Texas State

Columbus, OH

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Jack Beavers

The hits just keep on coming for cartel drug smugglers along the Texas border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agents report another big methamphetamine bust on one of the 28 international crossing points into Texas from Mexico. The latest reported bust occurred Thursday, August 22, 2024 at the Progreso International Bridge.

Big Cartel Meth Bust @ Texas Border

In a new wrinkle on the human smuggling front, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) apprehended eight migrants who entered the state illegally after the private plane they were aboard landed in Port Lavaca.

Texas Border: Migrants by Planeload & Truckloads

(The Center Square) – Officers working through Texas’ border security mission, Operation Lone Star, continue to pursue human smugglers at the border, stopping them by air and after several day manhunts through the brush in tough terrain. They are also continuing to arrest violent gang members. In one...

Texas OLS pursues smugglers by air, arresting them after several day manhunts

NewsNation

The governor said reducing illegal crossings in Texas isn't enough as people will cross in other states.

Texas Gov. Abbott: Goal is zero illegal border crossings

The Independent

 A smuggler was caught trying to move more than $5m worth of meth into California last week by disguising the drugs as watermelons. US Customs and Border Patrol announced on Tuesday that agents intercepted a smuggler on Friday during a secondary inspection at the Otay Mesa Commercial Facility at the Otay Mesa crossing. The incident began when a 29-year-old man driving a truck pulled up to the border. When asked what the man was hauling, the said they were watermelons. The CBP agents sent him for a secondary inspection. The watermelons were unloaded from the truck for further inspection....

$5m of meth disguised as watermelons seized at border

Maine State

Sagadahoc County, ME

Lewiston, ME

The Maine Monitor

Editor’s note: This story contains references to suicide. When a bill to strengthen Maine’s yellow flag law went into effect earlier this month, Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said he felt a sense of relief.

Law enforcement officers can now get a warrant to take someone into protective custody

Los Angeles County, CA

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Herbie J Pilato

As Alfalfa in the classic Our Gang/Little Rascals comedic feature film shorts-turned-TV-series, former child star Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer brought to the screen his unique brand of humor, coupled with an unmelodic voice, freckles, and a protruding hair cowlick. The Gang/Rascals franchise was later rebooted on the big screen with a cast of new young stars.

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer: A Tragic Child Star Story of a Dog, a Few Dollars, and a Deadly Altercation

Coffee County, GA

Daily Coffee Press

Last week, two individuals from Coffee County were charged with trafficking methamphetamine following a search at a residence on Willacoochee Highway. On August 13, detectives with the Coffee County Drug Unit conducted an operation involving Charles Black, which led to a search of his residence on Willacoochee Highway. According to the report, Black left his residence before the warrant was served and was subsequently detained.

Two Charged with Trafficking Methamphetamine After Search in Coffee County

Aurora, CO

David Heitz

What exactly happened at a large gathering of migrants in Aurora last Sunday depends on who you talk to. And a showdown is imminent between City Council member Danielle Jurinsky and the Aurora Police Department, according to Jurinsky.

Migrant mayhem in Aurora? Showdown imminent between PD, council member Jurinsky

Starr County, TX

Latin Times

Florentino Luera, a landowner in Starr County, Texas, has filed a lawsuit against the federal government, claiming it's trying to take his property for new border wall construction. This marks the second time Luera has sued the government for the same reason, with a 2021 ruling saw the action reversed and his property given back to him.

A Texas landowner is suing CBP for the second time for trying to take his land to build border wall

Seattle, WA

SEATTLE - The head of business chambers' federation in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas was killed just hours after giving television interviews complaining about drug cartel extortion. Julio Almanza was shot to death outside his offices in the city of Matamoros, just across the border city of Brownsville, Texas. "We...

Mexican business leader is killed in border town after complaining about cartel extorsions on TV

Lukeville, AZ

BroBible

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Lukeville in Tuscon, Arizona recently made the largest singular fentanyl seizure in CBP history. The seizure resulted in the confiscation of approximately 4 million blue fentanyl pills weighing more than 1,000 pounds. The bust occurred when a 20-year-old Arizona man, who is a citizen […]
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Federal Agents Make Largest Fentanyl Seizure In Border Patrol History

New Mexico State

10 migrants were taken to shelters in Mexico after police found them aimlessly wandering along a highway close to the U.S. border. They had been released by kidnappers after a ransom was paid for them. The migrants are from Morocco and Sudan, and none of them spoke Spanish. They told...

Migrants found wandering in highway near the border after being tortured and held for ransom

Wyoming State

WyoFile

Don Hall is an avid snowmobiler, but instead of heading for the hills each winter in search of deep powder, he takes an older snowmachine to lower elevations nearer the snow line. There’s a reason the Riverton resident prefers the lower zones despite the rocks, fences and sage most riders avoid: That’s where the coyotes are.

Wyoming allows snowmobilers to run down wildlife. Despite global outrage, it may stay legal.

Douglas, GA

A local Walmart employee was recently arrested on a misdemeanor charge after allegedly stealing over $60 worth of merchandise from the store. Additionally, she faced a felony charge after officers discovered suspected methamphetamine in her locker during the arrest.

Douglas Walmart Employee Arrested for Methamphetamine Possession and Shoplifting

Arizona State

Doctors performed an emergency cesarean section after a fetal heartbeat anomaly was detected.

Newborn dies after mother apprehended crossing border

Fox News

An investigation is underway after two U.S. women with dual citizenship were found dead in an armed attack in Mexico, the attorney general's office in the state of Sonora said.

Two Arizona residents killed in armed attack on dangerous Mexican highway near southern border

Phoenix, AZ

Deseret News

The ocelot was listed as endangered in 1972 amid habitat loss due to human activity.

Video: Endangered species of wildcat found in Arizona for the first time in 50 years

Cheyenne, WY

WHITE MOUNTAIN—“That’s a lot of horses,” lamented Cheyenne resident Robyn Smith from a high-desert ridgeline. It wasn’t her first exasperated exclamation. “Argh, oh crap,” was her immediate reaction to learning a federal judge had given the Bureau of Land Management the OK to proceed with plans to fully remove two wild horse herds from the landscape in southwest Wyoming.

BLM wins two lawsuits, clearing way for elimination of two Wyoming wild horse herds

KIII 3News

NewsBreak

DPS says border crossings have dropped by 85 percent with Operation Lone Star

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DPS says border crossings have dropped by 85 percent with Operation Lone Star

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