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NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — One of five police slain here since last Sunday lay in a casket below a fresh layer of dirt as a small crowd of family, but no uniformed officers, gathered under a white tent, umbrellas or no shade at all. Except for a woman who cried "Oh, my God," and the constant, melting bawl of the officer's oldest son near the end of the service, it was a quiet burial following another violent death. Someone attacked officer Ricardo Uvalle Escobedo, 33, as he drove to work early Tuesday on a typically busy street. He stopped and...

If the state is to form its own police force to guard the U.S.-Mexico border, it will be up to citizens to make it happen. No, not via a force of civilian volunteers like the Minuteman Project, but through the signature-collecting initiative process. State Assemblyman Ray Haynes' (R-Murrieta) proposed constitutional amendment to create a force called the California Border Police was killed in the Legislature, but the initiative just went into circulation after its ballot title and summary were approved by the state attorney general. The Antelope Valley's representatives support the effort, with state Sen. George Runner (R-Lancaster) and Assemblywoman...