More than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on applications to become U.S. citizens, a process that once typically took about six months but has stretched to more than two years in some places. Continue reading →
{FD} Prosecution: California killing motivated by anti-gay hate
A Southern California man charged with the murder of a University of Pennsylvania student carried out the killing because the victim was gay, prosecutors said Thursday. Continue reading →
{FD} Obama, like Trump, grappled with family immigration
The Trump administration isn’t the first to grapple with the question of how to handle tens of thousands of immigrant families arriving on the U.S.-Mexico border. Continue reading →
{FD} Children arriving on border await fate in immigration courts
The little girl wearing pink party shoes topped with bows smiled from her seat in a Los Angeles immigration courtroom. Continue reading →
{FD} APNewsBreak: US launches bid to find citizenship cheaters
The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it. Continue reading →
{FD} California fight over homeless camp faces key day in court
Southern California officials and homeless advocates have sparred for months over the fate of hundreds of homeless people living in tents on a bike trail that winds along a riverbed to the Pacific Ocean. Continue reading →
{FD} Deputies move to clear big California homeless encampment
Southern California authorities on Monday went tent to tent telling the homeless living in a 2-mile-long (3.2-kilometer-long) encampment that the large riverbed encampment some have called home for years is being closed down. Continue reading →
{FD} Authorities: U Penn student stabbed more than 20 times
Authorities say a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student whose body was found buried in a shallow grave at a California park had been stabbed more than 20 times. Continue reading →
{FD} California man faces life sentence for killing 8 in salon
A California man faces life in prison at his sentencing Friday for killing his ex-wife and seven others in a shooting rampage at the hair salon where she worked. Continue reading →
{FD} Anaheim struggles with growing homeless crisis at river camp
The row of tents and tarps stretches two miles along the parched riverbed and houses hundreds of homeless. Continue reading →
Judge weighs removing death penalty for mass killer
A California judge is weighing whether a convicted mass killer should be spared the death penalty because of a long-running scandal over authorities’ use of jailhouse informants. Continue reading →
