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Masked Mexican thief hits cinemas showing Batman
Prosecutors in northern Mexico say a man wearing a ski mask and carrying a gun robbed two theaters showing the Batman movie "The Dark Knight Rises.
Metallica burns it up at start of Mexico tour
Metallica vocalist James Hetfield had warned things could get perilous at the start of the band's fifth tour of Mexico, saying "We're very focused on ...
Mexico: Most attacks on journalists unpunished
The government's human rights commission says there have been 126 attacks on journalists or media outlets in Mexico since 2000 and only 24 of these ...
Mexico fines HSBC $28 million in laundering case
Mexican regulators have levied a $28 million fine against the Mexico subsidiary of London-based HSBC bank for failing to prevent money laundering ...
APNewsBreak: US, Mexico disagree over border fence
An agency that monitors the U.S.-Mexico boundary is agreeing to a U.S. proposal to build border fence segments in a South Texas flood plain, a move ...
Official: Tire likely caused deadly Texas crash
A pickup truck's front tire that apparently had come apart was likely the cause of a weekend crash on a rural South Texas highway that claimed its ...
Authorities trying to ID 14 killed in Texas crash
With little more than photographs and fingerprints, authorities were trying to identify 14 suspected illegal immigrants who were killed when a pickup ...
Unidentified bodies, missing cases mount in Mexico
After police found 49 dismembered bodies strewn on a Mexican highway leading to the Texas border, it took the army just a week to parade an alleged ...
Warner Bros. cancels more world Batman premieres
Warner Bros. Pictures says it has canceled appearances by the cast and filmmakers of the movie "The Dark Knight Rises" in Mexico and Japan after a ...
Google takes aim at Mexico's drug cartels
Google, so far, has won the search engine wars. Now it wants to target international crime, including Mexico's powerful drug cartels. Eric Schmidt, ...
AP intern Armando Montano celebrated at service
Hundreds of friends and colleagues gathered Sunday for a memorial celebration for Armando Montano, a news intern for The Associated Press who died at ...
Most-wanted US fugitive caught in Cancun, Mexico
Mexican police arrested one of the U.S. Marshals Service's most-wanted fugitives in the resort city of Cancun, after 24 years on the run.
Remains of 15 found in ancient Mexican settlement
Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed the skulls and other bones of 15 people, most of them the children of traveling merchants during Aztec ...
US-Mexico border tunnel nets 40 tons of pot
Three drug smuggling tunnels equipped with lighting and ventilation — including one with a railcar system — have been discovered along the U.S.
2 sophisticated border drug tunnels discovered
Two drug-smuggling tunnels outfitted with lighting and ventilation systems were discovered along the U.S.-Mexico border, the latest signs that cartels ...
Central Americans flood north through Mexico to US
Deported from the United States after years working construction in New Jersey, Hector Augusto Lopez decided to rebuild his life in his hometown in ...
Witness to border shooting testifies to grand jury
A man who saw an illegal immigrant from Mexico get shot with a stun gun by U.S. border authorities said he testified Thursday to a federal grand jury ...
Report challenges Mexico's choices in drug war
Mexico's reliance on the military to combat widespread drug violence and crime has been largely ineffective and has led to increases in human rights ...
AP NewsBreak: Grand jury probes border death
A federal grand jury is investigating the death of an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was shot by U.S. border authorities with a stun gun, a move ...
Mexico army: Border city killings plunge this year
Killings by criminal gangs in the drug violence-wracked border city of Ciudad Juarez fell by 42 percent in the first six months of this year from the ...
Mexico paper won't cover violence after attack
The El Manana newspaper in the northern Mexico border city of Nuevo Laredo announced that it will stop covering violent criminal disputes after ...
Mexican army: border city killings down 42 percent
The Mexican army says killings by criminal gangs in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez have fallen 42 percent in the first six months of 2012 ...
Mexico's old ruling party falls short of majority
Mexico's old ruling party and its allies appear to have fallen just short of a majority in both houses of Congress, electoral authorities said ...
Without IDs from home, Mexicans struggle in US
She was born in Mexico and lives in the United States, but Laura Rocio Ordonez does not officially exist in any country. She can't open a bank account ...
Feds name 4 suspects linked to Fast and Furious
Authorities made a rare disclosure Monday linked to the botched gun-smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious, revealing identities ...