LA MORA, Mexico (AP) — Mexico’s president says a monument will be put up to memorialize nine U.S.-Mexican dual citizens ambushed and slain last year by drug gang assassins along a remote road near New Mexico. Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday there is an agreement to establish a monument […]
PHOENIX (AP) — A Utah man who helped get his mother and other family members safely out of northern Mexico after nine people were killed in an apparent ambush says they’ll likely never return. Mike Hafen says his mother and some other family members had lived in one of the […]
A U.S. citizen who lost his wife and two of his sons when they were ambushed by gunmen in Mexico says his life has been upended and he’s leaving the country with the rest of his family, ABC News reported. David Langford tells ABC’s “World News Tonight” Sunday that “my […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The slaying in Mexico of nine people who belonged to a Mormon offshoot community where some people practice polygamy spotlights the mainstream church’s struggle to distance itself from plural marriage, which has a history in the faith but has long been denounced. The victims’ connection to Mormonism […]
LA MORA, Mexico (AP) — With Mexican soldiers guarding the entrance to town, hundreds of people converged on this remote farming community for the first funerals Thursday for the nine American women and children killed in an ambush by drug cartel gunmen. A single, large grave was dug to hold […]
HERRIMAN, Utah (AP) — The three women who were gunned down with six of their children in northern Mexico by suspected drug cartel members are being remembered as good people who loved their families and enjoyed quiet lives centered around a successful pecan farming operation south of the U.S. border. […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Sen. Mitt Romney says he’s been briefed on the slaying of nine U.S. citizens in northern Mexico and calls it “a great tragedy” and something “really unthinkable.” The Republican from Utah said Tuesday that the attacks were probably “associated with the business of the cartels” rather than […]
