A man who held up a Guadalajara convenience store with a toy gun was shot and injured by an off-duty security guard, who authorities said “worked for an (unidentified) official from Chapala” and who by chance happened to be in the outlet at the time of the assault.

Stand by for some fireworks in Guadalajara city center next Tuesday.

Guadalajara municipal officials are looking to bring an halt to the sale of live animals in the sprawling, open-air Baratillo flea market that encompasses dozens of streets on the east side of Guadalajara each Sunday.  

According to statistics from the Instituto Mexicano de Seguro Social (IMSS), 11 percent of the elderly population in Jalisco are subjected to either abuse, mistreatment or abandonment.

A bank customer who was robbed at gunpoint shortly after withdrawing 200,000 pesos took the law into his own hands and chased the assailants in his car – only to provoke a multiple traffic accident.

The world’s heaviest man, who at one time weighed in at 435 kilograms (959 pounds), underwent bariatric surgery at a Guadalajara clinic this week.