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1 Dead, 6 Injured in Shootings in Mexican Resort of Cancun
Authorities say one person has been killed and six others injured in shootings on a main boulevard in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Cancun. Prosecutors in the coastal state of Quintana Roo said Friday that one suspect had been detained in relation to the attack, which did not take place in the resort’s hotel zone. The shootings occurred on an...
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Loud Bang at Cancun Airport Sends Tourists Running, But No Evidence of Gunshots After Panic
Videos posted on social media showed travelers scrambling and rushing out of a terminal.
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Witnesses Recall ‘Complete Chaos' During Gunfire Near Luxury Cancun Resort
A day relaxing at a beach resort in Cancun, Mexico, turned into “complete chaos” for a group of tourists on Thursday when a shootout between a pair of rival gangs left two suspected drug dealers dead.
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Cancun Tourists Rush to Shelter After Gunmen Storm Beach, Kill 2 Rival Gang Members
The dramatic shooting attack sent tourists scrambling for cover at the resort of Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun.
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Gunmen Storm Cancun Beach, ‘Assassinate' 2 Rival Gang Members Near Luxury Resorts
Two suspected drug dealers were killed Thursday in Mexico’s Caribbean coast after gunmen from competing gangs had a shootout near upscale hotels popular with foreign tourists, according to officials.
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Mexico's Cancun Airport Passes Pre-Pandemic Tourism Mark
Mexico passed a milestone of sorts in September when the airport at the country’s biggest coastal resort, Cancun, surpassed pre-pandemic levels of passengers.
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Will Voters Remember? Cruz Trip Tests Durability of Scandal
Ted Cruz has been one of Donald Trump’s staunchest allies and fiercest critics, personifying both sides of the bind the larger Republican Party now finds itself in
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Ted Cruz at Mexico Airport: ‘I'm Headed Back' to Texas
After receiving widespread criticism for flying to Mexico while Texas faces a historic winter storm and power outages, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was photographed checking in at the Cancun, Mexico, airport Thursday. “We had no heat and no power and yesterday,” he told NBC News. “My daughters asked if they could take a trip with some friends, and Heidi and...
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Hurricane Zeta Makes Landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
Hurricane Zeta made landfall on Mexico’s eastern Yucatan Peninsula late Monday, whipping the resorts around Tulum with rain and wind.
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Hurricane Delta Makes Landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula
Hurricane Delta made landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico on Wednesday with winds reaching an estimated 110 mph.
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Mexico Desperate to Reopen 11 Million-job Tourism Industry
An irony of the coronavirus pandemic is that the idyllic beach vacation in Mexico in the brochures really does exist now: The white sand beaches are sparkling çlean and empty on the Caribbean coast, the water is clear on the Pacific coast and the waters around the resort of Los Cabos are teeming with fish after 10 weeks with no...
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Former ‘Survivor' Producer Who Killed Wife in Mexico Back in California After Serving 7 1/2 Years
A former reality TV show producer is home in Southern California after serving a little more than half of his prison sentence in Mexico for killing his wife while on vacation in 2010. Bruce Beresford-Redman, whose credits include “Survivor” and “Pimp My Ride,” was back in Gardena on Tuesday after his release from prison on June 20, NBC Los Angeles...
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Former TV Producer Who Served Time for Wife's Murder in Cancun Returns Home to Gardena
The husband who served a little over half his 12-year prison sentence for killing his wife in 2010 while on vacation in Mexico was back at his home in Gardena Tuesday, leaving some of his neighbors feeling uneasy.
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Sonoma County Entrepreneur Accused of Fraud in Student Debt Services
The owner of a financial services enterprise has been arrested and charged in federal court in San Francisco with fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to steal millions of dollars from people trying to repay student loans.
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Billionaire Banking Heir, Ex-Husband of Jimmy Choo Co-Founder, Dies at Rehab Facility
Billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon has died. He was 54. His cousin Peter Stephaich confirmed Mellon’s death but declined Tuesday to provide any details. He had struggled with drug addiction, and reports said he died at a rehabilitation center in Cancun, Mexico. Mellon is survived by his wife, fashion designer Nicole Hanley, and their two children. He also had a...
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Raul Castro Leaving Cuba With New Freedoms, Deep Problems
In 2008 Raul Castro took over a country where most people couldn’t own computers or cellphones, leave without permission, run most types of private businesses or enter resort hotels. Castro set about re-engineering the system he had helped create and Cuba opened dramatically over his decade in office. But when Castro steps down as president Thursday he will leave his...
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Family Stuck in Cancun After Mother Gives Birth to 26-Week-Old Via Emergency C-Section
A family hoping to enjoy a quick vacation before welcoming their next child got stuck in Cancun, Mexico, for a week after the pregnant mother gave birth via emergency C-section. Now the father and preemie Poppy are headed home for Malibu.
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Iowa Family Died of Gas Asphyxiation at Mexican Resort
Autopsies indicate an Iowa couple and their two children died from inhaling toxic gas at a rented condo on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, but there was no sign of foul play or suicide, Mexican authorities said Saturday. The prosecutors’ office in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo said that “the cause of death was asphyxiation from inhaling toxic gases.” It...
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Investigators Say Missing Iowa Family Found Dead in Mexico
The bodies of an Iowa couple and their two children were found in a rented condo in Mexico on Friday, though it wasn’t immediately clear what caused their deaths, according to investigators.
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Missing Allentown Teen Returns to Pennsylvania After Two-Week Search
Officials found the pair late Saturday morning in the beachside resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico. “Thank you, God,” the girl’s mother said.