Latest Mexico Headlines

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New Mexico Man Files Suit Against Store over Chile Pod Slip

Oct 8 2018 // A New Mexico man suing a supermarket chain after he says he slipped and fell on a green chile pod.The Albuquerque Journal reported a lawyer for Richard Berman filed a lawsuit last week in Santa Fe District Court two years...

Update: Florida Calls Emergency Ahead of Expected Hurricane Michael

Oct 7 2018 // Michael, the tropical storm that’s been chugging toward the Florida panhandle, is now a hurricane, threatening to bring driving rain and high winds to the region’s agricultural and tourism industry.While Gulf...

Remnants of Tropical Storm Causes Flooding, Traps Arizona Cars

Oct 4 2018 // Remnants of a tropical storm drenched parts of the desert Southwest this week, trapping some drivers on swamped streets of Phoenix, Ariz. as authorities prepared for possible flash flooding in the state, central Utah and...

New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery

Sep 17 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage.The jury in late August ruled that a women’s health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico, didn’t...

Texas Windstorm Insurer Activates CAT Plan

Sep 14 2018 // With a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico and Tropical Depression Isaac located east of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and heading west, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has activated its CAT...

Spike in New Mexico Traffic Deaths in August

Sep 13 2018 // New Mexico saw a spike in traffic fatalities in August as a deadly crash involving a passenger bus and a semi-trailer killed nine people.Preliminary data compiled by the state Transportation Department and the University...

Texas Heightens Readiness Level With Tropical System in Gulf

Sep 12 2018 // The National Hurricane Center is advising Louisiana and Texas, along with coastal areas of northern Mexico, to monitor a storm system in the Gulf of Mexico that has a 60 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression.The...

Some Gulf Energy Production Halted by Storm Gordon

Sep 5 2018 // Three more oil producers pulled employees out of Tropical Storm Gordon’s path, and companies cut 9 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production on Tuesday as the storm churned toward an expected nighttime...

New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery

Aug 29 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage.KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported the jury this month ruled that a women’s health clinic in...

U.S. Passengers File Lawsuits Against Aeromexico over Plane Crash

Aug 7 2018 // Eleven U.S. passengers who survived an Aeromexico crash in the northern Mexican state of Durango on July 31 filed lawsuits against the airline in Chicago on Monday, according to a statement by Chicago-based attorneys...

Crash Investigators Locate Aeromexico’s Flight Recorders

Aug 2 2018 // At least 65 U.S. citizens were aboard the Aeromexico passenger jet that crashed in northern Mexico, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, as investigators combed the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident.The Mexico...

Ohio Chipotle Restaurant Reopens Following Customer Illnesses

Aug 1 2018 // Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. reopened a restaurant in Ohio on Tuesday that was temporarily closed after customers reported getting sick.The restaurant, located in the city of Powell, was voluntarily closed for cleaning on...

Aeromexico Plane Crash Causes Dozens of Injuries but No Deaths

Aug 1 2018 // Dozens of people were injured when a packed Aeromexico-operated Embraer jet crashed right after takeoff in Mexico’s state of Durango on Tuesday, but authorities said most were not seriously hurt and there were no...

Where Oil Prices Meet Trucker Fatalities: ‘Death Highway’

Jul 30 2018 // Route 285 is the formal designation for one of the main roads used to carry supplies to and from the oilfields of West Texas. Locals call it something else: “Death Highway.”Last year, 93 people died in...

Heavy Rainstorm Damaged New Mexico Homes, Infrastructure

Jul 25 2018 // Raging waters from the Santa Fe River and arroyos have caused damage to Santa Fe, N.M. homes, city facilities and infrastructure following a heavy rainstorm.More than 3 inches of rainfall were reported in some areas of...

Growing Headache for Corporate Mexico: Robberies of Cargo Trains

Jul 24 2018 // Head southeast out of Mexico City for about four hours or so and you will come upon the town of Acultzingo.It is an impoverished, dusty little place nestled up against the rugged peaks of the Sierra Madre. Most inhabitants...

Passenger Bus Crash in New Mexico Kills 3, Injures 24

Jul 17 2018 // A crash involving a commercial passenger bus and three other vehicles on a New Mexico highway early Sunday killed three people and injured 24 others, some critically, authorities said.One of the people killed was in a car...

Another Lawsuit From Ex-Worker in New Mexico City

Jul 16 2018 // A northern New Mexico city is facing another lawsuit from a former employer in yet another controversy involving its mayor.The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Martin Gonzales, a former public works director of Las Vegas,...

Some Health Insurers Say They’ll Be Squeezed by Obamacare Subsidy Freeze

Jul 9 2018 // Affordable Care Act insurers are facing a fresh round of uncertainty that could drive up premiums or push companies to stop offering coverage through the law, after the Trump administration’s latest move to cut off...

Fear of Wildfires Leads to July Fourth Fireworks Cancellations

Jul 3 2018 // Fire danger across much of the country has prompted cancellation of July 4 fireworks displays.In northern Arizona, Prescott’s fire chief says he’s canceling the town’s Fourth of July fireworks show as...