Free Republic

Prominent Hispanic elected officials, including the mayor of Los Angeles and California's lieutenant governor, have received threats in the midst of a heated national debate over immigration policy, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Monday. Schwarzenegger told reporters about the threats against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, both Democrats, during a news conference in his office Monday. "There's something very important that I need to speak to my fellow Californians about," he said. "It has come to my attention that our Lieutenant Gov. Bustamante and our Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa and other elected officials of Mexican heritage have received...

Dyer, IN - A man whose wife is charged with fatally beating their two young sons with a ten-pound weight says they were a normal, happy family until she suffered a miscarriage about two years ago. Robert Lopez and other family members and neighbors say Magdalena Lopez had been suffering from mental illness in recent months before nine-year-old Antonio Lopez and two-year-old Erik Lopez were found dead Tuesday night in the family's home. Lake County prosecutors have charged 30-year-old Magdalena Lopez with two counts of murder. A police report said that as officers approached the house in the suburban town...

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Police will conduct an internal investigation into a raid at a home that was searched for marijuana because of a high electricity bill. No drugs were found. Police Chief Thomas Zoll said Tuesday the department will review procedures that led to the March 19 to ensure similar incidents don't occur again. Officers raided the home of Dina Dagy and her family because records indicated the family used three times more electricity than their neighbors. Dagy attributed her high power bill to her three children, four ceiling fans, three computers, two to three daily loads of laundry and...