Five decomposing human heads were found outside an elementary school in the Mexican city of Acapulco, police said, in the latest example of grisly violence gripping the country.

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Eleven more bodies were dumped on roads in and around Mexico's eastern port city of Veracruz on Thursday, two days after 35 bodies were left under a busy underpass nearby, local officials said.

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Inmates staged near simultaneous jailbreaks from three prisons in the Mexican state of Veracruz early Monday and at least 32 of them escaped, officials said.

Authorities said 14 of the fugitives were

An arson attack on a casino in the northern Mexican industrial city of Monterrey sparked a massive fire and killed at least 53 people, the governor of the state of Nuevo Leon said late Thursday.

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A journalist who had been kidnapped over the weekend was found dead on Tuesday in Boca del Rio, a city outside the Mexican gulf port of Veracruz, officials said.

Mexican authorities sent in an extra 1,800 police Saturday to fight the country's gruesome and deadly drug war, with at least 41 people slain over the weekend including 10 who were decapitated.

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At least 22 people were killed in a string of attacks in Mexico, authorities said Sunday, including a shooting at a bar in Monterrey just hours after the opening of soccer's Under-17 World Cup.

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Masked and wielding rifles, the men of this mountain town stand guard at blockades of tires and sandbags to stop illegal loggers backed by drug traffickers. Their defiance isn't just about defending t

A suspect in the kidnapping and killing of bus passengers near the U.S. border led Mexican soldiers to another set of clandestine graves containing 16 bodies, bringing to 88 the number of corpses foun

At least 59 bodies have been found on a ranch in Mexico's northern state of Tamaulipas, on the US border, authorities said on Wednesday, warning that the grim toll could rise.

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