Officials try to explain suspect’s release
Man charged with killing man, 2 sons was jailed in March
Authorities couldn’t fully explain Monday how an alleged gang member and suspected illegal immigrant was able walk out of jail in San Francisco - three months before police say he shot and killed a father and two sons.
Edwin Ramos, 21, appeared in court Monday on charges stemming from the June 22 slayings of Anthony Bologna and his sons Michael and Matthew. Police say the three were shot near their home in the Excelsior district when Anthony Bologna, driving home from a family picnic, briefly blocked the gunman’s car from completing a left turn down a narrow street.
Ramos is scheduled to enter a plea in the case on Wednesday. . .
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS CAUGHT WITH MISTRESS AND LOVE CHILD!
Vice Presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards was caught visiting his mistress and secret love child at 2:40 this morning in a Los Angeles hotel by the NATIONAL ENQUIRER.
The married ex-senator from North Carolina - whose wife Elizabeth continues to battle cancer — met with his mistress, blonde divorcee Rielle Hunter, at the Beverly Hilton on Monday night July 21 - and the NATIONAL ENQUIRER was there! He didn’t leave until early the next morning.
Rielle had driven to Los Angeles from Santa Barbara with a male friend for the rendezvous with Edwards. The former senator attended a press event Monday afternoon with L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on the topic of how to combat homelessness. . .
Immigration law means a borderline existence for U.S. wife of Mexican
Stuck in Tijuana traffic, Heather Suarez fixes her strawberry blond hair, applies her makeup and listens to country music on the car radio. This morning, she sings along.
For Heather, 29, every day is a struggle. The native of rural Kentucky didn’t know how drastically her life would change after she fell in love and married Evaristo Suarez, an illegal immigrant. . .
State’s school dropout rate a real catastrophe
By Alan Bonsteel
ALL of us who live in an Information Age are familiar with “GIGO” - Garbage in, garbage out. On July 17, the California Department of Education took GIGO to a new extreme, when it announced at a news conference a new computer system for tracking dropouts that uses phony data from Day One, and gives the schools written advice on how to come up with ever more excuses for disappearing kids that will make it look like our dropout rates are falling.
Until my organization, California Parents for Educational Choice, blew the whistle in 1998, the CDE reported a high-school dropout rate of 3.2 percent. We petitioned the State Board of Education, and proved that the real dropout rate - based on hard numbers of students enrolling and graduating - was 32percent, or 10 times what the CDE was admitting to. . .
Alan Bonsteel will be on the show at 6:00
