A Mexican supermarket and retail chain will open its first Bay Area store at a long-empty San Jose retail site.

Short of shopping south of the border, this is your best bet for buys on glazed pots, goat-shaped planters and freestanding clay fireplaces. When we feel like going to pot, we head to Jackalope.

A fugitive leader of the ruthless Mexican cartel that was blamed for killing two kidnapped American tourists last year has been captured in a high-end shopping mall. José Alberto García Vilano ...