
Ciudad Juarez has had almost 2000 homicides — almost all brutal executions — through mid-October this year, up from 1,171 for the same period in 2008. There have been 195 murders in the first half of this month alone. The killings,...

Authorities in Texas say a car carrying four people has crashed into a utility pole after police stopped chasing it, killing three people in the vehicle and injuring one.
A handful of schools around the country have closed over swine flu fears and some people are wearing masks, but it’s mostly business as usual in the U.S., even at border crossings into Mexico.
The job title _ “border czar” _ is familiar to Alan Bersin, who more than a decade ago led an effort to fight drug and human smuggling that had mixed results at best.
A former federal prosecutor has been named to the new post of U.S. “border czar” and will oversee efforts to fight drug smuggling and illegal immigration.
Army officials say 16 patients exposed to a mismanaged insulin needle program at a military hospital in Texas have tested positive for hepatitis B or C.
U.S. Border Patrol agents shot a suspected drug smuggler in the New Mexico desert after the man ran over an officer with a pickup truck, officials said Friday.
A federal law-enforcement building in El Paso has been evacuated after two people in the mail room were exposed to an unknown white powder.
With the death toll in the Mexican city of Juarez mounting, the increasingly bloody struggle for control of the city across the Rio Grande from El Paso can now count one more victim: charity from its American neighbor.
A county in Texas filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court this week in the latest bid to stop construction of hundreds of miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.
At least three U.S. residents have been killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in as many weeks as the death toll in the violent border city surpasses 1,400.
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