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Body Parts Found in Upscale Mexico City District

MEXICO CITY - The dismembered body of a woman was found scattered in a leafy, upscale Mexico City district, while authorities investigated possible drug gang links in the deaths of five females whose throats were slashed in Acapulco. The mass slaying of women is unusual in Mexico's drug war, and there was no indication...

Officers Arrested Over Mexico Mass Graves; Death Toll Climbs to 145

Federal authorities have pulled 23 more corpses from a mass grave near the town of San Fernando in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, bringing the death toll to 145 in a mass killing that has managed to shock even the violence-hardened residents of northeastern Mexico. Sixteen police officers were arrested there Thursday...

Investigators Search for Mass Graves in Northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY - Investigators in the state of Tamaulipas across the border from Texas searched for more mass graves on Saturday after authorities looking for abducted bus passengers uncovered 10 pits containing 72 bodies over the past week. Investigators in Matamoros, which borders on Brownsville, Texas, worked to identify...

Federal Police Arrest Suspect in Mexico Linked to US Agent's Death

MEXICO CITY -- Federal police have arrested another drug cartel suspect linked to last month's attack in Mexico that killed one U.S. agent and wounded another, authorities said Wednesday. In the Pacific coast resort city of Mazatlan, meanwhile, gunmen sprayed the crowded parking lot of a bar with bullets, killing at least...

ICE Identifies US Agent Killed in Mexico Attack

Authorities today identified the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed in an attack in Mexico. Special Agent Jaime Zapata was killed and a second agent injured Tuesday when gunmen attacked their blue Suburban vehicle as they drove through the state of San Luis Potosi. Zapata was on assignment to the ICE...