HPD gets technology grant
HARLINGEN — The Harlingen Police Department will use a new $29,387 grant to upgrade its computer system, an official said Wednesday. The department plans to buy such equipment as computers and servers,...
View ArticleOrtiz requests state to supervise runoff contests
BROWNSVILLE — Cameron County Elections Administrator Roger Ortiz has requested that an inspector from the Texas Secretary of State’s Office supervise the July 31 runoff contests, particularly given the...
View ArticleArt Imitating Life: Cultural arts center to showcase Flores’ artwork
SAN BENITO — From his memories of the fields, Roel Flores has painted a body of work that the Smithsonian Institution has showcased as surreal glimpses into Mexican-American life. Flores returns today...
View ArticleShelters to be built in La Feria
LA FERIA — Two emergency shelters to protect residents during a natural disaster will be built here with more than $3 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. These will be the third and...
View ArticleHarlingen Police Blotter for July 27
HARLINGEN — Two men were charged following an assault in progress about 4 p.m. Tuesday in the 900 block of East Monroe Avenue, according to a police department press release.Officer Dave Osborne wrote...
View ArticleStabbing suspect faces new charges
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Additional charges have been filed against a man accused in connection with a stabbing that took place during Spring Break, according to a press release from the city of South...
View ArticleBrownsville's Amigoland getting new campus
BROWNSVILLE — IDEA Public Schools plans to build a third campus in Brownsville, this one in Amigoland, a place where dreams have traditionally gone to die, though that may finally be changing.IDEA, an...
View ArticleAlleged gunman charged after shooting in Mercedes
MERCEDES — Police said they arrested a gunman Thursday after a shooting early Wednesday morning sent a man to the hospital with a wound to the arm.The gunfire came about 2 a.m. Wednesday as a man...
View ArticleDrunk defense doesn't sway jury in Starr County smuggling case
McALLEN — Apparently the drunk excuse wasn’t good enough for one Starr County man.A federal jury convicted Enrique Gonzalez Cavazos, 41, of three counts of immigrant smuggling Thursday in U.S. District...
View ArticlePolice request help in finding woman
BROWNSVILLE — Police issued an alert Thursday to be on the lookout for an 81-year-old Brownsville woman who went missing Wednesday afternoon.Cayetana Hernandez was last seen at 2:45 p.m. leaving her...
View ArticleMissing Brownsville woman found alive
Brownsville police are reporting that Cayetana Hernandez, who went missing on Wednesday, has been found. Hernandez, 81, was found at 6:52 a.m. this morning by U.S. Border Patrol agents at Oklahoma...
View ArticleUniversity gay rights group: Kill UTPA Chick-fil-A contract
EDINBURG — Chick-fil-A didn’t invent anti-gay sentiment, just the national controversy in which it finds itself after comments by the restaurant chain’s president. The uproar has found its way to the...
View ArticleCity auction to have array of items
HARLINGEN — Looking for a really good deal on a 1992 Cadillac Seville?How about a used garbage truck or a 5 horsepower push lawnmower?These and hundreds of other items will be available at Saturday’s...
View ArticleMissing woman, 81, found lying in field, authorities say
BROWNSVILLE — An 81-year-old Brownsville woman reported missing earlier this week was resting in a hospital Friday morning after being found in a vacant field east of Brownsville.Agents with the U.S....
View ArticleOfficers accuse New York man of trying to smuggle drugs on bus
BROWNSVILLE — A New York man is accused of trying to smuggle $620,000 worth of heroin into the United States this week, authorities said.According to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection release,...
View ArticleTeen caught trying to sneek Matamoros boy across border, CBP says
BROWNSVILLE — An 18-year-old Brownsville woman tried to bring a young Mexican boy across an international bridge this week, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release.CBP says on...
View ArticlePublic gets hands-on lesson in the future of surgery
HARLINGEN — For years, Forrest Shriver read news stories about how robots were changing the way doctors perform surgery.Friday, his mother Esmeralda Shriver took him and his brother Nolan to Valley...
View ArticleHuman rights conference today
BROWNSVILLE — The “Movimiento Del Valle Por Los Derechos Humanos” (Valley Movement for Human Rights) today will host in Brownsville what they are calling a Regional Convention for Human Rights.The...
View ArticlePolice Blotter for July 28
- HARLINGEN — A Harlingen man was arrested on a charge of driving while intoxicated, a Class B misdemeanor, following a traffic stop after police observed him driving recklessly, according to a police...
View ArticleCameron County sees rise in constituents at polls
Early voting numbers for Cameron County in the primary runoffs have far exceeded the turnout in the 2008 runoff elections.With Friday’s tallies not available at press time, four days of early voting...
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