Sheriff: South Texas mother admits to suffocating infant

MERCEDES, Texas (AP) — Authorities in South Texas say a 34-year-old woman admitted to suffocating her 1-month-old daughter and is now facing a capital murder charge.
Maria Guadalupe Cardenas was being held Monday on $1 million bond in Hidalgo County, in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley next to the US-Mexico border.
The Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release that deputies  responded to a call on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2017, from someone later identified as Cardenas, sa