Rosarito, Mexico News

GerA3nimo CalderA3n JimA©nez was getting off guard duty in southern Tijuana, when heavily armed gunmen shot him repeatedly and left behind a hand-written sign: Five officers will die each week, unless police chief JuliA n Leyzaola resigns.

Gunmen killed three police officers in separate attacks in less than 24 hours in the Mexican border state of Baja California, officials said Tuesday.

TIJUANA a ' A police officer was fatally shot Tuesday morning outside the Red Cross Hospital, the third killed since Monday night in Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.

Mexico has been reduced to a single, small, geographical piece of this earth. If there is a murder in Michoacan, then the presumption of the 24-hour news cycle has been that it is too dangerous to travel to Rosarito Beach even though it is thousands of miles away.

Destination TJ, Baja California Tips on border crossing South of the border down Mexico way, was a popular song.

Sixteen donated lifeguard towers are stranded in a storage yard near the Otay Mesa border crossing until they can clear Mexican customs.

Where's Lynwood, you say? Well, it's kind of where the 105 freeway intersects the 110 and 710, so it's pretty easy to get to.

Mexico's navy has seized more than a tonne of cocaine stuffed inside 20 frozen sharks, authorities said.

Authorities asked the public Thursday to be on the lookout for a possibly despondent 50-year-old North County woman who has been missing for nearly a week.

Read the final installment of The Border Trilogy about the Rosarito Police Department's fight against drug cartels.

Mexican forensic investigators were trying to determine if two severed heads found in Tijuana match two headless bodies found elsewhere, officials say.

A military official says 15 gunmen and a soldier were killed in a two-hour shootout in the heart of Acapulco's hotel zone.

A suspect in the 2006 shooting death of a San Diego teenager was detained early Monday in Mexico by members of the Baja California State Preventive Police.

HUNTINGTON BEACH Brenda Walker drives back and forth at least four times a year to a fishing town near Rosarito, Mexico.

Blessed with sunshine, cool evenings, ocean breezes, fish tacos, carne asada, burritos, churros, pico de Gallo, nachos, if I'm not in heaven I must be in Rosarito, Baja California.

A Rosarito cop enters the municipal palace--City Hall--and approaches the office of the secretary of security, Jorge Montero.

TIJUANA, Mexico - Waves crash against a rocky shore, while a couple strolls on the beach.

Donald Trump, smooth and confident, once sang the praises of the new Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico north of Rosarito Beach, an area he touted as "the next Cabo." But three years later, the only progress is a gigantic hole in the ground and a heap of dirt.

The City of Rosarito for years has been a destination for many nearly 15,000 Americans to retire.

The swine flu has taken dozens of lives in Mexico and travelers are being warned about heading south because of the outbreak.