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ZINDELL BROWN, LATAVIA MCGEE, SHAEED WOODARD, ERIC JAMES WILLIAMS Mexican authorities announced on Tuesday that two U.S. citizens who were abducted last week in Matamoros have been found dead, while two others have been discovered alive. One of the surviving individuals was injured, while the other was unharmed, according to Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal. The deceased were identified as Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown. The two who survived are Latavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams. The FBI had been working alongside Mexican authorities in the search for the missing Americans, who were abducted on Friday. A family member of one...

A man suspected of preying on Brownsville women by climbing through their car windows and assaulting them has been spotted panhandling in Matamoros as late as this past weekend, police said. Juan Cruz-Ovilla, 22, who is believed to be Honduran, was seen begging for food and money at a Matamoros market square, Brownsville Police Lt. James Paschall said Monday. “He’s on the run. He’s pretty desperate,” Paschall said. “He has no money. He has no food.” Paschall said police received the information from a reliable source and are contacting their counterparts in Matamoros for as-sistance in arresting Cruz-Ovilla, who police...

MATAMOROS, Mexico — Presidential runner-up Andrés Manuel López Obrador's call for civil disobedience reached the border Friday in a string of protests at international bridges in Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa and here. In Matamoros, a group of about 100 blocked a city street that leads to the Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates and into Brownsville. "We're here because we are sure that López Obrador won," Rommel Delgado, a 23-year-old teacher, said over the horns of miffed truckers and drivers. Civil unrest here and in other parts of the country, most notably Mexico City, is rooted in the historically close results...