For nearly a decade in the 1980s and early 1990s, Gerardo “Jerry” Diaz wowed crowds at the National Western Stock Show with his roping and riding skills in the style of the charro or Mexican cowboy, ...

"They have to be very careful, even in practice," Josefina Torres said. "If the bull falls and hits a horse's legs, they can fall. The horse has to learn how to do these things." Several competitions ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Dressed in leather chaps, an embroidered shirt and a navy blue bow around his neck, Raudel Jimenez adjusts the Virgin Mary prayer card inside the band of his sombrero before ...

On the last day of the California Rodeo Salinas Sunday, Police Officer Robert Hernandez’s parents went to see him on duty. But instead of hugging him in his normal police uniform, the East Salinas ...

Efrain Lopez has a game day ritual before Seattle Seahawks games that's probably very different from most fans. He dresses up in embroidered Mexican suit. Lopez says the suit, called el charro, for ...

Six-year-old Nicolas Diaz wants to be a “charro” when he grows up — just like his dad. His destiny as a Mexican horse rider was predetermined for him even before he sat on his first horse when he was ...

Seventy-four-year-old Carlos Renteria has been riding Andalusian horses in Calistoga’s annual Silverado Parade for 45 years — since 1962. He and groomsman Alejandro Mauricio will ride a matched pair ...

SALINAS (AP) — Some police officers in a largely Latino city in Central California are reaching out to the community in a new way — wearing uniforms that resemble the traditional Mexican charro suit.