Mexican Federal Police

A federal intelligence agent and his mother were killed when assailants opened fire on their car in northern Mexico, an attack that came hours after a mayor in western Michoacan state was gunned down outside his home, officials said.

Mexican authorities are searching hotels, hospitals and funeral homes while distributing 100,000 leaflets with recent pictures of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman in a massive manhunt for the fugitive drug lord, officials said Wednesday.

The US-funded police academy in Amozoc de Mota, Puebla state, home to the tactical village, one of a handful in Mexico where federal, municipal and state officers are getting much-needed training.

At least eight people died in a shootout between Mexican federal police and suspected gang members in the troubled western state of Jalisco, a government official said on Tuesday.

Mexican prosecutors and the federal police's internal affairs are investigating allegations that officers gunned down 16 unarmed civilians in January, officials said Monday.

Mexican federal police rejected accusations by a teacher's union on Wednesday that a 65-year-old protestor died after being beaten by officers during a demonstration in Acapulco.

A gunman attempted to set the Mexican Consulate in Austin ablaze and fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings early Friday before he died, authorities said.

Federal forces on Tuesday patrolled a southern Mexican city where 43 students disappeared following an attack by gang-affiliated police, as investigators sought the motive in a case that has shocked the nation.

Mexican federal forces disarmed a southern city's entire police corps and took over security Monday after officers were accused of colluding with a gang in violence that left 43 students missing.

Mexican federal officials rescued 35 people who had been kidnapped for ransom in the southern state of Guerrero, the federal Attorney General's Office said Wednesday.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon faces a growing scandal in the last days of his administration as prosecutors accuse top federal police officers of lying in the shooting of a US embassy car.

Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees on Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, mountainous area outside the capital where the officers were looking for criminals, Mexican and U.S. officials said.

A federal intelligence agent and his mother were killed when assailants opened fire on their car in northern Mexico, an attack that came hours after a mayor in western Michoacan state was gunned down outside his home, officials said.

Mexican authorities are searching hotels, hospitals and funeral homes while distributing 100,000 leaflets with recent pictures of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman in a massive manhunt for the fugitive drug lord, officials said Wednesday.

The US-funded police academy in Amozoc de Mota, Puebla state, home to the tactical village, one of a handful in Mexico where federal, municipal and state officers are getting much-needed training.

At least eight people died in a shootout between Mexican federal police and suspected gang members in the troubled western state of Jalisco, a government official said on Tuesday.

Mexican prosecutors and the federal police's internal affairs are investigating allegations that officers gunned down 16 unarmed civilians in January, officials said Monday.

Mexican federal police rejected accusations by a teacher's union on Wednesday that a 65-year-old protestor died after being beaten by officers during a demonstration in Acapulco.

A gunman attempted to set the Mexican Consulate in Austin ablaze and fired more than 100 rounds at downtown buildings early Friday before he died, authorities said.

Federal forces on Tuesday patrolled a southern Mexican city where 43 students disappeared following an attack by gang-affiliated police, as investigators sought the motive in a case that has shocked the nation.

Mexican federal forces disarmed a southern city's entire police corps and took over security Monday after officers were accused of colluding with a gang in violence that left 43 students missing.

Mexican federal officials rescued 35 people who had been kidnapped for ransom in the southern state of Guerrero, the federal Attorney General's Office said Wednesday.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon faces a growing scandal in the last days of his administration as prosecutors accuse top federal police officers of lying in the shooting of a US embassy car.

Mexican federal police fired on a U.S. Embassy vehicle and wounded two U.S. government employees on Friday after their vehicle drove into a rural, mountainous area outside the capital where the officers were looking for criminals, Mexican and U.S. officials said.