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What to know about ICE immigrant arrests in Arizona
ICE is arresting immigrants in Arizona using new tactics, including arrests outside courtrooms after case dismissals. ICE is conducting targeted home arrests, sometimes with excessive force, and increasing 287(g) agreements with local police. A...

Dino museum makes find deep under own parking lot
DENVER -- A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone find closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own parking lot. It came from a hole drilled more than 750 feet (230 meters) deep to study geothermal heating...

Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Recognized with 2025 NAfME Excellence in Advocacy Award
The National Association for Music Education (NAfME) honored the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association with the 2025 NAfME Excellence in Advocacy Award in recognition of their efforts advocating for music education. NAfME President and Board...
Sister Sheila Anne Smith
Sister Sheila Anne Smith, 81, an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph, died Saturday, July 5, 2025, at Mount Saint Joseph, in her 63rd year of religious life. She was a native of Butler, Pa., but raised in Farmington, N.M. Sister Sheila Anne...

2025 Summer Vacation Bible School Reimagined At United Church Of Los Alamos
UNITED CHURCH NEWS RELEASE The community is invited to learn about Juneteenth and the mandate from the prophet Micah to “seek justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God.” Summer VBS is being reimagined at the United Church on Canyon Road as...
Friends Of History First Wednesday Presentation: Who Are The Pueblos? By Cultural Educator Jon Ghahate July 2
Acoma Pueblo. Courtesy/Jon Ghahate Friends of History of New Mexico History Museum News: The Friends of History will present on July 2 its first Wednesday presentation, “Who Are the Pueblos? The History and Legacy of the Ancient-to-Contemporary...
Summer VBS Reimagined At United Church Of Los Alamos
United Church News: The community is invited to learn about Juneteenth and the mandate from the prophet Micah to “seek justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God.” Summer VBS is being reimagined at the United Church on Canyon Road as Summer...

Being brown in Trump’s America is enough to get you arrested by ICE
A growing number of U.S. citizens—many of them Latino—say they’ve been detained by immigration agents in what critics are calling blatant racial profiling and overzealous policing. Of course, citizens aren’t supposed to be arrested or detained...

A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'
DENVER – A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone find closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own parking lot. It came from a hole drilled more than 750 feet (230 meters) deep to study geothermal heating...

In Kerr County, a fleet of volunteers brings hot meals to hard-hit neighborhoods
Citywest Church sits between the towns of Kerrville and Ingram. In the days since devastating flash floods tore through the region, this house of worship has been transformed into a pop-up food distribution site, organized by Virginia-based...

Las Vegas video producer tops three million views on his YouTube channel
Video producer, singer-songwriter Jim Terr recently surpassed three million views on his main YouTube channel, the "Jaimejaime" channel. (www.youtube.com/@jaimejaimeChannel). Terr started his YouTube channel in 2006 with such videos as "Santa Fe...

Alexandr Wang educational qualifications: How an MIT dropout built a $29 billion AI empire
In the quiet scientific corridors of Los Alamos, New Mexico—home to some of the world’s top physicists—Alexandr Wang was born into brilliance. His parents, both Chinese immigrants and nuclear physicists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, were...

An open letter to the "Gang of Eight" on immigration reform
By Desmond McGrath March 10, 2013 John McCain (R-AZ.), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dick Durbin (D-IL.), Marco Rubio (R-FL.), Bob Menendez (D-NJ.), Jeff Flake (R-AZ.), Michael Bennet (D-CO.) Re: An open letter to the "Gang of...

Will OSHA set federal heat standards to protect workers from overheating deaths?
With speculation that summer 2025 will continue to break nationwide heat records, most outdoor workers have little protections in place to prevent heat-related illness, injury, or death on the job. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration...

Driver dies after being pinned in Turlock crash, going into cardiac arrest, officials say
Driver dies after being pinned in Turlock crash, going into cardiac arrest, officials say THIS IS KCRA THREE NEWS AT FIVE. ANOTHER CLOSURE PLANNED ON HIGHWAY 50 FOR THIS WEEKEND. ONLY THIS ONE WAS NOT PLANNED. AND WE WILL SHOW YOU WHAT’S GOING ON...

A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'
DENVER (AP) — A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own parking lot. It came from a hole drilled more than 750 feet (230 meters) deep to study...

Miyares Leads Coalition of 52 AGs to Protect Veterans’ Education Benefits
Saturday, June 14, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares led a bipartisan coalition of 51 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, standing in support with military veterans and...

AG Nessel joins multistate effort to protect school mental health funding
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a multistate coalition in filing an amicus brief supporting schools nationwide that are facing the potential loss of critical federal funding for mental health services. The...
Trump tax bill supercharges Coast Guard’s Arctic icebreaker fleet
On Thursday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes breaks down a part of the recent tax bill that adds new ships to the Coast Guard's fleet in the Northwest Passage, and the broader context in that region...

Armed Mexican national in Tyler sentenced for firearms violation
Posted/updated on: July 10, 2025 at 3:50 pm TYLER – A Mexican national has been sentenced for being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm in the Eastern District of Texas, according to a press release from the office of Acting U.S. Attorney...