Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dead New Mexico Woman’s Family Sues Bar over Lewd Corndog Contest
Aug 12 2016 // A New Mexico family is suing the owners of a shuttered Albuquerque night club, their former landlord and a liquor license-holder after a woman choked during a corndog eating contest and suffered fatal brain damage. The...
Traffic Safety Investigators Probing California Bus Crash That Killed 4
Aug 5 2016 // Federal safety investigators converged this week in central California to investigate a highway wreck that nearly sliced a bus in half, killed four people and injured 23. “At this point we don’t know what...
Update: Earl Weakens from Hurricane to Tropical Storm as It Crosses Belize
Aug 4 2016 // Tropical Storm Earl* will continue to weaken as it crosses Belize after coming ashore early Thursday with drenching rains and hurricane-strength winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Earl was 90 miles (145...
Update: Tropical Storm Earl Set to Become a Hurricane as It Heads to Belize
Aug 3 2016 // Tropical Storm Earl, forecast to grow into a hurricane, may just graze Mexico’s oil-rich Bay of Campeche as it heads west toward the Honduras Bay Islands before making landfall in Belize within the next 24...
Relatives of Rivera Entourage Get $70M Judgment in California
Jul 29 2016 // The families of four members of Jenni Rivera’s entourage who were killed along with the Mexican-American superstar in a 2012 plane crash are entitled to $70 million, a judge has ruled. Los Angeles Superior Court...
Relatives of Rivera Entourage Get $70M Judgment in California
Jul 29 2016 // The families of four members of Jenni Rivera’s entourage who were killed along with the Mexican-American superstar in a 2012 plane crash are entitled to $70 million, a judge has ruled. Los Angeles Superior Court...
Court Rejects Wal-Mart Shareholders’ Claim of Directors’ Liability for Mexican Bribes
Jul 25 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives and directors persuaded a federal appeals court on Friday to reject shareholder claims that they permitted and then covered up pervasive bribery by officials at the world’s largest...
BP Raises Liability by $5.2 Billion for Deepwater Horizon Spill
Jul 18 2016 // BP Plc has raised the total liability from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster, which triggered the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, by $5.2 billion to $61.6 billion before tax. The London-based company expects to...
New Mexico Village Gets $2.4M for Repairs from 2008 Storms
Jul 5 2016 // The village of Ruidoso in New Mexico will receive more than $2.4 million from the federal government to help with the cost of repairing sewer pipes damaged by storms and flooding nearly eight years ago. Members of New...
Sompo Canopius & Mexico’s GNP Form Strategic Partnership
Jun 30 2016 // Sompo Canopius AG and Mexico’s Grupo Nacional Provinical SAB formed a strategic partnership. This arrangement will help both parties to develop new business and insurance products for the Mexican market,...
Abuse Survivors in New Mexico Approve Diocese Settlement
Jun 23 2016 // Victims of clergy sexual abuse have approved of a plan for the Gallup Diocese in New Mexico to dole out millions of dollars in compensation. The Albuquerque Journal reported that an attorney for 57 abuse survivors told a...
Former New Mexico County Manager Files Suit after Being Axed for 3rd DWI
Jun 16 2016 // A former top western New Mexico county official fired after her third drunken driving arrest just two days into her new job has filed a lawsuit. An attorney for former interim Cibola County manager Rheganne...
New Mexico Governor Declares Emergency Amid Growing Wildfire
Jun 16 2016 // A wildfire burning in central New Mexico grew to more than three square miles late Wednesday, sending up a towering plume of smoke that swelled as afternoon temperatures soared and eventually blanketed the state’s...
New Mexico’s Budding Medical Marijuana Industry
Jun 14 2016 // The medical marijuana industry is growing in New Mexico. Several licensed growers are expected to open new facilities as well as dispensaries in the coming months, which would mean a boost in jobs and the economy, the...
Update: Tropical Storm Colin Moving Out to Sea; Heavy Rain, Atlantic Storm Surge Threats Remain
Jun 7 2016 // Tropical Storm Colin moved out to sea early Tuesday after knocking out power to thousands, prompting Florida Governor Rick Scott to declare a state of emergency. The threat of a storm surge flooding shifted to the Atlantic...
New Mexico Immigrant Driver’s Licenses Jump Before Law Change
Jun 1 2016 // The number of immigrants seeking driver’s licenses in New Mexico surged during the first three months of the year as lawmakers debated changes to a long-contested policy that allowed for those living in the country...
Suit: Mcdonald’s Toilet Paper Dispenser Damaged New Mexico Woman’s Eye
May 16 2016 // A northern New Mexico woman is suing a Santa Fe McDonald’s franchise after she said a toilet paper dispenser fell off a bathroom stall door and slammed into her face. The lawsuit filed last week in Santa Fe District...
Great American Insurance Establishes Specialty P&C Division in Mexico
May 12 2016 // Great American Insurance Group announced today that the Mexican Insurance Commission has granted formal approval to extend the license of its local company, El Águila Compañía de Seguros, S.A. de C.V., to establish a...
HUB Acquires Assets of First Santa Fe Insurance Services in New Mexico
May 3 2016 // Hub International Ltd. has acquired the assets of New Mexico-based First Santa Fe Insurance Services Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. First Santa Fe’s operations will become a part of Hub New Mexico and be...
Texas ‘Affluenza’ Teen Sentenced to Nearly 2 Years in Jail
Apr 14 2016 // The Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck must serve nearly two years in jail, a judge ordered. Ethan Couch, who turned 19 on April 11, was making his first appearance...
