1.   All three were arrested earlier this month in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Tabasco.

2.   Ochoa, a native of the gulf coast state of Veracruz, was shot at close range in the head and thigh.

3.   The leading edge of a Canadian air will reach from Georgia to the Gulf coast states.

4.   There is more at stake in the race for governor of the Mexican gulf coast state of Tabasco than who will succeed its powerful lame-duck incumbent.

5.   Producers in the Pacific coast states of Jalisco and Michoacan said recent heavy rains that damaged coffee crops benefited sugar plantations which had been suffering from drought.

6.   A local politician was shot and killed in her home along with her husband in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, a daily newspaper reported Sunday.

7.   Agents arrested eight people suspected of smuggling cocaine at roadblocks in the Pacific coast states of Sinaloa and Oaxaca and the Gulf state of Tamaulipas.

8.   An explosion at a Mexican army base in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz has destroyed two buildings.

9.   Among them is Jesus Malverde, a Robin Hood-style outlaw from the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa.

10.   And it is winning with sharply reduced margins, as it did Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo and the central state of Hidalgo on Sunday.