Michoacan, Mexico News

From left, Joe Cronley , Linda Tillson , Alma Armendariz and Mac MacQuoid pose with the used ambulance the club is sending to the tiny village of Pueblo Viejo in Michoacan, Mexico.

Funeral mass for Maria Guadalupe Perez Lorenzo, 50, of Dickson will be conducted Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10 a.m. from the Saint Christopher's Catholic Church with Father Fernando, as officiate.

Federal prosecutors released three of the 10 Mexican mayors arrested last month in an unprecedented sweep of elected officials accused of protecting a drug cartel, authorities said Monday.

Federal prosecutors detained two government officials Monday for alleged ties to a drug cartel in Michoacan state, where 30 other local and state officials were arrested on the same charges last month.

Photo: Lys Verduzco sits with her artwork Friday at a park off Calle Atajo. The Academy for the Love of Learning is kicking off a public art project today that documents the stories of immigrants' journeys to Santa Fe.

Manatee County Sheriff's Office detectives, with the help of federal and Mexican authorities, have captured a Bradenton man who fled before sentencing on a molestation conviction and has been on the run for two years.

The sport of racing pigeons gained wide popularity in Belgium in the mid-19th century, and many of the great pigeon fanciers were sought after to help breeders create top racing stocks around the world.

Add your comment page: 1 Sharon Jun 23rd, 2009 - 16:40:40 We live in Michoacan, Mexico, where the rainy season has already fully arrived, so it's a little difficult to tell for sure what influence the near-hurrican Andres is having.

MORELIA a ' Gunmen tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient inside who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting in a drug cartel-plagued Mexican state Friday.

Gunmen tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient inside who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting in a drug cartel-plagued Mexican state Friday.

A military officer pulls marijuana plants out of the ground during the Operation Michoacan drug raids in the state of Michoacan, Mexico in this December 2006 file photo.

Gunmen tossed a grenade at an ambulance and then opened its doors to kill a patient who had narrowly survived an earlier shooting, as paramedics ran for their lives early Friday.

MEXICO CITY/MORELIA -- Despite a raging war against homegrown drug cartels, politics may well be Mexico's most dangerous drug.

The versatile norteno band Beto y Sus Canarios were formed in 1987 in Huetamo Michoacan, Mexico, sometimes called the Tierra Caliente.

The Mexican army has captured 25 gunmen in northern Mexico who witnesses say disguised themselves as soldiers.

An American suspect is expected to defend herself from charges of murder and sexual assault when she takes the stand today in the trial for the 2007 killing of a British student in Italy.

Gunmen tossed a fragmentation grenade and fired on a crowded taco stand Thursday in the central Mexican city of Uruapan, killing a police officer and a 15-year-old boy.

When Hermelinda Luviano offered me one of the lunch plates her hard-working crew at Delicias Latinas had prepared, I hesitated.

There are many reasons why Flora and Martha Zepeda will be the valedictorians at Wednesday night's San Bernardino High School graduation.

Three men from Michoacan, Mexico, were taken to hospitals after their truck ran off the road Thursday, a Missouri Highway Patrol report said.