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HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) —
A grand jury has resumed considering the case of Sandra Bland, the black Chicago-area woman who died in a Texas county jail three days after her arrest in a traffic stop last summer.
A team of special prosecutors are presenting evidence Wednesday before the same Waller County jurors who last month declined to indict anyone in Bland's death.
The 28-year-old woman was found with a plastic bag tied around her neck in her cell at the jail about 50 miles northwest of Houston. A medical examiner ruled her death a suicide.
Still unresolved is whether the trooper who arrested her should face charges.
Prosecutors have declined to be specific about Wednesday's session, one of them saying only that they have no timetable.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
Some of the first Central American families targeted by immigration authorities in recent raids have had their deportations temporarily halted.
Lawyers said Tuesday that they've managed to temporarily stop deportation proceedings for 12 individuals from four families rounded up over the weekend, when authorities apprehended 121 people in the country illegally. Attorneys are appealing to a Justice Department immigration appeals board for the 12, who had been slated for immediate deportation.
Attorney Kathryn Shepherd is working with women and children at a detention center in Dilley, Texas. She says several people targeted in the raids had received inappropriate legal counsel and that was part of their basis for appeal.
The Department of Homeland Security has said the immigrants targeted in the raids had exhausted their legal remedies before being apprehended.
There's a dark side to those delightfully low gas prices: Housing markets are slumping in communities that were recently flush from the U.S. shale oil fracking boom.