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AN Adelaide family has made a personal appeal to US President Barack Obama to release their daughter from a prison where she is serving time for stealing food stamps from the US Government. The single mother of two young has spent the past year in jail after the FBI arrested her for using a false social security number to try and obtain food stamps so she could feed her two young daughters. Louise Early's family, in Adelaide's south, say she was homeless and driven to desperation after her seven-year marriage to Eugene Early, a US marine, broke down and he...

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - A Spring Valley woman pleaded guilty Friday to taking part in a multi-year scheme to falsify medical certifications while working as an advocate for immigrants seeking help in obtaining U.S. citizenship or government benefits. Nawal Talia, 57, admitted during a hearing in federal court in San Diego that she recruited patients for National City psychologist Roberto Velasquez, who was sentenced earlier this year to 21 months in prison and ordered to repay more than $1.5 million to the Social Security Administration in the largest single restitution order in the agency's history. As part of her job,...