A south Texas sheriff says a shooting that injured one of his deputies was the first indisputable case of spillover violence from the Mexican drug wars in his County.
Central Texas Congressman Michael McCaul of Austin is pushing Congress and the Obama administration to designate murderous Mexican drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organizations" -- a move he says will strengthen the U.S. war on the drug trade.
it wasn't hard to find. It even called attention to itself. With the drought turning everything else brown, deputies in Wood County had no trouble finding several acres of lush and green marijuana plants north of Hawkins.