Jalisco State

"A report was received indicating that, on the asphalt strip of the road (...) there were several bags that looked like human silhouettes," the state prosecutor's office said.

A shooting attack left at least six people dead in a bar in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, a region hard-hit by gang violence, authorities said Saturday.

Three police officers were killed and 10 other people injured Tuesday in an "unprecedented" explosives attack in the Mexican state of Jalisco, the state governor said.

At least 45 bags with human body parts were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for seven young people reported missing last week, local authorities said Thursday.

Mexican prosecutors said on Friday they were investigating the discovery of 19 plastic bags containing human remains in Jalisco, a western state that has been battered by surging levels of gang violence.

At least 19 bodies have been discovered in a field in Mexico's western state of Jalisco, scene of some of the worst violence in the country, local prosecutors said Thursday.

Mexican authorities said on Wednesday they had fired the top prosecutor in Jalisco state, the second official to lose his job after the discovery of a container truck holding the bodies of hundreds of victims of the country's drug war.

Three missing Mexican students were killed last month in the western state of Jalisco and their bodies dissolved in acid after criminals confused them with members of a rival gang, authorities said Monday.

Mexican police found five severed heads on an abandoned taxi in the violent eastern state of Veracruz, authorities said Friday.

A man believed to be the world's most obese died on Friday in Mexico, barely two months after undergoing a weight-loss surgery.

Patricia flattened a fishing hamlet on Mexico's Pacific coast, but authorities were relieved to see on Saturday that the record-breaking hurricane largely spared the country and dissipated as it moved north.

A suspected Mexican drug gang leader linked to the killings of a Jalisco state official and a Venezuelan model was arrested on a boat off the Caribbean coast, authorities said on Tuesday.

Mexican authorities have detained a senior operative of a drug cartel that has clashed with security forces in the western state of Jalisco in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.

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.

Gunmen forced down a military helicopter in western Mexico on Friday, killing three troops as violence escalated across Jalisco state during a new operation against a powerful drug cartel.

"A report was received indicating that, on the asphalt strip of the road (...) there were several bags that looked like human silhouettes," the state prosecutor's office said.

A shooting attack left at least six people dead in a bar in the western Mexican state of Jalisco, a region hard-hit by gang violence, authorities said Saturday.

Three police officers were killed and 10 other people injured Tuesday in an "unprecedented" explosives attack in the Mexican state of Jalisco, the state governor said.

At least 45 bags with human body parts were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for seven young people reported missing last week, local authorities said Thursday.

Mexican prosecutors said on Friday they were investigating the discovery of 19 plastic bags containing human remains in Jalisco, a western state that has been battered by surging levels of gang violence.

At least 19 bodies have been discovered in a field in Mexico's western state of Jalisco, scene of some of the worst violence in the country, local prosecutors said Thursday.

Mexican authorities said on Wednesday they had fired the top prosecutor in Jalisco state, the second official to lose his job after the discovery of a container truck holding the bodies of hundreds of victims of the country's drug war.

Three missing Mexican students were killed last month in the western state of Jalisco and their bodies dissolved in acid after criminals confused them with members of a rival gang, authorities said Monday.

Mexican police found five severed heads on an abandoned taxi in the violent eastern state of Veracruz, authorities said Friday.

A man believed to be the world's most obese died on Friday in Mexico, barely two months after undergoing a weight-loss surgery.

Patricia flattened a fishing hamlet on Mexico's Pacific coast, but authorities were relieved to see on Saturday that the record-breaking hurricane largely spared the country and dissipated as it moved north.

A suspected Mexican drug gang leader linked to the killings of a Jalisco state official and a Venezuelan model was arrested on a boat off the Caribbean coast, authorities said on Tuesday.

Mexican authorities have detained a senior operative of a drug cartel that has clashed with security forces in the western state of Jalisco in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.

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.

Gunmen forced down a military helicopter in western Mexico on Friday, killing three troops as violence escalated across Jalisco state during a new operation against a powerful drug cartel.