Miroslava Breach, 58, a Mexican journalist who specialized in organized crime and corruption, was shot eight times in her car Thursday morning as she pulled out of her drive in state capital Chihuahua to take her son to school.

A U.S. court on Friday sentenced a pimp to more than 15 years in prison after one of his victims told judges he forced her to have sex with 60 men a day.

A leader of the Sinaloa Cartel pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and money laundering in United States federal court on Thursday, admitting he was responsible for moving tons of narcotics and millions of dollars between the U.S. and Mexico, authorities said.

A former Mexican state governor was arrested Thursday for embezzlement and misusing state funds after he allegedly granted irregular tax incentives to Korean carmaker KIA Motors which cost the state 3.128 billion pesos (US$ 147 million), state officials reported.

Mexican authorities said today that they had rescued footballer Alan Pulido shortly before midnight Sunday after he was kidnapped on Saturday night, according to a release from the State Government of Tamaulipas. The release said that he was being medically assessed.

Last night, Mexican marines busted Sinaloa cartel drug kingpin Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, ending a six-month international manhunt for the cartel leader, reported Spanish-language outlet Univision. (El Chapo is Spanish for “Shorty”).

Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzman Loera, known as El Chapo or Shorty, has escaped from Mexico’s Altipano prison, the country’s most secure facility.

Fifteen police officers were killed in the Western Mexican state of Jalisco Monday evening in a clash with suspected drug cartel members.

Mexican news reporter Carmen Aristegui has been fired after publicly supporting new anti-corruption whistleblowing alliance Mexicoleaks

Mexican police have arrested Omar Trevino Morales, leader of Los Zetas – one of the country's largest and most dangerous drug cartels.

A federal judge in Mexico has thrown out the prison sentence of a Mexican drug smuggler known as the "Queen of the Pacific" and ordered her released.

The wife of Mexico’s president has attempted to stave off fresh accusations of corruption by promising to sell her share in the lavish mansion at the center of a fresh scandal for the nation’s embattled first couple.