FDA, distributor fight tainted cuke sales

A Southern Arizona produce distributor is working closely with the Food and Drug Administration to prevent further sale of salmonella-contaminated cucumbers, officials said Friday.

Border officers seize bundles of cash from 2 women

Two Mexican women were arrested in separate incidents this week when border of officers in Nogales said they tried to smuggle nearly $62,000 combined.

Chicago’s Public Enemy No. 1: Mexican drug kingpin Guzman

CHICAGO — A drug kingpin in Mexico who has never set foot in Chicago has been named the city’s new Public Enemy No. 1 — the same notorious label assigned to Al Capone at the height of the Prohibition-era gang wars.

Mexican beauty queen killed in shootout

CULIACAN, Mexico —A 20-year-old state beauty queen has been killed in northern Mexico during a running gun battle between soldiers and the gang of drug traffickers she was traveling with, officials say.

Tomatoes could ignite US-Mexico trade war

Nogales' economy could be devastated by an escalating trade fight - sparked by Florida growers - between the U.S. and Mexico over tomatoes, two Arizona lawmakers warned Thursday.

Arizona-based Sinaloa Cartel-linked cell busted

TEMPE — An elaborate drug trafficking cell in Tempe that is linked to the deadly Sinaloa Cartel from Mexico has been busted, officials say.

Mexico: Zetas gang ordered slaughter of 49 as part of ploy

MEXICO CITY - The army charged Monday that the top leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square, then had banners hung around the country denying responsibility in an effort to have their enemies blamed for th…

Mexican army: Zetas leaders ordered 49 killed

MEXICO CITY —The top leaders of the hyper-violent Zetas drug cartel ordered underlings to leave 49 mutilated bodies in a northern Mexico town square, and then hung banners around the country denying responsibility, the Mexican army said Monday.

Banda-bandit suspected in CA tuba thefts

LOS ANGELES — They’ve still got their trombones and their trumpets, their cornets and their clarinets.

15 tons of pure meth seized in Mexico

GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Mexican troops have made a historic seizure of 15 tons of pure methamphetamine in the western state of Jalisco, an amount equivalent to half of all meth seizures worldwide in 2009.

2 plead guilty in Arizona in Fast and Furious gun probe

PHOENIX — Two men have pleaded guilty to buying guns that were destined to be smuggled into Mexico, the first convictions in the federal government’s botched Operation Fast and Furious.

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US hits back at drug cartel

OKLAHOMA CITY — In the largest single strike at Mexican drug operations in the U.S., authorities arrested more than 300 people in a sting that demonstrates an upstart cartel's vast reach north of the border.

US hits back at drug cartel

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Storm hits near Mazatlan, blows self out

MAZATLAN, Mexico — Tropical Storm Rick hit Mexico's Pacific coast just north of the resort of Mazatlan on Wednesday, toppling trees and signs, after sparing Los Cabos on the Baja California Peninsula a direct blow.