It was painful enough that Root was making final funeral arrangements for his 21-year-old daughter, Sarah, who was involved in a fatal car crash just 16 hours after she had graduated summa cum ...

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced "justice will finally be served for Sarah Root."Rubio said on Friday that the Trump administration announced the extradition of Root's alleged killer from ...

Iowa’s Republican delegation has been pushing for changes to the law ever since, calling their proposed bill “Sarah’s Law.” Trump has also highlighted Root’s case over the years to ...

A Honduran man accused of killing an Iowa woman in 2016 while driving drunk in Nebraska was extradited to the United States on Friday after he fled the United States following his release on bond.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (KCRG) - Iowa Republican Senator Joni Ernst was at the White House on Wednesday to join President Donald Trump for the signing of the Laken Riley Act. That act included Sarah’s ...

The life of Sarah Root life was abruptly cut short in Omaha, Nebraska one night in January 2016. She had been out celebrating with friends just a day after receiving her degree from Bellevue ...

Some words may be mispronounced. The man accused of causing the 2016 drunken driving crash that killed Sarah Root was extradited to the United States on Friday. In a Friday evening press call ...

21-year-old Sarah Root was killed after she was struck by a man driving drunk. He was in the country illegally, but due to a gap in federal law, he was able to bond out and fled the country.

Jan. 31 will mark nine years since Sarah Root, 21, was allegedly killed by Edwin Mejia, an illegal immigrant driving intoxicated three times over the legal limit. Mejia was released on bond more ...

Ernst is reviving an effort to pass "Sarah’s Law." It is named after Sarah Root, a 21-year-old Iowa woman killed by a drunken driver in the U.S. illegally. The suspect, Edwin Mejia, posted bond ...