The influx of illegal immigrants plunged to an estimated 300,000 annually between March 2007 and 2009, from 850,000 a year between March 2000 and March 2005, according to new study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group.

The decline contributed to a contraction in the overall size of the undocumented population to 11 million people in March 2009 from a peak of 12 million two years earlier, according to the Pew analysis, which is based on data from the Census Bureau.

"It just caught my eye. I said to myself, that sure looks like an image of Jesus hanging from the telephone pole," said Navarre.

Navarre believes this is more than just a coincidence, and somewhere in the vines is a message from God. He said with the eight Jeff Davis murders, and some of the sickness in the world, it could be a sign of comfort.

"He might just be telling us something, you know. 'I'm looking over you. I'm going to answer your prayers'," said Navarre.


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Here is the perfect example of how a moonlight stroll can go horribly wrong.

Two young goats that wandered onto the thin ledge of a 60ft railway bridge had to be rescued by a crane after two days high above a remote highway.

The poor animals' plight was only discovered when a passing motorist contacted a local charity and alerted them to the situation.

No, these aren't deleted scenes from James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar - these spectacular images show mesmerising phosphorescent patterns swirling through a forest that are all produced by earthbound insects.

Amateur photographer and full time physicist Kristian Cvecek spends nights in woodlands waiting for fireflies to come out so he can capture them on camera.  

German Kristian, 31, from Erlangan, near Nuremburg, photographs the creatures near his home. He uses slow shutter speeds to capture on camera their movements between the trees and ferns.

A team of students at the Columbus College of Art & Design painted a mural to the Super Marios Bros. Nintendo game theme.

The interactive mural is 16 feet tall, 38 feet wide and took 12 students 8 days to create.  It is visible on CCAD’s administration building located at 107 N. Ninth Street for the month of September.

CCAD student and fellow painter Ken Aschliman says the mural was created to advertise CCAD’s inaugural Town Hall meeting.  CCAD’s student government group says the Town Hall meeting will be the first of many events where students can voice their concerns and have questions answered.

The student painters include Aschliman, Chavilah Bennett, Jennifer Sands, Michael Smith, Dion Utt, Walker Crane, Greg Reyes, Dillon Sirimongkhon, Alex Trimpe, Pallavi Sen, Jessica Braunschweiger and Emily Rickard.

Students and groups can propose to paint a new mural every month to be placed on the mural wall.

Slipping beneath the waves on April 15, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic famously disappeared from view until 1985, when it was rediscovered on the bottom of the North Atlantic (pictures of Titanic's rediscovery).

Now, scientists say, the legendary liner—beset by metal-eating life-forms, powerful currents, and possibly even human negligence—could be vanishing for good.

SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. -- A Wethersfield woman was arrested after police said a bag of cocaine was given to a South Windsor bank teller along with her deposit.

Officers were called to Rockville Bank on Ellington Road at about 4 p.m. on Thursday for reports of a bag of white powder inside a deposit envelope given to a drive-up teller at the bank.

Police said bank staff asked the customer, identified as Kendl Murphy, 43, to wait for her transaction to be completed and then notified police.

A bad deposit!

ABU DHABI // A man has been arrested after a woman was tricked into trying to change two souvenir US$1 million notes at the UAE Central Bank.

The 44-year-old suspect, AB, from Ivory Coast, convinced the woman that the notes were being used in currency markets and told her to exchange them in return for 30 per cent of their value, police sources said.

The notes were, in fact, issued by the US-based World’s Millionaires Club as a souvenir for selected members and are sold at nominal prices. They do not have a value of US$1m.

The case was brought to light after the counter-money laundering and suspicious cases unit at the bank reviewed two notes presented to it to verify their authenticity.

Col Hammad Ahmed al Hammadi, the director of the criminal investigation department (CID) at Abu Dhabi Police, said the man had been living illegally in the UAE and was trying to cash the notes through the woman.

He was arrested in a police trap following investigations.


“The suspect claimed that he was not aware that the notes do not have any value and that he is a mere mediator for a diamond trader from Belgium who asked him to exchange the notes in exchange of money,” said Col Dr Rashid Mohammed Bursheed, the head of the CID’s organised crime unit. “He also said the diamond trader was supposed to send him an 154 additional notes from the same category.”

A cafe run by a British couple is doing a sizzling trade in the US by putting high calorie American foods in a traditional fish and chip fryer.

Americans are flocking to Park Slope Chip Shop in Brooklyn, New York, owned by Chris Sell from Rugby, Warwics, and run by Suzanne Hackett from Birmingham, West Midlands.

The pair promise to fry anything you like in English batter and turn New York specialities into the most fattening take-aways on the planet.

North Charleston Police said the man was discovered shortly before 5 a.m. Monday when an employee heard someone calling for help. Police arrived to find a foot dangling in a vent above a stove.

Kevin Michael Harley of North Charleston was charged with second-degree burglary. It could not immediately be determined if the 23-year-old Harley had an attorney.

Source PoliceOne  

“Someone needs to figure out a way to fry beer,” he thought.

Zable started experimenting. But the beer-and-dough concoction kept exploding once it hit the fryer. He kept getting burned.

So he consulted with a food scientist – still, no luck.

Then, earlier this year, he finally found the recipe for success. Now Zable keeps the process shrouded in secrecy and has applied for a Fried Beer patent and trademark.

He was perfectly nice at pee wee football practice, his coach said. He never made any trouble. But still, "There just was a lot of stuff that wasn't adding up, you know?" said Ray McCloud, coach of the Town 'N' Country Packers.

McCloud's instincts were right.

A lucky photographer captured the image of a lifetime - shooting the incredibly rare moment a waterfall turned tomato soup red.

Rochelle Coffey was stunned when she saw the normally crystal-clear water turn deep red over the course of two hours.

The mother-of-two had been visiting the impressive Cameron Falls, in Alberta, Canada, with her husband and had taken photos of the normally clear water for six years.