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• Coast Guard suspends search for missing cruise ship passenger off Louisiana coast

  February 17, 2022 1:32 PM

  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a cruise ship passenger who jumped from her balcony into the sea and is missing in the Gulf of Mexico. An airplane had been conducting search patterns off the coast, but Coast Guard officials said Thursday... more »

• Southwest Mexico struck by powerful earthquake Play Video

  September 8, 2021 5:33 AM

  ACAPULCO, Mexico - Mexico was rocked by a powerful earthquake late Tuesday, an event that killed at least one person and caused shaking from the country's southwest region to Mexico City. WATCH: 7.0-magnitude earthquake hits southern Mexico pic.twitter.com/wF3YkzWyQH — BNO News (@BNONews) September 8, 2021 ... more »

• Husband who was intubated and stuck in Mexico airlifted back to La. Play Video

  August 12, 2021 6:10 PM

  UPDATE: On August 14, Yolanda Comager was able to get her husband back to Louisiana. David was flown from Mexico to Ochsner in New Orleans. He is on a ventilator but doctors tell his wife, Yolanda, that they will soon start weaning him off of sedation. Yolanda drove... more »

• Salvage crew will remove capsized Seacor boat from gulf in sections

  June 9, 2021 12:47 PM

  PORT FOURCHON - Workers plan to break down the sunken Seacor Power lift boat into sections before it's ultimately salvaged and taken back to shore , officials announced Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard said the vessel is still in the same location where it capsized April 13, but cracks... more »

• Border agents find 217 pounds of methamphetamine hidden in pickle shipment

  April 25, 2021 9:16 PM

  PHARR, Tx. - Customs and Border Protection officers found 217 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a fresh cucumber pickle shipment on April 17, according to a CBP news release. Authorities say the narcotics were found at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge cargo facility when a tractor with a trailer attached... more »

• Mexico expected to request US for some of its vaccine supply

  March 1, 2021 7:33 AM

  As additional shipments of COVID-19 vaccinations make their way across the United States, the nation's neighbor to the south is likely to ask the US for a portion of its vaccine supply. According to CNN , a Mexican government official has confirmed that Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador... more »

• Supreme Court to hear arguments against proposed border wall funding, asylum policies

  October 19, 2020 10:16 AM

  According to CNN , the Supreme Court announced Monday that it would hear cases related to the Trump Administration's border wall and a controversial policy that requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico as they await hearings in the United States. The current administration intends to use Pentagon funds... more »

• Cleveland Browns, Greg Robinson caught with 157 pounds of marijuana near Mexican border

  February 20, 2020 12:35 PM

  EL PASO, Tx. - Louisiana native and Browns football player, Greg Robinson, 27, was arrested for possession with intent to distribute marijuana Monday evening along with free agent, Jaquan Bray, 26. According to the Department of Justice, Robinson and Bray were traveling with... more »

• Earthquake shakes up Mexico

  September 8, 2017 7:51 AM

  MEXICO-Breaking over night Southern Mexico was hit by a strong earthquake. At this time 32 people were reported dead and the area is under a risk of a tsunami. Waves three feet high have been spotted off the coast. According to the US Geological Survey, the earthquake as... more »

• Baton Rouge contractor could help build border wall Play Video

  March 30, 2017 10:54 PM

  BATON ROUGE- A civil contractor said Thursday he's on the short list to help build President Donald Trump's wall on the Mexican border. James Larry Prudhomme, a Trump supporter, has run his company JL Investments in Baton Rouge for over a decade with a focus on commercial construction. ... more »

• Teen victim's family questions how accused shooter re-entered country Play Video

  March 15, 2017 10:38 PM

  BATON ROUGE - The family of a 16-year-old who was shot on his birthday by an illegal alien says they do not believe the accused shooter's story that he was playing with the gun when it went off. In 2012, Octavio Bringas, a Mexican national, was deported following a drug... more »

• Illegal immigrant sentenced to prison for drug trafficking

  March 11, 2017 5:05 PM

  BATON ROUGE - An illegal immigrant has been senteced to six and a half years in federal prison for his role in transporting illegal drugs. A U.S. District judge sentenced 39-year-old Silvestre Gutierrez after he pleaded guilty to attempting to transport six kilograms of cocaine through Baton Rouge in... more »

• Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' being extradited to the U.S.

  January 19, 2017 6:09 PM

  Infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is being extradited to the United States. A spokesman for the Mexican Attorney General confirmed the extradition to ABC News Thursday. The spokesperson would not confirm where in the U.S. El Chapo was being transported. El Chapo was recaptured last... more »

• Coast Guard, good Samaritans help burning ship in the gulf

  January 16, 2017 2:23 PM

  NEW ORLEANS - The Coast Guard and good Samaritans are responding to a vessel that caught fire 150 miles south of Southwest Pass Monday morning. Watchstanders at the Eighth Coast Guard District command center received a report at 3:28 a.m. from the National Command Center of an electrical fire... more »

• Troopers bust illegal casino in Iberville Parish restaurant

  December 8, 2016 7:42 PM

  PLAQUEMINE – State Police say one man has been arrested after a month-long investigation into an illegal gambling operation at an Iberville Parish Mexican grill. Louisiana State Police say 45-year-old Adolfo Gonzalez-Lopez was booked into the Iberville Parish jail on four counts of gabling by electronic sweepstakes device. ... more »

• Trump takes credit for keeping Kentucky Ford plant from moving to Mexico

  November 18, 2016 10:09 AM

  LOUISVILLE - President-elect Donald Trump took credit Thursday for convincing Ford Motor Company to keep a manufacturing plant in Louisville, Kentucky, from relocating to Mexico -- but the automaker says it never planned to relocate the entire plant. Trump tweeted, "Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford,... more »

• Family of Ali Landry's husband kidnapped, killed

  September 23, 2015 2:16 PM

  TAMPICO, Mexico – The father-in-law and brother-in-law of Louisiana native Ali Landry were murdered by suspected Mexican cartel, media outlets reported this week. The men were kidnapped when they left their home in Tampico, south of Mexico City, in early September. Fifteen days later, their bodies were found in... more »

• New Mexico State bus robbed during Florida game

  September 6, 2015 1:42 PM

  GAINESVILLE, Fla. - University of Florida police say electronics, computers and other items were stolen from a New Mexico State team personnel bus during Saturday's game. Brad Barber of the university police department says the bus, which carried football staff members, was parked outside the stadium in a secure area.... more »