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In northern Mexican, soldiers increasingly suspicious of often corrupt police in drug war
When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup.
Friends recall airman killed in Mexico
A welcoming mural calls Holloman Air Force Base 'The Friendliest Place on Earth,' but the mood beyond the gates Thursday reflected the loss of a popular airman gunned down in Mexico.
Former Ariz. teacher killed at Fort Hood
The family of a 52-year-old former Arizona teacher says he was one of 13 people killed in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.
Police commander slain in Mexico's deadliest city
Authorities say gunmen have killed a police commander in Mexico's deadliest city, where a dismembered, decapitated body was found hours before.
US soldier dies in drug attack in Mexico bar
The suspected drug hitmen escaped the bar easily, while panicking customers fled as pools of blood gathered around bullet cases on the bar floor.
Gunmen kill US airman in attack on bar in Mexico
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.
Gunmen kill 6 in bar in Mexico border city
Prosecutors say a gang of gunmen has killed six men in a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.
Upcoming border system draws concerns
A program that makes use of new technology to stop the southbound flow of weapons, cash and other contraband is scheduled to be expanded to the Mexican port of entry into this border city across from Yuma County starting in December.
In Mexico, encajuelado says it all in drug war
Words can hardly convey how vicious, how over the top, Mexico's drug war has become.
Mexican intelligence officer killed in Juarez
There's more violence to report in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez. Last night gunmen attacked a police vehicle outside a restaurant killing an official from the police intelligence unit and wounding three officers.
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US warns of cartel shootings in Mexico border city
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.
Police commander, two officers latest victims in Juarez drug violence
A police commander and two other agents were shot down in a pool hall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico Friday just three of the ten people murdered in the city that night.
Is Mexico winning its war on drugs?
Mexico's arrest of drug cartel suspects has become fairly commonplace. On Thursday, it was six suspected members of La Familia, based in Michoacan.
Parents of lost daughters fear 'femicide' in Ciudad Juarez
Olga Alanis stares at her daughter's photograph as if willing her to appear. On the table is a music box in the shape of a baby and crib - Monica's favourite when she was a child.
Ciudad Juarez passes 2,000 homicides in 2009, so far
Ciudad Juarez passed the 2,000 mark in homicides Tuesday - setting a record for violence in the border city that has become ground zero in Mexico's war on drugs and cementing its place as one of the most murderous cities in the world.
TX authorities free Mexican human rights advocate
EL PASO, Texas - Immigration authorities released a Mexican human rights official Wednesday, after detaining him last week as an asylum seeker even though he had not sought U.S. protection, his attorney said.
Murders in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, at all-time high
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.
Alleged Juarez gang leader named FBI's most wanted
The alleged leader of the Barrio Azteco gang in El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, has been named to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
Jailed Mexican official says no to asylum in El Paso
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.
3 bound bodies found near polling place in Mexico
The bodies of three men who had been bound and reportedly tortured were found dumped outside a school being used as a polling place for a mayoral election Sunday, officials in the northern state of Coahuila said.
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