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No happy homecoming: Woman paroled after 23 years in prison for arson deported to Mexico. A clothing store owner who spent 23 years behind bars for a deadly arson fire after proclaiming her innocence was paroled from state prison and deported to Mexico on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actor Randy Quaid and his wife are crying foul over their arrests last year on a charge they failed to pay a California hotel bill, which they claim was the result of a series of mishaps and unfortunate events.

San Diego authorities seek missing family of 4 whose SUV was found near Mexico border. A middle-class family of four vanishes, leaving their dogs unattended and rotting food in their San Diego County home.

Randy and Evi Quaid skip California criminal court hearing, forfeit $40,000 in bail. Arrests warrants have been issued for actor Randy Quaid and his wife after they failed to appear for a court hearing, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Six days after he walked into the United States at a California border crossing, the body of a Guatemalan man was found wrapped in a rug on a dirt road in North Attleborough, authorities said yesterday. The man's body was discovered Nov. 29 in a housing development under construction. It was only on Monday that North Attleborough police and Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter's office publicly identified him. They also asked for the public's help in reconstructing the man's 3,000-mile journey that ended with his death. In a statement, police identified the man as Henry Octavio Campos Gutierrez, 32, and said he was a Guatemalan citizen who crossed into the United States through the San Ysidro border crossing Nov. 23. Gutierrez had a valid work visa to enter the country, officials said. The state medical examiner's office has not yet determined how Gutierrez died, except to note that he was not shot or stabbed, police said in their statement. Police said that when they opened the

Teen pleads guilty to murdering Border Patrol agent during robbery try. A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.

Arrest warrant dropped for Quaids in case that claims they stiffed California hotel of $10,000. An arrest warrant has been dropped for actor Randy Quaid and his wife after they were accused of stiffing a California hotel on a $10,000 bill.

343 pounds of sea cucumbers, an Asian delicacy, seized in luggage at US-Mexico border. Customs officials say they seized 343 pounds of sea cucumbers at a San Diego border crossing as smugglers tried to bring the Asian culinary delicacy into the U.S. from Mexico.

Navy: Midshipman pleads guilty to importing 150 pounds of marijuana; faces 9 years in prison. The U.S. Navy says a midshipman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import and distribute more than 150 pounds of marijuana.

2 charged with smuggling dozens of immigrants into California after US border crossing rushed. Two men were charged Thursday with smuggling illegal immigrants in a failed attempt to rush the nation's busiest border crossing in vans packed with suspected illegal immigrants.

Police: Agents felt trapped in border shooting at busy San Diego crossing. Federal agents felt trapped when they opened fire on the driver of one of two vans packed with suspected illegal immigrants that barreled toward them at the nation's busiest border crossing, an official said Wednesday.

Police: Agents felt trapped when firing guns on vans at busy San Diego border crossing. An investigator says federal agents felt trapped when they fired guns at a van packed with suspected illegal immigrants at the nation's busiest border crossing.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. authorities closed the world's busiest land border crossing for several hours on Tuesday after suspected Mexican human traffickers tried to enter with illegal immigrants, U.S. officials said.

TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - U.S. authorities closed the world's busiest land border crossing on Tuesday after a shootout between suspected Mexican human traffickers and U.S. agents, U.S. officials said.

Investigator: Some safety checks still lacking for US road travel of Mexican trucks, buses. Some Mexican passenger buses are not being inspected when they enter the U.S. because they cross the border on evenings and weekends, there are no inspectors or the crossings lack safe places for inspections, according to a government audit made public Wednesday.

On July 18, 1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick. Today is Saturday, July 18, the 199th day of 2009. There are 166 days left in the year.

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - The Indian city of Udaipur, known as the "Venice of the East," was voted the world's best city for travelers in 2009 in an online poll by Travel + Leisure magazine, trumping last year's winner Bangkok.

Today in History. Today is Saturday, July 18, the 199th day of 2009. There are 166 days left in the year.

Commuting delays negligible as new, stricter ID requirements begin on US borders. Fears of stalled commerce and travel didn't materialize at U.S. border crossings Monday as people stayed home or were gently warned on the first day of stricter identification requirements for Americans returning from Mexico and Canada.