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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico’s Morelos state is claiming his predecessor and the previous police chief negotiated with a drug gang. Gov. Cuauhtemoc Blanco was himself forced to deny any drug links after a 3-year-old photo surfaced showing him posing with three men identified as local drug gang leaders.  But Blanco went

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A news photographer was killed in the Mexican border city of Tijuana Monday, the same day press groups said a reporter was killed in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz last week. Photographer Margarito Martínez was well-known for covering the crime scene in violence-plagued Tijuana.  And a Mexican journalist who criticized

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief says over 12,000 detainees are held officially in 27 prisons and detention facilities across Libya and thousands more are held illegally änd often in “inhumane conditions in facilities controlled by armed groups or `secret’ facilities.” Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — California authorities say three teenage boys were killed when the car they were in hit a curb, collided with a fence and rolled over on an embankment. The single-vehicle crash happened at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday at an intersection in Pasadena. The California Highway Patrol says preliminary reports that the 2005

By ASTRID SUÁREZ Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — For decades renowned Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez kept the public from knowing about an intimate aspect of his life: He had a daughter with a Mexican writer, with whom he had an extramarital affair in the early 1990s. The closely guarded secret was published by

By JEFF MARTIN and MICHAEL WARREN The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights. Speaking in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Martin Luther King III said he was marking the federal holiday named for his father, but he wasn’t there to celebrate.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit part of its decision not to protect Yellowstone National Park’s bison as an endangered species. Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project groups argue that two separate groups of bison in the park are genetically distinct.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The family of a delivery driver who died last month when a tornado collapsed the Amazon warehouse in central Illinois where he worked has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.The Madison County action Monday on behalf of Austin McEwen, 26, claims that Amazon failed to warn employees of dangerous weather or provide

By YURAS KARMANAU Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has returned to Ukraine to face court on treason charges he believes are politically motivated. At the Kyiv airport, where he arrived on a flight from Warsaw on Monday morning, Poroshenko was greeted by several thousand supporters. From the airport, Poroshenko

By JEFF MARTIN and MICHAEL WARREN The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights. Speaking in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Martin Luther King III said he was marking the federal holiday named for his father, but he wasn’t there to celebrate.