Baja California, Mexico News

" Title Night in Hartford just got that much better with the announcement that Saturday night's HBO televised co-feature between "Lightning" Harry Joe Yorgey and Alfredo "Perro" Angulo has been approved for the World Boxing Organization interim junior middleweight world title.

YOMA, Ariz. - The announcement that plans for a new major deep water port in Mexico have been renewed is bound to stir controversy locally if the project actually materializes.

Mexican police caught a prison official who spent a year on the run from charges of killing a 19-year-old inmate, whose beating death sparked riots that left nearly two dozen dead, including two American prisoners.

A A A' Officials in Mexico's capital said Monday they had identified four bound bodies found in a sport utility vehicle over the weekend with hand-lettered messages identifying the dead men as kidnappers.

A magnitude 3.3 earthquake struck overnight near the U.S.-Mexico border, but no damage or injuries were immediately reported in the San Diego area.

The leader of a Mexico-based organization that arranged to smuggle large amounts of marijuana for distribution in San Diego and other U.S. destinations pleaded guilty today to a drug conspiracy count.

A magnitude-4.0 earthquake has shaken part of the southeastern California region bordering Baja California.

November 2nd is DA a de los Muertos , the M exican form of All Souls' Day. It's also being taken advantage of by Mexican activists who blame U.S. immigration policy for border deaths.

You are here : Home Earthquake Center Latest Earthquakes - World Magnitude 2.7 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO Magnitude 2.7 - BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO 2009 October 26 07:41:55 UTC Earthquake Details This is a computer-generated message -- this event has not yet been reviewed by a seismologist.

Rights activists in the northern Mexican border city of Tijuana have hung 5,100 small white crosses on the fence straddling the U.S. frontier to commemorate migrants who have died trying to cross.

During a visit to San Diego in April, Pratik and Priti Chavda thought they'd slip over the border into Tijuana just to do a little shopping, have a quick meal and say they had made it to Mexico.

Authorities say a woman's body was found buried headfirst in a plastic container of cement in drug-plagued Tijuana.

MEXICO CITY: Mexican soldiers discovered a sophisticated but incomplete tunnel running under the border into the United States and arrested six people in the process of digging, the army said.

Mexican Military Finds Possible Smuggling Tunnel in Tijuana About 100 Feet South of U.S. Border TIJUANA, Mexico October 28, 2009 The DEA raids suspected drug traffickers of Mexico's La Familia cartel.

When pressed about why Mexico is struggling in its battle with illegal-drug cartels, Genaro Garcia Luna, the nation's top police official, likes to put his inquisitors on the spot with a question: Would you encourage your child to become a Mexican cop? The answer, he says, is often no.

In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

Mexican officials are reviving plans for a deep-water shipping port that could include a rail line through the southwestern Arizona city of Yuma to serve it.

Thirteen people from San Diego County were in federal custody Friday following a nationwide sweep targeting a fast-rising Mexican drug cartel known for its violence, messianic culture and control over the methamphetamine trade.

United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt announced today that, within the last week, Jesus "Chuy" Labra-Aviles, Efrain Perez, Jorge Aureliano Felix, and Armando Martinez-Duarte pled guilty in United States District Court to charges arising from their leadership of the Arellano-Felix drug trafficking organization .

Police raid on service shows that churches are no longer neutral observers. Jeremy Weber posted 10/21/2009 09:58AM T he bold interruption of a Sunday Mass to arrest a drug lord in August illustrated just how desperate Mexico's war on drugs has become - and how religion is no longer a neutral observer.