Michoacan, Mexico News

Los Angeles-based Maya Entertainment has snapped up North American rights to U.S. - Mexican co-production "Chamaco" before its Stateside premiere at the Palm Springs Film Festival, which began Tuesday.

Hate crimes against African-Americans and the number of hate groups increased in the United States during this decade, according to US statistics.

Abelardo Rea, an immigrant from Mexico, says the U.S. Census Bureau in 2000 did not count eight Latinos, including himself, who lived in a house on Monitor Drive.

Authorities say they have recaptured all three tigers that escaped from a circus truck in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

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The first time I tasted Simaine Cellars wines was at the grand opening of West Side Renaissance Market in Ukiah.

CHICAGO - This city was built on railroads that moved meat from its famous packing houses, steel from its mills, corn from surrounding fields.

Marco Antonio SolA s is without question one of the most important figures in the rise of Mexican and Latin music to world prominence during the last two decades of the 20th century.

The two NEH Fellowships also set a new record for the university. This is the first time that two faculty members have received Fellowships in one year in recent history.

TIJUANA, Mexico: Authorities found the decapitated bodies of four men on Tuesday in the border city of Tijuana, while a grenade attack on a police station in a western Mexico wounded a pregnant woman and her 3-year-old daughter.

A 42-year-old man killed when he plunged over a cliff while running away from U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tijuana River Valley was identified Sunday as a resident of Michoacan, Mexico.

Kidnap victims freed from a rehab center in Mexico City said they were snatched from the streets and held in slave-like conditions - beaten, robbed and forced to work 16 hours a day making shopping bags and clothes pins.

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.

Guaranteed sunshine and swimming temperatures - " with round-the-clock fun, relaxation and endless activities on a bleach white beach - are the main reasons Canadians continue to accept the deeply discounted deals offered on Mexico's Yucatan, Baja and Pacific coastlines.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $1.3 million in drugs and arrested three on the day before Thanksgiving, officials said.

Mexico's drug war is entering its fourth year. Its H1N1 flu outbreak began with dozens of deaths and global headlines in the spring.

Rome Resources Ltd. has completed purchase of the San Jose and La Concepcion concessions in the Inguaran Area, Michoacan, Mexico.

Monarch butterflies have the whole wonder-of-nature thing figured out. As if the metamorphosis stunt weren't amazing enough, monarchs pull off yet another incredible feat every year: They migrate, in some cases covering thousands of miles each fall.

Mexico and the US are working together bring down Mexico's newest, most violent drug cartel.

A monarch butterfly sits on a flower at the National Ecological Mexican Reserve in the state of Michoacan, Mexico in Feburary 2007.