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Expert: Mexican Drug Cartels Infesting US, Even Our National Parks

Lost in the rhetoric about illegal immigration are new reports that Mexican drug cartels have moved into the United States, gaining a major foothold here that may be the start of a permanent expansion onto this side of the border. They're even growing marijuana in our national parks, one expert says. Mexico's cartel...

Mexican Drug Gang Suspects Across US Rounded Up

WASHINGTON - Federal, state and local authorities conducted a massive sweep Thursday of suspected Mexican drug cartel members in the United States in a widespread domestic response to the killing of a U.S. agent in Mexico last week. "We are taking a stand and we are sending a message back to the cartels that we will not...

Police: US Missionary May Have Been Killed for Chevy Truck

An American missionary shot dead in Mexico may have been targeted for her expensive pickup truck, police say. Nancy and Sam Davis were attacked by gunmen Wednesday while driving their 2008 Chevrolet pickup on a highway near San Fernando, about 70 miles south of the Mexican border city of Reynosa, police said. A bullet...

14 Decapitated Men Among 27 Slain in Mexican Resort of Acapulco

ACAPULCO, Mexico -- The bodies of 15 men, all but one of them headless, were found on a street outside a shopping center in Acapulco on Saturday as police reported 27 people slain in the Pacific resort in less than a day. The decapitated victims, all of whom appeared to be in their 20s, were discovered in an area not...

Mexico Auctions Off 'Narco-Bling' at Annual Sale of Confiscated Goods

(Nov. 19) -- Ever wanted to buy a watch bedazzled with custom jeweled skulls, but didn't know where to look? Today, Mexican authorities are wrapping up an open auction of watches just like that and other pieces of confiscated "narco-bling" -- the unofficial name for the luxury goods taken from drug gang leaders -- as part...