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The shooting death of a Denver police officer is sparking a fight over immigration reform. The suspect, Raul Garcia-Gomez was in the United States illegally at the time Detective Donald Young was killed. That has stoked the debate on immigration and whether Denver has become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants. On Monday a group that wants to reform immigration laws held a rally at the City and County Building. They believe the door should be shut tight to illegal immigrants. They insist that if Garcia-Gomez had been turned over to immigration authorities when stopped on traffic offenses, Young might be...

On Saturday, May 12th, a contingent of Traditional Catholics in San Antonio, TX perform their annual “Pilgrimage along the Mission Trail” to celebrate and remember the sacrifice and service of the original Catholic Missionaries that pioneered the Catholic Church in Texas. The near 7 mile walk starts at Mission Concepcion and end at Mission Espada. At each mission, the group would stop and say a certain devotion, whether it be the Stations of the Cross, the Rosary, or the Litany of St. Joseph. Sounds harmless, especially since the Missions received thousands of visitors a year, from all faiths, right? Wrong....

THREE MURDER SUSPECTS CAUGHT IN MEXICO By: KENNETH DEAN, Staff Writer January 28, 2005 Captured in Mexico, three suspects sought in two different murders in Tyler now sit in a Mexican prison, awaiting extradition to face a Smith County jury. Smith County District Attorney Matt Bingham announced the captures of Hersain Gomez, Susana Arroyo and her brother Saul Arroyo at a Friday press conference, where he was joined by federal and local law enforcement officers. "The district attorney's office, the Tyler Police Department and the FBI have been actively working with the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs to...

This is my first post so I hope I got it right. This is breaking here in San Anonio. A single engine plane has been forced down at Stenson Field south of San Antonio. Homeland Security, DPS and SAPD are on the scene. They are waiting for a Chinese tranlator but they have Chinese illegals in custody and said that the pilot was someone Homeland Security has been looking for. I'll post more as it comes available.

January 14, 2005 — Wheaton is rallying around their hometown hero, Sgt. Joel Gomez, who was paralyzed in the War with Iraq. The community is raising money so that Sgt. Gomez and his family can build a more accessible home. Gomez was injured last March when the Bradley fighting vehicle he was in rolled off and cliff and dropped 200 feet into the Tigris River at bag dad. Several dignitaries attended a fundraiser at the Wheaton Grand Theater, including Henry Hyde and the lieutenant governor. During the fundraiser, Wheaton also paid tribute to Nick Larson, a Wheaton Marine killed in...

Pope John Paul II this morning named Jose Horacio Gomez, 53, the Auxiliary Bishop of Denver, as the new Archbishop of San Antonio, succeeding Patrick Flores. The Pope also accepted the resignation of Flores, who turned 75 this past summer and has been looking forward to retirement. The Archdiocese said it was 'thrilled' with the appointment. "Archbishop Designate Gomez spent time here and in Houston and he knows the people, and we're very excited," Archdiocesan spokesman Pat Rodgers said today. Gomez, who turned 52 last Sunday, was born in Monterrey Mexico and ordained a priest in 1978 in Navarre Spain....

Now that Father Bill and Mother Glyn Melnyk have done the right thing, it's time for the ECUSA's Office of Women's Ministries to do so as well. The fiction that the only problem with posting a Druid liturgy on the OWM Web site was a possible copyright violation isn't exactly passing muster with at least one Anglican archbishop: A fresh crisis has broken out in the Anglican Communion after the American Church published a liturgy for blessing divorce and a "women’s eucharist" promoting the worship of pagan deities. One of the Communion's leading figures, the West Indian Primate, Archbishop Drexel...

Pepper Gomez, a legend in Bay Area wrestling and one of the sport's most popular figures during its Golden Age, has died. He was 77. Gomez, who lived on Central Avenue, passed away Thursday morning at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland. During the 1960s, thousands of wrestling fans sat down in their living rooms Friday nights to watch Gomez take on opponents like Killer Kowalski, Strangler Lewis and Whipper Watson on KTVU. ----------------- snip ----------------- Gomez began wrestling professionally in 1953 in Portland and Seattle before arriving nine years later in the Bay Area, where he raised his arms in triumph...

What You Don’t Know About John KerryChuck Noe, NewsMax.comTuesday, Jan. 20, 2004With his win in Iowa, Sen. John Kerry could be on his way to the White House. But most Americans are unaware of the real Kerry. Here are facts and quotations that reveal the character of the new Democrat leader. Denouncing America with ‘Hanoi’ Jane: Although Wesley Clark and others have attacked former front-runner Howard Dean as a draft-dodging ski bum, Kerry is far more complex than the simple war hero he portrays himself as. He became a celebrated organizer for one of America's most extreme appeasement groups, Vietnam...

An important but little-noticed Federal lawsuit is scheduled to go to court in February. Nearly six years four agents of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Investigation(BNI) filed a civil rights complaint in the US DIstrict Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit alleged that "certain persons in the State Department and the CIA" had obstructed an investigation of the Dominican narcotics cartel, which controlledmuch of the trade in cocaine and heroin along the eastern seaboard. There is also evidence that the Dominican narcotics cartel may have indirectly financed the terrorist network that carried out the first World Trade...