Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:16 PM EST
A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego.
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Tue Nov 3, 2009 1:31 PM EST
U.S. authorities on Tuesday reported a spike in seizures of guns and cash along the Mexican border since they began assigning more agents to stem the flow of southbound contraband.
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 10:04 PM EDT
Esteban Contreras had a bad feeling when his daughter and her husband said they were going to sneak across the border with their children.
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Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:01 PM EDT
A suspected top figure in Mexico's Arellano Felix drug cartel pleaded guilty to a drug charge Thursday, nearly ending a nine-year legal battle that saw the cartel's power fade at the hands of authorities and rivals.
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Wed Oct 7, 2009 4:01 PM EDT
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission warned Wednesday of "a looming spectrum crisis" if the government fails to find ways to come up with more bandwidth for mobile devices.
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Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:21 PM EDT
Federal agents felt trapped when they opened fire on the driver of one of two vans packed with suspected illegal immigrants that barreled toward them at the nation's busiest border crossing, an official said Wednesday.
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Tue Sep 8, 2009 3:28 PM EDT
Regulators on Thursday soundly rejected a utility company's plan to cut electricity to a vast swath of San Diego bedroom communities when the weather is ripe for major wildfires.
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Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:25 PM EDT
Members of a group of Mexican drug traffickers have been indicted in the murders of nine people in the San Diego area — including two victims whose bodies were dissolved in acid, authorities announced Thursday.
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Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:44 PM EDT
U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Monday unveiled a prototype vessel for high-speed pursuits of smugglers ferrying people and drugs from Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.
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Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:02 PM EDT
A Border Patrol agent who was slain in a rugged, remote area along the Mexican border was buried Friday after being remembered as a gregarious family man who dreamed that his 2-year-old son would follow in his footsteps.
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Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:37 PM EDT
A man indicted by a grand jury in the cruise ship death of his wife pleaded not guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and waived his right to seek bail.
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Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:30 AM EDT
Drug dealer Hector Rodriguez Estrada had a feeling he was next.
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Wed May 27, 2009 10:07 PM EDT
The new leaders of News Corp.'s MySpace said Wednesday they need to innovate to rejuvenate the social networking site, which has suffered from stalled user growth.
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Wed May 27, 2009 5:25 PM EDT
Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive said Wednesday that she is open to joining forces with Microsoft Corp. so both companies can better compete in Internet search, but a deal would need a specific set of terms — including "boatloads of money."
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Wed May 27, 2009 12:17 AM EDT
Twitter Inc.'s co-founders say the rapidly growing online communications company will eventually charge fees for its services, but it's unclear which ones and what will drive revenue.
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Wed May 20, 2009 5:27 PM EDT
Mexican and U.S. authorities investigating the deaths of four Americans found in Tijuana, Mexico, are searching for a fifth person who might also have fallen victim.
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Mon Apr 27, 2009 10:41 AM EDT
Qualcomm Inc. posted a fiscal second-quarter loss Monday on a hefty payment to rival chip maker Broadcom Corp. to end legal disputes that spanned several continents.
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Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:22 PM EDT
In Mexico's drug war, Tijuana tells the story of a government that says it's winning, even as the battle gets bloodier.
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Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:06 AM EDT
Shares in Texas Instruments Inc. fell Tuesday after the chip maker reported that first-quarter profit and revenue tumbled as competition heightened and demand for its chips shrank amid the recession.
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Mon Apr 6, 2009 1:54 PM EDT
The Associated Press and the newspaper industry plan an aggressive effort to track down copyright violators on the Internet and try to divert traffic from Web sites that don't properly license news content, the AP board announced Monday.
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Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:55 PM EDT
A storm drain in front of the nation's busiest border crossing had been left open for hours by U.S. authorities before eight Mexicans used it to try to enter the U.S. illegally.
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Sun Mar 8, 2009 8:17 PM EDT
The chief executive of semiconductor maker Texas Instruments Inc. received compensation valued at $9.6 million in 2008, down 6.6 percent from the previous year as the company faced fierce competition for chips that power cell phones, according to a regulatory filing.
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Fri Mar 6, 2009 2:45 PM EST
Stephen and Linda Drake cast aside concerns about owning property in Mexico because they believed in Donald Trump.
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Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:49 AM EST
New technology at the nation's busiest border crossing can read chip-enabled travel documents up to 30 feet from an inspection booth, promising shorter waits but raising concerns about targeting by computer hackers.
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Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:36 PM EST
Every weekend he can, Gene Elwell heads to the desert and races his buggy over the largest sand dunes in the U.S. Nearly 200 miles west, on California's Pacific shores, the Rev. John Fanestil spends every Sunday at Friendship Park, where people on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border touch hands and talk through holes in a chain-link fence.
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