The Latest Breaking News from Veracruz

(This July 28 story adds dropped word in last paragraph)

The bloodbath in the Veracruz state of Mexico happened late on Sunday and left three men, three women and a child dead after an armed group broke into the house while members of the family were sleeping

The Mexican state of Veracruz hired a prominent lawyer to recover billions laundered in the Houston suburbs. Then things went awry.

The toll from Hurricane Agatha climbed to at least ten dead and around 20 missing in southern Mexico, where heavy rains triggered landslides and flooding, local officials said Tuesday. The storm, the first hurricane of the Pacific season, was the strongest to make landfall along Mexico's Pacific coast in May…

Mexican state prosecutors say two journalists have been shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz

Two Mexican journalists were killed on Monday in the eastern state of Veracruz, the state attorney general's office said, adding to the toll in one of the deadliest years on record for media workers in the country.

In 1975, KCET aired a half-hour concert featuring a hot new local band. As an opening shot of the downtown skyline segued into a slice-of-life montage of East Los Angeles, a twinkling harp played over a lilting voice as the group performed a song in the son jarocho tradition of…

On Jan. 23, Mexican journalist Lourdes Maldonado López was shot dead in her car in front of her home in Tijuana. She was the third Mexican journalist to be murdered that month, after another Tijuana reporter, crime photographer Margarito Martínez, was shot and killed on Jan. 17, and reporter José…