Michoacan, Mexico News

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.

Jean Scheid pours chocolate into a mold to make chocolate calaveritas in celebration of Dia de los Muertos at the Essencia Artisan Bakery and Chocolaterie in Yakima.

Gabriel Gutierrez Sr., 51, of Vineland, passed away Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, in Cooper University Hospital, Camden.

Are you a cultural festival junkie? Treasures abound in Mexico and in your nearby Mexican neighborhood.

Oscar Esqueda certainly stood out when Yakima Symphony Orchestra music director Brooke Creswell and executive director Nol Moxley visited Morelia, Mexico, last April.

LEMON HEIGHTS He promised his dad that he would take care of his pigeons, but when he didn't, senior piled him and his birds into the car for a drive to Newport Beach.

Mexican authorities say they've arrested two leaders of the "La Familia" drug cartel.

The United States Attorney's Office announced on Thursday that 14 people were indicted for conspiring to distribute illegal drugs in South Carolina.

Staging raids in 19 states, the Justice Department struck this week at one of Mexico's most ruthless drug-trafficking organizations, a cultlike group known as La Familia Michoacana and notorious for beheading its enemies.

Sheriff Rod Hoops has scheduled a 2 p.m. press conference this afternoon to discuss a joint takedown with the Drug Enforcement Agency of one of the largest Mexican drug cartels in the country.

Federal and local authorities early Wednesday arrested 90 people in Dallas as part of a nationwide methamphetamine drug distribution bust tied to the notorious "La Familia" drug cartel.

When two lawyers were filming a retrial of a Mexico City street vendor falsely imprisoned for murder, Mexico's archaic judicial system had no place to hide.

A Mexican citizen has been charged in one of the biggest known marijuana grows in Western Washington.In a Drug Enforcement Administration complaint filed Wednesday, Rafael Birrueta Mendoza of Michoacan, Mexico, is charged with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.

The western Mexican state of Michoacan will host a government-backed international conference on Oct.

Street vendor Antonio Zuniga was picked up by police in Mexico City in late 2005 without a warrant, jailed and sentenced to 20 years for the murder of a man he had never met.

Timely doc "Presunto Culpable" and Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio's "Alamar" swept the Morelia International Film Festival.

Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio's documentary-style drama "Alamar" made a big splash at the seventh edition of the Morelia International Film Festival, winning best picture and the audience award.