MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s most mysterious and high-profile recent kidnapping came to an end Monday with the liberation of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, a former presidential candidate and major ruling-party power broker.

Cristie Kerr holds a three-shot lead at the end of the first day of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Mexican authorities say seven people were killed in a shootout between rival drug gangs in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco.

Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel and one of the country’s most-wanted fugitives, in a raid Sunday in the central state of Puebla, the government said. The alleged capo...

A Mexican national was sentenced to 60 years in prison for his involvement in the November 2008 slaughter of 19 drug traffickers, a spokesman for the Guatemalan Supreme Court said Thursday. Judges in the northern province of Huehuetenango found Victor...

Five gay and lesbian couples were married in Mexico City on Thursday, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect this month legalizing same-sex marriage in the Mexican capital.

The streets of Laredo are awash in money, stacks of grimy bills tainted with cocaine residue, wrapped in plastic and stowed in secret compartments built into the trucks, buses and cars that flow south over the Mexican border daily like a motorized...

Mexico City police on Thursday freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps, authorities said. Police raided the factory, which was hidden inside an alcohol and...

To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage this summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police officers and dumping their bound and stripped corpses in a pile beside a busy...

Authorities have announced charges against the owner of a beauty clinic that allegedly performed a botched buttock job on Mexican rock star Alejandra Guzman. The charges against Valentina de Albornoz carry a possible prison sentence of four to 13...