Imperial News

Posted October 17, 2009, 11:56 a.m. Consuelo isna t her real name. Where I used to live, the neighbors on one side lived in a small two bedroom, the front half of a duplex, then moved to the three bedroom house on the other side.

Cecilia Cid-Contreras remembers waking up underwater, unable to breathe. A migrant smuggler had just plunged a GMC Suburban packed with about 20 suspected illegal immigrants into a canal, including Cid-Contreras' parents and 10-year-old brother.

Veterans from across Riverside and Imperial counties on Saturday offered state lawmakers ideas on how to better address the needs of those who have served.

Commander Ron Meredith says the first call came from the Owl Caf on Main Street in El Centro.

Barrio Logan?" says Dave. "I tell you, soon there won't be a Barrio Logan. It'll be swallowed up by downtown." Dave and Tennessee and I stand in the dark on National Avenue, by 16th Street, right where the barrio begins.

No one accuses William T. Vollmann of taking shortcuts. The Sacramento writer's latest nonfiction release, "Imperial," was reported over 10 years, spans several centuries of history and includes hundreds of interviews.

For The Associated Press= The Mid-Atlantic was expected to continue to see messy weather Friday as a storm system just off the New Jersey coast continued to spin in place.

Law enforcement agencies in Imperial County can now check the immigration status of people they arrest when fingerprints are taken during booking.

Mobile strip shows, women flashing their breasts and drunken guys riding nude on motorcycles isn't what the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had in mind when it envisioned "multiple uses" for public land.

Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today that agents from his office have once again "successfully disrupted" operations of the dangerous Sinaloa drug cartel, seizing more than $1.1 million in U.S. currency and arresting six individuals who attempted to purchase approximately 160 pounds of cocaine this week.

IMPERIAL, Calif. -- The majority of drugs entering the United States is smuggled through a 72-mile stretch of desert along the border of California and Baja California, which earned it the nickname Cocaine Corridor in the 1990s, reports La Opinion.

Smugglers continue to get more creative in the ways they sneak drugs - and people - into the country.

IMPERIAL, Calif. - California Attorney General Jerry Brown says 16 people have been indicted in a drug-smuggling probe that netted hundreds of pounds of cocaine and marijuana and nearly $2 million in cash.

A multicounty pursuit that led to a brief standoff between a suspected car thief and officers from several police departments ended with an arrest on the 91 freeway at Imperial Highway early this morning.

Q. Yeah! The Imperial Highway overpass is finally open, but the signage is confusing.

Researchers have discovered more than a dozen small faults beneath the Salton Sea, providing greater understanding of the geothermal activity at the sea's southern end and a possible future trigger for the "Big One," a major earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault that scientists say is long overdue.

Holy Rosary Theatre Group continues "The Wizard of Oz" at 7:30 today at Fr. Vicente Dominican Hall, 1313 A St.

A San Diegan might be tempted to pick up William Vollmann's new 1,306 page book, "Imperial," and lift an eyebrow - or two.

A San Diegan might be tempted to pick up William Vollmann's new 1,306 page book, "Imperial," and lift an eyebrow - or two.

Prolific author William T. Vollmann talks about popularity, prostitution, and his new book, Imperial .