Lea Skene, Author at The Rapid City Post

Migrants deported months ago by the United States to El Salvador under the Trump administration's immigration crackdown arrive at Simon Bolívar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Friday, July 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

Lawyers say Venezuelan migrant ordered returned to US sent to home country under prisoner exchange

July 22, 2025

A Venezuelan asylum seeker who entered the U.S. as a child has been sent back to his home country after being deported to a Salvadoran mega-prison earlier this year. The man, who’s known only as Cristian in court papers, was among over 250 Venezuelans released from El Salvador as part of a prisoner exchange deal reached last week. A federal judge has ordered the government to help the man’s attorneys get in touch with him. U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher says that would be the first step to facilitating his return to the U.S., which is required under a 2019 settlement agreement.

Exterior view of the Allegany County Circuit Court building in Cumberland, Maryland on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, where three members of a violent cultlike group known as Zizians appeared Tuesday for a motions hearing after they were arrested in February on trespassing and gun possession charges. (AP Photo/Lea Skene)

Three Zizians face trial together in Maryland amid sprawling federal investigation

July 9, 2025

Three members of a violent cultlike group will be tried together on charges of trespassing and illegal gun and drug possession in rural western Maryland. The group known as Zizians has been linked to six killings spanning three states in recent years. The Maryland cases were originally scheduled for separate trials, but the defendants requested a joint proceeding and a judge agreed. The co-defendants are Jack “Ziz” LaSota and her associates Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank. Authorities say they were arrested in February after a man told police “suspicious” people had parked two box trucks on his property.

Attorneys Billy Murphy, left, and Janai Woodhouse look on as Collette Lee speaks about how a Baltimore special education teacher sexually abused her decades ago during a news conference Monday, June 2, 2025 at the offices of Murphy, Falcon Murphy in downtown Baltimore. (AP Photo/Lea Skene)

Baltimore schools sued by former students alleging the system protected a predatory teacher

June 2, 2025

Three women are suing Baltimore’s public school system, alleging they were sexually abused by a special education teacher decades ago. The plaintiffs accuse administrators of failing to protect students from the teacher’s predatory behavior. Their attorneys say school officials knew about the abuse and allowed it to continue. They say the teacher, Alvin Hunt, would lure students to his house for tutoring. A spokesperson for the school system declined to comment on the lawsuits but confirmed that Hunt worked as a teacher from 1975 until his retirement in 2005, then returned as a substitute from 2010 to 2019. Attempts to reach Hunt were unsuccessful.

Lea Skene.

Lawyers say Venezuelan migrant ordered returned to US sent to home country under prisoner exchange

Three Zizians face trial together in Maryland amid sprawling federal investigation

Baltimore schools sued by former students alleging the system protected a predatory teacher

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