Latest Mexico Headlines
All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Hailstorm Caused $4M in Damage to City in New Mexico
Sep 23 2016 // A small city in southeastern New Mexico is recovering after being hit with a strong hailstorm. The Hobbs News-Sun reported that Jal was struck this weekend with hailstones bigger than golf balls that caused an estimated $4...
Arkansas Judge: Investors Can Sue Wal-Mart as Group Over Mexico Bribe Claim
Sep 22 2016 // An Arkansas judge has ruled Wal-Mart Stores Inc. investors may bring fraud claims against the retailer as a group, clearing a hurdle in a lawsuit over bribes it allegedly paid to help open new stores in Mexico. The ruling...
2 Mexican Physicians Sentenced in Texas for Fake Accident-Related Insurance Fraud
Sep 19 2016 // Prosecutors in South Texas say two doctors from a family medicine clinic in Mexico must serve nearly three-year U.S. prison terms for insurance-related fraud. Dr. Mayolo Melchor and 61-year-old Dr. Bertha...
Hurricane Newton Hits Mexico with Threat of Flash Floods, Mud Slides
Sep 6 2016 // Hurricane Newton made landfall Tuesday morning in northwest Mexico and will probably cause damage from heavy rain. Cabo San Lucas, a popular tourist destination, will be hit by winds moving as fast as 90 miles (144...
Dead New Mexico Woman’s Family Sues Bar over Lewd Corndog Contest
Aug 22 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...
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...
