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...As part of this work, during the first field season was... the excavation of 2 pyramids and a part of a ballgame court, as well as several human burials that reveal changes in funerary patterns of ancient dwellers... Archaeologist Peter Jimenez, co director of El Teul Archaeological Project[:] "Finding the rests of the oven to melt copper is very important because it is the earliest found in Mexico and was used during Early Post Classic period, between 900 and 1200 of the Common Age", added the researcher at his lecture "Advances of the archaeological rescue at El Teul". He described...

MISSION — The police didn’t find any ice cream in the van — only a box full of pot. Mission police narcotics investigators arrested Adan Toca, 34, outside the Mission Post Office, 901 N. Francisco Ave., about 3:25 p.m. Tuesday. Toca arrived at the post office in a blue van decorated like an ice cream truck, said Mission police Sgt. Jody Tittle. Toca appeared nervous as officers approached him while he held boxes outside the post office. When asked what was inside the boxes, Toca told investigators he didn’t know, Tittle said. Toca gave officers consent to open the boxes...

TIJUANA, Mexico — Firefighters found six bodies inside a burning car in Tijuana, and 15 people were killed in three separate shootings in another northern Mexican border town besieged by drug violence, authorities said Tuesday. Near Mexico's southern border, meanwhile, the bullet-ridden bodies of eight men suspected to be drug traffickers were found in a Guatemalan frontier town. In Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, four bodies were found in a burning compact car's seats and two in the trunk, according to a police report Tuesday. The victims' identities and the motive for the killings were not released, but...

MONTERREY, Mexico — In another cruel display of organized crime firepower, a heavily armed commando attacked a police convoy in the central state of Zacatecas , killing seven police officers and freeing two alleged kidnappers, federal police said Saturday. The attack Friday appeared to be retaliation for the arrests of the kidnap suspects hours earlier, during which a fourth suspect died while exchanging fire with police, according to the federal Attorney General's office, or PGR. The killings capped a bloody year in Mexico's brutal drug gang war, which claimed more than 2,200 lives in 2007, including scores of law enforcers....