Two masked men set the offices of a prominent Mexican newspaper on fire Sunday, the second such attack on the daily this month.
Mexican authorities found dozens of decapitated bodies along a highway. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
The 49 decapitated bodies authorities found on a roadside in northern Mexico over the weekend were likely the result of a fierce feud between rival drug cartels, a top Mexican official said Monday.
Mexican authorities found at least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies along a highway in a northern border state Sunday morning, officials said.
Three inmates were killed in a prison in northern Mexico Tuesday, a security official said.
The blue plastic envelope is packed with papers: security camera photos, cell phone records, business cards and letters asking for help.
Mexican authorities have arrested a former soccer star whom they accuse of using his social status to help a kidnapping gang track down information about potential victims, officials said.
Federal authorities have arrested one of the alleged leaders of a drug cartel thought to be behind the attack and arson last August at a Monterrey casino that left 52 people dead, Mexico's news agency reported.
At least seven inmates were killed and 20 were injured Thursday in a prison riot in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, authorities said.
Federal authorities have arrested one of the alleged leaders of a drug cartel thought to be behind the August attack and arson at a Monterrey casino that left 52 people dead, Mexico's news agency reported Tuesday.
Authorities in the Mexican city of Santiago have confirmed that four banners were left recently at various schools with threatening messages. The banners were anonymous, but local officials think organized crime is responsible.
Three family members of a police officer implicated in the fatal attack on a Monterrey, Mexico, casino that left 52 people dead were killed by unknown assailants in "a revenge attack" by a local cartel, the spokesman for security in the state of Nuevo Leon told reporters Thursday.
A parking attendant credited with saving casino patrons during an attack gets a new job. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
A 19-year-old parking attendant who is being hailed as a hero for his actions in the deadly Mexico casino blaze in August is now pursuing rescue work in an official capacity, as a firefighter.
Mexican authorities have arrested five cartel members in connection to a casino fire that killed 52 people.
A Mexican state police officer has been arrested in connection with the drug cartel casino fire that killed 52 people in the northern industrial town of Monterrey last week, federal officials said Thursday night.
Two survivors of the casino fire that killed 52 people in the Mexican city of Monterrey last week cast doubt on authorities' description of what happened, saying gunmen opened fire on gamblers inside before setting the building ablaze.
Five gang members have confessed to involvement in last week's torching of a casino in Monterrey in which 52 people were killed, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz told reporters Monday.
Hundreds of troops headed to northern Mexico Saturday as authorities continued investigations into the torching of a casino that left at least 52 people dead.
Gunmen attacked a Mexican casino, setting a fire that trapped customers and killed dozens. CNN's Jonathan Mann reports.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned Friday the torching of a Monterrey casino that killed at least 52 people as "the most serious attack on civil society that the country has seen in a long time."
At least 53 people were killed and eight others injured in a reported grenade attack Thursday at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, the capital of Nuevo Leon, Red Cross officials said.
At least 40 people were killed and numerous others injured in a reported grenade attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico, the capital of Nuevo Leon, according to attorney general in that northern state.
Authorities in the northern Mexican city of Torreon said Saturday that they found 10 "mutilated" bodies inside the back of a truck, the state-run news agency reported.
Mexican authorities issued a hurricane warning along parts of the country's eastern coast Wednesday as Tropical Storm Arlene approached, the National Hurricane Center reported.
Historians describe the 1846 Battle of Monterrey as one of the first to involve door-to-door urban fighting. The Mexican city was among the key cities that fell to American hands during the 1846-1848 Mexican-American War.
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Authorities in the Mexican north-central state of Durango have confirmed the discovery of 26 bodies in a mass grave. According to the Durango State's Attorney's Office, the bodies were found in a residential area in the capital city of the same name.
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The top security official in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon was found shot dead and burned inside a truck in the city of Monterrey, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing state officials.
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Police discovered Sunday the remains of five men discarded along the highway between Monterrey and Reynosa, in northern Mexico, Notimex reported. The state news agency said the bodies were naked, except for plastic bags.
At least 59 people have been killed in and around the region of Mexico's richest city, Monterrey, since the start of 2011, according to a tally kept by officials at the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, a spokesman told CNN Tuesday.
A day after attacks on two police stations that resulted in the deaths of four police officers in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, a police spokesman vowed Thursday that security will be beefed up in the municipalities and strategies to fight organized crime will be reconsidered.
A college student at one of Mexico's top universities gets kidnapped. His abductors use his cell phone to text a friend: "Meet me here."
Fortunately most United States soccer fans had their eyes on MLS Cup this past week, because there wasn't a whole host of memorable moments involving the Americans playing abroad.
It was a shocking twist in Mexico's four-year war among drug cartels. At around 1 a.m. on a Thursday in late October, gunmen sprayed bullets into three buses carrying temporary workers after their shift at U.S.-based Eagle Ottawa's plant in Juárez. Four employees of the automotive-upholstery maker were killed and 17 injured, sending chills through the border town. Never before had employees of a U.S. factory been targeted in the drug-related violence that is sweeping the country.
For the past two years, Dan Buettner has teamed with psychologists and scientists to seek out the world's happiest people for his new book, "Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way."
The Jonas Brothers have canceled a planned concert in Monterrey, Mexico, they announced Thursday, following an outbreak of drug-related violence there.
An officer was hospitalized Saturday night after a grenade exploded at the Nuevo Leon state police headquarters in Monterrey, Mexico, officials said.
A grenade blast near Monterrey, Mexico, wounded 14 people late Saturday, including eight minors, the state-run Notimex news agency reported, citing local officials.
At least three grenades exploded near the U.S. consulate in Monterrey, Mexico late Friday, a consulate employee told CNN Saturday.
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A compressor exploded Tuesday morning inside a government-owned oil refinery in northeastern Mexico, forcing the evacuation of the facility's workers, state-own oil company Pemex said.
The State Department told U.S. government employees in Monterrey, Mexico, on Friday to send their children elsewhere because of heightened security risks related to drug violence.
The body of Edelmiro Cavazos Leal, the mayor of the city of Santiago in Nuevo Leon state, was found Wednesday, two days after he was abducted, Mexico's interior ministry announced.
The mayor of a town on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, was kidnapped by gunmen overnight, Nuevo Leon state officials said at a news conference Monday.
A grenade thrown by unknown attackers damaged apartments near a television station office in Monterrey, Mexico, on Sunday, but there were no reports of injuries, the country's state-run Notimex agency reported.
Authorities in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon are investigating after finding at least 38 bodies in nine hidden mass graves, the state's attorney general said.
The U.S. State Department has renewed a travel warning for Mexico due to drug-related violence, particularly in the northern border areas.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon promised federal aid to three states after torrential rains soaked the area, leaving at least 15 dead and forcing the evacuation of thousands.
The alleged leader of a regional branch of the Los Zetas drug cartel was arrested by the Mexican Army Wednesday, Mexico's state news agency Notimex reported.
Two city officials in Monterrey, Mexico, were kidnapped on Sunday and Monday, respectively, the state-run Notimex news agency reported.
The alleged leader of the Beltran Leyva drug trafficking organization was killed in a shootout with federal forces in northern Mexico, state media reported.
Mexican authorities on Thursday continued to investigate the kidnappings of at least six people from a Holiday Inn in Monterrey, Mexico, Wednesday.
A photo on a Facebook page shows them dressed in black suits, white shirts and stylish ties. They're at some sort of dinner and they look straight into the camera, their young faces full of hope and promise and that assuredness reserved for those for whom the future stretches endlessly.
There are dozens of murders recorded in Mexico each month, but it was a single one that set off a succession of skirmishes that has turned the northeastern state of Tamaulipas into a battle zone.
The Mexican government has apologized to the families of two students killed early Friday who officials initially said were drug gang members.
Five presumed drug gang members and one soldier were killed in shootouts Thursday and Friday after criminals blocked thoroughfares in two northern Mexico states to prevent military reinforcements from arriving, authorities said.
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Mexican soldiers have captured a top leader of one of the nation's most ruthless drug cartels, the government's military announced.
A top drug cartel suspect with a $1 million reward on his head has been captured by Mexican soldiers, federal authorities said.
A top Mexican drug cartel suspect has been arrested along with 12 accomplices, including five women, federal authorities said.
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An alleged drug trafficker suspected of an attack on a U.S. consulate and killing Mexican soldiers has been arrested, Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced Friday, according to the state news agency.
The driver of a truck that collided with a bus in northeast Mexico, killing 12 people including 11 passengers from the United States and Canada, was intoxicated, a Mexican official said Tuesday.
The Televisa TV station in Monterrey, Mexico, came under attack Tuesday night from hooded gunmen who launched a grenade and fired at least one high-power weapon at it, federal authorities said.
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Four men were shot dead in front of a crowd at an amusement park, a toddler died after the car he was traveling in crashed during a gunbattle, and a businessman was killed after leading a protest against violence, officials said Thursday
A cargo jet crashed Sunday just west of Monterrey, Mexico, killing the pilot and injuring the co-pilot, a company representative said.
Seventeen weeks of Mexican soccer have banished one team to the second division and eliminated seven others from contention from the Clausura 2008 postseason.
For the first time in Mexican First Division history, the trophy sits in one of the country's most well-known resort towns.
When you think of hotspots for grooming corporate leaders, the bustling skyscrapers of Manhattan or the sprawling office parks of Los Angeles easily come to mind. But Erie, Pennsylvania? That's right. Turns out, the mid-sized industrial town marked by squat factories and windowless pubs is ground zero for some of corporate America's fast-rising stars.
A truck carrying more than 25 tons of dynamite exploded Monday in northern Mexico, killing at least 23 people and injuring more than 140, a government spokesman said.
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Although it's known as a boomtown for luxurious beachfront resorts, this stretch of Mexico's Caribbean coastline has held onto its authentic charm, thanks to the thriving village of Playa del Carmen and the region's ancient Mayan ruins. Here, you can check into a haute hotel -- and still slip outside for a little local flavor.
The week between Christmas and New Year's was dreadful. Knowing full well that Mexican soccer was right around the corner, the final days of 2006 dragged forever. Minutes seemed like hours, hours like weeks, a day like a decade.
Mindy McCready has been released from jail on $50,000 bond on a charge of probation violation.
Once a Category 4 Hurricane, Emily was downgraded to a tropical depression early Thursday, nearly 24 hours after it made landfall near San Fernando, Mexico. But the storm still posed a significant flooding threat as it dumped torrential rain on the region.
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.
Roman Catholic cardinals preparing to elect a new pope have unanimously decided not to talk with the media, a Vatican spokesman told reporters Saturday.
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