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MEXICO CITY * Mounting drug-related violence and 800 murders so far this year have driven some 3,000 families from the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez into the United States, a border expert said on Friday.

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A mother here says she experienced 2-1/2 hours of panic recently when her son, Sebastian, 6, was lost due to a school busing mix-up. Last week, at the end of his school day at Rio Colorado Elementary School, ...

Miniskirts are making some Mexicans ruddy with indignation. The outrage is directed at the Roman Catholic Church for warning women that the skimpy clothing can provoke sexual violence.

The mayor of a Mexican town says he saved seven alleged kidnappers after they were brutally beaten by angry townspeople who accused them of trying to snatch a local man.

Suspected drug hit men opened fire on a family gathering at a tourist town in northern Mexico killing 13 people including a baby.

Emergency workers rescued dozens of trapped residents Monday after torrential rains deluged more than 400 homes in southern Texas and forced the temporary closure of the main road through the Rio Grande Valley.

Officials used any available boat to pluck about 60 people from their flooded homes after more than 13 inches of rain fell on parts of Starr County.

The Department of Public Safety had recommended that U.S. Highway 83 be closed near Rosita, about midway between Roma and Rio Grande City, because a creek was more than a foot above the guardrails, said Starr County Judge Eloy Vera. Not even emergency vehicles were permitted to pass.

There's still time to register at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, where the fall semester begins Wednesday and enrollment is on track to meet or beat last year's levels.

Tropical Storm Hernan continues to weaken far out in the Pacific. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says that the storm's maximum sustained winds had decreased to around 50 mph as of 0900GMT Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Expressing concern over the continuing increase in retail prices of essential commodities, the Communist Party of India-Marxist Saturday said that the Manmohan Singh government's "neoliberal ...

Sun, Aug 17, 2008 Mexican authorities say gunmen killed 13 people at a family party in the border state of Chihuahua.

Jesus Sauceda of Matamoros, Mexico, struck out all 12 batters in the first perfect game at the Little League World Series in 29 years on Sunday.

Sauceda needed to pitch only four innings, instead of the usual six, in the 12-0 victory over Emilia, Italy. It was the fifth perfect game at the Little League World Series and the first since Chao-An Chen of Taiwan tossed one in 1979.

Sunday's game ended after the top of the fourth inning because of Little League's 10-run mercy rule.

Sauceda also had a big day at the plate. He went 3-for-3 with six RBIs, including a grand slam in the third.

A new farmworker survey suggests that nearly a quarter of such laborers in Western Washington are indigenous Mexicans or Central Americans.

Sat Aug 16, 2008 4:43am EDT - Archeologists Victoria Rojas and Lara Hindersten work at a site at the village of Tahtzibichen in Merida, Yucatan Peninsula, April 12, 2008 .

Drug-related murders in Mexico have already exceeded last year's total despite the deployment of 30,000 troops to tackle the issue, media reports say.

A vague unease whispered through this tiny town in northeastern Iowa, where the rolling hills are a study in vivid colors _ red barns, white clapboard houses, and vibrant green cornfields plowed with almost ...

X Games Mexico will return to Mexico City for a second consecutive year September 20 and 21 at the Palacio de los Deportes.

IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif. - Authorities say 16 Mexican nationals are in custody and face deportation after their small boat was intercepted at sea off Imperial Beach.

Scrapers and bulldozers began filling a deep canyon Friday to make way for a border fence in the southwestern corner of the United States after 12 years of planning, environmental reviews and legal challenges.