Unknown assailants shot and killed a mayor-elect in the central state of San Luis Potosi on Sunday, authorities said.
Missionaries John and Wanda Casias were murdered in their home in northern Mexico. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
The runner-up in Mexico's presidential election announced Thursday that he was filing a legal challenge to invalidate the vote.
An official tally of Mexico's presidential election returns -- including individual recounts for more than half the ballots -- confirmed Enrique Peña Nieto as the winner of the election.
Enrique Peña Nieto, the man election authorities project will be Mexico's next president, was the governor of Mexico's most populous state. His wife is a well-known television star.
According to election officials, Enrique Peña Nieto is the projected winner of Mexico's presidential election.
Protesters marched and packed the main square of Mexico City on Sunday, slamming the candidate widely seen as the front-runner in next month's presidential elections.
Authorities treated more than 700 people for food poisoning after a political rally in southern Mexico this week, officials said.
A day after authorities announced that the body of a Mexican congressman was found along a highway in the coastal state of Guerrero, lawmakers from his political party called Monday for a swift investigation of his killing.
Former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon was detained Saturday on suspicion of illegal weapons possession, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said.
I realize this might be an imprudent question leading up to September 16 -- Mexican Independence Day -- but what in the world is the matter with Mexico?
Mexico's leading opposition party appeared poised Monday to capture most of the 12 governorships at stake in Sunday's elections, preliminary results show.
Egidio Torre Cantu, brother of slain Mexican gubernatorial candidate Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was chosen by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, to take his place on the ballot, a PRI official told CNN.
Two people were killed and one more injured when gunmen opened fire at a political rally in southern Mexico on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
Mexican officials say the theft of cash, computers and other household goods was the motive for the weekend slayings of a legislative candidate, his wife and two children, the state-run Notimex news agency said.
A legislative candidate was killed, along with his wife and two children, bringing campaigns for statewide offices in the southeastern state of Tabasco to a halt, the state-run news agency Notimex reported.
It has nothing to do with Michael Jackson or Sarah Palin, but there's a big story brewing south of the border to which Americans should pay close attention.
Anger and protests continued in Mexico as the head of a government agency that oversees day care centers testified before Congress about the deaths of 48 children last month at a center.
Two leading candidates have claimed victory in Mexico's presidential vote, even as the country's top election official deemed the result too close to call.
Mexicans head to the polls Sunday for a presidential election that political observers have pegged as a tight race to find a successor for leader Vicente Fox.
Fortune: NO PICNIC IN MEXICOupdated: Mon Aug 15 1988 00:01:00
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