Sandra Avila Beltran, a Mexican woman known as the "drug cartel queen" has pleaded guilty in Miami to charges arising from a major cocaine trafficking case. Beltran pleaded guilty Tuesday to being an accessory after the fact in an organization that included Juan Diego Espinosa Ramirez, a former liaison between Mexico's Sinaloa cartel and Colombia's Norte Valle cartel.
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was read his constitutional rights sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating, according to a U.S. law enforcement source and four officials of both political parties briefed on the interrogation.
Edward de Grazia, a lawyer known for defending literary icons in their battles against censorship, particularly in the 1950s and '60s, has died. De Grazia helped to defeat government bans on well-known and censored books.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit to California educators over getting adequate English language instruction. State and federal law are requiring schools to teach non-English speakers the language, but California, according to the suit, is not offering instruction to nearly 20,000 students. The suit also alleges that the lack of instruction meant that some children were held back a grade or forced to live with low proficiency scores because of a language barrier.
