Willacy sees early benefit of windmill project
RAYMONDVILLE — After years of bad economic news, Willacy County residents are enjoying a spurt of economic growth.It is now a challenge to just a find a seat in a local restaurant at lunch time, City...
View ArticleAfter 30 years, ranch manager to retire
SAN PERLITA — Jerry K. Taylor has learned a lot about life while sitting in a saddle riding the range and traveling over dirt roads in a pickup.He’s been working ranches for more than six decades. He...
View ArticleSemis set at Men’s $15,000 Futures tennis tourney
PALM VALLEY — As the wind died down Friday, the heat at Harlingen Country Club rose as the players in the Men’s $15,000 Futures singles quarterfinals put it all on the line with the hopes of...
View ArticlePalm Valley’s Iler tops Clopton to win first LBA 40 championship
PALM VALLEY — Harlingen’s Ray Iler has been trying for 19 years to win the Life Begins at 40 Golf Tournament. Well, his wait finally ended Friday as he defeated defending champion L.D. Clopton at the...
View ArticlePharr clinic accused in Medicare fraud scheme
PHARR — Leaders of Morning Star Home Care Inc. responded Friday to allegations they were involved in a Medicare fraud scheme involving a woman who turned out to be an “undercover grandma” for ABC...
View ArticleSBA seeks to spur job creation
BROWNSVILLE — Unusually low interest rates are creating unprecedented opportunities for business owners interested in financing or refinancing commercial real estate or upgrading major capital assets,...
View ArticleBright Minds
BROWNSVILLE — At least 158 students spent their Saturday morning presenting projects at the 52nd Annual Rio Grande Valley Regional Science and Engineering Fair on the UTB-TSC campus.Many of the young...
View ArticleStaples tours Primera plant
PRIMERA — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples toured a new industrial park anchored by Alamo Door Inc. aimed at creating or retaining 25 permanent jobs in the area.“I just came down to say...
View ArticleMission PD looking to build shooting range
MISSION — Mission city leaders are looking for a new place for their police officers to practice shooting and earn their yearly certifications.Under a new lease agreement with the Mission Skeet and...
View Article9 people charged with kidnapping 18 illegals, sentencing in May
McALLEN — Nine people were convicted Friday on various charges in connection with the kidnapping of 18 illegal aliens from Central America and holding them for ransom.All nine entered guilty pleas...
View ArticleSlain Brownsville trooper honored by state with vessel
BROWNSVILLE — The Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday named its newest patrol vessel after a Brownsville trooper killed in the line of duty.The vessel will be named for DPS Trooper David...
View ArticlePolice arrest 2 men in stabbing
BROWNSVILLE — An early morning stabbing outside a Brownsville bar left one man injured and led to the arrest of two men, police said.Sgt. Juan Lopez said the incident occurred at about 1:30 a.m. to 2...
View ArticleShooting at strip club
EDINBURG — Authorities are working to identify at least two men who took part in a shootout outside Jaguars Gold Club, a local strip bar. About 4 a.m. Saturday, Edinburg police officers were called to...
View ArticleMcAllen unveils $10.7M development plan
McALLEN — City officials unveiled an ambitious $10.7 million, city-coordinated development project last week designed to transform property west of McAllen’s convention center into an upscale, urban...
View ArticleReport: Upside Down victim was threatened
BROWNSVILLE — A week before he was fatally stabbed last month, Ever Didier Garcia, 22, filed a police report against the man police believe killed him for assault and making threats, according to...
View ArticleSecond seed Fabbiano secures Men’s $15,000 Futures singles title
PALM VALLEY — Sunday was the last day of competition at the Harlingen Country Club as the USTA’s Men’s $15,000 Futures singles and doubles finals wrapped up a spectacular week of competition. The...
View ArticleName Game: Officials unsure of what to call local baseball park
By FERNANDO DEL VALLEValley Morning Star SAN BENITO — Eli Villarreal thought the city had already renamed the old ballpark outside his window on Stookey Road.Last year, city officials asked residents...
View ArticleJudge refuses to be recused
BROWNSVILLE — Attorney Marc G. Rosenthal has requested that 197th state District Judge Migdalia Lopez be removed from presiding over a wrongful death lawsuit that he filed in Willacy County against...
View ArticleTexas nurse faces death penalty for patient deaths
LUFKIN, Texas (AP) — Paramedics were making so many trips to a dialysis clinic in the East Texas city of Lufkin, a top fire department official wrote an anonymous letter to state health department...
View ArticleEarly voting expected to draw larger numbers for District 3
HARLINGEN — Nearly 200 people have voted for either Tom Hushen or Mike Mezmar in the District 3 special election, as of Monday morning.“Since this morning, we have had a total of 186 people that have...
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