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U.S. / NEWS Tue Jul 31, 2007 @ 2:13am neoform

USA Today -- Mexico called on the United States to alter a plan to expand border fences designed to stem illegal immigration, saying the barriers would threaten migratory species accustomed to roaming freely across the frontier. Ways of minimizing environmental dam.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jul 1, 2007 @ 1:25am neoform

Associated Press -- New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution - as 11 other states do - but requires New Mexico to oversee a product.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jun 20, 2007 @ 3:22pm neoform

Ars Technica -- A federal judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico. The case in question is part of the RIAA's campaign against file-sharing on college campuses and names "Does 1-16," who alleged.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 5, 2007 @ 9:43am neoform

Washington Post -- At 2:10 a.m., a fleet of dark SUVs surged from the garage beneath a federal building onto the deserted streets of Fairfax County, carrying a raiding party of flak-jacketed immigration agents. Their quarry: illegal immigrants who have ignored and evaded.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 1:09am neoform

SF Gate -- President Bush wrapped up his Latin America tour on Wednesday with a pledge to Mexican President Felipe Calderon that he would seek an accord that straddles the middle ground between amnesty to illegal residents and booting out more than 12 million people.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 16, 2007 @ 12:54am neoform

Yahoo News -- A former U.S. border agent who allowed hundreds of illegal immigrants to cross from Mexico in return for $120,000 in cash was sentenced on Thursday to five years in federal prison. Get the gifts you really wanted Michael Gilliland, 44, who worked on th.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 10:11am mrmdc

Yahoo News -- Three illegal immigrants were shot dead and two more were wounded after falling prey to suspected bandits as they crossed into the United States from Mexico, police said. Sergeant James Ogden of Pima County Sheriff's Department said the bodies of three.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

MSNBC -- Laurean, of Las Vegas, was born in Guadalajara, but family members there have said he moved to the United States more than 10 years ago. He had told members of his unit that he would flee to Mexico if it appeared he would be found guilty. Authorities beli.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- A Marine suspected of killing a pregnant colleague told police he slept in fields and survived by eating fruit that he found during a three-month manhunt that ended with his arrest in western Mexico, authorities said. FBI agents and police in the small.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 23, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

MSNBC -- Missing Marine Cesar Laurean, wanted in the slaying of a pregnant colleague, visited relatives in Mexico last week but left without saying where he was headed, a man identified as his cousin said Tuesday. Juan Antonio Ramos Ramirez told The Associated.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jan 18, 2008 @ 8:33am neoform

MSNBC -- Mexico routinely returns fugitives to the U.S. to face justice. But under a 1978 treaty with the U.S., Mexico, which has no death penalty, will not extradite anyone facing possible execution. To get their hands on a fugitive, U.S. prosecutors must agree t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

SF Gate -- From her office on the edge of San Francisco's Financial District, Diana Campoamor was networking - meeting for drinks with a banker, compiling a briefing book for a foundation trustee, exchanging phone calls with colleagues in Mexico City. She was put.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Sep 11, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- A judge on Monday rejected an agreement to send a 1927 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe from Fisk University to a New Mexico museum, saying the deal wasn't in the best interests of the state of Tennessee. The painting, called "Radiator Building — Nig.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- Hurricane Dean has struck Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula near the border with Belize, bringing driving winds and lashing rain. Cancun and other tourist resorts were spared a direct hit as the storm came ashore at 0330 (0830 GMT) about 40 miles (65km) north.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- Officials braced for the possibility of flooding or even a direct hit from Hurricane Dean, which struck Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula early Tuesday and was forecast to make its way to Central Mexico. Forecasters said the outer bands of the Category 5 hur.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

USA Today -- Hurricane Dean crashed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades. It lashed ancient Mayan ruins and headed for the modern oil installations of the Yucat.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Aug 18, 2007 @ 1:10pm neoform

USA Today -- Hurricane Dean barreled across the central Caribbean Saturday and took aim at Hispaniola, Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, with forecasters saying it could turn into a monster Category 5 storm within 72 hours. With sustained winds now at 150 mph.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Aug 15, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

USA Today -- Rescue workers were activated in southern Texas in preparation for heavy rain expected to accompany a tropical depression slowly churning its way through the Gulf of Mexico. The fifth depression of the Atlantic hurricane season formed late Tuesday and.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 10:21am neoform

MSNBC -- The United States is in talks with Mexico on an aid package of hundreds of millions of dollars to help the Mexican government fight drug cartels, U.S. and Mexican officials said on Wednesday. The aid package, which has been under discussion for months.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

ABC News -- New Mexico is set to become the first U.S. state to set up a cultivation and distribution system for medical marijuana, sewing the seeds of a possible showdown with federal drug enforcement authorities. Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democratic presidential c.. Read More