The mayor of a state capital in southern Mexico has been killed just one week after he took office, officials said Sunday.

A mayor in Mexico was found decapitated and his severed head propped up on the roof of his car just six days after taking ...

The mayor of a city in southern Mexico was murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said, a crime condemned ...

Arcos was sworn in Sept. 30 as mayor of Chilpancingo, a city so violent that a drug gang openly staged a demonstration, ...

The mayor of a violence-plagued city in Mexico was killed on Sunday with his decapitated body left in a pickup truck and his ...

Chilpancingo's newly elected leader was killed just six days after he took office, exposing the dire security situation in ...

Alejandro Arcos, the mayor of Chilpancingo, Mexico, was brutally murdered just six days into office, with his decapitated ...

The decapitated head of a mayor in Mexico was found atop his car just six days into his tenure, marking the second official ...

The wave of killings includes murders in Guanajuato and Sinaloa, as well as the assassination of a mayor and his secretary.

The president of Mexico is vowing to bring to justice those responsible for the murder and beheading of a mayor in the state ...