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State prosecutors have charged two more migrants as part of an investigation into the trafficking of narcotics and firearms into Chicago by suspected members of the Venezuela-based Tren de Aragua street gang. The men are the fourth and fifth individuals known to be charged in the case. Judge Luciano Panici Jr. ordered Yefferson Camacho Cedeno, 27, and Jose Vasquez Hernandez, 30, detained, calling them “member[s] of a transnational criminal organization.” Camacho Cedeno is a Venezuelan citizen who is “not a legal resident of the United States.” He is charged with two counts of gunrunning and six additional charges tied to...

The airport authority's chairman has had the authority's offices swept for listening devices, fearful that the FBI was eavesdropping, and the authority's president/CEO used her position to have barbecue meat shipped in for free from Texas, according to a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former authority employee. Jose Hernandez, 35, the authority's former director of landside operations, sued the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority in San Diego Superior Court on Friday claiming he was wrongfully terminated after questioning whether senior airport officials violated the authority's ethics policy, trading on their positions to secure favors from airlines. Hernandez, who...