Mexican comedian Leopoldo Roberto Garcia Pelaez Benitez, who performed as “Polo Polo,” died on Monday, his family announced.
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At least 14 people died in a brazen armed assault on a prison in the Mexican border city of Juarez on Sunday, officials said.
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Riverside County Superior Court Judge Jerry Yang scheduled a sentencing hearing for Jan. 9 at the Riverside Hall of Justice and ordered Martinez held without bail at the nearby Robert Presley Jail.
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The annual pilgrimage marks the day the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, a young Mexican peasant, in 1531.
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Luis Alfonso Martinez, 43, of La Quinta, is charged with two counts each of lewd acts on a minor and oral copulation of a child under 10 years old, as well as one count each of committing multiple lewd acts on an underage victim and distributing explicit material to a minor.
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The killing of Shanquella Robinson is being investigated as a femicide, an unfamiliar term for many in the United States as this gender-motivated crime has not been defined by US legislation despite being a global issue.
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“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” from Alejandro González Iñárritu is a stirring and profound examination of a man having an existential crisis. The word itself is a Buddhist term that means the plane between death and reincarnation. That man is played by Daniel Giménez Cacho and his Ximena Lamadrid stars as his daughter.
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The federal government announced Tuesday the Colorado River will operate in a Tier 2 shortage condition for the first time starting in January as the West’s historic drought has taken a severe toll on Lake Mead.
