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A Hawker 800 jet crashed in northern Mexico late on Saturday, killing all eight people on board, the government of the state of Coahuila said.

Dance pop's MGMT performed staples and not-so-well received material at the main Coachella stage Saturday night and the audience's response appeared mixed.

Alejandrino Gonzalez/The Associated Press A parked car suffered damage when a adobe wall collapsed on it after a strong earthquake shook Chilpancingo, Mexico, on Friday.

Maria Hawke, who had served as a public information officer, was terminated after an "investigation of untruthfulness," according to a Tucson Police spokesman.

How did it happen? How'd the zebra get its stripes? In Rudyard Kipling's version , a gray, horsey-looking beast went into "a great forest 'sclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy, speckly, patchy-batchy shadows," stayed there awhile, and after a "long time"... got stripy.

A powerful earthquake shook a wide area of Mexico on Friday, terrifying residents and sending many fleeing into the streets.

A fire at a Marathon County Highway Department building has caused massive damage and departments are continuing to battle the blaze, according to the Marathon County Sheriff's Department.

In Carle Place accident. left lane blocked on Northern State Pkwy WB at Meadowbrook Pkwy/X31a.

His death mourned around the globe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is being hailed as a giant of modern literature, a writer of intoxicating novels and short stories that illuminated Latin America's passions, superstition, violence and social inequality.

A table with flowers stands on the street as part of Good Friday celebrations in Aracataca, the hometown of late Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Colombia's Caribbean coast, Friday, April 18, 2014.

Canada has a new development partner in the Arab world, and the foreign-aid minister says it could help the Harper government navigate the complex Middle East in the fight against poverty.

Four migrants were killed and three others wounded when gunmen attacked a train in southeastern Mexico, the National Migration Institute, or INM, said Thursday.

A powerful, magnitude-7.5 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday.

Working with the San Diego and El Centro Sector Border Patrol, Mexican Federal Police arrested Victor Mendoza-Rojas in Mexicali last week.

Fernando Sur, whose father drives him from Tijuana to Southern California Yeshiva High School in San Diego, wraps tefillin at his all-boys school.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it has reached an agreement with an investor group to clear the way for construction of the nation's first cross-border airport terminal connecting San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico.

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was praised as the most popular Spanish-language writer since Cervantes, died today in Mexico City at the age of 87. Garcia Marquez, a former journalist who was born in Colombia but lived in Mexico for more than 30 years, is best known for his 1967 masterpiece, the epic, hallucinatory novel ... (more)

Editor's Note: This week's Security Weekly summarizes our quarterly Mexico drug cartel report, in which we assess the most significant developments of the first quarter of 2014 and provide a forecast for the second quarter of the year.

The Mexican cult Iglesia Christiana Restaurada is accused of kidnapping and brainwashing 15 children.

In this April 11, 2014 photo, a girl jumps rope in a boxing gym as visitors arrive on a theatrical tour of Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood.