Immigration reform spurs rally at border

MURRIETA, Calif. – Demonstrators have gathered again outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, California, where the agency intends to process some of the immigrants who have flooded the Texas border with Mexico.

The crowd numbers about 120 Friday morning, about a third opposing illegal immigration and two thirds supporting immigrants. Shouting matches have erupted but there has been no violence. Police are monitoring the scene.

Firefighters battle California blazes

JULIAN, Calif. – Firefighters working to corral a destructive wildfire churning through rural Northern California made sizable gains overnight.

Crews won 55 percent containment of the Napa County blaze, up from 30 percent, thanks to favorable weather conditions that allowed crews to burn away fuel on the fire’s Lake County flank.

The size of the fire remains at more than 6 square miles. The fire has burned two homes and seven outbuildings.

It’s burning to the north, away from the county’s famed vineyards.

A second blaze, in San Diego County, has destroyed two homes and threatens hundreds more.

Former officers sentenced in slaying

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Two former senior military officers were sentenced to life in prison Friday for one of the emblematic crimes of the country’s long dictatorship: the death of Roman Catholic Bishop Enrique Angelelli.

The court in the northern city of La Rioja imposed life sentences on former army chief Luciano Benjamin Menendez, 86, and former Vice-Commodore Luis Fernando Estrella, 82.

Details of the ruling are to be released in September.

Angelelli was one of the most left-leaning bishops in a generally conservative religious establishment when he died in an automobile crash in August 1976, shortly after the military seized power and began a crackdown on suspected leftists.

For decades, officials insisted the death was accidental.

Associated Press