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Four U.S. citizens reported their vehicles were stolen at gunpoint in Ciudad Acuña, Coah., Mexico, in separate incidents within sight of the international bridge Sunday, Del Rio police say. Del Rio Police Department Capt. Bill Rattay said the robberies, also referred to as “carjackings,” occurred at 10:45 a.m., about 1:30 p.m., about 8 p.m. and 10:22 p.m. Sunday in Ciudad Acuña. Rattay said the first carjacking occurred about 10:45 a.m. Sunday when two armed men accosted Larry Wayne Carson of Killeen, Texas, the driver of a 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 quad-cab pickup truck, as he was headed toward the port...

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico — A lesbian couple from Texas became the first international visitors to take advantage of Coahuila state's new civil union law when they registered their union today in Ciudad Acuna, across the border from Del Rio, Texas. Maria Carreon Lara, 39, and Amparo Maldonado, 24, of Midland, Texas, registered as a "civil solidarity union" under a law that went into effect in January making Coahuila the first of Mexico's 31 states to grant recognition to such unions. The Coahuila law allows nonresidents to register under the law as long as they are in the state legally. It...