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Famed architect gets 6 months for drug smuggling

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - A highly acclaimed architect was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for trying to enter the U.S. with nearly 13 pounds of cocaine hidden in his minivan's battery. A federal judge ordered the unusually light punishment after Eugenio

NTSB: singer Rivera dead in Mexican plane crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By PORFIRIO IBARRA and GALIA GARCIA-PALAFOXAssociated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - U.S. authorities confirmed Monday that Jenni Rivera, a U.S.-born singer whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles made her a Mexican-American superstar, was killed in a plane crash in

McAfee wants to return to US, 'normal life'

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 10th

By By MARK STEVENSONAssociated Press BACALAR, Mexico (AP) - Software company founder John McAfee said Sunday he wants to return to the United States and "settle down to whatever normal life" he can. In a live-stream Internet broadcast from the Guatemalan detention center where he is fighting a

Singer feared dead in Mexican plane crash

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By PORFIRO IBARRA and GALIA GARCIA-PALAFOXAssociated Press MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) - The wreckage of a small plane believed to be carrying Jenni Rivera, the U.S-born singer whose soulful voice and unfettered discussion of a series of personal travails made her a Mexican-American superstar,

Tijuana architect was an unlikely drug courier

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 9th

By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - Eugenio Velazquez doesn't fit the mold of the down-on-his luck, uneducated, underemployed courier who ferries drugs to the U.S. for Mexican drug cartels. The dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico belongs to Tijuana's elite, equally at

Booze, smokes on agenda for quirky gov't group

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 8th

By By DANIEL WAGNERAP Business Writer BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) - Deep in a secure laboratory just outside Washington sits the federal government's heaviest smoker. It is a half-ton hulk of a machine, all brushed aluminum and gasping smoke holes, like a retrofit of equipment used on an

Autopsy: Border Patrol agent fired gun 10 times

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 7th

By By ELLIOT SPAGATAssociated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Border Patrol agent in Southern California who shot and killed a mother of five after she hit him with her vehicle fired his gun 10 times from the hood of her car as he tried to get the woman to stop, according to an autopsy report released

Port strike could be prelude for dockworker talks

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By MICHAEL R. BLOODAssociated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The end of one labor crisis at the nation's busiest port complex could be a prelude to another. The resolution of an eight-day walk-off by clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors that stalled billions of dollars of

As pot goes proper, a history of weed

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By GENE JOHNSONAssociated Press SEATTLE (AP) - The grass is no greener. But, finally, it's legal - at least somewhere in America. It's been a long, strange trip for marijuana. Washington state and Colorado voted to legalize and regulate its recreational use last month. But before

Gypsies take curious route through US to asylum

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on December 6th

By By WILSON RING and ROB GILLIESAssociated Press DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) - A minivan with California license plates and a dozen passengers zipped across the border between Vermont and Quebec in October, heading north in a southbound lane unblocked by traffic. Border agents could only watch as