Shaylee Mejia with her little brother. The Los Angeles County medical examiner has ruled a 16-year-old girl’s death from blunt force head trauma an accident, raising questions from her family about how thorough and conclusive officials have been with the case. While finding the manner of death an accident doesn’t automatically close a case, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles …
On Dec. 13, after a long day of cleaning motel rooms as a housekeeper, Maria Juarez found her 16-year-old daughter at their South Los Angeles home trembling and sweating. Months later, Shaylee was targeted again at Manual Arts, her mother said, a fight that she believes led to her daughter’s untimely death. The Los Angeles County medical examiner this weekend …
EL PASO, Texas — Along the U.S. southern border, two cities — El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico — prepared Sunday for a surge of as many as 5,000 new migrants a day as pandemic-era immigration restrictions expire this week, setting in motion plans for emergency housing, food and other essentials. El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego told …
YUMA, Ariz. — Prosecutors are seeking a one-year prison sentence for a school board member in southern Arizona for illegally collecting four early ballots during the 2020 primary election. Authorities say Fuentes and Juarez participated in “ballot harvesting.” That’s a practice once used by both political parties to boost turnout but was made illegal by a 2016 state law that …
