Rollover ignites grassfire
EDINBURG — A man and a child were transported to area hospitals after the vehicle they were in rolled over, ignited and started a grassfire. Officials from the Texas Department of Public Safety, along...
View ArticleBrownsville Diocese mourning death of 2 priests
The Catholic Diocese of Brownsville is mourning the death of two of its priests who died Sunday night in unrelated incidents. Father Ricardo Garcia, 49, of Mary Mother of the Church of Brownsville...
View ArticleMcAllen police seek suspect in aggravated assault
McALLEN — Police are searching for a man wanted in connection with shooting incident Saturday that landed another man in a local hospital. A McAllen municipal judge issued an arrest warrant Sunday for...
View ArticleSBISD facing millions in budget shortfall
SAN BENITO — Four school board seats are on the May 14 ballot, with the winners facing a budget deficit likely to be in the millions of dollars, Oscar Medrano, school board president who is seeking...
View ArticleAerial spray aircraft inventor, local entrepreneur dies at 80
Leland Snow, a Harlingen native, and founder and president of Air Tractor, Inc., suffered a fatal heart attack while jogging Sunday at his Wichita Falls home.He was 80.Snow was the inventor of the...
View ArticleMcAllen woman's remains return home
WALKILL, N.Y. — The remains of a slain New York City woman will be returned to her family in Texas, more than two years after authorities say she was killed by an upstate man she met at a Manhattan...
View ArticlePharr police search canal for missing man
PHARR – Police here joined a Las Milpas family in their search for a missing relative, whom they fear may have tried to kill himself by jumping into an irrigation canal. But a Mission Fire Department...
View ArticleNot Forgotten
BROWNSVILLE — The photographs of ICE Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata show a loving life surrounded by family and friends.On Monday, his family and friends surrounded his body during a vigil held in...
View ArticleMcAllen police search for shooting suspect
McALLEN — Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a suspect in a shooting that sent one man to the hospital. Officers are searching for Rogelio Maldonado, 46, after he allegedly shot a man...
View ArticleTwo men shot in gang-related incident at family gathering
McALLEN — Police arrested three people after a gang-related shooting sent two men to the hospital Saturday morning. A family was gathered about 4 a.m. at a home on the 2200 block of West Fresno...
View ArticleBanned Mexican group Tucanes de Tijuana hopes to return to Tijuana
MEXICO CITY — The norteno band Tucanes de Tijuana hopes to be able to perform once again in that Mexican border city, now that a police official who banned it from playing there has resigned. Tijuana...
View ArticleSchools lock down during police chases
EDINBURG – School officials here locked down Brewster Elementary School as state troopers pursued several suspected illegal immigrants who had fled from their car during a chase. No one attempted to...
View ArticleNo charges filed in UTB/TSC stabbing death
BROWNSVILLE - No charges have been filed against a 23-year-old man in a fatal stabbing at the La Estancia Apartments early Saturday morning that left one UTB-TSC student dead. Authorities said the...
View ArticleThousands pay tribute to fallen agent Jaime Zapata
BROWNSVILLE — The final call by dispatch to ICE Special Agent Jaime Jorge Zapata came shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday.“Alpha 5195, this is sector,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Maldonado...
View ArticleFeds seize more than $380,000 at B&M Bridge
Federal authorities working south bound enforcement at the B&M Bridge seized more than $380,000 in cash earlier this week. Authorities with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Border...
View ArticleObama thanks Mexico for ICE agent attack arrest
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has thanked Mexico’s president for capturing a suspect in the murder of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and the wounding of another. ICE agents...
View ArticleSuspect: Slaying of ICE agent a mistake
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZThe Associated Press MEXICO CITY — A suspect in the killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent told soldiers Wednesday the attack was carried out by a group of...
View ArticleMan charged with child endangerment
BROWNSVILLE — Police arrested a 23-year-old man Tuesday evening, charging him with abandoning and endangering a child, after receiving two reports of a toddler wandering in a pizzeria parking lot.David...
View ArticleLocal officials would support texting ban
By ISAAC GARCIAigarcia@valleystar.com956-421-9876 HARLINGEN — Cindy Garza admits to texting while driving, and acknowledges that she’s veered off the road and almost rear ended another vehicle.But as...
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