A bus full of workers returning home from their shift at the Honda plant in El Salto burst into flames on the Chapala highway  Monday, January 9.

Parents kept their kids away from school early this week in the wake of a false, quickly spreading rumor that drug gangs were planning to kidnap students.

The manager of a small money exchange outlet on Avenida Rafael Sanzio in Guadalajara’s Colonia La Estancia was shot to death after he resisted an attempted robbery over the December holiday.

A young man’s life ended this weekend when he stepped out of his house with some friends during the New Year’s celebrations in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Congested commuting avenues such as Vallarta, Lázaro Cárdenas, Patria, López Mateos, and the Periférico are being tagged by transportation chiefs as possible beneficiaries of a carpool, or high occupancy lane.

The Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), the government-run health care provider, is investing 354 million pesos (26 million dollars) in state-of-the-art cancer fighting equipment at the oncology department, located in Hospital de Especialidades at the Centro Medico de Occidente in Guadalajara.