The Federal Aviation Administration says an emergency signal has been detected that appears to be from the plane that disappeared while carrying the Mexican and U.S. heads of the International Water and Boundary Commission.

Searchers scoured rugged desert Tuesday for a small plane that disappeared while carrying the Mexican and U.S. heads of the International Water and Boundary Commission.

Two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up have been denied a request for a new hearing.

In initial versions of a Sept. 7 obituary for Hall of Fame college basketball coach Don Haskins, The Associated Press erroneously reported the surname of a member of Haskins’ 1966 national championship team. His correct name is Harry Flournoy, not Floury.

Security is being heightened along the southern U.S. border because of a threat that warring Mexican cartels may send hit men into the United States, authorities said Monday.

Officials along the southern U.S. border say they are beeing up security after learning that warring Mexican cartels have approved sending hit men into the United States.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ordered Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles to stand trial in El Paso on immigration fraud charges.

Nearly all illegal guns seized in Mexico come from the United States, the head of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

A man shot by a pair of Border Patrol agents during a drug smuggling attempt was sentenced to nearly a decade in prison Wednesday for separate smuggling incidents committed while he was waiting to testify against the agents.

Two federal agents wounded in an accidental shooting at the federal courthouse were shot when a U.S. Marshal’s gun went off as he was trying to holster it, federal authorities said Tuesday.