Mexico deployed approximately 4,000 troops to the western state of Michoacan, where rival criminal gangs are engaged in a heated battle over control of the region. Troops began arriving in the state ...

Grant Thackray alights with an incendiary Sunday puzzle. By Caitlin Lovinger A navy officer put in charge of Mexico’s second-largest port in an effort to wrest control of it from a drug gang was shot ...

MORELIA, Mexico (AP) -- An organized crime group calling itself the Knights Templar is distributing booklets saying it is fighting a war against poverty, tyranny and injustice, publicly appealing to ...