http://www.yourstreet.com/news/salvador YourStreet collects the latest local news and information from around the web. Find out what's going on in your town. en-us ASHEVILLE -- The hopes of a 26-year old mother from El Salvador were fulfilled Monday, as the surgery to cure her 18-month old daughter's eyesight was deemed a success. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6734645/-angel-flight-baby-has-eye-surgery-in-asheville Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:39:08 -0700 HONOLULU — Fugitive Honolulu sex offender Frank Lefrandt Jr. fled to Los Angeles last November, then was tracked to Mexico, El Salvador and finally to Guatemala, where he is believed to have died earlier this year while hiking up the side of a volcano, ac http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6721019/honolulu-fugitive-may-be-dead Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:13:08 -0700 Complete video transcript at BigGovernment.com . Matthew Vadum Two young, enterprising undercover investigative journalists posed as a pimp and a prostitute and sought the help of ACORN’s Baltimore office to set up a brothel. They told ACORN employees that 13... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6710482/inside-charm-city-baltimore-acorn-officials-videotaped-telling-pimp,- Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:48:08 -0700 U.S. forwards Charlie Davies (L) and Jozy Altidore celebrate the Yanks' second goal. Photo by Getty Images First half goals by Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore help the U.S. National Team get a victory last night over La Selecta from El Salvador. The Yanks fell behind... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6686935/nats-hang-on-for-win Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:00:08 -0700 DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Bureau says a man arrested in Marshalltown, Iowa, earlier this year has been deported to El Salvador to face murder charges in the Central American nation. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6680749/murder-suspect-deported-to-el-salvador Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:05:08 -0700 SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- A French filmmaker who recently made a documentary on El Salvador's street gangs has been shot dead. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6672600/french-documentary-filmmaker-killed-in-el-salvador Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:23:08 -0700 A French filmmaker who recently made a documentary about the lives of members of El Salvador's street gangs was shot dead Wednesday in the Central American country, authorities said. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6670713/frenchman-who-made-film-on-gangs-slain-in-salvador Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:09:08 -0700 BRIDGEPORT -- An illegal immigrant, who killed a Norwalk man in a hit-and-run crash on Route 8 in Trumbull last March and was captured on a plane bound for his native El Salvador, was sentenced http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6661903/man-sentenced-in-fatal-crash Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:02:08 -0700 Eric Guthrie was delivered in San Salvador on Oct. 12, 1988, toward the tail end of one of the bloodiest periods in El Salvador’s history. His parents, Gary and Nancy, were doing missionary work at the time for the Mennonite Central Committee — a Christian... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6629050/keeler-hawkeye-146-s-early-road-to-kinnick-8212-grenades-and-guerrilla Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:50:08 -0700 This week we are visiting El Salvador and preparing one of the most popular Salvadorian dishes, Pupusas. This dish is so popular in El Salvador that they made Nov. 13 National Pupusa Day. Pupusas are thick corn tortillas stuffed with a variety of http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6612375/pupusas-are-a-salvadoran-specialty Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:01:00 -0700 SANTA CRUZ -- The man killed by a suspected drunken driver Friday night while walking on an Ocean Street sidewalk was a 39-year-old construction worker from El Salvador who was working in the states to support his five children, wife and elderly mother back in his... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6600502/man-killed-by-suspected-drunk-hummer-driver-in-santa-cruz-identified-as-lui Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:17:08 -0700 NEWPORT NEWS — Stepping off its flight in El Salvador, the 22-member missions team from First Baptist Church in Newport News had no idea what to expect during its July 17-26 visit. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6594584/sharing-love-in-el-salvador Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:17:08 -0700 An immigrant from El Salvador, who for 13 years had worked as a drug informant for law enforcement under the watch of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, walked out of detention Wednesday, six weeks after immigration officials arrested him and began the process... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6572281/immigration-agency-frees-veteran-drug-informant Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:25:08 -0700 An illegal immigrant from El Salvador, who worked as a major drug informant for 13 years, appeared before an immigration judge last week, more than a month after the federal government arrested him and began the process to deport him. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6559366/immigration-agency-may-allow-bail-for-longtime-drug-informant Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:46:08 -0700 Police have arrested 23 year old Victor Hernandez Perez who lives in Corinth.  Detectives say he is an illegal alien from El Salvador and is being charged with 2nd degree kidnapping and 1st degree robbery. Police say a 24 year old woman was http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6434303/update-saratoga-kidnapping-arrest Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:57:47 -0700 Photo via ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were busy in Chicagoland this past week, rounding up people with known gang ties in the city and various suburbs . 19 arrests were made in Chicago, Addison, Bensenville, Blue Island, Carpentersville, and Hanover... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6414189/ice-sweeps-chicago-area Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:31:08 -0700 GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan drug boss Juan Jose "Juancho" Leon was summoned by Mexican traffickers for what he was told was business. Instead, dozens of attackers ambushed his entourage with grenades and assault rifles, killing Leon and 10 others in a brazen... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6390548/mexican-drug-cartels-spread-their-tentacles-into-47-nations Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:18:08 -0700 Sen. Maria Cantwell planned to ask top U.S. immigration officials to reconsider the case of an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who for 13 years worked as a confidential drug informant under the watch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the same agency that... http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6348871/cantwell-to-ask-feds-to-reconsider-informant-s-arrest Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:31:08 -0700 SIOUX CITY -- An El Salvador man, in the United States illegally, was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison Monday for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine in Denison, Iowa. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6348683/man-sent-to-prison-on-meth-charges Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:22:08 -0700 In Brazil, it was carrier pigeons and remote-controlled model helicopters. In El Salvador, it was bottoms up, so to speak. I'll explain down below. http://www.yourstreet.com/news/6348491/ruben-rosario-prison-cell-phone-proposal-needs-review-of-call-rates Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:59:08 -0700