LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former University of Southern California professor who's accused of sex crimes involving two children has been deported to the United States after a Mexican citizen recognized his picture in the newspaper and informed the U.S. Embassy, federal authorities said Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigrant advocates sued the federal government Wednesday alleging immigration agents are filing paperwork to keep arrestees in custody before investigating whether they're in the country illegally.

The Catholic diocese serving parishes from Lodi to Turlock has spent about $15 million in judgments, settlements and legal costs regarding clergy abuse cases by priests and former priests, according to Bishop Stephen Blaire.

This week’s $1.75 million settlement with a former parishioner who says he was sexually abused by defrocked priest Oliver O’Grady has Stockton Diocese officials seriously considering bankruptcy.

The Diocese of Stockton announced Wednesday that it has reached a $1.75 million negotiated settlement with attorneys for a man who was a victim of sexual abuse by notorious pedophile priest Oliver O’Grady in the 1980s. The abuse occurred in Stockton, but Sacred Heart Parish in Turlock also was named as a defendant, leading to the filing of the lawsuit in Stanislaus County.

(StatePoint)  Es verano, y para los niños esto significa que es temporada de deportes, natación, ciclismo y picnics. Y mientras el tiempo que pasan activos al aire libre es saludable y divertido, los expertos señalan que es esencial que los padres y los niños repasen algunos consejos de seguridad para la temporada.

(BPT) - En la medida que se acerca el verano, muchos padres se preocupan por el “retroceso en el aprendizaje”, y con toda razón. Según la Asociación Nacional de Aprendizaje de Verano (National Summer Learning Association) los estudiantes que no participan en actividades enriquecedoras y didácticas durante las vacaciones de verano, pueden perder cerca del 22 por ciento de los conocimientos y destrezas obtenidos durante el curso escolar ya concluido.

(BPT) - Cada verano el agua nos invita a entrar y divertirnos, ya sea con el viento que agita nuestros cabellos, el sonido de un carrete o la emoción de los deportes acuáticos. Y a muchos les sorprenderá saber que la navegación es un pasatiempo accesible y activo cercano a casa, lo cual facilita la planificación de un día sobre las olas.

(BPT) - Planning and organizing a large and complex special event can quickly overwhelm a bride and groom-to-be, especially if the couple has no previous experience or training in large event organization. In addition to all the details of the invite list, the location for all activities for the big day and the special intimate details of wedding party gifts, getting to the big day without breaking the bank might seem impossible.

A true politician takes advantage of every situation to advance their career, and some are already doing so; taking guns from God-fearing people seems to them to be fair in their minds. To Washington, this seems to be the solution to all the problems of the world — remove the guns from law-abiding people. Criminals have guns, and have more rights than people living within the law.

(BPT) - Obsequiar una magnífica cesta de regalos es como ofrecerle un bufete de regalos a su ser querido, y cuando se abre una cesta bien hecha, se produce un momento mágico. Más allá de las hermosas decoraciones, hay misterios encantadores que emergen uno a uno para deleite del destinatario.

Our nation is faced with continuous international threats, a huge debt, a growing and splintered population, unemployment, endless and costly entitlement programs and a very competitive world. These and other issues are among seven which I consider to be our greatest:

Two Election Day endorsements: for United States Senator, Elizabeth Emken; for president, Mitt Romney.

Last week, 10 Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents filed a lawsuit in a Dallas federal court against their superiors, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and ICE director John Morton.

Legislators on the Democrats' side in Sacramento should take a urine test. Something is causing them to ask the governor to sign idiotic legislation — a total waste of needed money. With an approval rating of just above zero, you would think they would be trying to improve instead of proving the people right.

No one is surprised but millions of Americans are disappointed and angry. The estimated number of work permits to be issued to alien DREAMers now stands at 2 million.

Remember Willie Horton? In 1986, Horton was a convicted felon serving life without parole. With his two accomplices, Horton stabbed a 17-year-old gas station attendant multiple times and stuffed his corpse into a trash can. But while incarcerated, Horton received a "weekend pass" as part of a furlough program overseen by then-Massachusetts Governor and future Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.

Many headlines about the Supreme Court decision on Arizona S.B. 1070 indicate that the justices cut the bill back to its bare bones. In June 2010, Arizona passed legislation that allows law enforcement officers to inquire about immigration status when an individual is lawfully detained and suspected to be illegally present. But this week's news stories mislead. The law's key provision, proof of status, remains.

Concerning President Obama's recent executive order creating amnesty for certain illegal aliens: Just how compassionate is it to split families by keeping the kids and deporting the parents?

Americans who think that the Constitution is the nation's highest law got a rude awakening last week. As it turns out, an even loftier lawmaking level governs the land: President Barack Obama's personal opinion. Laws Obama doesn't like, like those that enforce immigration, he ignores.

Regarding the column by Wade Heath in the April 5 edition of the Lodi News-Sentinel, I would like to point out the glaring inaccuracy in his opening paragraph.

A 25-year-old man who says that convicted pedophile Oliver O'Grady sexually molested him in 1992 has sued O'Grady and the Stockton Diocese.

Recently, another story on racial inequality made headline news: "In Lodi Unified School District, black students are being expelled at a higher rate than non-black students."

The Department of Homeland Security posted in an announcement online on Monday that they would be issuing "unlawful presence waivers" to illegal immigrants in order to stop them from being deported. The catch is that the illegal aliens will need to prove they have a family member who is a legal American citizen in order to qualify for the waiver.

The Obama administration has once again laid out the welcome mat for illegal aliens. Last week's White House announcement that aliens will have a "public advocate" is the latest in a long series of White House actions to comfort aliens. In June, the Department of Homeland Security began the unconstitutional process of pardoning 300,000 deportable aliens. Now, those who remain and have not yet been pardoned have an official, taxpayer-funded, go-to administration advocate.