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SALT LAKE CITY -- We're learning even more about the man accused of shooting and killing a Millard County sheriff's deputy Tuesday. In addition to numerous drug convictions, Roberto Roman's background also includes the fact that he was deported from the United States in 1998. Roman legally entered the United States in 1990, only to be deported eight years later following felony drug convictions. Since then, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says Roman has been arrested twice for illegally re-entering the United States and federally prosecuted once for the same offense. Still, Roman didn't seem to be hiding. A simple...

..Authorities in Imperial County said Tuesday they will not press charges against two activists who swam across the All-American Canal to protest the drowning deaths of hundreds of illegal immigrants in the waterway. John Hunter, the brother of a prominent former congressman, and John Carlos Frey, a Los Angeles filmmaker, were facing charges of illegally entering the All-American Canal in an act of civil disobedience. Last month, the two men swam across the canal, which carries water from the Colorado River to San Diego County, to string safety buoys that illegal immigrants could use to cross the water safely... Authorities...