All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 20 2014 // The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated Lea County a natural disaster area, making drought-stricken farmers and ranchers in the area eligible for assistance. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the...
Feb 19 2014 // A proposal to toughen drunken driving penalties has cleared the New Mexico House but it likely faces difficulty in the Senate.The measure would add mandatory prison time to the basic sentence of drunken driving offenders...
Feb 18 2014 // The husband of Jenni Rivera, the Mexican-American pop star who died with six others in a 2012 plane crash, sued the aircraft’s owners Friday alleging wrongful death.Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Esteban Loaiza...
Feb 11 2014 // A bill that would have stopped New Mexico from granting driver’s licenses to most immigrants without proper documentation has stalled in the Legislature.The Santa Fe New Mexican reported the legislation could not...
Feb 10 2014 // A woman who says she was kept in a filthy, isolated New Mexico jail cell for months at a time has reached a $1.6 million settlement with Valencia County, attorneys for both sides confirmed.The settlement came after an...
Feb 7 2014 // A.M. Best Co. announced the incorporation of its new subsidiary, A.M. Best América Latina, S.A. de C.V. The new office will be located in the financial district of Mexico City at Paseo de la Reforma 412 and will service...
Jan 24 2014 // The New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance has officially notified TraffiCare International LLC to cease and desist all New Mexico operations due to their failure to obtain the required licenses and certificate of...
Jan 22 2014 // Two Mexican citizens who were arrested at the border used account information stolen during the Target security breach to buy tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise, according to a South Texas police...
Jan 16 2014 // Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will do just about anything to help Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.He arranged the chamber’s floor agenda this week so Landrieu could lead debate on a flood insurance rate reprieve...
Jan 13 2014 // Two New Mexico cities are preparing to begin operating public charging stations for electric vehicles.In late December 2013 Gallup opened a Tesla Motors supercharger station and Farmington is scheduled to open one this...
Jan 7 2014 // Another attempt is being made at the New Mexico Legislature to prohibit texting while driving.Democratic Sen. Peter Wirth of Santa Fe has pre-filed a bill, marking the fifth time a version of a texting-while-driving ban...
Jan 7 2014 // Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto is giving the car insurance market a boost with a plan to mandate policies on federal highways in the country, where almost three in four drivers lack coverage.Congress approved...
Jan 3 2014 // BP Plc’s bid to block economic-loss payments tied to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill unless the claims can be directly linked to the disaster won fast-track consideration by an appeals court.The London-based...
Dec 27 2013 // BP Plc lost a bid to require businesses to provide proof their economic losses were caused by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill under a $9.2 billion settlement over the disaster.U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New...
Dec 24 2013 // Two New Mexico cities are preparing to begin operating public charging stations for electric vehicles.Last week, Gallup opened a Tesla Motors supercharger station and Farmington is scheduled to open one next month, The...
Dec 18 2013 // BP Plc asked a U.S. judge to stop payments in the $2.3 billion seafood-industry portion of its settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill pending an investigation of fraud claims against a plaintiffs’...
Dec 12 2013 // Poms & Associates Insurance Brokers Inc. named Andrew Valencia in the firm’s New Mexico office as vice president of employee benefits. He specializes in the development and implementation of group health, dental,...
Dec 11 2013 // A judge has awarded nearly $80 million to the estate and family of an Albuquerque woman who suffocated in 2002 when her car was buried by sand after being struck by a tractor-trailer truck. District Judge Shannon Bacon...
Dec 5 2013 // Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and BP Plc asked an appeals court to throw out a judge’s finding that both companies were liable under the U.S. Clean Water Act for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.U.S. District Judge Carl...
Dec 4 2013 // Gov. Susana Martinez has appointed a state government lawyer from Albuquerque to run a regulatory agency overseeing New Mexico’s workers’ compensation program. Darin Childers becomes director of the...