Ciudad Juarez, Mexico News

Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels.

Mexican drug cartels fighting each other for smuggling routes face increasing competition in the U.S. where legalization in some states has increased the amount of marijuana available.

The adjectives pile up as top editors, writers and free press advocates level their aim at the division of the Attorney General’s Office in Mexico responsible for prosecuting crimes against journalists.

Guillermo Ruiz testified in 12th Judicial District Court Tuesday. Ruiz is explaining how he felt after being abused in a drug-treatment program in El Paso when he was a teen.

If you're a regular watcher of FX - home to a good many of the best shows on TV - then you've probably noticed the quick, mysterious commercials for their upcoming crime drama The Bridge , debuting July 10.

In the sister cities of Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Mother's Day 2013 had a prolonged calendar life because of cross-border family ties, work schedules and commercial promotions.

In a recent speech in Mexico City, US President Barack Obama, gave Mexico his take on the escalating gun violence, lying straight to the crowd's face: "We understand that the root cause of violence that's been happening here in Mexico for which so many Mexicans have suffered is the demand for illegal drugs in the United States.

More than 40 artists from the U.S.-Mexico border have been selected for the concurrent exhibits "III Bienal Ciudad Juarez-El Paso Biennial 2013." The exhibits, subtitled "Tijuana to Brownsville: Contemporary Art Along the Border," will run together June 2 through Aug.

Jurors viewed Friday the videotaped confession of Guillermo Ruiz who is on trial in 12th Judicial District Court for killing a 20-year-old Ruidoso woman in December 2007.

Drug users inject a mixture of heroin and water at a drug den in Ciudad Juarez December 13, 2012.

Saul Reyes Salazar is a man who understands loss. In January 2010, his sister Josefina was shot in the head, following a botched kidnapping in their hometown of Guadalupe los Bravos, across the border bridge from Tornillo, Texas.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico Authorities in northern Mexico say three police officers working for Interpol in Mexico and a federal investigator have been missing since Monday.

A man who allegedly lured a Pennsylvania teen to Ohio for sex has been charged in Texas with taking another young girl to Mexico, investigators say.

Vatican City, May 6, 2013 / 05:50 am .- Pope Francis has appointed Spanish-speaking Bishop Mark J. Seitz to lead the El Paso diocese in western Texas, placing him just across the border from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico Two sons of a well-known journalism couple have been shot to death, authorities in a northern Mexico border state said Sunday.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - President Obama is in Mexico City Thursday evening. He is meeting with Mexico's president on trade, immigration and drug smuggling.

When she stood behind the podium and began reading from her one-page speech, Kathy McGroarty-Torres felt more than just her usual jitters about speaking in public.

For almost a century, the Kentucky Club, just three blocks from the international bridge, has been a nightlife destination for residents of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez.

Alejandra C. Diaz, 76, of Garden City, died Sunday, April 28, 2013, at Garden Valley Retirement Village in Garden City.

Members of the scientific team of Mexican dentist Alejandro Hernandez Cardenas push a gurney with a mummified human corpse to rehydrate it in a special chemical bath at the forensic scientific laboratory of the attorney general in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.