Joaquin News

What you see in San Antonio - or any place else - depends entirely where you're looking.

A violent and ongoing battle between two powerful drug cartels has pushed this northern border city's murder rate _ already one of the highest in the world _ to new records in 2009, according to a government report issued Wednesday.

Federal agents escort alleged cartel hitmen, front to back: Roberto Salas, Luis Alfredo Galindo, Fernando Monte Godina,partially seen, Sergio Estrada Gutierrez and Julio Cesar Aleman in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday Sept.

Authorities say they've arrested five suspects in two separate attacks on rehab clinics that left 27 people dead.

Alejandro "Alex" Granado was a serious soldier, but once the uniform came off, his family said he was all smiles.

The massacre of 18 people at a drug rehabilitation center near the Texas border is part of a final push by one drug cartel to finish off another, authorities and analysts say.

Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Uruguayan, , Composicion constructiva , 1943. Oil on canvas.

A fund set aside to pay tribute to victims of a 2002 train crash in Joaquin, Texas has been turned over to the Shelby County District Attorney's Office.

The eight bullets that leveled Jose Daniel Gonzalez Galeana outside his home just doors from the city's police chief were fired at close range and left little doubt about their message.

Theft, 129 Wettermark Street. A man said that he had several friends over at his house, and when he awoke the next morning he discovered his X-Box 360 Elite and a Friday the 13th movie were missing.

Francisco Matto, Constructive Painting, 1946. Oil on cardboard, 20 x 24 in. Collection of the Estate of the Artist, Courtesy of Cecilia de Torres, Ltd.

Every morning they wake up earlier than dawn. Mom gets ready to go to work, as does dad, while also getting three very active children ready for the day.

Texas military personnel, whether they were U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents when they signed up to serve, would be exempted from tuition and fees at public universities under a bill the Texas House tentatively approved Monday.

While we were touring Stockholm, Sweden last year, the tour guide was giving us information about her country and, in addition, the subject of health care surfaced.

The head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, is telling his drug smugglers to "use their weapons to defend their loads at all costs," north of the border, according to a story in today's Los Angeles Times.

The head of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel has instructed associates to use deadly force north of the border, authorities said.

The Times Record News won the award for best online paper among newspapers with circulations of 30,000 to 124,999 at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors' annual meeting held over the weekend.

Maria Gabriela Betancourt of Seguin, Texas, passed away Saturday, April 18, 2009, at the age of 84.

One of three Tenaha, Texas Independent School District students has died, after being hit by a driver Tuesday morning while waiting for the school bus.

Three Tenaha ISD students were seriously injured after a pickup truck hit them as they were waiting to get on the school bus Tuesday morning, according to a representative with Tenaha ISD.