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35 Zoo Animals Freeze to Death in Northern Mexico

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Thirty-five animals at a zoo in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua have frozen to death during the region's coldest weather in six decades. Serengeti Zoo owner Alberto Hernandez says 14 parrots, 13 serpents, five iguanas, two crocodiles and a capuchin monkey died. He said Saturday that power...

Marines Find 72 Bodies in Northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Aug. 25) -- Mexican marines found the dumped bodies of 72 people at a rural location in northern Mexico following a shootout with suspected drug cartel gunmen that left one marine and three suspects dead, the Navy reported late Tuesday. The cadavers of 58 men and 14 women were found at a spot near the Gulf...

Mexican Police Free Reporters Nabbed by Drug Gang

MEXICO CITY (July 31) -- Federal police rescued two kidnapped cameramen in northern Mexico on Saturday, five days after they were nabbed by drug traffickers. Javier Canales of Multimedios Television and Alejandro Hernandez of Televisa were freed before dawn in the city of Gomez Palacio, the Public Safety Department said...

51 Bodies Found at Northern Mexico Dumping Ground

MEXICO CITY (July 24) --Investigators said Saturday they have found 51 corpses in two days of digging in a field near a trash dump outside the northern city of Monterrey, as excavations continued at one of the largest clandestine body dumping grounds in Mexico's bloody drug war. The attorney general of Nuevo Leon state,...

Alex Dumps Heavy Rain on Texas, Mexico

(July 1) -- Alex, downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, dumped heavy rain over South Texas and northeastern Mexico today after crashing ashore with high winds and pounding waves. Even though it will continue weakening, it's still posing a serious flash-flooding threat for a large area in Mexico and Texas....

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05/21/12 Mexican army says Zetas behind killing of 49 in... Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA Mexican army officials on Monday said top leaders of the Zetas gang ordered the killing of 49 people whose bodies were mutilated and dumped in northern Mexico on May 13, and that they then sought to throw off authorities by hanging banners elsewhere around the country disavowing the incident.
05/14/12 49 decapitated bodies found in northern Mexico Source: NBC - KETK 56 - Tyler TX The 49 decapitated bodies authorities found on a roadside in northern Mexico over the weekend were likely the result of a fierce feud between rival drug cartels, a top Mexican official said Monday.
05/14/12 Grisly massacre in northern Mexico Source: The Business Journal of Phoenix - Phoenix AZ The drug-related violence in Mexico reached a crescendo this weekend with the discovery of 49 mutilated bodies dumped on a highway near Monterrey.
05/13/12 Notable violence in Mexico over past year Source: TheShowBuzz MEXICO CITY — The discovery of 49 mutilated bodies dumped on a highway in northern Mexico on Sunday appears to be part of an increasingly gruesome war of intimidation among Mexican drug gangs.
05/03/12 Mercator Minerals to Hold First Quarter 2012... Source: StockHouse VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/03/12 -- Mercator Minerals Ltd (TSX:ML) ("Mercator" or the "Company") expects to release its financial results for the period ended March 31, 2012 after market hours on May 10, 2012 and will hold a conference call and a live audio webcast on May 11, 2012 at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time to discuss these results.