Ciudad Juarez, Mexico News

Fourteen years ago, I began my career as an appellate lawyer in a pro bono case, helping the Southern Poverty Law Center convince the United States Supreme Court to reinstate the civil rights conviction of a Tennessee judge who used his power to sexually assault and rape female court employees and litigants appearing before him.

Mexico's top domestic security official said Friday that sectors of the general public have cooperated with drug cartels in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, and the government is about to launch new social programs there to combat gangs.

Residents in the violent Mexican border city of Juarez will soon be able to report crime through an anonymous international tip line.

U.S. Customs agents have arrested two people and seized nearly 30 pounds of heroin.

Ciudad Juarez is at war. From the lips of Richard Nixon in 1971, the U.S. War on Drugs has transcended metaphor and emerged on our doorstep as a too-real war.

VICTORIA A.F. CAMERON CU student devoted to community service, highlights female victims of drug war in Juarez BOULDER, Colo.

A caravan aimed at upholding women's rights and stopping violence against women in Ciudad Juarez and Mexico is headed to the U.S. border.

U.S. assistance to help Mexico fight drug traffickers will probably continue beyond the allotted three years of the Merida Initiative, with expanding cooperation but not joint law enforcement or military operations "on Mexican soil any time soon," a senior Obama administration official said.

NEW YORK: Mexican business leaders have appealed to the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers just metres from the US border to help stem the rampant violence of the country's drug cartels.

A 7-year-old boy who attended school in El Paso was slain in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in a shooting that also left his father dead.

Mexico's Ciudad Juarez is one of the world's most dangerous cities, plagued by battles between drug gangs.

Fifteen people, including a child, three women and a university professor, have been killed in a single day in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said today.

Authorities say a 7-year-old boy, three women and a university professor are among 15 people who were killed in a single day in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Mexico's most-wanted drug lord escaped prison by hiding in a laundry truck nearly a decade ago, and his legend and fortune seem to grow with each passing day he eludes capture.

Mexican troops have trained local police and joined in patrolling the city, but the violence continues.

WASHINGTON: Local leaders in Ciudad Juarez have asked for UN peacekeepers to help stem the alarming bloodshed in their city that is chasing business across the border to Texas, their representatives have said.

Gunmen burst into an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and opened fire in a violence-plagued Mexican border state, killing one person and wounding four, authorities said Tuesday.

When soldiers tried to halt a suspicious-looking SUV that was being escorted through Monterrey by a state policeman, the officer radioed for backup.

A welcoming mural calls Holloman Air Force Base 'The Friendliest Place on Earth,' but the mood beyond the gates Thursday reflected the loss of a popular airman gunned down in Mexico.

The family of a 52-year-old former Arizona teacher says he was one of 13 people killed in a shooting rampage at Fort Hood in Texas.