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Dolly downgraded to tropical storm after pounding Texas, MexicoBrownsville police officers duck away from flying debris as they try to move an awning out of a downtown street in Brownsville, Texas.
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 18:39
A hot (pepper) lead in hunt for salmonella source
It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak.
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 14:10
S.Korean Hostages in Mexico Released
A group of four South Koreans and one Chinese were freed by their kidnappers in Mexico on Wednesday morning, where they had been held since July 14.
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 09:37
U.S., Mexico investigating border tunnel barrier
U.S. and Mexican officials are investigating whether a concrete barrier inside a drainage tunnel running under Nogales led to a costly flood on the Mexican side of the border.
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 05:14
At least 22 killed in two accidents in Mexico
At least 22 people have been killed in two highway accidents in northern Mexico, EFE news agency reported on Tuesday citing officials and media reports.
Source : topix.net | 24-Jul-2008 00:54
Man To Face Trial In Shotgun Slaying
A man accused of the shotgun killing eight years ago of a 17-year-old girl over a perceived slight will face trial for murder and assault with a firearm, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Source : topix.net | 23-Jul-2008 16:37
Debate heats up over new home for Dallas Zoo's lone elephant
Fifteen minutes after KeKe the African elephant died in May, the Dallas Zoo received its first fax imploring that Jenny, her lone companion, be moved to an elephant sanctuary.
Source : topix.net | 23-Jul-2008 08:16
5 SKoreans kidnapped in Mexican border city
Five South Koreans were abducted in a Mexican border city, officials said Tuesday.
Source : topix.net | 23-Jul-2008 00:01
Mexico lifts criminal penalties for illegal immigrants caught within its borders
Top Story Headlines Missing soldier 'hurt but safe' El Paso police say a Fort Bliss soldier was kicked in the face, stabbed and raped -- allegedly by her spouse -- before she was abducted from her off-post ...
Source : topix.net | 22-Jul-2008 19:31
Oil edges up, briefly surpassing $130 a barrel, on Iran worries; US pump prices ease further
Oil prices rose Monday on concerns that potential new sanctions against Iran may escalate tensions in the Middle East, and as traders kept an eye on a tropical storm brewing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Source : topix.net | 22-Jul-2008 11:15
Why is it so hot in Texas?
It's hotter than the Sahara out there. Well, not quite, but Texas and the African desert do have something in common when it comes to explaining the area's summer swelter: Latitude 30.
Source : topix.net | 22-Jul-2008 06:42
Worse may come for epic lines at Tijuana crossing
It looks like any Southern California traffic jam - except you can buy a cappuccino and a 4-foot statue of Jesus from your car while watching dogs sniff vehicles for drugs.
Source : topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 22:35
Mexico plans to recognize Sen. Kennedy
MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government said Friday that it is honoring U.S. Sen.
Source : topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 15:23
'Death tourists' buy drug at Tijuana pet shops
"Cocaine?" a hustler working Tijuana's seedy Avenida Revolucion called out on a recent night, his voice not the least bit muted.
Source : topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 07:15
Some Florida Dems miffed by who runs Obama's Latin outreach
There is a fierce behind-the-scenes battle for influence over presumptive Democratic candidate Barack Obama's Hispanic and Latin American agenda, and some Democratic strategists say that its outcome could ...
Source : topix.net | 21-Jul-2008 02:47
Tropical Storm Dolly forms in western Caribbean
Tropical Storm Dolly has formed in the western Caribbean sea. The National Hurricane center issued a tropical storm warning Sunday for the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico from the border with Belize to Campeche , ...
Source : topix.net | 20-Jul-2008 18:46
Sven lookalike has Mexico in spin
Mexican football bosses have reacted with fury after a 56-year-old Welwyn Garden City man posed as Sven-Goran Eriksson.
Source : topix.net | 20-Jul-2008 10:42
Breast-Fed Babies Have Fewer GI Infections
Infants who are predominantly breast-fed for the first six months of life are less likely to have gastrointestinal problems.
Source : topix.net | 20-Jul-2008 02:23
Armed Men Open Fire In Mexican Police Station
Armed men barged into a police station Friday in Ciudad Juarez and gunned down a lieutenant.
Source : topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 21:52
Half million dollars found in diapers in Mexico
A package of baby diapers yielded an unlikely load in Mexico on Friday, according to the defense ministry: nearly half a million dollars in cash.
Source : topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 17:17
Mexico's Brightest Leave Time Capsule
The box, containing music, photographs, movies and messages from Mexican politicians, scientists and athletes, will be housed in one of the towers of the Cathedral, in the same location where a 1791 time ...
Source : topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 12:38
Report: Mexico cop in torture case fired
Carlos Tornero, police chief in the central city of Leon, was fired at the recommendation of the Guanajuato state attorney general's office for human rights, the Reforma newspaper said, citing state Public ...
Source : topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 08:00
Farmington's Heath competing in Mexico
Kyle Heath is one of 78 athletes on the Team USA roster for the 2008 NACAC Under-23 Track and Field Championships this weekend in Toluca, Mexico.
Source : topix.net | 19-Jul-2008 03:34
'Movable' fence awaits approval
By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN McALLEN - About 14 miles of border fencing planned for the lower Rio Grande Valley would be built in the river's flood-plain and has yet to be approved by the commission governing the ...
Source : topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 22:20
Girl, woman found raped and killed in Ciudad Juarez
Pink wooden crosses are seen in the place where the corpses of eight murdered women were found in 2001, in Ciudad Juarez Mexico.
Source : topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 17:43
S.F. priest accused of molesting minors in 80s
U.S. and Mexican authorities are searching for a Catholic priest who is believed to have fled the country after learning that he was accused of sexually abusing several minors in San Diego two decades ago, ...
Source : topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 13:12
Mexico's drug cartels targeting specific politicians with death threats
Having terrorized police and prosecutors across the country, Mexico's drug cartels are escalating their battle with the government by turning their sights on politicians.
Source : topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 08:38
Mexican Capital To Reduce Harmful Gases
The government of notoriously polluted Mexico City is promising to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions 12 percent by 2012.
Source : topix.net | 18-Jul-2008 03:56
Gunmen kidnap police commander in Mexico
Authorities say gunmen have kidnapped the head of kidnapping and organized crime investigations in the Mexican border state of Coahuila.
Source : topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 23:13
Mexican judge suspends extradition of Tijuana drug boss to US
MEXICO CITY _ A Mexican judge has suspended the extradition of a Tijuana-based drug cartel leader to the United States, his lawyer and the attorney general's office said Wednesday.
Source : topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 18:42
Ask a Mexican
Dear Mexican: Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol? What a hypocritical thing to do to our people.
Source : topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 14:00
Mexico seizes drug submarine in Pacific
Mexico's navy seized a homemade submarine carrying a drug shipment off the Pacific coast on Wednesday and arrested its four-man crew.
Similar vessels carrying cocaine have been discovered off Colombia and Central America, but navy spokesman Capt. Benjamin Mar said the seizure is a first for Mexico.
The 30-foot makeshift submarine was detected heading north about 200 miles off the southern state of Oaxaca, Mar said.
The green-topped, arrowhead-shaped vessel was intercepted when it surfaced hours later, and the crew was taken into custody without resistance.
Source : topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 09:21
Severe Rain Floods Towns on U.S.-Mexico Border
Thousands of people in in the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Tamaulipas are experiencing floods, after several days of sever rains.
Source : topix.net | 17-Jul-2008 04:36
Mexican man detained at US Embassy after showing fake CIA badge
Mexico City police say they have detained a man who allegedly tried to use a fake CIA badge to enter the U.S. Embassy to seek work as a driver.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 23:52
More layoffs at South Texas manufacturer
For the second time in 10 months, hundreds of employees of a windshield wiper manufacturer on the Texas-Mexico border are being laid off, a Trico official said.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 19:17
New tropical depression forms in Pacific
A new tropical depression formed in the Pacific early Wednesday, while in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha turned eastward.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 14:32
Mexico sends 1,260 troops Sinaloa state
Mexico has deployed 1,260 more federal police to a gang-plagued northern state where shooting sprees have killed at least 19 people in the past week.
The Public Safety Department said Tuesday the deployment brings the number of federal agents in Sinaloa to 2,000.
The Pacific coast state is home to the powerful drug cartel of the same name. It has been one of the hardest-hit regions in a surge of violence sweeping Mexico despite the deployment of 25,000 troops across the country.
Eight people were killed Sunday when gunmen opened fire on four cars in the Sinaloa city of Guamuchil. Days earlier, two police officers and nine other people were killed in separate shootings in the state capital of Culiacan.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 09:40
Feds acknowledge fence will hamper border life
The U.S.-Mexico border fence will make life harder on some South Texas farmers, damage valuable wildlife habitat, impair views and generally become an obstacle to border life, the Department of Homeland ...
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 05:03
Man wanted in slaying of hairstylist is arrested in Mexico
The man police believe fatally gunned down a Glendale hair stylist in broad daylight last year has been arrested in Mexico, according to the Salt Lake Police Department and U.S. Marshals.
Source : topix.net | 16-Jul-2008 00:28
Mexico rights body to probe police 'torture course'
Mexico's human rights commission says it is investigating police training methods after videos showed a cadet being made to roll through vomit and another having his head shoved into a pit of excrement.
Source : topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 20:03
Symrise Appoints Hern ndez Director of its Expanded Mexican Facilty
The 500-sq-m area contains additional labs for the development and application of savory and sweet flavorings and beverage compounds.
Source : topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 15:30
Around the world
Westerners were getting too racy on the beaches of this Persian Gulf tourist haven, and a police crackdown on topless sunbathing, nudity and other indecent behavior has resulted in 79 arrests in recent days.
Source : topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 10:48
2 bodies found in high-flowing Nogales wash
Nogales public safety crews have retrieved the bodies of two men caught in high-flowing water running in the Nogales Wash.
Source : topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 06:10
Number of asylum-seekers on U.S.-Mexico border is up, but ...
But the sharp spike in asylum applications from the areas wracked by drug-cartel violence - and the willingness of asylum-seekers to sit behind bars in the U.S. for months while they await a decision - are a ...
Source : topix.net | 15-Jul-2008 01:44
Whirlpool to close Oxford plant; 750 jobs cut
Whirlpool, Oxford's largest manufacturing employer and its fourth-largest employer, is closing, taking with it 750 jobs and thousands of dollars in taxes to the community and school district.
Source : topix.net | 14-Jul-2008 21:11
Hit, run case still under review
Police continue to investigate what they said was a hit-and-run in which a car struck a 22-year-old Harlingen woman, who later died from her injuries.
Source : topix.net | 14-Jul-2008 16:42