MEXICO CITY( Reuters)-At least 12 suspected criminals were killed on a highway near Hermosillo in

small Cessna airplane piloted by an American took off from the Hermosillo airport in the northern

The text message Cynthia Menchaca received this summer was one she was seeing more and more: A woman living in Texas said she had left a violent relationship only to discover she was pregnant, and she desperately wanted an abortion.... The woman had learned that Menchaca could send her abortion pills from Mexico, where the procedure has been decriminalized in several states. But the growing U.S. demand for abortion care is not limited to deliveries of medication, according to advocates such as

" They must have thought life was grand.... Ahl faces 48 felony counts including conspiracy, organized retail theft, grand theft, receiving stolen property, and money laundering, authorities said.He remains in custody at Ventura County jail with bail set at$ 500, 000 and faces up to 32 years in prison if convicted.... Attorney information for Ahl was not immediately available. Ventura County Sheriff Jim Fryhoff said Ahl's" boosters" would systematically steal expensive electrical components li