Border Wall

MONTERREY, Mexico — Police in northern Mexico have captured an alleged member of the Zetas drug gang who confessed to killing at least 75 people, including many who were pulled off of buses, authorities said Monday. Enrique Elizondo Flores...... Full story

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — Suspended first-division soccer goalkeeper Omar "El Gato" Ortiz has been arrested for alleged participation in a kidnapping ring, Mexican police announced Saturday. Ortiz, whose nickname means "The Cat," has been...... Full story

PHOENIX (AP) — An administrative law judge ruled Tuesday that a Tucson school district's ethnic studies program violates state law, agreeing with the findings of Arizona's public schools chief. Judge Lewis Kowal's ruling...... Full story

MEXICO CITY (AP) — When convoys of soldiers or federal police move through the scrubland of northern Mexico, the Zetas drug cartel knows they are coming. The alert goes out from a taxi driver or a street vendor, equipped with a high-end...... Full story

WASHINGTON  — The Obama administration will keep a reduced contingent of National Guard troops working along the Mexican border for the next year, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Starting in January, the force of 1,200...... Full story

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal authorities say five of 20 people charged in an alleged trafficking network in Chicago were members of the Zetas drug cartel of Mexico. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced the charges Wednesday. He says it was...... Full story

ROMA — More than 600 Mexican soldiers arrived in the area across the Rio Grande from Starr County on Monday in an effort to help secure the known drug corridor after several recent firefights. The Frontera Chica, or Little Border, is the...... Full story

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s military says soldiers freed 61 men being held captive by the Zetas drug cartel for use as forced labor. The army says the men were found guarded by three Zetas kidnappers in a safe house in the border city of...... Full story

MONTERREY — Several police officers in northern Mexico allowed a violent drug gang to hold kidnap victims in the local jail while ransom payments were being negotiated, a state official said Thursday.Hours later, the navy reported finding 32...... Full story

In early September, Bata Plastics opened its first satellite facility in McAllen’s Foreign Trade Zone as it sought to minimize fuel costs and quickly service customers. The large recycler was accustomed to shipping surplus plastics from...... Full story

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry says he is open to sending American troops to Mexico to help battle drug cartels. Perry, the Texas governor, likens the situation to Colombia, where the government...... Full story

MEXICO CITY — A gang aligned with Mexico’s most wanted drug lord may be delivering a gruesome challenge to the ruling cartel and Mexican officials in the Gulf state of Veracruz, by dumping 35 bodies on a busy avenue in front of horrified...... Full story

MEXICO CITY — Masked gunmen blocked traffic on a busy avenue in a Gulf of Mexico coastal city Tuesday and dumped the bodies of 35 slaying victims as horrified motorists watched, authorities said.Veracruz state Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar...... Full story

CULIACAN, Mexico — Mexican authorities say the body of an online newspaper journalist has been found a day after he was kidnapped. Sinaloa state assistant prosecutor Martin Robles says the body of 53-year-old Humberto Millan Salazar was found...... Full story

McALLEN — A dark-colored SUV led authorities on a mad dash through rural roads. The vehicle had been spotted by the U.S. Border Patrol as it neared the edge of the Rio Grande and was spotted moments later as it made its way away from the...... Full story