On Saturday, an American family visiting relatives in Mexico was attacked by armed gunmen, killing a 13-year-old and wounding 3 others, just south of the Texas-Mexico border.
Amid an ongoing gun battle between cartel members and Mexican state police near Laredo, the Webb County Sheriff warned the public against traveling across the border to Laredo's sister city.
Fifty-two years after being listed as MIA in the Vietnam War, Air Force Colonel Roy A. Knight's remains were piloted home to Dallas by his son - a Southwest Airlines pilot who last said goodbye to his father from the very same airport.
As the crisis on the southern border continues unabated, Laredo recently surpassed Los Angeles as the nation's most trafficked port.
