Baby is in no danger, according to police
HARLINGEN — Police said a report that a father took a baby from Valley Baptist Medical Center-Harlingen Tuesday is a civil matter, and the baby was in no danger. The biological father and mother each...
View ArticleHPD adding 3 sergeant posts
HARLINGEN — The City Commission Wednesday approved the reclassification of several positions within the Harlingen Police Department to increase supervision. The commission was unanimous in giving the...
View ArticlePolice Blotter for Thursday, August 16
HARLINGEN — A Harlingen man was arrested after a person gave police a flash drive with inappropriate images, a police press release said. Sgt. John Parrish wrote that a detective examined the flash...
View ArticleWeslaco man gets life term for deaths of 2 sisters
EDINBURG (AP) — A Valley man must serve life in prison without parole for killing his common-law wife and her 12-year-old sister in a fight over his drug use. A judge in Edinburg on Wednesday accepted...
View ArticlePolice Blotter for August 19
- HARLINGEN — A 57-year-old Harlingen man was arrested Thursday on allegations that he assaulted his wife, police said in a press release.Police were dispatched to a home in the 300 block of West...
View ArticleAmid UT announcement, Valley weighs A&M med school option
When the mayors of Harlingen and Edinburg received invites to a University of Texas event outlining a blueprint for the Rio Grande Valley’s long sought medical school, both mayors had already scheduled...
View ArticleCameron Democrats to get new party chair
The changing of the guard for the Cameron County Democratic Party comes Monday when newly-elected chairwoman Sylvia Garza-Perez takes the reins.“I am going to give it my best, my darndest to do a good...
View ArticleUT System to discuss UTB campus move
UT System regents meet Wednesday in Austin, and the University of Texas at Brownsville is on the agenda.The agenda item itself doesn’t reveal much new information, but it reiterates two points about...
View ArticleCaravan for Peace, march against drug war, to visit
ALAMO — A movement looking to end Mexico’s drug war is set to arrive here in an effort to raise awareness to that country’s rising death toll.On Thursday, Javier Sicilia’s Caravan for Peace is...
View ArticleFBI warns of email scam
The FBI is asking the public to be on the lookout for suspicious emails.People have received official-looking emails indicating that the user has entered an unlawful website and must pay a fine...
View ArticleTSTC students earn degrees, certificates
HARLINGEN — One of the most enthusiastic cheering sections at the summer commencement Friday night for Texas State Technical College Harlingen belonged to Peter Rocha, a Board of Regents Honor...
View ArticleResidents oppose 8-liner proposal
SANTA ROSA — Several Santa Rosa residents are speaking out against a proposal to ease restrictions on where eight-liner arcades can be located.City aldermen heard comments Thursday during the first of...
View ArticleDecades after oil bust, Permian Basin booms again
MIDLAND — Nearly three decades ago, Texas Monthly ran a post mortem on the Texas oil industry with headline reading "So long, it was fun while it lasted," and a forlorn James Dean figure hitchhiking...
View ArticleBill would expand fertility coverage for veterans
WASHINGTON — The roadside bomb that exploded outside Andrew Robinson’s Humvee in Iraq six years ago broke the Marine staff sergeant’s neck and left him without use of his legs. It also cast doubt on...
View ArticleFire marshal: Spontaneous ignition started tire blaze
HARLINGEN — Monday evening’s fire at a tire recycling company is being blamed on “spontaneous ignition,” Fire Marshal Danny Warner said Wednesday. The cause of the fire is preliminary at this point,...
View ArticleU.S. testing surveillance balloons on Mexico border
ROMA — Floating 2,500-feet above scrub-covered U.S. ranchland near the Mexico border, the payload of high-tech cameras onboard a balloon being used by the Border Patrol can easily see a cluster of...
View ArticleMore drama over veterans war plaque
SAN BENITO — Drama over the plaque at the San Benito Veterans War Memorial continued to spark up City Hall this week. Wednesday, Mayor Joe Hernandez said city commissioners will likely grant a...
View ArticleOhio authorities search for suspect in pot smuggling
BROWNSVILLE — Authorities in Ohio are looking for one Brownsville man and have arrested two others accused of participating in a smuggling operation involving marijuana from Texas being taken to the...
View ArticleWoman charged with sexual assault of a child
SAN BENITO — Cameron County sheriff’s investigators arrested a 21-year-old woman accused of having sex with an underage male, authorities said. Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio said Cinthia Guadalupe...
View ArticleBrownsville police discover arsenal in gas tank
BROWNSVILLE — Police said they found a small arsenal stuffed into a gas tank Tuesday near Veterans International Bridge. A Brownsville Police Department press release said members of the Special...
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