PEABODY, Massachusetts _ A woman says an airport security officer in Las Vegas confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be explosive. Rebecca Hains tells WCVB-TV the Transportation Security Administration agent took her cupcake, telling her its frosting was “gel-like” enough to constitute a security risk. The TSA has restrictions [...]

Wildrick Guerrier (34-years-old) became severely ill while being held at a police station as is customary for deportees to Haiti.

President Obama has caught on to this reality and begun challenging Americans to think about immigration as an engine for innovation and growth.

Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen living in Corvallis, was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction

Stephen Marley offers house as collateral for reggae star Buju Banton’s bond.

Advocates of non-citizen servicemen and women are trying to change the policy and laws on deporting veterans.

Marley’s probation calls for her to undergo random drug tests and stay away from drug users.

The workers, mainly from the Philippines, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, paid thousands of dollars to have Giant Labor bring them to the U.S.

The Yes on 19 campaign says it has bought $200,000 worth of airtime in Los Angeles to run the ad released Monday.

DALLAS  _ Singer Erykah Badu has paid a $500 fine and must serve six months of probation after stripping in Dallas for a music video done at Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot in 1963. Badu, who’s from Dallas, got out of a vehicle March 13 and did a walking striptease [...]

Drawing a Clear Line Between Federal and State Immigration Authority. The US Department has requested a preliminary injunction to delay enactment of the law, arguing that the law’s operation will cause “irreparable harm.”

Andre Birotte is the first black U.S. Attorney to the post, which makes him the top federal attorney in the Central District of the U.S. Department of Justice.

A number of factors combined to produce the law: a heavily conservative Legislature, the ascent of a Republican governor, anger over the federal government’s failure to secure the border, and growing anxiety over crime that reached a fever pitch last month with the slaying of an Arizona rancher, apparently by an illegal immigrant.

The community’s anger with the judge was vocal and passionate. But it probably would have faded away as just another tragic story in a tough-luck town along the freeway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.