Baja California, Mexico News

San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who has been making headlines with his calls for closer cross-border ties , has been named co-chair of the U.S.-Mexico Border Mayors Association.

One of the last leaders of one of the world's most notorious drug cartels pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego on Friday to money laundering and conspiracy charges.

Shade houses have become so common in Baja California, Mexico, that many shippers today grow most - if not all - of their tomatoes under shade cloth.

The last of the Arellano Felix brothers who founded an infamous Mexican drug cartel has pleaded guilty in San Diego to helping ship hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States.

Ronaldinho Gaucho of Brazil's Atletico Mineiro vies with Cristian Pellerano of Tijuana's Xolos during the Libertadores Cup quarterfinal first leg match at the Caliente Stadium in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, on May 23, 2013.

The beach water quality in San Diego County during the summer season was among the best in the state, although the Tijuana River mouth made the list of the state's most polluted beaches due to a sewage spill, according to Heal the Bay's 23rd annual Beach Report Card released Thursday.

Movement expected about the same. Trading seeded slow, others moderate. Prices seedless 35-60 counts lower, others generally unchanged.

The contrasting fortunes of two of New Zealand's biggest technology manufacturers were highlighted when they both reported full-year results yesterday.

Feeling frustrated and unwelcome, Nain Lopez wanted to leave Decatur after state lawmakers passed one of the toughest illegal-immigration laws in the nation in 2011.

Pope Francis has named Rafael Valdez Torres, who has been serving as pastor and rector of the Shrine of Our Lord of the Miracles in San Juan Nuevo, to be the new bishop of Ensenada, Mexico, the Vatican press office said Tuesday.

A welterweight clash has been finalized between Jorge Maromerito Paez Jr. and Juan Urango for June 8th at Foro Promocasa-Palenque del Fex in Mexicali, Mexico.

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Capitalizing on UC San Diego's unique ability to address environmental threats to public health, a new center based at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will target emerging contaminants found naturally in common seafood dishes as well as man-made chemicals that accumulate in human breast milk.

They intended to bring the captives to Tijuana, Mexico. The U.S. attorney's office says 40-year-old Antonio Zermeno pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to kidnapping.

Editor's note: On May 7, the active bishops of The United Methodist Church went to the U.S. Mexico border to learn more about the people there and the issues they face.

When Malcolm X's grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years.

Junior middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo last year spent over seven months in the immigration detention center in El Centro because of ongoing visa issues; he presented himself to the center thinking he might only be there as long as a month.

Would it be sweet if the Arcade were transformed into a big ole fancy casino? Never going to happen.

A Mexican general took over all police and military operations in a chaotic western state on Thursday in a test run of President Enrique Pena Nieto's new security strategy to tame raging drug violence.

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