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'Virtual kidnappers' target immigrant families
PHOENIX - Families of illegal immigrants in Arizona are increasingly being targeted by an extortion scam in which criminals falsely claim to have kidnapped their loved ones as the immigrants tried to sneak across the U.S. border with Mexico.
Nations:U.S. Mexico Source:(AP)
2008-09-24
Organized crime takes control in parts of Mexico
MORELIA, Mexico -- As helicopters circled overhead, trucks carrying Mexican army troops lurched through the colonial streets of this provincial capital to a central plaza, where a grenade had been discovered near the cathedral.
Nations:Mexico People:Jose Reyes Felipe Calderon Source:(McClatchy)
2008-09-14
Flight attendant: Osteen's wife pushed co-worker
HOUSTON - The wife of evangelical pastor Joel Osteen got physical when her demands that a small spill on her seat be cleaned up were not immediately met, a flight attendant testified Thursday at a civil trial over the incident.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-08-07
SAfrica's Zuma in court for graft trial
PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (AFP) - South Africa's ruling party head Jacob Zuma, entered the dock Monday for a long-awaited graft trial which could make or break his chances to become the country's next president.
Nations:South Africa Source:(AFP)
2008-08-04
FBI: Agents foil bank robbery, rescue hostage
CHICAGO - FBI agents say a suburban Chicago bank employee just may have saved her fiance's life after he was abducted, bound, shot in the leg and hit in the feet with a wrench by ransom-seeking kidnappers.
Nations:U.S. Israel Source:(AP)
2008-07-12
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