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A Mexican national previously deported a number of times and convicted on weapon and motor vehicle charges has been indicted ...

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas have filed 251 new immigration-related criminal cases, targeting human smugglers and illegal aliens with past convictions, according to ...

Researchers at MBARI, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, have been exploring this hidden world for years. Using ...

A head-on collision in Barrie on Thursday evening resulted in two people being hospitalized, and one earning an impaired ...