Hundreds of federal agents sent to bring order to the crime-plagued Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo have rescued 43 people who appeared to have been kidnapped and held in two houses in a poor neighborhood of the city, the Mexican authorities said Monday. The rescues of 37 men and 6 women were made Sunday night, they said, when at least 200 federal police officers and soldiers conducted raids on three houses in a notorious neighborhood of government-financed housing. They were met with grenade and automatic fire by at least three men identified as kidnappers, who were taken into custody.Full Story