Izabal, Guatemala News

A Cape Girardeau woman who has wanted to adopt children since she was a teenager has established an orphanage in Guatemala.

There is silence on the other end of the phone line. Whoever it is says nothing and all that can be heard is a long distance hum.

A 30-year-old Guatemalan national, who lived in Bedford, has been indicted on 28 counts stemming from allegations that he had sexual contact with a nine-year-old child over a one year period from September 2005 to August 2006.

Last week, 30-year-old Cesar Joel Sagastume Morales - a day laborer - was extradited from Guatemala in order to face charges that he sexually abused a 9-year-old girl from Bedford.

A man has been extradited from Guatemala to face charges he sexually abused a 9-year-old Bedford girl in a case that touched off a firestorm of allegations that school officials knew about the abuse for months but didn't notify police.

Since she was teenager, Ana Morales knew she wanted to adopt children. "In my heart I have wanted to adopt since I was 13," she said.

Fiscalia Investigates Lawyers For "Marriages of Convenience" The Fiscalia confirmed Wednesday it is investigating at least two lawyers and notaries for officiating more than 100 marriages of convenience.

Leaders attending the 19th Ibero-American Summit here demanded on Tuesday the immediate restitution of deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, but failed to reach a consensus on the legitimacy of the presidential elections that took place on Sunday in the country.

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 4:49 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:27 p.m. A man was arrested Friday in Williston on accusations that he molested a 2-year-old, while the man's girlfriend was arrested on accusations that she neglected the same child, who is her daughter.

Forty percent of Guatemala's estimated 900,000 residents over the age of 60 are living in a state of poverty, the national ombudsman's office said.

Pope John Paul II, the most traveled pope in history, came yesterday to Baltimore, the birthplace of American Catholicism, and presided over a day of celebration, pageantry and prayer.

Guatemala, Nov 9 Guatemala has opened in Villa Nueva Municipality the fourth eye clinic as part of the Operation Miracle, six miles from downtown Guatemala City.

Marta Munoz-Lopez strode through the room with a steely determination, her voice booming with the passion of an evangelical minister.

Guatemala, Oct 25 Once again, Guatemalan cyclist Nery Velasquez will be the leader of the Guatemala Cycling Tour after having lost his leading condition for just one stage.

Negotiators trying to resolve the Honduran political crisis said Friday that talks have broken off, the third such announcement in the past week.

A Guatemalan man who eluded authorities for years, fleeing across the country and starting a new life in Hampton Bays, N.Y., before he was caught this week, will be extradited to California, where he faces murder charges.

Two hundred plus kilometers northeast of Guatemala City or inland from the Caribbean side of Guatemala, southeast of Puerto Barrios and past the ancient Spanish fortress of the Castillo de San Felipe de Lara, lies the sleepy palm-fringed port of Rio Dulce .

At press time Wednesday police were still looking for two men responsible for the execution-style shooting death of a Norwalk gas station clerk early Saturday morning.

Police released a mug shot of Erick Morales, 27, who was being sought by police from Daly City, Calif ., in connection with a 2001 murder.

Police in Norwalk are hoping a videotape will help catch the killers of a gas station clerk.