Sitting on their front porch in this Houston suburb, Edmond Demiraj and his family seem the picture of a contented family.
A sports utility vehicle carrying a New York state legislator and his 7-year-old son came under fire Wednesday evening, police said.
Exceptional drought conditions spread across nearly 12% of the United States last month, a record number that shows the widespread impact of the dry weather conditions, according to a report released Monday.
The storm known as Don fizzled to a tropical depression, failing to quench the thirst of parched Texas counties.
Tropical Storm Don came ashore Friday evening, bringing a belt of much-needed rain but not enough to slake the thirst of parched Texas counties farther inland and not enough to carry much of a threat, officials said.
Raids on buses by criminals in Mexico have led to the kidnapping of one American, the U.S. consulate in Matamoros, Mexico, said in a message warning of the dangers of bus travel there.
The 2011 Atlantic basin will see an above-average hurricane season, with the possibility of five major hurricanes, a nationally recognized forecast center said Wednesday.
Two stunt pilots survived a plane crash caused by engine trouble at an air show in Texas on Saturday, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
A married aerobatics team is hospitalized after they were forced to make an emergency landing during Air Fiesta 2011.
A rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.
Two ICE agents were shot, one was killed, and the other wounded. It's unknown who is responsible. Jeanne Meserve reports.
The University of Texas at Brownsville was on alert Monday, as students, faculty, and staff return to campus, just days after gunfire along the U.S.- Mexican border cancelled classes, according to campus police.
A clash in Mexico left several dead, including a top drug cartel drug lord. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
A leader of the Gulf drug cartel -- Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, also known as "Tony the Storm" -- died during a clash with security forces in the border city of Matamoros, Alejandro Poire, security spokesman for the Mexican government, said Friday.
Eulalia Garcia Maturey has outlived two husbands, her two children and decades of bygone immigration laws. At 101, Maturey will become a U.S. citizen on the 101st anniversary of her crossing into the United States from Mexico.
Mexico's navy on Wednesday announced the arrests of 30 members of the Gulf drug cartel following several armed confrontations in the northern state of Tamaulipas.
Wind gusts are accompanied by heavy rains as a tropical storm hits South Padre Island, Texas.
Hermine dumped rain on the San Antonio, Texas, area Tuesday before bringing the same, along with tornado watches and flash-flood warnings, to the central and northern parts of the state.
It's too early to say whether Daniel Jacobs can become the face of American boxing, but the 23-year-old Brooklynite sure looks the part.
The latest tropical depression swirling in the Gulf of Mexico made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas, Thursday with sustained winds of 35 mph, the National Hurricane Center said.
Heavy rains pelting northeastern Mexico left at least one person dead and thousands more in shelters as Hurricane Alex moved inland, Mexican emergency officials said early Thursday.
Tropical Storm Alex is expected to strengthen into a hurricane but is heading away from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
Bodyguards learn to fight off assassination and kidnap attempts in the Mexican drug war. CNN's Karl Penhaul reports.
Federal agents seized 2,880 rounds of ammunition found inside an SUV that was being driven from Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.
Three people died Thursday when a medical helicopter crashed in western Tennessee, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
In most places, when 16 people are gunned down, the local media reports the incident without missing a beat.
The case of the New Mexico hotelier who required Latino employees to adopt English names and avoid speaking Spanish at work reminds us of the need for balance as we grapple with cultural evolution in America.
Director Antoine Fuqua started a non-profit program that gives kids from lower-income homes a shot at Hollywood stardom.
When director Antoine Fuqua rolls into a community to shoot a movie, he becomes part of that community.
I was walking home from the library carrying nine books. That's the way my memory sees it. I can't know for sure if it was exactly nine books. Maybe I picture nine books because I was nine years old. I'm certain that I was nine years old, because I'm sure of the date -- June 9, 1943. There were a lot of books under my arm on that summer day because I loved books. I wonder what happened to those nine books ...
Drug traffickers are throwing everything they've got at getting drugs into the United States any way they can.
CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports on the creative ways in which cartels try to smuggle drugs into the U.S.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- It is half past seven on a cold Tuesday night in March, and Koreen Thomas is walking quickly because she knows what happens after dark in the Brownsville housing projects. "You learn early not to be outside after certain hours," she said. "It's not the safest place to raise children."
A winter storm plows through Dallas early Tuesday night, making roads slick and causing car accidents.
One of the nation's poorest urban school districts won a coveted $1 million prize Tuesday for guiding its nearly 50,000 students toward academic achievement
People along the Texas coast were leaving home or planning to evacuate Thursday as Hurricane Ike churned toward them, slowly intensifying on its march west.
Residents and recovery teams began fanning out across south Texas at dawn
Hurricane Dolly weakened to a tropical storm Wednesday night after it made landfall on South Padre Island, Texas, leaving a trail of battered buildings and flooding.
CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers says to expect heavy flooding in southern Texas as Hurricane Dolly loses power.
Hurricane Dolly's rain and wind lash South Padre Island, Texas.
As his fishing boat, Murphy's Law, was tossed about Wednesday in the path of Hurricane Dolly, Steven Murphy hoped to dodge the adage his vessel is named for: "If anything can go wrong, it will."
National Hurricane Center: Dolly has reached hurricane strength and should hit near the Texas-Mexico line on Wednesday.
Dolly became a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday afternoon in the western Gulf of Mexico, prompting a weather official to urge anyone on Texas' barrier islands to consider leaving immediately.
Hurricane Dolly strengthened early Wednesday as its leading edge lashed the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Mexico border
Troops were at the ready and residents along the Gulf Coast near the Texas-Mexico border were preparing as Tropical Storm Dolly headed their way
Authorities investigate why a patient at a Brooklyn hospital lay nearly an hour before getting medical attention.
Six hospital employees have been fired or suspended after ignoring for more than an hour a woman who collapsed and died in a New York emergency room waiting area.
A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.
A U.S. Supreme Court decision paving the way for a 670-mile federal fence along the U.S.-Mexico border drew swift criticism from environmentalists
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study
Drivers waste nearly an entire work week each year sitting in traffic on the way to and from their jobs, according to a national study released Tuesday.
The floods and rain in the Midwest continue to cause severe problems there. Thousands are returning to find their homes damaged and destroyed.
Oil prices rose Wednesday as a tropical storm swirled in the Gulf of Mexico and the government reported that supplies of crude oil had fallen far more than expected.
There's school, homework to be done, hair to be washed and braided, playdates to honor, birthday parties to attend. Ballet and gymnastics and track. Hardly a minute of my family's time goes unscheduled, and when we do get a breather, we often spend it planning the next activities.
One of the hardest things we do as reporters is talk to people who are grieving.
Commuters who drive to work are pumping their salary raises into their gas tanks, according to a new report issued Wednesday.
Nine hours after making landfall as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, Emily's top winds dropped to 70 mph, just low enough to make it a tropical storm Wednesday afternoon.
Hurricane Emily regained strength as it moved toward the Mexican coast Tuesday and was expected to gain strength before a predicted landfall in the northeast Wednesday morning, forecasters said.
On the eve the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters at Colorado State University predicted it would be "very active" with 15 named tropical storms and eight hurricanes.
Alex, the first hurricane of the 2004 North Atlantic season, continued heading out to sea Wednesday after brushing North Carolina's Outer Banks.
U.S. hurricane forecasters Monday predicted a busy 2004 Atlantic hurricane season based on a trend of above-normal activity during seven of the last nine seasons.
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