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A polished apple dropped seventeen feet without being bruised. It landed as a core.

Elias Fernandez de Jesus, whose age was not given, died in the attack, Alvino said. Officials in San Juan Copala declared the town an "autonomous municipality" two years ago. Under the Mexican Constitution, ethnic minorities have the right to govern...

Mexico — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the governor of a southern Mexican state is responsible for rights abuses during 2006 protests that paralyzed a colonial city and left least a dozen people dead. The ruling has no binding...

Art, literature and theater will provide the lens for community reflection in Jasper, Ind., this month. It all revolves around the Montana Repertory Theatre's touring performance of the stage adaptation of "To Kill a Mockingbird," which will play at 7...

Day of the Dead For those wanting to take part in Living Arts of Tulsa's annual Dia de Los Muertos Arts Festival, the organization is hosting a free session on building altars, 7 p.m...Artistic director Steve Liggett will lead a...

Seriously, if we had a peso for every time someone's proclaimed the next three sentences, in this exact order, we'd be booking our flight to Oaxaca: 1...I used to live in Los Angeles, San Diego or (fill in the blank)...Serg's...

These are bitter times for the balladeers of Little Village , Pilsen and Cicero . For men such as Benito Perez Vasquez, the crushing recession has turned what was once just a hobby into a full-time pursuit. Today, the 43-year-old...

Until this fall, Albaro Francisco was living the classic American dream: A penniless immigrant, he came to this country as a teenager, worked hard, made his way up the economic ladder and became the owner of a successful business...It was...

The taqueria—best known for its cheap, but authentic tacos and jarritos sodas—offered to disclose the secret to the Mexican quesadilla, demonstrating the recipe right before my eyes. And of course, I sampled the dish as well.

While the owner, Polo Martinez,...

I was instantly transformed from a human being into a tiny disembodied speck of consciousness — completely bewildered as to what I was and amnesic of my former identity. I was suspended in a hyperspatial dimension, a crystalline network of...