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JERUSALEM — Israel reckoned with rising homegrown extremism Sunday as it arrested six Jewish suspects who are believed to have burned to death an Arab teenager in revenge for the killing of three Israeli teens. The arrests shocked those on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide — Palestinians because many had assumed Israel would never act against its own, and Israelis because there had been widespread doubt that Jews could have carried out such a heinous crime. Sunday’s action could help defuse what has been seen as a dangerous swelling of Palestinian anger, with violent protests in East Jerusalem and...

DUI plea - A murder suspect disclosed his illegal status in court last year, but officials never acted Authorities had clear reason to suspect Alejandro Emeterio Rivera Gamboa was in the United States illegally nine months before he was accused of slaying 15-year-old Dani Countryman. On Nov. 13, 2006, Rivera Gamboa pleaded guilty to two counts of drunken driving. He also disclosed that he was not a U.S. citizen and signed a plea agreement that read, in part: "I understand that if I am not a citizen of the United States, a criminal conviction could cause me to be deported,...