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A Texas man is accused of murdering three people in the northern state of Coahuila and then fleeing with his 3-year-old son toward the United States, before being arrested while trying to cross the border. The suspect, identified as Chad Eberle, a former police officer, allegedly shot and killed two women and a man while seriously wounding another woman inside a home in the Espinoza Mireles neighborhood of Saltillo, the Coahuila state capital, on Tuesday afternoon. Murder suspect Chad Eberle during his days as a law enforcement officer in a small Texas town. (Bangs, Texas, Police Department) The Coahuila Attorney General’s Office (FGE) said the suspect was apprehended at the Piedras Negras border crossing in his gray Chevrolet Silverado around five hours after the shooting. The child was retrieved uninjured and was placed under the protection of the Office of the Attorney for Children and Families. According to initial reports, Eberle arrived at 1221 José Espinoza Fuente Stre...

People seeking to gain admission to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) for the upcoming academic year will have to sit a second in-person entrance exam after the integrity of the first exams — the first ever held online — was undermined by test-takers’ alleged use of artificial intelligence and other cheating methods . A group of experts in fields including education, AI and law that was named by UNAM rector Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas to examine what happened during the initial online exams recommended that new exams be held . UNAM heeded that advice. Inside the massive cheating scandal shaking UNAM, Mexico’s top university In a statement issued on Tuesday, the university — Mexico’s largest and most prestigious — outlined the “procedure to participate in the in-person control exam as part of the selection contest to enter degree programs for the 2026/2027 academic year.” UNAM directed aspirants to a website where they can check whether ...

A new Home Depot, traffic chaos and the loss of another local dining icon are all in the news this week as we take a look at the San Miguel de Allende stories that matter to you. Home Depot opening new stores in Guanajuato The Georgia-based home improvement chain is investing US $21 million in the project in San Miguel and changed the design to comply with local requirements. The company also reportedly  agreed to replace mesquite trees removed at the construction site  behind MAC Hospital and include public space renovations. Construction has begun on the Home Depot store behind the MAC Hospital. (Shutterstock) In addition to San Miguel de Allende, Home Depot plans stores in León and Guanajuato as part of a total US $1.3 billion investment the company is making in Mexico through 2030. It employs more than 18,000 people working at 140 stores in at least 100 Mexican cities. San Miguel already has numerous hardware and home supply stores, including several Grupo Ferretero Don Pedro...

Remittances to Mexico increased 3.1% annually in the first six months of 2026, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) reported Monday, rebounding from a 4.6% decline in 2025 . Banxico’s data shows that Mexico received US $30.76 billion in remittances between January and June, up from $29.84 billion in the same period of last year. That total was the second highest on record for the first six months of a year, behind only the $31.34 billion Mexico received in remittances in the January-June period of 2024 . More than 99% of the money came into the country via electronic transfers. Banxico also reported on Monday that remittances to Mexico increased 4.2% annually in June to reach $5.47 billion, the second highest monthly total this year after May. It was the second consecutive month that incoming remittances — most of which are transferred by Mexicans living and working in the United States — exceeded $5 billion. Despite the annual increase in remittances in June, the millions of Mexican...

The Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced Tuesday that it had dismantled four “illicit fuel processing centers” across three states, dealing another blow to the illegal fuel trade in Mexico. In a statement , the FGR said that in coordination with the federal Security Ministry, the National Guard and the logistics subsidiary of state oil company Pemex, it carried out “strategic actions to identify and dismantle” the makeshift refineries. Cuatro centros de procesamiento de huachicol fueron desmantelados por fuerzas federales en los estados de San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo y Morelos. Las labores de inteligencia e investigación, así como el intercambio de información permitieron ubicar dichos inmuebles. #LaJornadaBC … pic.twitter.com/rnCHPFjVSu — La Jornada Baja California (@LaJornadaBC) August 4, 2026 Two of the illegal fuel processing facilities were located in San Luis Potosí, one was in Hidalgo and another was in Morelos. The FGR said they wer...

Students at Mexico’s leading public university are making their own beer, but it’s not the stereotypical case of mischievous young people setting up a homebrew kit to party in their dorm rooms. Rather, the Chemistry Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is carrying out a research project at the campus’s Educational Pilot Beer Plant, using normally wasted foods to diversify the flavors available in the national market while enriching the nutritional content of the beverage. Students are experimenting with so-called “adjuncts” — carbohydrate-rich ingredients that complement the malt during the brewing process — and incorporating seasonal foods into the beer-making process.  The approach reduces organic waste, lowers costs and produces a beer with additional nutritional characteristics, while keeping the alcohol content at or below 8%. Agustín Reyo-Herrera, head of the research team, said a primary ingredient thus far has been overripe bananas, of whi...