A confrontation between rival gangs left at least 41 women dead in a Honduran prison. For weeks, inmates at the all-women prison had voiced their concerns about being threatened by gang members, ...

* Mexican cartels fighting over Honduran smuggling routes * Police blame drug traffickers' territorial disputes By Gustavo Palencia TEGUCIGALPA, April 11 (Reuters) - Suspected drug hitmen killed nine ...

An MS-13 leader believed to have overseen a kill squad for the bloodthirsty gang — and who is linked to the killing of the son of the former president of Honduras — was arrested in Nebraska on Monday, ...

The clatter of bullets piercing the schools roof sent pupils running for safety. Four of them and their teacher were wounded. The February 27 attack on the Maximiliano Sagastume school in a northern ...

For Santiago Ávila, the fight against the powerful street gangs that terrorize communities throughout his native Honduras is deeply personal. He was 19 when his 16-year-old brother Mauricio was ...

Yessenia* rounded the corner one afternoon in March when she saw a group of four young men beating another. They saw her too. “It’s the teacher!” she remembers one yelling before they scattered. The ...

Police on Monday arrested a man in Jefferson Parish who they accused of operating as a member of the MS-13 gang in his home country of Honduras before illegally entering the U.S. nine years ago. The ...

A grisly riot at a women’s prison in Honduras Tuesday left at least 41 women dead, most burned to death, in violence the country's president blamed on “mara” street gangs that often wield broad power ...