Surplus military gear requested for border
McALLEN — U.S. border officials are asking the military to send equipment no longer needed in Iraq and Afghanistan to the U.S.-Mexico border. A massive drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq will essentially...
View ArticleEx-Pan Am president set to go to trial in child porn case
BROWNSVILLE — Former Pan American Airways President Robert Hedrick waived a final pretrial conference Monday, and attorneys on Thursday will begin jury selection for his trial.Hedrick, 60, well-known...
View ArticleSan Benito Police Blotter
- SAN BENITO — A 33-year-old San Benito man was arrested on Sunday by police on charges of injury to a child, police said.Antonio Flores was arrested after a 35-year-old relative reported he had...
View ArticleSchool employee gets deferred sentence in bar repair case
EDINBURG — A Progreso school employee received a deferred sentence after he helped repair a bar owned by his boss on school time.Gerardo Rangel Jasso, 51, pleaded guilty to one count of abuse of...
View ArticleValley doctors rally for changes to state rate cuts
McALLEN — The state should quickly adjust a budget cut targeting poor, elderly patients before hundreds of Rio Grande Valley doctors who care for them must close their practices, local healthcare...
View ArticleHarlingen Police Blotter
- HARLINGEN — Police said they arrested a suspect early Tuesday in connection with a March 23 aggravated robbery at the Stars Drive-in at 1007 W. Tyler Ave.Jose Angel Gonzalez, 26, of Harlingen, was...
View ArticleMan convicted in 1999 slaying
BROWNSVILLE — A jury convicted a Brownsville man of capital murder Tuesday, bringing a case that spans more than a decade to a partial conclusion.The victim’s family, however, says they are still...
View ArticleUTB-TSC hosts Women’s Wellness Fair today
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College will host their annual Women’s Wellness Fair today at the REK Center on the Fort Brown campus.University departments and organizations...
View Article9 get prison for Houston-based immigrant smuggling
McALLEN (AP) — Prosecutors say two leaders of a deadly Houston-based illegal immigrant smuggling ring have been sentenced to prison. Officials say 34-year-old Rafael Valles of the McAllen area was...
View ArticlePolice Blotter
- HARLINGEN — Police arrested a 30-year-old Harlingen resident early Friday morning for burglary of a motor vehicle in the Applebee’s parking lot, a police report said. At 1:15 a.m. Friday, police were...
View ArticleInsurance companies flooded with storm claims
McALLEN — Many insurance agent phone numbers led to busy signals here Friday morning as residents woke up to the aftermath of a Thursday night hail and wind storm that left shattered windows, downed...
View ArticleMiddle school jazz band earns top ratings at TAMUK festival
HARLINGEN — Three mornings a week since the start of the school year, they arrived for class at 7 a.m. to begin practice.It paid off on March 23. The Vernon Middle School Jazz Band earned a first...
View ArticlePolice make arrests in car theft ring case
BROWNSVILLE — The police auto theft unit busted a car theft ring Thursday in which the members stole vehicles to sell in Mexico, police Sgt. Felix Sauceda said.This is the second group of arrests this...
View ArticleFirst standing turbine a symbol of development
SAN PERLITA — The first wind turbine was completed Friday by Blattner Energy Inc, contractor for E.ON Climate & Renewables, ushering in a new era of development in Willacy County.Two turbines of...
View ArticleValley recovers from storm; more rain looms this weekend
McALLEN — Valley residents will be cleaning up this weekend in the wake of a severe storm that blew roofs away, broke windows, sparked fires and caused power outages. Large hail, torrential downpour...
View ArticleRio Hondo’s old plant close to reaching capacity
RIO HONDO — The city is within about 10 to 55 water connections before it will violate state regulations for operating its water plant beyond capacity, city officials said Friday.Officials are...
View ArticleUTB-TSC features Japan at guitar fest
BROWNSVILLE — In the lusciously soothing notes of the piece called “Shiki: Seasons of Japan” there is always spring. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) will bring the beauty of the country as...
View ArticleHarlingen Starbuck's held up
HARLINGEN — City police are searching for a man suspected of holding up a Starbuck’s coffee shop early Saturday. Police were called at 7:15 a.m. about a Hispanic male about 6 feet tall with pale skin...
View ArticleStar, Herald, Nuevo win APME journalism awards
The Valley Morning Star, Brownsville Herald, and El Nuevo Heraldo garnered 15 journalism awards Saturday at the 2012 Texas Associated Press Managing Editors convention in Dallas. As a group, Valley...
View Article3-day tattoo festival features more than 30 artists
HARLINGEN — Forty-year-old Harlingen resident Fred Gaytan doesn’t have any tattoos.But if he finds the right artist at the third annual South Texas Tattoo Fiesta, that’s going to change.“When I was a...
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