Detain order for Mexican suspected in slayings went astray

Detain order for Mexican suspected in slayings went astray

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Immigration authorities last year sought to detain a Mexican national charged with killing five men in Kansas and Missouri this week, but they sent the detention order to the wrong Kansas authorities.

Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino, 40, was deported in April 2004 because he was in the country illegally, but he re-entered at some unknown point in time, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in an email.

Cuban-American jurist withdraws from consideration
GOP

Cuban-American jurist withdraws from consideration

Associated Press

MIAMI (AP) — A federal appeals court judge who could have become the Supreme Court's first Cuban-American justice has withdrawn his name from consideration, a Democratic senator said Wednesday.

Judge Adalberto Jordan told U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida that he is not interested in being a candidate for the court opening. Nelson spokesman Ryan Brown confirmed the conversation on Wednesday, which was first reported by CNN.

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