobart Humane Society picked up Bobo last week for the third time this year after someone reported that the 4.5-pound dog was running loose again, officials in the northern Indiana city said. Bobo remained at the Humane Society on Wednesday evening, and former owner Vicki Seber said she hadn't been contacted about the dog. Her mother had been keeping the dog at her home in Hammond, but recently gave the troublesome mutt away....

RALEIGH -- A Cary family is grieving the loss of its Chihuahua, and the next-door neighbor stands accused in the slaying. On Monday, Cary police arrested Ivo Strahilov Dernev, 35, of 209 Dundalk Way in connection with the shooting death of Charlie, a 4-year-old dog belonging to Shannon Young. Charlie died Sunday after a pellet from a .177-caliber Crossman Air Rifle blocked a major artery and caused massive internal bleeding, according to Young and Dernev's arrest warrant. "We've lost a lot," Young said about Charlie's death. "I can't replace him."

FReeper dog lovers, this little male Chihuahua mix (about 15 lbs.) desperately needs either a good, loving home or a foster home until I can find him a permanent situation. On Good Friday evening, I spotted this little guy in a blind panic at a very busy intersection in the city of Gardena, CA, a Los Angeles suburb. He paused a moment, then took off running down Gardena Blvd. I made a U-turn and did everything possible to try to catch up to and get ahead of him in an effort to save him. But he kept going. He turned...

NAPLES, Fla. — A woman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for killing her neighbor's Chihuahua with a shotgun, telling the dog's owner she was horribly frightened by the pooch. Wanda Ziglar, 49, of Golden Gate, pleaded no contest Tuesday to one felony count of animal cruelty. Senior Judge Jack Schoonover agreed to withhold a formal finding of guilt of the charge. Ziglar was arrested July 31 after admitting she shot and killed the dog, which belonged to her then-neighbor, Marisol Olegnichar. Ziglar told deputies the Chihuahua repeatedly wandered into her yard.

<p>WASHINGTON — Just a few weeks into the new congressional session, many are beginning to wonder aloud: "What's up with Barbara Boxer?"</p> <p>The first week of the session, the California Democrat led the Senate challenge over certifying the Ohio presidential vote, citing irregularities.</p>

Britney Spears has treated her pet Chihuahua to a 180 dollar steak. The Toxic star decided to treat Bitbit to the gourmet meat during her visit to the Las Vegas Bellagio Hotel reports Teenhollywood. Spears ordered the prime cut of meat from the Picasso restaurant, where master chef Julian Serrano normally only prepares food for the rich and famous. An insider said: "Talk about an insult - Julian is one of the top chefs in the US. The idea of him having to cook for a tiny Chihuahua is ridiculous. Just as well, no one told him where his dish...