Alejandro Arcos was sworn in last Monday as mayor of Chilpancingo, a city so violent that a drug gang openly staged a ...

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

Photos of the crime scene showed Mayor Alejandro Arcos' severed head had been left on the hood of his vehicle.

Officials say four mayors in Mexico have asked federal authorities for protection after a colleague was beheaded last week in ...

Only a week in office and the mayor of a small Mexican town is assassinated -- as cartel violence continues to spiral out of control.

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

The mayor of a violence-plagued state in southern Mexico was buried on Monday. He was in office for six days before his assassination.

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

The mayor of Chilpancingo, the capital of Mexico's violence-plagued state of Guerrero, traveled alone to an out-of-town ...

A mayor of a city in Mexico was reportedly beheaded just days after taking office. Reports say the body of Alejandro Arcos Catalan, 43, was found in his vehicle on Sunday, but his head was found on ...

The decapitation of the mayor of a major Mexican city is a reminder of the security task President Sheinbaum faces.