"I am just a former refugee kid who wanted to make a little difference in our world." – Ramsey County District Court Judge Sophia Vuelo. The reverend Dr. Martin Luther King's famous words, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," are ...
Sophia Vuelo was publicly sworn in on Thursday as a district court judge in Ramsey County after 19 years as an attorney. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton appointed her last month to fill a vacancy in the 2nd Judicial District. While Vuelo graduated from Memorial ...
ST. PAUL — Sophia Vuelo is blunt when she describes the state her family was in when they left a refugee camp in Thailand some 40 years ago to relocate to the United States. "We didn't have a dime to our name. ... We truly were poorer than a church mouse ...
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Veteran lawyer Sophia Vuelo has made history in her own right, becoming Minnesota's first Hmong American judge in December. Governor Mark Dayton appointed her to fill a vacancy in the Second Judicial District, headquartered in the Ramsey ...
Sophia Vuelo was born in Laos during wartime and raised in Wisconsin by a widowed mother who could barely write her own name. On Thursday, she became Minnesota's first Hmong-American judge, and only one of a few in the country. "Never let your ...
The drama in telenovelas is what we live for and we specially love a good cat fight, but during the shooting of "El Vuelo de la Victoria" things got completely out of hand. Paulina Goto and her co-star Elizabeth Alvarez were rehearsing a scene that ...
With just a few weeks left in 2016, thoughts naturally turn to making sense of the year we've just enjoyed or endured, depending on perspective. One thing that is clear looking at my list of restaurant reviews: It was a year of celebrating the taco.
El primer vuelo comercial entre Estados Unidos y Cuba en más de medio siglo partió de Fort Lauderdale hacia Santa Clara, en el centro de la isla, el miércoles por la mañana para restablecer un servicio aéreo regular que fue interrumpido durante la ...
La recomendación del fabricante siguió al estallido de una turbina en un vuelo de Southwest en el 2016. El martes, una turbina de otro vuelo de Southwest estalló sobre Pensilvania y fragmentos golpearon el fuselaje. Una mujer fue succionada parcialmente ...
It ended with a kiss on the lips. That's a move out of Enrique Iglesias' concert playbook. He turned the delicate "Vuelo Hacia el Olvido" ("Flight to Oblivion") into a dedication for the city in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. And he seemed downright ...
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