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Even a year and a half after being charged with gunning down two Sacramento-area deputies, Luis Enriquez Bracamontes still seems amused as he hears the details of his alleged crimes. On Monday, as law enforcement witnesses described the emotional events of Oct. 24, 2014, in a preliminary hearing that could lead to him facing the death penalty, Bracamontes appeared animated and bemused – and sometimes bored – as he listened to testimony about the violence that day and watched as photos of bloodstained parking lots were projected onto a courtroom wall.

Grammy award-winning musician Gloria Estefan told CNSNews.com that Arizona’s new law against illegal immigration is not “going to stop criminals.” She also said, “You can’t equate criminals with undocumented workers.” At the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., CNSNews.com asked Estefan, “I saw you participated in a protest against the Arizona immigration law. What specifically is your issue with the law?” “First of all, the march that I participated in was one asking for immigration reform. It has happened every year. It wasn’t specifically because of Arizona. It’s been happening for quite a few years now – immigrants getting together...

Bail is set at $400,000 in Bergen County for a nanny accused of striking a two-year-old with a broom handle and her fists........Flor Barriento is an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador.

The southbound lanes of I- 85 in Coweta County near Newnan were closed for nearly an hour when a motorist was struck and killed early Tuesday after his car broke down. Terrance Harvey, 42, of Forest Park and his brother were driving to work at a construction job in Newnan shortly after 6:30 a.m. when Harvey’s car stalled, authorities said. Coweta Sheriff’s Lt. John LaChance said because of highway work, there was no emergency lane. The two men got out of the car to get to safety behind a barrier wall, but Harvey decided to try to start the car...

Her family's insistence that actress Adrienne Shelly would never take her own life, a mysterious sneaker print at the Greenwich Village murder scene, and detectives' discovery that the apartment beneath Shelly's was being renovated -- these were prime factors that police sources Monday said led to the arrest of a suspect in the slaying. Diego Pillco, 19, of Sunset Park, a handyman who was working in the apartment being renovated, was charged with second-degree murder in the popular indie-film actress's death on Thursday, police said.

NEW BRUNSWICK: Authorities say DNA evidence has linked a 32-year-old city man accused of trying to rape a woman at a French Street music store Dec. 6 to six rapes in New Brunswick. Ricardo Cepates, an illegal immigrant from Honduras who was deported from the United States once before, was charged with being the serial rapist who stalked women in the city since September 2001, authorities said. He was being held today in lieu of $1.25 million bail at Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick. Cepates was chased down through more than a foot of snow on French...