NOGALES, Ariz. — A shootout between border patrol agents and bandits in the rugged canyons near Mexico's border left one officer dead and a suspect injured, a union official said Wednesday, the latest outburst of violence along the busiest smuggling corridor into the U.S.

SAN DIEGO - Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks.

The U.S. Border Patrol agent killed last week in a shooting in southern Arizona apparently opened fire on two fellow agents thinking they were armed smugglers and was killed when they returned fire, the head of the Border Patrol agents' union said Sunday.

PHOENIX — The shooting of two U.S. Border Patrol agents near the Arizona-Mexico border may have been a case of friendly fire, a union chief for border agents and law enforcement officials said Friday.

Border Patrol officers are being told by supervisors to stay out of certain areas as too dangerous, Cochise County's top law enforcement officer said Tuesday.

TUCSON - A probe into last month's fatal shooting of a Mexican man by a Border Patrol agent near Douglas has been mishandled, according to the agency's union.

SIERRA VISTA — A U.S. Border Patrol agent killed last week in an apparent case of friendly fire was remembered Monday as a loving family man, while hundreds of uniformed law enforcement officers lined the streets to watch a procession of horses lead his flag-draped coffin to the funeral.

President Barack Obama's plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops back to the U.S.-Mexico border quelled demands that he must do more to battle illegal immigration and drug smuggling, but advocates for tougher enforcement say the troops need authority to make detentions.

The nation's border czar told city officials Thursday that their concerns about security and violence are overblown.

January 18, 2005

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials announced Tuesday they will seal the country's borders, extend a nighttime curfew and restrict movement to protect voters during the Jan. 30 vote, which insurgents are seeking to ruin with a campaign of violence.

November 8, 2004

SAN DIEGO — New Mexico's governor says it is a step backward. Texas isn't touching it. And California? Never again.

SAN DIEGO — New Mexico's governor says it is a step backward. Texas isn't touching it. And California? Never again.

The Pinal County Sheriff's Office allowed a Gilbert man and his militia to patrol the desert in Vekol Valley near Casa Grande over the weekend looking for illegal immigrants participating in criminal activities, but stressed it does not condone such militia efforts.

An Apache Junction man who was a former member of a group with neo-Nazi ties is facing up to 10 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for bomb-related offenses.

WASHINGTON - President Bush signed a bill Thursday authorizing 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping to give Republican candidates a pre-election platform for asserting they're tough on illegal immigration.

TUCSON - A member of a southern Arizona Indian tribe who has been putting out water for illegal immigrants crossing the desert for about seven years said Thursday that he has again been told to stop.

Mass demonstrations against a federal immigration reform bill have caught the attention of state lawmakers but have done little to slow efforts to enact state laws addressing to the matter.

Mass demonstrations against a federal immigration reform bill have caught the attention of state lawmakers but have done little to slow efforts to enact state laws addressing to the matter. A march in Phoenix last week drew an estimated 20,000 people, and in subsequent days, students have taken to the streets in a show of opposition to some proposals.

Mass demonstrations against a federal immigration reform bill have caught the attention of state lawmakers but have done little to slow efforts to enact state laws addressing to the matter.

JT Ready’s phone signal was breaking up as he rode in the cab of a surplus military transport vehicle on his way to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

JT Ready’s phone signal was breaking up as he rode in the cab of a surplus military transport vehicle on his way to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.