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As Mexican soldiers stood guard, a mother and two sons were laid to rest in hand-hewn pine coffins in a single grave dug out of the rocky soil Thursday at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. Clad in shirt sleeves, suits or modest dresses, about 500 mourners...

Attack killed nine members of three American families traveling together in convoy of SUVs.

When drug cartel gunmen opened fire on American women and children in northern Mexico, the Mexican Army, the National Guard and Sonora state police were not there to protect them. It took them about eight hours just to arrive. To villagers and others, the bloodshed seemed to demonstrate once more that the government has lost control over vast areas of...

The nine U.S. citizens who were killed in a brutal ambush by drug cartel gunmen Monday while traveling in Mexico belonged to a Mormon offshoot group that has been touched by cartel violence before, NBC News reports. The group was part of the extended LeBaron family, Mormon fundamentalists who first came to Mexico nearly a century ago — when the...

At least three women and six children, all apparently U.S. citizens, were slaughtered by drug cartel gunmen in northern Mexico.

In the border town of El Paso, Texas, a shooter opened fire and left 22 people dead and more than two dozen injured. Hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a shooter killed 9 people and injured at least 27 others.

Police say a pit bull has attacked and killed a Chihuahua. The attack happened outside a house in Waterbury on Sunday.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday his country must help Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence, even as it increases security and revisions to deter migrants from passing through Mexico on route to the U.S. Mexico plans to deploy 6,000 National Guard troops by Tuesday to its southern border with Guatemala to slow the arrival of migrants and...

A transient probationer was charged Tuesday with binding a runaway Chihuahua and repeatedly kicking the dog in Santa Ana.

A Mexican man who once sought sanctuary from deportation in a Colorado church was detained by federal immigration agents Wednesday morning as he went to a warehouse to get tile to install on a job, his wife said Wednesday. Arturo Hernandez has one daughter who is a U.S. citizen and a second protected from deportation under an Obama administration program...

A Florida man was arrested after deputies say he hanged his mother’s dog from a tree and threatened to commit suicide during an eight-hour standoff.

The father of ex-LAPD officer Henry Solis was arrested Thursday for allegedly helping his son evade authorities when he was wanted for the murder of a California man.

A man is arrested and charged with cruelty to animals after police say he threw a Chihuahua against the window of a Houston Starbucks.