Mexican police didn’t know they’d caught drug capo

MEXICO CITY (AP) – A booking report says Mexican police officers who arrested notorious drug suspect Edgar Valdez Villarreal didn’t initially know who they had caught. Read more

Feds plan more sea turtle releases in Gulf

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Federal officials say they’re stepping up plans to release sea turtles that were stranded and rescued during the Gulf oil spill and study how they’ve been affected. Read more

3rd Mexican mayor in month slain by hit men

MEXICO CITY (AP) – The third Mexican mayor in a month was slain by suspected drug gang hit men on the same day the country was compared to Colombia by a U.S. official. Read more

Questions, worries, arguments preceded Gulf blast

UNDATED (AP) – BP was preparing to plug its well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, and longtime technical adviser Jesse Gagliano was running computer models to finalize details. Read more

Soldiers fire on family’s car in Mexico, killing 2

MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) – Mexican authorities say soldiers opened fire on a family’s car at a checkpoint in northern Mexico, killing a 15-year-old boy and another person. Read more

US won’t say if blowout preventer on way to shore

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The Justice Department won’t say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP’s undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore. Read more

Crews prepare to raise failed blowout preventer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A vessel has latched onto a key piece of evidence in the oil spill investigation so crews can raise the 300-ton device to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Read more

Air Force proposing training in NM, Colo.

CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AP) – The Air Force is proposing a low-altitude training area over northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Read more

NM deputy arrested on child sex charges, resigns

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) – A Lea County sheriff’s deputy has resigned after being arrested in an investigation involving sex crimes against two children. Read more

New Mexico National Guard deployed to border

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico has deployed 82 National Guard troops to help secure the border with Mexico after they completed training. Read more

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