Mayor shot to death in southern Mexico

The mayor of a remote mountain town in southern Oaxaca state was shot to death Thursday, the third municipal leader to be slain in Mexico in a week.

Oaxaca state prosecutor Manuel de Jesus Lopez said authorities were investigating possible motives in the latest killing, which occurred when Mayor Luis Jimenez Mata was visiting the state capital. More than a dozen of Mexican mayors were killed in 2010. The country has about 2,440 mayors. (AP)