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When the U.S. Congress enacted the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act four years ago, it created a lucrative trafficking niche for La Familia. Michoacán has long been a meth-producing region, much like the northern state of Durango is known for making most of Mexico's heroin (called "brown mud"). La Familia and other Mexican gangs manufacture meth at industrial superlabs that dwarf small-town U.S. shops like those depicted on the AMC cable drama Breaking Bad, churning out tons of the white, flaky crystal each day. And while U.S. law blocks the export of pseudoephedrine to Mexico...
Chrysler also confirmed it plans to halt production of its first hybrid vehicles by the end of December, even though it already has orders for 3,000 Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen hybrids. It's not clear at this point whether Chrysler will be able to fill the orders for the hybrids before the assembly plant in Newark, Del., where they are built shuts permanently, a Chrysler spokeswoman said. Roughly 5,000 salaried employees at GM also are expected to leave the company payroll by week's end as part of a series of cutbacks announced in July...
...After high school he drifted from college to college: a semester at Ft. Lewis College in Durango, two years at Arapaho Community College, a semester at CU-Denver. Today he lives in Hawaii and works as a carpenter. If people ask about his scars, he might tell about his Columbine experience. "But I generally keep it to myself...
...life, she felt at home. Karla and Dale "didn't seem fake," she says. "Usually when I'd act up, my [other] foster parents would just send me away, but they didn't. They stuck in there with me." Even when Vonda's date wrecked Karla's brand-new Durango on prom night, Vonda remembers fondly that Karla was worried more about whether Vonda was hurt than about the car. In fact, for the first several months, things went so well that one evening Vonda sat Karla and Dale down in the living room and asked whether they would adopt...
...Juan Soto, who works at Durango Western Wear, said his boss has given everyone the day off - with pay - to march, but he personally will not protest. "I think there have already been too many marches. We?ve made our point," said the Mexican-born Soto, who says he is a legal resident. He plans to stay home and honor the spirit of the boycott. "I?ll watch it on TV, but I plan to spend zero dollars." He said the true economic impact of work stoppages by immigrants - legal and illegal - will be felt not from a boycott lasting...