Utah State

The Independent

A 14-year-old Utah girl and her two young cousins, missing in Mexico for nearly two weeks, have been found safe.Elizabeth “Ely” Gonzalez was visiting her grandmother in Mexico City when she disappeared on June 30, along with her cousins, Sofia Mailen Moreno Zamora, 6, and Regina Morena Zamora, 4.Gonzalez’s uncle, 31-year-old Antonio Mereno, was found with the girls and has been accused of kidnapping.Gonzalez’s mother Alma Soreque told ABC4 that she spoke to her daughter the morning she went missing.Family members later called her to tell her Gonzalez had walked to the nearby convenience store and not come back. An...

14-year-old Utah girl who vanished in Mexico found safe as uncle now faces kidnapping charge

Mexican officials investigating videos shared on social media showing bodies in a dumper truck have found 19 corpses in La Concordia, in the southern state of Chiapas. The victims were all male, dressed in black and wearing tactical vests, as worn by members of Mexico's powerful criminal gangs. Most of...

Mexican gang fight leaves pile of bodies

Kaysville, UT

ABC News

A missing Utah teen and her two cousins have been found safe, nearly two weeks after they disappeared in Mexico.

American teen, 2 cousins missing in Mexico found safe

Los Angeles, CA

Latin Times

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) exposed deep ties between Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Chinese organized crime in a new case. Concretely, prosecutors charged over 20 Los Angeles-based associates of the cartel with being part of a scheme to launder more than $50 million from drug money proceedings through an underground banking system run by Chinese nationals in the U.S., NBC News reported.

DEA case exposes deep links between Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and Chinese organized crime

CBS News

Five men, some with their hands tied and heads covered, were found dead Monday on a Mexico road leading to Acapulco, a once-glamorous resort city now engulfed in cartel violence.Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero announced the discovery and said a probe had been opened into "aggravated homicide."Local media reported that residents had found the victims, four of whom had their hands tied. The reports said the men had a variety of different injuries.Guerrero is one of Mexico's regions worst-affected by violence linked to drug trafficking. Disputes between cartels led to 1,890 murders in the state in 2023. The...

5 people, some with their hands tied, found dead near Acapulco

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

Athens, GA

Now Habersham

A 19-year-old Lawrenceville man is in custody after allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a minor, according to a news release from the Athens-Clarke County Police Department.

Teen arrested for kidnapping and molestation after Athens hit-and-runs

Virginia State

Virginia Wendy Williams fans, this is your July 2024 update on the former talk show host. Her best friend of 44 years, Regina Schell, has shared recent concerns with TV Show Aces and says she has not seen or talked to Wendy in more than a year.

Wendy Williams fans are worried after her best friend claims not to have heard from her in a year

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Georgia State

Fox News

NBC faces a defamation lawsuit after a judge ruled that MSNBC hosts made “verifiably false" statements about a doctor performing unnecessary hysterectomies.

Judge says Maddow, other MSNBC hosts made ‘verifiably false’ statements about doctor suing for defamation

Clarke County, MS

Mississippi News Group

In a tragic turn of events, 14-year-old Chquese Porter has been denied bond following his formal charging as an adult in the shooting death of 12-year-old Caleb Bender. The incident occurred around 1:00 am on June 29th, 2024, at a residence on River Rd near the intersection of Leola St in the Town of Stonewall, according to a press release from the Clarke County Sheriff.

Bond Denied for 14-Year-Old Charged with Murder in Clarke County

Texas State

Jack Beavers

If you plan to travel from Texas to Mexico this summer, you need to be aware of some important U.S. Government Travel Warnings that are in effect. The most recent (and most urgent) travel warning was issued this week for anyone considering bus travel south (typically through the Texas border cities of Mission, Hidalgo, and Pharr) into Reynosa (Tamaulipas) Mexico:

Texas to Mexico Travel? Urgent U.S. Warnings!

Manchester, NH

InDepthNH.org

Manchester man faces multiple assault charges in connection with a 2-month old baby. On July 7, at approximately 3 p.m. an unresponsive baby boy was brought to Elliot Hospital.

Man Accused of Assaulting Infant

El Paso, TX

New York Post

Mexican cartels are now offering VIP “travel agency” packages worth as much as $15,000 to help illegal immigrants sneak into the United States via a stream of underground tunnels. 

The so-called VIP smuggling has become so lucrative that the cartels are now focusing roughly 70% of their criminal activity on getting migrants across the US-Mexico border — instead of their usual drug trafficking, USA Today reported.

The La Linea cartel, for example, has allegedly been shepherding roughly 1,000 VIP migrants from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas every month, a senior Mexican official told the outlet. 



“Criminals have shifted from...

Mexican cartels offering $15K VIP ‘travel agency’ packages to help illegal immigrants sneak into US

California State

Alameda Post

California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

Bethel Park, PA

FBI investigators said Monday that they have gained entry to the cellphone of the 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump at a weekend campaign rally in Pennsylvania. An FBI technical specialist gained access to the contents of suspect Thomas Matthew Crooks' phone, allowing investigators to analyze...

New details emerge in Trump assassination attempt investigation

A very large earth crack appeared in Congregación El Carmen in the municipality of Tula, Mexico’s state of Tamaulipas, during heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm “Alberto” from June 19 to 21, 2024. The fissure is still growing and is estimated to be from 1 to...

Massive earth crack appears in Tamaulipas, Mexico

Insider

A woman is suing a Mexican resort for over $1 million in damages, alleging her husband was electrocuted and drowned in a jacuzzi at the resort.

A woman is seeking $1 million, saying she saw her husband drown after being electrocuted in a jacuzzi at a Mexican resort

It's long been known that the "Northeast Cartel" or "Cartel del Noreste" (CDN) operates on both sides of the border between Texas and Mexico - and now they're openly boasting about their presence in Texas through a photo posted to x.com (formerly Twitter) showing its armed members wearing vests displaying the CDN logo along with the words "Operativa Texas" (which translates to "Texas Operation").

Mexican Cartel's Brazen "Texas Operation"

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Prosecutors in northern Mexico say they'll investigate case of long-missing man found in morgue

MEXICO CITY -- Prosecutors in northern Mexico said they will investigate the case of a long-missing man whose body was found lying unidentified in a state...

Prosecutors in northern Mexico say they'll investigate case of long-missing man found in morgue

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