Tropical Storm Hermine rolled into south Texas early Tuesday, bringing heavy rains and strong winds to an area battered by Hurricane Alex earlier this summer. Hermine made landfall in northeastern Mexico late Monday and crossed into Texas within hours,...

Mexican authorities have arrested a man who was trying to smuggle 18 small monkeys into the country by carrying them in his clothing. Roberto Sol Cabrera, a Mexican citizen, was stopped at a random check at Mexico City’s international airport...

At least three people, including two policemen, were killed in northern Mexico on Thursday when a car drove into two police vehicles in retaliation for the arrest of a drug cartel boss, the Security Ministry said. Bystanders in Ciudad Juarez on the...

The smooth-talking mayor of Cancun, Mexico’s top resort destination and world-famous party town, was arrested by federal police Wednesday on charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and serving as a go-between for violent drug...

Mexican authorities said Thursday that gunmen killed a deputy police chief outside an elementary school as his wife, son and other students and parents looked on. Eduardo Ezparza, the spokesman for prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state, said the...

Gunmen have killed four relatives of an elite Mexican soldier who died during an operation targeting one of the country’s most-wanted drug lords. The mother, brother, sister and aunt of marine Melquisedet Angulo Cordova were killed in an apparent...

First it was cocaine. Now Mexico’s drug kingpins are offering an even more addictive substance to their American customers: black gold. This isn’t slang for a new kind of narcotic. It’s what the name suggests: oil, stolen from Mexico’s...

Mexican authorities have dismissed almost a quarter of all traffic police in the city of Monterrey for failing corruption and competence tests. It is the latest move by the Mexican government to clean up its police forces, many of which are suspected...

The surveillance cameras captured it all: guards looking on nonchalantly as 53 inmates — many of them associated with one of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels — let themselves out of their cells and sped off in waiting vehicles.