Mexican authorities search for

killer of 10 people in town in Puebla

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities on Sunday said at least 10 people had been killed in an attack by gunmen in the town of Tehuitzingo in the east-central state of Puebla.

The victims were six men, three women and a child, and all were shot in the early hours of Sunday, Puebla’s public security agency said in a statement. Federal officials are investigating the case.

Local authorities did not say whether there were any suspects in the killings.

In February, six people were killed in Huehuetlán El Grande, another city of Puebla state. Days later, three people died in Puebla’s capital after an attack on their vehicle.

Puebla Gov. Alejandro Armenta has yet to comment on the killings.

Central Mexico has recently recorded a surge in cartel violence, which has forced between 800 and 1,000 families to flee their homes.

In largest US commuter rail strike,

unions in NY urged to resume talks

NEW YORK — Federal officials are imploring unions whose workers serve North America’s largest commuter rail system to return to the negotiating table.

Earlier New York Gov. Kathy Hochul urged the unions to resume talks before Monday’s commute. Hochul appeared at a Manhattan news conference Sunday with the chief executive of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the Long Island Rail Road in New York.

The system shut down early Saturday after five unions representing about half its workforce walked off the job. The two sides have been negotiating for months seeking a new contract. The unions said the federal labor agency that governs labor relations for railroads and airlines summoned representatives for both sides to a meeting in a bid to jumpstart talks.

GOP US senator of La. who voted

to impeach Trump loses reelection

NEW ORLEANS — It was a hurdle too high for Bill Cassidy to clear.

The Republican senator from Louisiana had tried to satisfy Donald Trump and his supporters, but they couldn’t forgive him after he voted to convict at the president’s impeachment trial over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

That was more than five years ago and the ill will lingered.

Trump backed one of Cassidy’s challengers in Saturday’s Senate primary, and the incumbent Cassidy finished third. He didn’t even make the June runoff. Cassidy is the latest name on an increasingly long list of Republicans who crossed Trump and were punished by voters.

Canadian on cruise ship hit with

hantavirus outbreak tests positive

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canada’s national health agency Sunday confirmed that one of four Canadians who returned home from a cruise ship hit with a hantavirus outbreak has tested positive for the virus.

The Public Health Agency of Canada confirmed the positive test a day after the public health officer for the province of British Columbia said the person had received a “presumptive positive” but further testing would be conducted at the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg.

“One individual’s sample was confirmed positive for hantavirus,” the national agency said in a statement.

A second individual who was a traveling partner of the confirmed case was confirmed negative, the statement said. Both people, a couple in their 70s from the Yukon, are in a hospital in Victoria.

The four Canadian cruise passengers returned to British Columbia last Sunday. Besides the couple, there was a person in their 70s from Vancouver Island and a British Columbia person in their 50s who lives abroad.

All are in isolation.

The Associated Press