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LAREDO, Texas – Two Texas National Guardsmen must serve at least three years in federal prison for helping smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico through a checkpoint. Clarence Hodge Jr. and Jerry Zuniga pleaded guilty last August to charges of conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants during 2007. A federal judge in …

CINCINNATI – A man accused of impregnating a 10-year-old girl should spend the rest of his life in prison, prosecutors say, even though rape charges don’t allow for such a long sentence. They plan to argue that pregnancy and childbirth for such a young girl is physical harm, the standard …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Money Talks The Democratic presidential nomination could be decided by the so-called “superdelegates.” Now one study is revealing that elected officials who serve in that capacity have received at least $890,000 in campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the …