11.  Police confirmed that several mayors from war-riven northwest Antioquia state have been reported missing since Sunday.

12.  Authorities had no information yet on who was holding a senator and a state assemblymen who disappeared Sunday in northwest Antioquia state.

13.  Booth Gardner, the former governor of the northwest state of Washington and the retiring deputy U.S. trade representative, has been named commissioner of the league.

14.  In a region of far northwest New South Wales state, kangaroos hop wildly out of control as the illness alters their sense of balance.

15.  In northwest Antioquia state, guerrillas blew up a power line and a rural bridge, leaving lines of tractor trailers clogging a highway.

16.  Nevertheless, the police said they destroyed nearly two tons of cocaine Saturday while dismantling a massive drug laboratory in jungles of northwest Antioquia state.

17.  Soldiers with shoot to kill orders were dispatched to the northwest state of Tripura on Monday to reinforce troops sent to quell ethnic violence escalating in the region.

18.  Television images from San Francisco, in northwest Antioquia state, showed a huge dirt hole and caved in homes near the police station.