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CHICAGO – A young Marine who feared returning to Iraq persuaded his cousin to shoot him in the leg, then told police he was hit by random gang gunfire, authorities said. The shooting early Saturday was meant to keep 19-year-old Moises Hernandez (search) from going back to Iraq, prosecutors said. …

PHOENIX – A man suspected in the shooting death of three people in Arizona and the kidnapping of his two children was arrested Monday afternoon near Puerto Vallarta in the Mexican state of Jalisco, authorities said. Mexican authorities found the two children at a different location near where Rodrigo Cervantes …

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – The United States will close its consulate for one week to assess the security of its employees and consulate visitors in this Mexican border town after a shootout between drug gangs using machine guns, grenades and a rocket launcher. In a statement from Mexico City late …