Baja California, Mexico News

Gunmen killed three police officers in separate attacks in less than 24 hours in the Mexican border state of Baja California, officials said Tuesday.

The Mexican army has carried out forced disappearances, acts of torture and illegal raids in pursuit of drug traffickers, according to documents and interviews with victims, their families, political leaders and human rights monitors.

TIJUANA a ' A police officer was fatally shot Tuesday morning outside the Red Cross Hospital, the third killed since Monday night in Tijuana and Rosarito Beach.

Baja California's voters stood firmly behind President Felipe CalderoI n's National Action Party in Sunday's federal midterm elections, bucking the national trend of resurgence for the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party.

The U.S. military today released the names of two Camp Pendleton-based Marines who died in a car crash in Baja California last week.

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Two female Marines based at Camp Pendleton died in a vehicle accident in Mexico, military officials said today.

President Felipe Calderon and his drug war will get their biggest test of support yet when Mexico holds midterm elections Sunday amid growing frustration over rampant cartel violence and a shrinking economy.

Mexican drug traffickers fighting a brutal turf war are attacking priests and preachers who denounce cartel violence, shattering clerics' untouchable aura and breaking honor codes in the world's second-biggest Catholic country.

A 19-year-old man was behind bars today on suspicion of fatally shooting a 21-year-old woman and wounding a man at an Encanto house party several months ago, then fleeing to Mexico.

It was announced Tuesday that Christopher Anthony Sanchez, a teenager wanted by the San Diego Police Department in connection with a March shooting, has been arrested in Tijuana.

Local cops are closely watching what U.S. media are calling one of the worst child porn cases ever as it unfolds in Mexico.

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His boss was beaten to death and dumped in an empty lot, his teeth and fingers missing.

A Canadian-born man has been charged in Mexico in connection with a child pornography ring that authorities say operated throughout Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

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An immigration activist who sought sanctuary in a Chicago church for a year before she was deported to Mexico in 2007 is running for a seat in Mexico's Congress.

Mexican drug violence and recent law enforcement crackdowns elsewhere on the border may be shifting the drug smuggling landscape in the Rio Grande Valley, a recent law enforcement report suggests.

A Canadian suspected of heading a North American pedophilia ring has been arrested in Mexico in possession of four million photographs and videos of children shown naked or striking suggestive poses.

Drug dealers in Mexico are finding it harder to get their products into the United States, so they are increasingly fighting for turf in Juarez and other cities, an expert said Monday.