Yahoo! News: U.S. News/ Farms being prosecuted for importing Thai workers (AP)
AP - Two prominent, popular brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human trafficking charges — they pleaded guilty — but two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison. 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News/ Suspect in consulate deaths appears in Texas court (AP)
AP - A man who told Mexican authorities he ordered the March killing of a U.S. Consulate worker in Mexico has been extradited to the U.S. and appeared in a federal court in Texas, the San Antonio Express-News reported. 

Yahoo! News: U.S. News/ Muslims take to Minn. State Fair to repair image (AP)

AP - Despite the smells of fried dough and roasted meat wafting from the Minnesota State Fair, Salim and Zuleyha Ozonder were focused on the people who were leaving, not the food or festivities beckoning from across the street.