SD fans delight in Xolos win against Chivas USA

Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles players ran to the north sideline Wednesday night. They tossed team memorabilia into the stands at USD's Torero Stadium, sending fans into a frenzy as the crowd vied for the free items. It didn't matter that the players launching the gifts were not the Xolos regular starters. Tijuana supporters instead got to […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM PDT

‘Aztec Princess’ opens boxing gym

TIJUANA – The warehouse with the sign that reads "Jackie Nava Gym" is nestled among modest houses and narrow streets in an eastern neighborhood that not that long ago lived brutal times. A block away, four bodies were discovered, part of a total of 19 found citywide on that shocking day, Sept. 29, 2008. It […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM PDT

‘El Rey’ channel to target Latino families

NEW YORK – Why should Oprah should have all the fun? Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodríguez will launch a television channel called El Rey, with programing in English aimed at Latinos families, Comcast announced Tuesday. Rodriguez is partnering with executives from FactoryMade Ventures to create the channel, scheduled to launch in January of 2014. The channel […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM PDT

Xolos play against Chivas USA on Wednesday in SD

They came in packs. They lined up and stood outside on the hillsides surrounding the Torero Stadium. They peaked through bushes, branches and a fence along Linda Vista Road to try and get a glimpse of the action inside. Those were the hundred of fans that couldn't get a ticket to an exhibition soccer match […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM PDT

Fugitive sent to Mexico City for extradition

TIJUANA – The fugitive husband wanted in the murder in San Diego of his wife was transferred Monday to Mexico City, where his extradition will be processed. Local authorities said Armando Pérez, 37, was taken to the Attorney General’s Office because he has dual U.S. and Mexican citizenship, which requires judicial processing there before he […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM PDT

Suspected gunmen for Sinaloa cartel arrested

TIJUANA – Police officers arrested two alleged gunmen for the Sinaloa cartel wanted in the attempted killing of a deputy attorney general in Nayarit state. The two are brothers, Gilberto and Damián Partida Soto, 34 and 33 years old, respectively, were being sought by authorities from Nayarit, Tijuana's police department announced Monday. According to Nayarit […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM PDT

Mexican migrants to vote online for first time

Mexico is writing electoral history by allowing Mexico City natives who live outside of the country to vote for its mayor in the July 1 election. Further, for the first time votes can be cast through the Internet, which could pave the way for all Mexican immigrants who qualify to vote this way in future […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:39 AM PDT

Old Zorro gets the boot in sequel

LOS ANGELES – Adiós Antonio. Leading Mexican actor Gael García Bernal will star in next chapter of the Zorro saga, leaving Antonio Banderas in the dust, the trade publication Variety reported. Fox Studios will make the sequel, to be called "Zorro Reborn," in which the masked hero searches for vengeance. García Bernal, 33, has been […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

Xolos offense comes to life in road win

TIJUANA – The Xolos coach said the offense needed to kick into gear. At least José Sand and Duvier Riascos heard him, both scoring in Tijuana’s 2-0 win on the road Saturday against Querétaro in Week 7 of the Clausura tournament. In the first period, both took a shot at the Gallos Blancos’ net but […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

Missing teen girl found safe in Tijuana

TIJUANA – The teen-age girl who was missing for two weeks has been found and is safe, authorities announced Friday. Two days before state authorities had asked the public for help in locating Karla Judith Morales Rodríguez, 15, who had left for school on Feb. 4 and never returned. They announced that state police agents […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

Xolos need offense to kick into high gear

TIJUANA – The play was quick as it could be. Cirilo Saucedo dove to his right, stopping a virtually point-blank shot. Saucedo, Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles' goalkeeper, slapped away Omar Bravo's shot to hold a scoreless draw with Cruz Azul at home last week. It happened after Saucedo tried to send a pass to a teammate […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

‘Wall-E’ delivers big lessons on school campus

CHULA VISTA – Talk about an explosive subject. Students at Liberty Elementary School saw firsthand Thursday how toy-like robots can be used to defuse big-time dangers. Members of Robotics Club got the chance to see two remote-controlled robots used by the anti-bomb unit of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department in action. One of them, […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

Police search for missing teen girl in Tijuana

TIJUANA – Authorities are asking the public’s help to find a 15-year-old girl who has not been seen since she left for school on Feb. 4. The teen, identified as Karla Judith Morales Rodríguez, left that afternoon for Middle School No. 89 and did not return home, state authorities said. She is described as having […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

Leading Tijuana boxer in key fight Friday

TIJUANA – A fighter from this city is competing for a shot at the lightweight title of the International Boxing Federation. Marvin Quintero's road to that fight has not been an easy one. He's had several matches cancelled at the last minute during his seven-year professional career. And he lost three matches in the 27 […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

Election season brings potential abuse

TIJUANA – Just like in the United States, there are laws in Mexico that mandate what public servants can and can’t do during an election season. To what extent they follow those laws is another matter, regardless of where they live. The officials tasked with running Mexico’s elections are holding meetings nationwide to explain the […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

Baja police arrest Cuban in killing of deaf-mute teen

TIJUANA – A Cuba-born man was arrested Wednesday in the murder of a deaf-mute 17-year-old girl who had been missing since Feb. 10, authorities announced. The State Attorney General’s Office identified the suspect as Henry José Puentes Padilla, 33, from the town of Huanabacoa, who allegedly had a relationship with the girl. The man confessed […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

2,012 couples say ‘I do’ in Tijuana

TIJUANA – The couples jammed a park as far as the eye could see, 2,012 of them. Holding hands, they pressed together under cold, cloudy skies. Some had been together a matter of months, others decades. And on the day love reigns, they got officially married. In one of the largest "collective weddings" in the […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:38 AM PDT

What impact does a fence make?

TIJUANA – A French company is filming a documentary called "Eight Walls that Divide the World," which explores what these structures mean to the communities separated by them. Two independent filmmakers, Elsa Putelat y Nicolas Dupuis, from the company Unik Production, met on Monday with Mayor Carlos Bustamante, whom they interviewed about the wall that […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:37 AM PDT

Mexico makes organ donation easier

TIJUANA – Some 600 people are on Baja California's registry waiting for an organ to save their lives, according health authorities. Some, particularly those needing a kidney, have been waiting up to three years. The odds are against them, however, given the relatively few organ donations made in the state and a process that everyone […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:37 AM PDT

Motorists coping with new ‘gasolinazo’

TIJUANA – Since the weekend, the price of gasoline and diesel has gone up for the second time this year as part of a cut in the federal subsidy of fuel in Mexico. Even so, the subsidy keeps Mexican fuel prices about 30 per cent lower than just across the border in the United States. […]

April 13, 2017 at 6:37 AM PDT