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Police arrest former Webb commissioner, deputy BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer Acting on a tip, the Laredo Police Department's Narcotics Task Force reportedly seized nearly 300 pounds of marijuana Monday evening at the home of a former Webb County Commissioner on Ceniso Loop in south Laredo. Officers arrested Maria Rosa "Rosie" Centeno, 52, and her 56-year-old husband, Ramiro Hinojosa, who was identified as an ex-county deputy by police officials. "At around 6:30 p.m., task force officers obtained consent from Centeno to a search. In a room in her house, used for storage, they found two boxes with marijuana," Police...

<p>Tuesday, November 19, was truly [1] a black, black day for this nation and one I never dreamed would happen here.</p> <p>I remember vividly as a child watching Nikita Khrushchev standing at the UN beating his shoe against the podium and shouting that they (the then Soviet Union) would take us over without firing a shot. Little did we know or ever dream then that the Soviet Union would fall but that a truly [2] evil man from Texas and his equally evil regime from Cheney on down would take us over from within and that the Democrats would completely collapse before our eyes and help him do it. This truly [3] began with the stolen election of 2000.</p>