EL CERCADO, Mexico (AP) — The bodies of John and Wanda Casias came one last time to the Baptist church they founded in a violenceplagued region of northern Mexico as mourners paid homage Thursday to the Texas couple who were discovered strangled in their home. More than a dozen mourners passed to view the open […]

LONDON ( AP) — Prince William arrived in the Falkland Islands on Thursday for a six-week deployment as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, British officials said, amid an escalating sovereignty dispute with Argentina over the territory. The Ministry of Defense confirmed that William, known in the service as Flight Lt. Wales, landed on the […]

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has accepted the resignation of her minister of cities, who faces allegations of irregularities while in office. Mario Negromonte is the eighth member of Rousseff ’s Cabinet to step down. The office of the presidency said in a brief statement that Negromonte submitted his resignation on Thursday […]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian officials say a bomb exploded outside a police station in a western town, killing a police officer and wounding at least 20 people. It is Colombia’s second lunch-hour bombing near a police station in as many days. Cauca state security coordinator Edith Cabeza confirmed the police officer’s death in Thursday’s […]

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ( AP) — President Cristina Fernandez would need a third term in office to complete her transformation of Argentina, her vice president said Thursday, feeding her opponents’ fears that the newly re-elected leader will try to change the constitution and stay in power beyond 2015.