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20 dead in prison riot in Mexico

AFP Global Edition 178 days ago

Twenty people have been killed and 25 others injured in a riot that erupted in a prison in northern Mexico, officials have said. The rioting was sparked by rivalries among prison gangs that used knives, firearms and at least one hand grenade, ...

Nineteen killed in Mexico prison riot

Reuters US Online Report World News 179 days ago

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Nineteen people died and at least another 20 were hurt in a prison fight on Friday in the northern Mexican state of Durango, a security official said. Many of the dead were shot in the clash between rival ...

5 arrested in killing of Mexican crime reporter

AP News 239 days ago

5 suspects arrested in killing of Mexican crime reporter in drug-plagued northern state Five suspects have been arrested in the killing of a veteran crime reporter in northern Mexico, including one man who told authorities the journalist was slain as a warning ...

STIMULUS FLOW STARTING HERE AS A TRICKLE

Las Vegas Sun 245 days ago

In the 16 weeks since President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion federal stimulus bill on Feb. 17, not a single jobs-creating project has begun in Clark County, in a state where the unemployment rate is more than a percentage point higher ...

Contracts awarded for car- and bike-to-bus facilities

Las Vegas Sun 252 days ago

Two long-discussed projects — a downtown Las Vegas bus station designed especially for bike riders, and park-and-ride terminals in the northwest — are closer to reality. The Regional Transportation Commission this week awarded Sletten Construction a $17Êmillion contract to build the bike-friendly ...

Mexico arrests mayors, police chiefs in drug war

Reuters US Online Report World News 259 days ago

MORELIA, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican troops rounded up 10 mayors and a string of police chiefs on Tuesday suspected of links to drug gangs in a western state, one of the biggest single corruption sweeps in the government's drug war. Soldiers burst ...

Mexican cartels break open new front in drugs war

Reuters US Online Report Top News 265 days ago

DURANGO, Mexico (Reuters) - Drug gangs have forced open a bloody new front in Mexico's drugs war, extending their battles over smuggling routes into a formerly quiet northwestern state and further stretching the army. A fight for control of the mountainous state ...

Texas News - November 16,

ZUMA Press Inc 288 days ago

METRO Runners move along Durango Sunday, November 16, 2008, during the Rock 'n' Roll San Antonio Marathon and 1/2 Marathon. GLORIA FERNIZ/gferniz@express-news.net Copyright 2008 ZUMA Press Inc

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