MEXICO CITY -- President Enrique Pena Nieto's government is chalking up quite a tally of captured or slain drug lords even though it promised to abandon the "kingpin strategy" of its predecessor.
For the second time in barely two weeks, the ...
LOS ANGELES -- Last Mother's Day, Jaret Graham, 14, climbed on the back of an all-terrain vehicle driven by his 12-year-old cousin. As they sped down a paved stretch of country road in west Texas, the 12-year-old lost control, the vehicle went ...
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- On a recent weekday morning, in the bland confines of St. Joseph's Western Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, Inmate 168989 takes a seat in a plastic chair in the visitors center.
His name is Roy Murphy. He's 43, ...
MILWAUKEE -- Some use propane, some use charcoal and some use a fanglike tool with a carbide tip. In La Crosse, the weapon of choice is the jackhammer.
Digging graves in Wisconsin through a long, brutal winter? Difficult. Not impossible.
"I've ...
LOS ANGELES -- California Democrats broke with Gov. Jerry Brown by calling for the legalization of marijuana and a ban on "fracking" in the state party's official platform Sunday.
The Democrats' support for decriminalizing and taxing recreational...
BEIJING -- Forty ships and 34 aircraft continued searching for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, missing in the South China Sea, as American investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board arrived in ...