Thursday, September 09, 2010
Across America
AN August 20, 2010 official memo by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Asst. Secretary John Morton will prevent certain aliens from being subjected to removal proceedings. The rationale: "to avoid a major inefficiency in present practice and unnecessary delay and expenditure of resources… As a matter of prosecutorial discretion and to promote the efficient use of government resources, I (Morton) hereby issue new ICE policy to govern the handling of removal proceedings involvin...
FRANZ Schurmann, the foremost scholar of communist China during the Cold War, an early opponent of the U.S. war in Indochina, and the co-founder of Pacific News Service (which later became New America Media), died at his home in San Francisco on Aug. 20. The cause was advanced Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. He was 84. Schurmann taught history and sociology at UC Berkeley for 38 years. Nevertheless, he chafed against the confines of the academy, and preferred to describe himself as ...
CADWELL, Idaho - A Filipino woman with family ties in Chicago was shot and killed Sunday evening in Caldwell, following a reported dispute with her estranged husband.
Caldwell is approximately 45 minutes west of Idaho’s state capitol of Boise.
Chris Allen Stone has been charged with second degree murder after allegedly shooting Florence Madriñan-Stone twice in the head, according to a statement by Canyon County Prosecuting Attorney John T. Bujak.
On Sunday evening, Sheriff depu...
WASHINGTON—The US government has issued new rules aimed at halting the deportation of undocumented migrants who are in the process of legalizing their immigration status, according to a memo AFP obtained Thursday.
The measure could affect tens of thousands of people in the United States who have close relatives who are citizens or permanent residents and have filed paperwork to sponsor the stay of the migrants in the United States.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) m...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — US home sales are plunging despite rock-bottom mortgage rates as high unemployment prevents people from buying houses and threatens to curtail economy recovery. Existing-home sales plunged for the third straight month by a whopping 27.2 percent in July to levels unseen in more than a decade, an industry group said August 24. Sales of single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums dropped to 3.83 million units from 5.26 million units in June, said the National Associatio...
MARCELINO Adraneda enjoyed walking around his neighborhood on West Kingsbridge Road in Bronx, New York, according to his family. But a minivan driver's illegal U-turn that sent a livery car flying into a crowded Bronx bus stop last week, ended Adraneda's joyful days. The 76-year-old great-grandfather was killed. Six other people were injured, New York police said. Among the most seriously injured was a 40-year-old woman whose left foot was amputated, a 71-year-old woman whose right leg was crush...
Sealed bid proposals are accepted for the following work: Fire Protection Improvement Project 445-447 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94108 1. Bid documents including Plan(s) and Specification(s) for this project may be obtained by any prospective bidder, from the Philippine Center Management Board (PCMB), 5th Floor Suite 518 445-447 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94108, with a deposit of $125.00 (cashier's check payable to PCMB). Call PCMB Business Office at (415) 982-6153 or (650) 703-4580. ...
LOS ANGELES — Gay couples in California scrapped wedding plans August 17 after a court halted same-sex unions until the completion of an appeals process expected to end up in the US Supreme Court. A week after a landmark decision overturned a ban on gay marriage, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a motion for a stay of the order, effectively reinstating the ban. Further appeal proceedings are now scheduled to take place the week of December 6 in San Francisco. The ruling halted an...
WASHINGTON - Roughly one in five Americans wrongly says President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to two new US opinion polls out Thursday amid a furor over a planned mosque near New York's "Ground Zero."
And roughly 30 percent of Americans say followers of Islam should be barred from running for president or serving on the US Supreme Court, according to one of the surveys, published in Time magazine and available on Time.com.
The Time poll found 24 percent of respondents said they ...
MANILA, Philippines - A vehicular accident claimed the life of a 76-year-old Filipino and left six others injured last week in Bronx, New York, an online news provider reported.
The Wall Street Journal said the victim was Marcelino Adraneda. Adraneda died while being rushed to the hospital.
The accident happened shortly before 11 a.m. at the Kingsbridge intersection Tuesday last week.
The report said Adraneda was at the bus shelter with the other victims who were waiting for a BX 9 Metropol...
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