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Two people were arrested Sunday morning by the Racine County Sheriff’s deputies for driving well in excess of the speed limit through the Interstate 94 construction zone. At 8:55 a.m., a deputy clocked a vehicle traveling 110 mph in a posted 60 mph construction zone in the northbound lane on I-94 in the Village of Raymond. The deputy spoke with the driver — 41-year-old Jose L. Mendoza of Racine — about his speed, and allegedly smelled the odor of intoxicants coming from Mendoza. Mendoza reportedly refused to perform field sobriety tests and was arrested and cited for speeding. Suggested charges...

Cleared in immigrants’ deaths EDINBURG — A jury on Tuesday took four hours to find the Rio Grande Sugar Growers Inc. not guilty in a case that left six illegal immigrants dead during a routine harvest. Relatives of three of the six people from Mexico and Guatemala killed in the field near Raymondville on March 24, 2003, were suing the sugar growers for $20 million in damages. They claimed the co-op was negligent in their harvesting methods, knowing immigrants used the tall sugar stalks to hide. The Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers Inc. is a co-op of about 130 farmers...