I am a border rat. I've been one since the day I hopped back and forth between countries over a fallen, rusty barbed-wire fence in the woodland along the Arizona-Mexico line some 40 years ago. Since that act of joyful anarchy, I've traveled the entire length of the frontier numerous times, dined and slept in just about every border town on both sides and chatted with folks of high and low life throughout. ...more

February 21, 2009

Tampa's Mary Delgado, a winner of ABC's "The Bachelor" reality series in 2004, is out of jail after being arrested in a Southwest border-town bar on a disorderly conduct charge. ...more

November 18, 2008

Hurricane Dolly rolled into south Texas and northern Mexico on Wednesday, deluging the Rio Grande Valley with rain, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people and ripping roofs off resorts on South Padre Island. ...more

July 24, 2008

A plastic surgeon who replaced the fingerprints of a man involved in a drug ring with skin from the bottom of his feet was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison. ...more

February 14, 2008

With its motto "Where Yee-Hah meets Ole," Eagle Pass is a border town that prides itself on being both Tex and Mex, a community with many cultural and financial ties that bind it to its sister city across the Rio Grande. ...more

February 10, 2008

Egyptian troops closed the last breach in Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning, ending 11 days of free movement for Palestinian residents of the blockaded territory, witnesses and Hamas security officials said. ...more

February 4, 2008

On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blown up by militants - puncturing a gaping hole in Israel's airtight closure of the Gaza Strip and giving a boost to Hamas. ...more

January 24, 2008

An Israeli airstrike killed two members of the Hamas military wing in the northern Gaza Strip early Saturday, and two Qassam rockets fired by militants from Gaza landed in the Israeli border town of Sderot and a nearby village, causing no casualties. ...more

January 20, 2008

GHOSTFACE KILLAH: THE BIG DOE REHAB (DEF JAM) ** Ghostface Killah's 2006 release, "Fishscale," was rightly heralded as one of the great hip-hop albums of that year. The rhymes, beats and production combined to create an album with a cinematic flow; and if the story line covered familiar, drug-dealing territory, it was told with an attention to detail, honesty and, dare it be said, some sense of morality. ...more

January 17, 2008

Cubans are migrating to the United States in the greatest numbers in more than a decade, and for most of them the new way to get north is first to head west - to Mexico - in a convoluted route that avoids the U.S. Coast Guard. ...more

October 16, 2007