At the end of a dirt road in northern Mexico, the conveyer belts processing hundreds of tons of vegetables a year for U.S. and Mexican markets are open to the elements, protected only by a corrugated metal roof. ...more

September 14, 2008

Only jalapeno peppers grown in Mexico are implicated in the nationwide salmonella outbreak, the government announced Friday in clearing the U.S. crop. ...more

July 26, 2008

The economy is tough on drug dealers too, investigators learned as part of a sweeping probe of two trafficking networks stretching from Texas and Georgia to Fort Myers and the Bay area. ...more

July 24, 2008

It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak. ...more

July 24, 2008

A five-month drug investigation targeting two drug-trafficking groups and four distribution cells throughout the state has culminated with nearly two dozen arrests this morning, officials said. Tampa and Plant City police, federal authorities and the sheriff's offices in Hillsborough, Pasco and Lee counties cooperated in the investigation. Forty-one people have been arrested. ...more

July 23, 2008

Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: A single Mexico-grown jalapeno pepper handled by a small Texas produce shipper. ...more

July 21, 2008

The thousands of National Guard troops sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. ...more

June 21, 2008