The rampage of violence against helpless citizens in Mexico should be a lesson to all in the U.S. who hunger for restricting, then registering, then ultimately collecting our firearms.

A man has pleaded no contest to a murder charge in the beheading of a man in Arizona who police say had stolen drugs from a Mexican drug cartel.

Judging part one of Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" prelude "The Hobbit" is a bit like reviewing a film after seeing only the first act.

Everyone knows - or at least every Jew knows - the story of Hanukkah's origins, the story of how just a tiny amount of oil miraculously burned for eight days. And they know that, in the spirit of that story, Hanukkah is celebrated in part by eating foods fried in oil, such as latkes and doughnuts.

The trial of a man police say participated in the beheading of a Chandler man nearly two years ago — a crime believed to be the first of its kind in the U.S. connected to a Mexican drug cartel — has been rescheduled.

"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter": Those four words, strung together in that order, sound like a lot of fun, don't they?

I am going to blow a huge hole in the “waterboarding is torture” theory. For starters, here are three facts:

Filmmaker Charlie Minn returns to the East Valley today to premier his documentary movie about Mexican drug cartel-related violence. His latest venture examines the the deep-rooted culture of murder in the city of Juarez, Mexico.

Filmmaker Charlie Minn returns to the East Valley today to premier his documentary movie about Mexican drug cartel-related violence. His latest venture examines the the deep-rooted culture of murder in the city of Juarez, Mexico.

Filmmaker Charlie Minn returns to the East Valley this week to premier his documentary movie about Mexican drug cartel-related violence. His latest venture, “Murder Capital of the World,” examines the the deep-rooted culture of murder in the city of Juarez, Mexico.

Let me get this straight, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and Somali Islamic insurgents can torture, behead, burn and drag American military men on video but a bunch of Marines who have had to pick up the body parts of their I.E.D.-blown up buddies are in trouble for whizzing on some dead Taliban attackers? Sadly, our resident R.I.N.O. Senator, John ‘Last Hurrah' McCain whines that it ‘makes me so sad.' Will President Obama rise to the bait and ‘apologize' once again to the Muslim world?"

What began as an ordinary traffic stop in Tempe instead turned into a 15-month drug trafficking investigation and the arrest of 203 suspects linked to the notorious Sinaloa cartel.

MEXICO CITY - Javier Sicilia caught the world's attention after his son and six others were murdered in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City, by elements connected with a drug cartel. Sicilia was a poet, writer and author who took up the cause of justice. I say "was" a poet because following the murders five months ago, he gave up writing poetry. This, for an acclaimed writer, is like a vow of chastity. And that was among the topics in a revealing interview that goes deep into what motivates a victim to become a seeker of dignity. The interview was published Aug. 14 by Thelma Gomez Duran of El Universal, the large major daily here.

In the mid 1980s, when Robert Almonte was a narcotics detective for the El Paso Police Department, he executed a search warrant at the home of a street-level heroin dealer and discovered the woman had placed the names of Almonte and his partner on voodoo dolls.

Monastic life is anything but tedious in Xavier Beauvois' masterful drama "Of Gods and Men," based on the real-life tragedy of seven French monks abducted and beheaded during Algeria's civil war in 1996.

Minutes after the beheading of a 38-year-old Chandler man inside a small apartment at the Chandler Oasis apartments last October, Norma Alvarado told police she knew she lived in a bad neighborhood.

Chandler police believe the beheading of a 38-year-old man in October is tied to Mexican drug cartel violence for one reason:

Chandler police believe the beheading of a 38-year-old man in October is tied to Mexican drug cartel violence for one reason:

Chandler police believe the beheading of a 38-year-old man in October is tied to Mexican drug cartel violence for one reason:

A homicide case that drew attention to so-called honor killings moves into the trial phase this month for an Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because he believed she was too Westernized.

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.

What happens in Mexico no longer stays in Mexico.