Chihuahua, Mexico News

Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in the capital of the violence-plagued Mexican border state of Chihuahua, killing one person and wounding four others.

David Booher, a model and actor before becoming a medic in the Air Force, died at the hands of masked gunmen in a Juarez strip club.

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The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.

A member of the U.S. Air Force was among the victims in the mass shooting that killed six people and wounded 10 others early today when gunmen opened fire at a strip club in Juarez.

A man once thought to have raped and impregnated an 11-year-old girl was cleared of the charges by the lack of DNA evidence linking him to the rape, authorities said, but he has been picked up from the Whitfield County jail by Immigrations and Custom Enforcement officials.

A gang of gunmen killed an off-duty U.S. airman and five other people early Wednesday at a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said.

Prosecutors say a gang of gunmen has killed six men in a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Police and soldiers killed a federal agent driving one of three cars that ignored orders to stop in northern Mexico, triggering a chase and gunbattle Tuesday, authorities said.

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The U.S. Consulate in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez warned U.S. citizens that Mexican drug cartels were possibly planning random shooting attacks on cars Wednesday - the same day gunmen ambushed a top state police official.

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.

Lawyer disputes Mexican officials' arrest. Friday, October 23, 2009 EL PASO Mexican official's arrest disputed Supporters of a Mexican human rights investigator whom immigration authorities detained for nearly a week as an asylum seeker - even though he never asked for U.S. protection - are calling for a congressional probe into his arrest.

The Office of the Sixth Judicial District Attorney has filed petitions in Children's Division of the Sixth Judicial District Court against two 17-year-old Mexican boys.

Chihuahua human-rights investigator Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson feels betrayed and disappointed.

Supporters of a Mexican human rights investigator recently released from federal immigration custody want Congress to look into what led to his arrest on the Texas border.

The Chihuahua state human-rights investigator who was taken into custody last week by Customs and Border Protection agents, who apparently wanted him to seek political asylum for his safety, was released Wednesday afternoon.

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, the Mexican Justice Department reported Wednesday.

A lawyer for a Mexican human rights official says he's been detained by U.S. immigration authorities as an asylum-seeker - even though he doesn't want American protection.Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson is the rights official for Chihuahua state.

An attorney for a Mexican human rights official jailed by immigration officials says his client doesn't want asylum in the U.S. and wasn't seeking it when he crossed the border last week.