A progressive House candidate backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is under fire for dodging in-person debates with her GOP opponent ahead of an April ...

ATLANTA – A month into the primary election victory of progressive organizer Analilia Mejia, she is preparing for yet another voting day. Mejia secured a victory last month in a crowded Democratic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carmen Mejia discusses her freedom after 22 years in prison while in East Austin Thursday, March 12, 2026. (Mikala Compton/Austin ...

Carmen Mejia is a free woman. Vanessa Potkin, one of the attorneys who worked on Mejia’s wrongful conviction case, confirmed early Wednesday that the newly exonerated Austin mother — who spent 23 ...

Carmen Mejia after her release Credit: Montinique Monroe for the Innocence Project Carmen Mejia, a Honduran immigrant who has spent the last 22 years behind bars for a crime she did not commit, is ...

AUSTIN, Texas — An Austin mother exonerated after a decades-long legal battle was released from custody after a judge declared her innocent and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it ...

Carmen Mejia and her family can now rest at ease. After being exonrated for the death of a baby from more than 20 years ago, Mejia had been told there was a chance that Immigrations and Customs ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A Travis County woman is one step closer to putting a decades-long legal fight behind her. On Monday, a Travis County judge formally declared Carmen Mejia innocent after she spent more ...

An emotional scene unfolded in a Travis County courtroom Monday as Carmen Mejia embraced three of her daughters for the first time in more than two decades. Moments earlier, a judge had formally ...

GALLATIN, Tenn. (WTVF) — A Sumner County jury took just 25 minutes to convict Fernando Mejia of first-degree murder in the killing of 17-year-old Trinity Bostic, whose body was found along a ...