Joaquin News

Mexican police have captured alleged drug lord Carlos Beltran Leyva, just two week after his even more powerful brother was killed in a shootout with troops-back-to-back victories in President Felipe Calderon's drug war.

Ninja, a kitten stuck in a rotting 50-foot-tall tree for four days, made her way down into her Bossier City family's backyard Wednesday morning with the help of concerned citizens and a tree service company.

Associated Press December 29, 2009 SILVERTON, Colo. - Authorities say a woman from Joaquin Texas was killed while sledding at a ski area in southwestern Colorado.

Eugenio "Boy" Licon, at left, stirs a pot as he works to make asadero cheese Sunday.

The Juarez of old is gone. In its place is a paralyzing and vicious 2-year-old drug war that has the 1.5 million residents in the manufacturing border town living in fear, even as city leaders pledge to never give in to the powerful cartels that are using the city's streets as a killing ground.

Every day, criminals shove proceeds from U.S. drug sales in their shoes, tape it to their torsos, stash it under dashboards - or just wire it electronically to Mexico.

As Mexican drug-cartel fighting rages, the new breed of capos knows more about battle than business, experts say.

The Mexican army arrested two alleged hit men Friday on suspicion of killing one person and confessing to killing at least 70 others in Juarez, Joint Operation Chihuahua officials said.

Joaquin Espinoza is one of about 1.5 million homeowners in the United States who are younger than 25, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

Mexico decried Forbes magazine's decision to name the country's most-wanted drug lord to its "World's Most Powerful People," calling it an insult to the government's bloody struggle against drug cartels.

Mexican magnate Carlos Slim Helu and Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman Loera are among the most powerful people in the world, according to Forbes magazine.

What you see in San Antonio - or any place else - depends entirely where you're looking.

A violent and ongoing battle between two powerful drug cartels has pushed this northern border city's murder rate _ already one of the highest in the world _ to new records in 2009, according to a government report issued Wednesday.

Federal agents escort alleged cartel hitmen, front to back: Roberto Salas, Luis Alfredo Galindo, Fernando Monte Godina,partially seen, Sergio Estrada Gutierrez and Julio Cesar Aleman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday Sept.

Authorities say they've arrested five suspects in two separate attacks on rehab clinics that left 27 people dead.

Alejandro "Alex" Granado was a serious soldier, but once the uniform came off, his family said he was all smiles.

The massacre of 18 people at a drug rehabilitation center near the Texas border is part of a final push by one drug cartel to finish off another, authorities and analysts say.

Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Uruguayan, , Composicion constructiva , 1943. Oil on canvas.

A fund set aside to pay tribute to victims of a 2002 train crash in Joaquin, Texas has been turned over to the Shelby County District Attorney's Office.

The eight bullets that leveled Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana outside his home just doors from the city's police chief were fired at close range and left little doubt about their message.