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Alfonso Elias, Institutional Revolutionary Party, party candidate for governor of Mexico's Sonora state celebrates after claiming victory in midterm elections in Hermosillo, northern Mexico on Sunday.

Reviled as a creaky remnant of Mexico's authoritarian past, the old Institutional Revolutionary Party made a big comeback in midterm congressional elections in defiance of those who had written off what is still the country's biggest and most representative party.

Mexico has issued arrest warrants for a total of 23 people linked to a daycare fire that killed 48 children in Hermosillo, authorities said.

Drug violence, an economic downturn and recent cases of political malfeasance weigh heavily on Mexico's midterm congressional elections Sunday, a vote that could decide the future of President Felipe Calderon's anti-crime and economic policies.

Owners of Mexican day-care center charged in fire Eds: APNewsNow. Will stand. MEXICO CITY Federal prosecutors in Mexico say they have obtained nine arrest warrants for the owners and legal representatives of a day care center where a fire killed 48 children.

Customs spokesmen say they'll be doing their best to keep delays to a minimum for holiday weekend travelers returning from Mexico through Arizona's ports, but some backups are likely.

A new law aimed at preventing the trafficking of children into the United States is having a major impact on when and how those children are returned to their families.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has toured a Sacramento hospital that is treating children burned earlier this month in a blaze at a day care center in northern Mexico.The governor Friday gave teddy bears to nine children being treated at the hospital who were burned in the blaze.

Seven Sonora state officials have been charged with negligent homicide leading to the Hermosillo day-care center fire that killed 47 children earlier this month.

A Mexican man has been detained for allegedly plotting to sell a young woman, two girls and two boys for $2,000 apiece in the United States, police said Sunday.

A U.S. Border Patrol Agent from Indio accused of using his position of power to kidnap and rape a 24-year-old woman during a traffic stop appeared in court Monday, but his arraignment was postponed.

Mexican officials have ordered the arrest of 14 people in connection with a fire at a day-care center earlier this month that killed 47 children, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Monday.

Mexico's government on Wednesday took over the entire investigation into a fire at a day care center that killed 47 children, citing squabbling between state and federal officials over the probe.

A Mexican court has ordered the release on bail of seven state employees arrested in connection with a fire that swept through a daycare centre in the city of Hermosillo, killing 47 children.

Nine officials are facing charges and nine more are being sought in the daycare center fire that has left 47 children dead in northern Mexico, authorities say.

Mexican officials have ordered the arrest of 14 people in connection with a fire at a day-care center earlier this month that killed 47 children, the state-run Notimex news agency reported Monday.

A A A' A 3-year-old girl has died of wounds from a fire at a northern Mexican day care, bringing the death toll from the disaster to 47 children, authorities said Monday.

The samples have been submitted to Jacobs Labs in Tucson, Arizona for analysis and results are expected in 5-7 days.

Two Phoenix groups this week donated $6,000 to a relief fund created to aid the victims and the families of victims of the fire that recently killed more than 40 children at a day-care center in Hermosillo, Sonora.