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Collinsville Boy's Varsity Soccer Team: Jorge Segura #8, David Hernandez #14, Luis Segura #22, and Adan Morales #1 (Photo/James Williams Portraits)

All-Hispanic Alabama soccer team wins school’s first state championship in 38 years

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Collinsville, Alabama is a small town of approximately 2,000 people, but this past weekend a group of 22 Latino students put it on the national map. … Read More

Jose Lopez points to an undated photo of Ricardo Portillo, center, his brother-in-law, following a news conference, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Teen charged with homicide by assault for referee death

By Brady McCombs, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A Utah teen accused of punching a soccer referee who later died was charged Wednesday with homicide by assault, a count issued when an … Read More

Johana Portillo, center, and her sister Ana Portillo hold hands while Dr. Shawn Smith looks on during a news conference Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Ref’s death a consequence of lack of sportsmanship

By Nancy Armour, Associated Press

The football teams were still on the field, exchanging the traditional postgame handshakes, when Pete McCabe walked by. The veteran referee heard another … Read More

Johana Portillo, Ricardo Portillo's oldest daughter, cries during a news conference Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. . (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah prosecutor weighs charges in soccer ref death

By Brady McCombs, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah prosecutor says he plans to decide within a day or two what charges to file against a teenager accused of punching a soccer … Read More

Jose Lopez points to an undated photo of Ricardo Portillo, center, his brother-in-law, following a news conference, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Family of Utah soccer referee who died holds vigil

By Brady McCombs, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Family members of a Utah soccer referee who died a week after a player punched him in the head called on athletes around the world Sunday … Read More

Johana Portillo, center, and her sister Ana Portillo hold hands while Dr. Shawn Smith looks on during a news conference Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah soccer league to hire security

By Brady McCombs, Associated Press

MURRAY, Utah (AP) — The president of the Hispanic soccer league where a Utah referee was punched by a player and sent into a coma says the league will be … Read More

Johana Portillo, left, and her sister Ana Portillo, daughters of Riccardo Portillo hold hands during a news conference Thursday, May 2, 2013, at Intermountain Medical Center, in Murray, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah soccer referee in coma from player’s punch

By Brady McCombs, Associated Press

MURRAY, Utah (AP) -- A longtime Utah soccer referee is in a coma after being punched by a teenage player unhappy with one of his calls during a weekend game, … Read More

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San Jose soccer league rallies for paralyzed goalie

By Kris Sanchez, KNTV, San Jose, California

When 12-year-old Mariah Serratos called her mom from the nurse's office at Hoover Middle School on March 22, she was feeling tingling and numbness in her … Read More

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Telemundo Latin America news roundup- April 17, 2013

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The latest Latin American news in under 59 seconds. Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has called off a planned election protest scheduled for … Read More

A man with a boy in his arms wades through a flooded street in La Plata, in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, Wednesday, April 3, 2013. At least 35 people were killed by flooding overnight in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, the governor said Wednesday, bringing the overall death toll from days of torrential rains to at least 41 and leaving large stretches of the provincial capital under water.

Telemundo Latin America news roundup- April 3, 2013

By NBCLatino Staff

The latest Latin American news in under 59 seconds. A bus in Rio de Janeiro went over the rails of an overpass and fell some 30 feet to the street below … Read More