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Authorities told local news outlets that at least 44 people had been killed in the fighting that pitted security officers against supporters of a powerful gang leader.

A fight at a jail between rival drug gangs in northwestern Mexico killed 23 inmates on Wednesday, the army said.

A notorious street gang accused of terrorizing a neighborhood for years and killing a sheriff's deputy was the target of a raid by hundreds of law enforcement officials Tuesday.

An 18-year-old man was being treated for a serious wound Monday after he was stabbed in the back in City Heights in an apparent gang-related attack, police said.