Rosarito, Mexico News

Mexican cities south of the California border on Friday marked the launch of the new Metropolitan Tourist Police in an effort to regain the confidence of Americans looking for lobster dinners, cheap margaritas and pristine beaches.

More than 50 murders marked one of Tijuana's most bloody weeks of drug cartel violence that included beheadings as well as the death of an American mother of two who was having dinner with her husband on the Mexico-side of the border at a new restaurant Wichos Tacos.

Reporting from Rosarito Beach, Mexico - The church bells rang all afternoon. Archbishop Rafael Romo Munoz was on his way to say a Mass marking the transfer of Father Raymundo Figueroa, the beloved priest at Santisimo Sacramento parish.

Mexican cities south of the California border are broadening their policing expertise with the aid of San Diego in a bid to revive their tourism business.

Hollywood screenwriter JOHN CARLEN has died, aged 64. Carlen - who wrote the screenplay for Nicolas Cage's directorial debut, 2002 film Sonny - passed away on 10 December in San Diego, California.

The mayor of Rosarito Beach, Mexico, arrived at an international conference in Santa Ana last week without his briefcase, without his papers without even a traveling bag.

City leaders to discuss public safety, economic development and regional infrastructure.

Starting in November and continuing through May, nearly 4,000 recreational vessels from the Unites States headed south to Mexican waters - everything from fleets of small cruising sailboats and caravans of trailerable boaters towed by RVs to sportfishers and trawlers - all taking their first step off the edge.

The H1N1 scare, combined with the sluggish economy, caused Rosarito Beach, Mexico to take a big hit when it comes to visitors.

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.

So, leta TMs see. San Diego County is a semiarid region, in the middle of yet another drought, with ever-increasing demand for water from residents and industry alike.

Rosarito city police pull over cars to be searched at the entrance to the city after a running gunfight between police in Tijuana and suspected members of organized crime.

In Mexico, restaurants, taco stands and other food service establishments often have very confusing schedules a ' open late or dona TMt open at all.

T Multimedia: For photos, videos and more stories about border violence, go to borderwar.uniontrib.com ROSARITO BEACH - It happened in a matter of seconds near the toll road to Tijuana: Eight Mexican marines on alert for a convoy of heavily armed suspects opened fire on a Jeep Grand Cherokee driving toward them.

Posted October 9, 2009, 1:35 p.m. If you were to have visited Baja during the 1960s it would have looked completely different, comprised almost entirely of unpaved streets, one or two-story structures, especially in Rosarito Beach, and a handful of American expatriates living there full time along with a few thousand Mexicans.

Firefighters retrieve the body of an unidentified man hanging from his neck under a bridge on the old Rosarito highway in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday.

At 2:00 a.m. on August 26, Donna Liebrich left San Diego and headed east on I-8 for the Mexican border.

City officials in Mexico's Baja California state are drafting plans for a bilingual police force that caters to American tourists headed south of the border.The plan, announced Monday at San Diego City Hall, is to create a joint Mexican force that patrols a 50-mile tourist corridor from Tijuana through Playas de Rosarito to Ensenada.

A new cross-border collaboration is in the works to keep tourists safe in Baja California.

As we drive through a military roadblock, a young machine gun-toting Mexican marine shouts in Spanish for us to slow down while a half dozen other heavily-armed marines watch, but we are waved through after I utter the affirmative "Claro," which means "Certainly!" or "Of course!" This is our welcome to the Baja battleground, just 30 miles south of ...