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Salem police received a report Monday from a man who said his nephew confessed to killing his girlfriend, identified by prosecutors as 20-year-old Nayeli Nieves, of Salem. Advertisement According to a police report, 33-year-old Pablo Vicente, of Salem, said he killed Nieves in the Pope Street home they shared with their two children during a fight about whether she was cheating on him. According to a police report, Vicente choked Nieves and she lost consciousness. He said he did not call 911, he tried to perform CPR on her, but she died. The police report states that their children were...

A Casa Divided By Jenni Vinson Trejo July 8, 2006 The 2006 Presidential election in Mexico has come and gone. In March of this year, I wrote an editorial entitled, “The Why Of It All”, about how this election in Mexico was affecting America. We had a vested interest in watching out for who would be our neighbor’s next leader since one of the candidates, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is a staunch Communist. I asserted then that Lopez-Obrador is allied and supported by Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Fidel Castro of Cuba. Having Lopez-Obrador win the Presidency in Mexico could...

MINUTEMAN PROJECT Tonight's Rally -- 7:00pm Thurs, State Capitol, Richmond, VA DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 DAY 6 DAY 7 DAY 8 There was a great deal of confusion last night about getting a proper permit in Greensboro. For awhile, everyone thought the rally was cancelled. According to Lyman, talk show host Alan Handelman came to the rescue. On 101.1 FM he put out the word that the patriots had been denied a public venue because of a permit problem. Then, a furniture store owner changed his mind and would not allow them to...

A driver allegedly drunk and driving the wrong way faces vehicular homicide and aggravated DWI charges after a crash killed an 18-year-old woman. Deputies say Guadalupe Ortega, 23, was driving the wrong way early Sunday morning down State Road 313 near Fourth Street in Albuquerque, when Emily Bumken tried to make a legal turn off of Roy Street. Ortega’s pickup hit Bumken’s car, killing her instantly. Deputies say Ortega, a Mexican national, had no license. They’re waiting on blood tests to figure out how drunk he was.

MOSCOW, June 22 (RIA Novosti) - Mexican President Vicente Fox wants an early Christmas present from Russian President Vladimir Putin. He wants a pair of boots. "When I arrived in Moscow the day before yesterday, I was met by the guards of honor who represented three branches of the armed forces. My eye caught the wonderful boots they were wearing," Vicente Fox said at a news conference here Wednesday. He said he assumed the boots were typically worn by Russian Cossacks, the mobile Russian and Ukrainian military units famous for being the vanguards of exploration and conquest in all the...

I just heard a racist Mexican professor from UC RIVERSIDE on the Al Rantel show. I had to do this to keep from hurting my vocal chords from screaming too loudly. This is Mexico. We stole it through aggression. There should be no border. MIDI - CAMELOT -- choose Camelot Theme There is a land of mythical proportion Where all is muy bueno, yes indeed The gringos are the ones out in the fields They fill a need The gangs are in the streets and always fighting Emergency rooms, well, they are no more No one would listen to the...

MEXICO CITY - Anti-immigrant sentiment appears to be growing in the United States, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday, and he urged U.S. officials to act quickly to control movements such as the 950-member-strong Minuteman Project on the Mexico-Arizona border. Fox said he plans to push for U.S. immigration reform during a meeting with President Bush in Texas next week. He also said the two leaders, along with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin, likely will announce a plan to expand the scope of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexico's National Human Rights Commission recently issued a warning about several...