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In this Wednesday July 14, 2010, Mexico's Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora attends his his swearing in ceremony at Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City. The Mexican government said Friday Nov. 11, 2011, that Mora, Mexico's No. 2 government official next to the president, has died in a helicopter crash with seven others, including the pilot. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Mexico's 2nd in command dies in helicopter crash

In this February 2010 photo, a .50 caliber rifle (left) sits on display during a presentation of suspects and their alleged weapons to journalists gathered at the Morelos military base. / Photo by David Maung, special to the U-T
Human rights group criticizes Mexico's drug war

Manufacturing leaders in Baja want stronger local supply chain

Leaders of the maquiladora industry in Baja California ... More »

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Seventh-grader Denisse Sandoval, 12, at center, is all smiles as school lets out in Tijuana. She misses her school in San Ysidro, but is adjusting. “I like the teachers, and how they teach me,” she said.

Program helps U.S. students in Mexican schools

As deportations from the United States have increased, so has the number of students making the switch from American to ... More »

Nov 6, 2011, 6 p.m.
Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, once a top operative in the Arellano Felix drug trafficking organization, during his presentation to the media in Mexico City. He was arrested Friday in Tijuana.

Top drug suspect caught in Tijuana

Juan Francisco Sillas Rocha, a suspected drug trafficker connected to numerous killings and kidnappings was in custody today following his ... More »

Nov 6, 2011, 1:50 p.m.
Miguel Martinez helps plant a tree at the Bi-National Friendship Garden, part of Friendship park on the San Ysidro border with Tijuana. The Friends of Friendship Park held an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the park and to advocate for more open access to the area.

Friendship Park renovation underway

A redesign of Friendship Circle in Border Field State Park negotiated by community advocates and U.S. Border Patrol is finally ... More »

Nov 4, 2011, 6 a.m.

Man arrested after 3 attempts to flee border

Federal officials said that a 36-year-old man is accused of trying to flee Customs officers in a commandeered tow truck ... More »

Nov 3, 2011, 7:55 p.m.
A group a 40 Tijuana firefighters joined 15 Mexican federal forest rangers in fighting the Valle Redondo fire that broke out Wednesday morning and consumed more than 850 acres of pasture and chaparral.

Border fire contained at 850 acres

The Valle Redondo fire that started Wednesday between Tijuana and Tecate, sending large clouds of smoke and ash over the ... More »

Nov 3, 2011, 12:10 p.m.
Turista Libre goes on atypical day tours of Tijuana, including water slide parks, soccer games and this weekend's graveyard tour.

Tijuana graveyard tour

Honor Dia de los Muertos with a guided tour of a Mexican cemetery. More »

Nov 3, 2011, 9:48 a.m.
Smoke from a brush fire west of Tecate is seen from eastern Tijuana Wednesday afternoon

Winds fanned fires in county, Tijuana

Gusting Santa Ana winds fueled brush fires Wednesday, including a 12-acre blaze in Black Mountain Ranch and a 600-acre fire ... More »

Nov 3, 2011, 6 a.m.
A NOAA weather satellite photographed ash and smoke drifting from just south of the U.S-Mexico border out across southern San Diego and over the ocean.

Fire on Mexico-California border visible from space

NOAA satellite captures image of smoke and ash drifting from along the Mexican border to southwestern corner of San Diego ... More »

Nov 2, 2011, 3:28 p.m.
A screen capture form 10News' Sky 10 shows the fire fire south of Tecate, Mexico.

Smoke and ash drifts into county from Tecate fire

Gusty Santa Ana breezes sent smoke from a fire southeast of Tecate over parts of San Diego County Wednesday, and ... More »

Nov 2, 2011, 12:39 p.m.

Five rescued from pipe at border

U.S. Border Patrol agents spotted the five people Tuesday night trying to enter the United States illegally through a narrow ... More »

Nov 2, 2011, 6:40 a.m.
Mexican soldiers guard the site of an accident that claimed three lives when a twin-engine airplane crashed shortly after takeoff from Tijuana's A.L. Rodriguez International Airport near the U.S. border. A pilot, a passenger and a victim on the ground in Colonia Libertad died.

Three killed when small plane crashes in Tijuana near U.S. border

Three people were killed Monday when a twin-engine aircraft crashed near the border in Tijuana’s Colonia Libertad shortly after takeoff ... More »

Oct 31, 2011, 12:35 p.m.
Jorge Hank Rhon acknowledged in interviews Sunday that he intends to run for governor of Baja California. He also posted the announcement on his Facebook page.

Tijuana ex-mayor Jorge Hank says he wants to be governor

Former Tijuana mayor Jorge Hank Rhon set off a political bombshell Sunday acknowledging publicly for the first time that he ... More »

Oct 30, 2011, 6:21 p.m.
Transfer programs push deportations to record high
Oct 30, 2011, 10:43 a.m.
Tijuana comes alive for Days of the Dead
Oct 29, 2011, 5:42 p.m.
Editor of Tijuana's Zeta weekly honored
Oct 29, 2011, 3:46 p.m.
Filner is top ‘private bill’ sponsor in House
Oct 26, 2011, 6:23 p.m.
Vehicle thefts at the border plummet
Oct 26, 2011, 3:50 p.m.
Viva Mexican food!
Oct 26, 2011, 2 p.m.
Woodbury University joins Instituto Tecnologico de Tijuana for architecture series
Oct 25, 2011, 7:44 p.m.
Rebound in Mexican factories could mean jobs in San Diego
Oct 25, 2011, 3:09 p.m.
Two in custody in Ensenada slaying of U.S. citizen
Oct 24, 2011, 3:09 p.m.
Baja's oldest private university celebrates its first half century
Oct 21, 2011, 8:09 p.m.

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