Michoacan, Mexico News

The two NEH Fellowships also set a new record for the university. This is the first time that two faculty members have received Fellowships in one year in recent history.

TIJUANA, Mexico: Authorities found the decapitated bodies of four men on Tuesday in the border city of Tijuana, while a grenade attack on a police station in a western Mexico wounded a pregnant woman and her 3-year-old daughter.

A 42-year-old man killed when he plunged over a cliff while running away from U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tijuana River Valley was identified Sunday as a resident of Michoacan, Mexico.

Kidnap victims freed from a rehab center in Mexico City said they were snatched from the streets and held in slave-like conditions - beaten, robbed and forced to work 16 hours a day making shopping bags and clothes pins.

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.

Guaranteed sunshine and swimming temperatures - " with round-the-clock fun, relaxation and endless activities on a bleach white beach - are the main reasons Canadians continue to accept the deeply discounted deals offered on Mexico's Yucatan, Baja and Pacific coastlines.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $1.3 million in drugs and arrested three on the day before Thanksgiving, officials said.

Mexico's drug war is entering its fourth year. Its H1N1 flu outbreak began with dozens of deaths and global headlines in the spring.

Rome Resources Ltd. has completed purchase of the San Jose and La Concepcion concessions in the Inguaran Area, Michoacan, Mexico.

Monarch butterflies have the whole wonder-of-nature thing figured out. As if the metamorphosis stunt weren't amazing enough, monarchs pull off yet another incredible feat every year: They migrate, in some cases covering thousands of miles each fall.

Mexico and the US are working together bring down Mexico's newest, most violent drug cartel.

A monarch butterfly sits on a flower at the National Ecological Mexican Reserve in the state of Michoacan, Mexico in Feburary 2007.

New York, November 20, 2009 - A Mexican reporter who had recently covered corruption and organized crime was reported missing this week in the western state of MichoacA n, according to local news reports.

There's Cinco de Mayo, then there's Nov. 20. Back in Mexico, there is no question which date is more important.

The temperature was about the same as the middle of the night in central Mexico but, needless to say, the feel was entirely different.

Alcohol and Caffeine Together, Possibly Not Good For You: The FDA is threatening to pull alcoholic drinks spiked with caffeine from the market since studies suggest that caffeine in malt beverages can lead people to underestimate how drunk they are.

If you didn't notice the concentration of bees near the Colegio de los Jesuitas, in Morelia , Mexico , you might think the complex was another one of the city's signature pink-stone churches.

The cathedral was wired with fireworks and a song about the beauty of this central Mexico city was blaring from the loudspeakers.

MORELIA, Mexico - Published on Saturday, Nov. 07, 2009 8:35PM EST T he Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.

The shoemaker's son has come a long way from banging on buckets in his hometown of Len, in the Mexican state of Guanajuato.