Baja California, Mexico News

Mexican soldiers captured six suspected drug gang members with an odd collection of weapons, including a .50-calibre rifle and a gold-plated pistol, the army said Friday.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview that crime gangs and drug cartels were "taking over Mexico" before he launched his offensive against them, and said the crackdown had achieved uneven results.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in an interview that crime gangs and drug cartels were "taking over Mexico" before he launched his offensive against them, and said the crackdown had achieved uneven results.

Two earthquakes have shaken the border area in Baja California - one 3.2-magnitude and the other 3.8-magnitude - but no injuries or damage have been reported.

A U.S. program that offers trusted trucking companies speedy passage across American borders has begun attracting just the sort of customers who place a premium on avoiding inspections: Mexican drug smugglers.

A proposed Mexican program at the U.S.-Mexico border designed to reduce smuggling of illegal items such as weapons, cash, and drugs from the U.S. into Mexico has created concern in the business community that the new inspection procedures will have an additional economic impact on already long border crossing wait times.

U.S. assistance to help Mexico fight drug traffickers will probably continue beyond the allotted three years of the Merida Initiative, with expanding cooperation but not joint law enforcement or military operations "on Mexican soil any time soon," a senior Obama administration official said.

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.

The United States has severely restricted access to a spot on the Mexican border where families and lovers divided by illegal immigration could unite briefly to hold hands or kiss through a fence.

Reporting from Tijuana, Mexico - El Churrero -- the Churro Man -- sidesteps tamale carts, squeezes between bumpers and beggars, working 24 lanes of idling vehicles.

A woman, cold and pregnant, along with seven other Mexican Nationals were saved by a group of good Samaritans Friday after their boat capsized near Tijuana .

Health Net of California yesterday launched a cross-border health insurance plan in San Diego County targeting Latino workers in the region who want to receive medical services from doctors in both the United States and Mexico.

The Fresno County Sheriffa s Department says the suspect in a deadly stabbing in San Joaquin has been captured.

MORELIA, Mexico - One Mexican policeman was killed and four wounded Saturday in an attack by gunmen in a drug-plagued state in southern Mexico.

A 21-year-old San Diego college student kidnapped near the U.S.-Mexico border has been found bound and beaten inside a closet in Tijuana, authorities said.

" 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.