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Magnitude-6.9 Earthquake Hits Northern Mexico

MEXICO CITY (Oct. 21) -- A powerful earthquake struck offshore in Mexico's Gulf of California on Thursday, causing people to flee into the streets in the western state of Sinaloa, causing fear but no immediate reports of damage or injury. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude of the quake that hit at 11:53 a.m. (1:53 p.m. EDT, 1753 GMT)...

geology, los mochis, seismology

Student, 20, Is New Police Chief in Mexico Drug Corridor

PRAXEDIS G. GUERRERO, Mexico (Oct. 20) -- There's a new police chief in this violent borderland where drug gangs have killed public officials and terrified many citizens into fleeing: a 20-year-old woman who hasn't yet finished her criminology degree. Marisol Valles Garcia was sworn in Wednesday to bring law and order to a township of about 8,500...

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Transocean Is Cutting Injured Oil Rig Workers' Pay

(Oct. 20) -- Transocean Ltd. plans to discontinue paying full salary and benefits by Dec. 15 to crew members injured in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according to the company's latest court filing. The company announced the cutoff in a one-sentence court paper filed Friday. More than 60 lawsuits have been filed against...

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Hopeful Economic Signs Complicate Fed's Task

(Oct. 20) -- There's an uptick in business travel and tourism, consumers are more willing to buy cars, and retail forecasts for the holidays are upbeat. Those new signs of growth in the laggard U.S. economy are welcome, but they could complicate policymakers' efforts to spark a bolder expansion. The Federal Reserve's regular gathering of...

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Opinion: 6 Months After Spill, Big Oil Still Won't Clean Up Its Act

(Oct. 20) -- Wednesday marks six months since BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded, killing 11 workers and sending millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. We've watched Gulf Coast residents struggle as the oil coated their beaches and wetlands, tanking their economy and destroying jobs. And yet instead of choosing that...

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10/21/10 Magnitude-6.9 earthquake hits northern Mexico Source: Ventura County Star - Camarillo CA A powerful earthquake struck offshore in Mexico's Gulf of California on Thursday, causing people to flee into the streets in the western state of Sinaloa, causing fear but no immediate reports of damage or injury.
10/21/10 Border Agents Seize Cash, Weapons In Nogales Source: CBS - CBS 5 - Phoenix AZ Border agents recovered nearly $800,000 in undeclared cash and four weapons while screening traffic going into Mexico at the Nogales border crossing.
10/21/10 Bombardier Inaugurates Learjet 85 Aircraft Component... Source: Hugin Online - Ireland QUERETARO, MEXICO--(Marketwire - October 21, 2010) - Bombardier Aerospace today inaugurated its new, state-of-the-art Learjet 85 aircraft component manufacturing facility at its site in the Queretaro Aerospace Park. Felipe Calderon Hinojosa, President of Mexico, and Jose Calzada Rovirosa, Governor of the State of...
10/21/10 Texas National Guardsman Murdered in Source: FOX - KTTV 2 - Detroit MI A 21-year-old Texas National Guardsman was one of two men murdered Wednesday in the violent border city Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the FBI says.
10/21/10 Mexico Town Plagued With Violence Hires Student as... Source: ABC - KFBB 5 - Great Falls MT There's a new police chief in Mexico's Praxedis G Guerrero and her name is Marisol Valles Garcia.