Piedras Negras, Mexico News

ON NOVEMBER 16 2007, A GROUP OF FRIENDS WERE TRYING A NEW CAMERA IN A PARTY DURING MIDNIGHT.

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant Tuesday where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, police said.

A Texas border mayor said Wednesday he doesn't think he or the Mexican officials he was with Tuesday were the targets of a drive-by shooting that killed a woman in front of a popular restaurant in Piedras Negras, Mexico.

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico a ' Four suspected members of a cartel-aligned hit squad have been arrested in the slaying of the family of a Mexican marine hailed as a hero for dying in a raid that killed a top drug lord.

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant Tuesday where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, police said.

Drug gang hitmen shot dead the grieving mother, brother, sister and aunt of an elite Mexican marine who died after taking part in a raid that killed a notorious drug lord, police said on Tuesday.

Gunmen sprayed bullets at a restaurant Tuesday where the mayor of a Texas border town was eating with a Mexican state attorney general and other officials, police said.

Esmeralda Delgado of Piedras Negras, Mexico, earns money by giving plasma in Texas.

The Zetas, Mexico's notoriously brutal group of paramilitary thugs, are expanding their role as bully businessmen along the Texas-Mexico border, branching out from traditional criminal enterprises such as extortion and drug trafficking and buying legitimate businesses, U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials say.

Alicia discovers evidence that a juror may have been bribed with $35,000 in a class-action lawsuit against a major pharmaceutical company.

Even in a coal-mining region accustomed to gritty labor in dangerous conditions, the pocito mines in northern Mexico are a world apart.

Jurors returned a guilty verdict Monday in the trial of a San Antonio woman whose 73-year-old husband was found beaten to death two days after she was served with divorce papers.

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THE Tijuana restaurant that popularised the Caesar salad has closed, an apparent victim of a tourism-dependent economy devastated by crime, drug violence and the H1N1 flu.

Click on picture to enlarge. AP Photo: Str Soldiers patrol in Piedras Negras, northern Mexico, Sunday, Aug.

An ex-general serving as police chief of a northern Mexican city escaped an assassination attempt that killed three of his bodyguards, the latest attack on an official appointed to step up the fight against drug cartels.

Customs and Border Protection officers and Border Patrol agents conducting outbound operations this weekend seized $279,950 in undeclared currency at the Eagle Pass port of entry.

Ana Maria Muzquiz, 68, of Abilene, died Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at a local nursing home.

Ana Maria Muzquiz, 68, of Abilene, died Wednesday, July 29, 2009, at a local nursing home.