PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — Port Fourchon's director says the port could reap new business if Mexico gives final approval to a measure that would open the country to foreign oil drilling for the first time in 75 years.
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — Authorities in western Mexico are searching for four men who hacked a state legislator to death with machetes and wounded a journalist who was apparently interviewing him.
State lawmaker Osbaldo Esquivel Lucatero had stopped with his brother to meet with a journalist by the side of a highway on the outskirts of Morelia, the capital of Michoacan state...
A jury indicts a man accused of trafficking drugs into Acadiana. Prosecutor Stephanie Finley says Antonio Valdez, Jr. of Weslaco, Texas, was a part of a group that would use 18-wheelers, SUVs and other vehicles to smuggle in hundreds of kilos of cocaine and thousands of pounds of marijuana from Mexico into the area and other parts of the US.