hree Mexicans who spent nine months lost at sea are to be paid at least $3. 8 million to turn their story into a movie. The men, who hail from San Blas, were feared lost when their 25-foot (8-meter) fiberglass boat ran into trouble off Mexico's Pacific coast last November.

Shooting broke out Wednesday in the town of Banelos in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico, when members of one Mexican family decided to close a rain-ravaged road due to an enormous pothole, angering another family intent on driving their transport truck through the obstacle. All involved were Tzotzil Indians. The incident began with insults and ended with gunfire. The dispute between families ended with four dead.

U. S. border agents arrested an 83-year-old U. S. citizen on Thursday as she entered California across the Mexican border on drug charges. Officials report that she is being held for suspicion of smuggling 10 pounds of methamphetamine found strapped to her body. The woman, a retiree, along with two Mexican nationals were stopped in their car at a U. S. border crossing in San Ysidro, California, just north of Tijuana, Mexico.

Archaeologists have unearthed a tremendous find in Mexico City; an Aztec temple, complete with an altar. Mexico City, Mayor Alejandro Encinas says the ruins date back to the 15th Century and were a part of the empire's main temple.

According to prosecutors, about twenty men suspected to be drug traffickers barged into a Mexican club shortly after midnight Wednesday and threw five human heads on the dance floor, seemingly to avenge a killing. Dressed in black, the men came into the Luz y Sombra (Light and Shade) club on the edge of Uruapan in Western Mexico, pulled five male heads out of plastic bags and dumped them on the dance floor with a note that read, "The family does not kill for money. It does not kill women or innocent people. Those who die are those who must die. Everyone should know that this is divine justice. "