DRUG KINGPIN ESCAPES FROM MEXICAN PRISON THROUGH TUNNEL

Though this was perhaps Mexico's most spectacular prison escape since the previous one by Mr... READ MORE›

BP SET TO PAY LARGEST ENVIRONMENTAL FINE IN US HISTORY FOR GULF OIL SPILL

The settlement ends all litigation between BP the states and the US government and allows the company to pay over 18 years... READ MORE›

AS MEXICO HUNTS FOR JOAQUN CHAPO GUZMN US OFFER OF HELP GOES UNHEEDED

Officials and Mexican marines, for instance, or between lawyers and judges in Mexico and the United States... READ MORE›

PITBULL WHO DISAPPEARED IN TEXAS FLOODS FOUND 2000 MILES AWAY

It is not known what happened to Thor in those intervening months, or how he reached California... READ MORE›

MEXICO'S NUMBER ONE DRUG LORD ESCAPES HIGH SECURITY PRISON

Guzman was caught by authorities for the first time in Guatemala in 1993, extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking... READ MORE›

TEXAS CITY BANS FRACKING IN ITS BIRTHPLACE, COURT BATTLES LOOM

Denton, Texas is where hydraulic fracturing was invented, said Bruce Baizel, Earthworks energy program director... READ MORE›

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RULING FACES RELIGIOUS RIGHTS BATTLE IN TEXAS

Supreme Court ruling a new battle for same-sex marriage erupted in Texas where government leaders asserted their citizens religious liberties trumped the individual right to marry... READ MORE›

A SCOURGE THAT AMERICA AND MEXICO FIGHT TOGETHER

It first crossed into the United States in the 1890s around Brownsville, Tex., and quickly spread to the Atlantic Seaboard, nearly wiping out the cotton industry... READ MORE›

Related Stories Torture is still rife in Mexico and is routinely used to extract confessions, according to a new report by human rights organisation Amnesty International... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS ENDS HIS MEXICO TOUR PRAYING FOR MIGRANTS AT THE U.S. BORDER

Feb. 17, 2016 Pope Francis blesses a boy after his arrival at Benito Juarez International Airport in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico... READ MORE›

POPE ARRIVES IN MEXICO FOR TRIP FULL OF JUXTAPOSITIONS

Governments expropriated church property as early as 1859 and fought a war against Catholic rebels in central Mexico in the 1920s... READ MORE›

GULF OIL SPILL: TRANSOCEAN AND STATES AGREE MILLIONS IN COMPENSATION

A court filing from Transocean and attorneys for Alabama Florida Mississippi Louisiana and Texas said all of the states had entered a settlement agreement... READ MORE›

Abbott's campaign has tried to show Davis as out of touch with Texas values and not up to the challenge of running a state with a 1... READ MORE›

TEXAS MAN AND DOG RESCUED FROM FLOODED TRUCK IN WAKE OF HURRICANE PATRICIA

Video Texas man and dog rescued from flooded truck in wake of Hurricane Patricia... READ MORE›

DALLAS TO CLOSE BOOK ON EBOLA SAGA AS FINAL AT-RISK RESIDENTS ARE CLEARED

Dallas to close book on Ebola saga as final at-risk residents are cleared... READ MORE›

NOW OR NEVER: TRUMP'S 'WALL' TALK SPARKS MIGRANT RUSH ON U.S.-MEXICO BORDER

Trump, Cruz and Florida Senator Marco Rubio all say they would overturn President Barack Obama's executive orders that shield some illegal immigrants from deportation... READ MORE›

MEXICO ARRESTS SEVEN OFFICIALS OVER ESCAPE OF DRUG KINGPIN

The government dismissed the head of the prison and questioned more than 30 prison officials over the escape... READ MORE›

EXPLOSION KILLS THREE WORKERS AT PARSLEY ENERGY TEXAS OIL RIG

Our thoughts are with the families, Lisa Elliott of Parsley said of the accident on Tuesday in Upton County, Texas... READ MORE›

THE AMAZING LUXURIES FOUND INSIDE A MEXICAN PRISON

In this Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 photo, relatives of inmates stand outside the Topo Chico prison, where a riot broke out overnight in Monterrey, Mexico... READ MORE›

COASTAL AREAS OF TEXAS HIT BY STORM SURGE AND LOCALISED FLOODING

A tropical storm warning had been trimmed to include only the stretch of Gulf Coast between Port O'Connor, Texas, and the western end of Galveston Island... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP, HILLARY CLINTON ENTER FINAL FRENZY FOR VOTERS ON IOWA CAUCUS DAY

Truck driver Calvin Agner and his wife, Sheryl, attend a Donald Trump rally on Sunday... READ MORE›

MEXICO DRUG LORD JOAQUIN 'EL CHAPO' GUZMAN ESCAPES PRISON AGAIN

Guzman's Sinaloa cartel's empire stretches along Mexico's Pacific coast and deals drugs to the United States and as far as Europe and Asia... READ MORE›

'I WILL LIGHT YOU UP!'

I will light you up! texas officer threatened sandra bland with taser during traffic stop... READ MORE›

'I WILL LIGHT YOU UP!'

I will light you up! texas officer threatened sandra bland with taser during traffic stop... READ MORE›

TOO MUCH EVEN FOR THE REPUBLICANS? MEET ROBERT MORROW

Leaders of the Travis County Republican Party, meanwhile, were mortified that it had voted Morrow into office... READ MORE›

16 KILLED IN MEXICO BUS-TRAIN CRASH

The train was operated by the Transporte Frontera line on a route from Nuevo Laredo to the neighbouring state of Coahuila... READ MORE›

COMPLETING U.S.-MEXICO BORDER WALL WOULD BE DAUNTING TASK

The Rio Grande Valley is home to 87 km 54 miles of wall, and the official name of the border barrier there is Pedestrian Fence 255... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION STANCE PROMPTS MEXICAN, CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRANT RUSH FOR US BORDER

Approximately 150,300 migrants were detained trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between last October and February, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data... READ MORE›

POPE TO TOUR MEXICO'S POOR, VIOLENT PARTS, VIEW TEXAS BORDER MIGRANT PLIGHT

President Enrique Pena Nieto's government botched the investigation, and relatives of the victims are looking to Francis for help in getting to the truth... READ MORE›

'AFFLUENZA' TEEN WON'T BE MOVED TO ADULT JAIL AS HE AWAITS COURT RULING

Ethan Couch, 18, was booked into a juvenile detention facility in Fort Worth after he was deported from Mexico on Thursday... READ MORE›