Harlingen Police Blotter (with crime scene map)
POLICE: MAN POURS FUEL ON WIFE'S CLOTHES HARLINGEN — Police arrested a Harlingen man who they said poured a flammable liquid on his wife’s clothes, which were in the closet, during an argument, and...
View ArticleRollover leaves 9 immigrants dead; 6 hospitalized
PALMVIEW — At least nine people died and six others remained in the hospital after a van suspected of carrying immigrants rolled over Tuesday night along Expressway 83. The bodies, believed be those...
View ArticleNew Harlingen middle school $1M over budget
HARLINGEN — When the new Memorial Middle School opens for the 2012-2013 school year, it will have cost $1.1 million more than projected four years ago. Plans for the school at Rio Hondo Road, near...
View ArticlePolice Blotter (with crime map)
MARIJUANA CHARGES AGAINST TWO SUSPECTS HARLINGEN — Police arrested two Harlingen men on possession of marijuana charges, according to a police press release. At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday the Harlingen Police...
View ArticleCameron County to vote on food service contract
BROWNSVILLE — Inmates in Cameron County’s jails must be provided with ethnically acceptable foods such as Spanish rice, beans, tacos, flour and corn tortillas, carne guisada, enchiladas, caldos and...
View Article9 suspected illegal immigrants die in Texas wreck
McALLEN — A van overstuffed with suspected illegal immigrants rolled and crashed after fleeing a traffic stop in a South Texas border city, leaving at least nine Mexican citizens dead and injuring six...
View ArticlePenny, Elliott face off in San Benito commissioner race
SAN BENITO — Incumbent Bill Elliott faces community leader J.D. Penny in the race for the City Commission’s Place 3 seat in the May 12 election. The race marks Elliott’s bid for a second term to the...
View ArticleRetired Texas legislator Truan dead at 76
CORPUS CHRISTI — Carlos Truan, a South Texas businessman who spent more than 30 years as a legislator, has died.Rene Truan said Wednesday that his 76-year-old father had a history of heart disease. His...
View ArticlePolice: Murder suspect charged in sexual assault of child
HARLINGEN — The suspect accused of killing former Harlingen High School South student Brisna Mireles was arraigned today on an unrelated charge of aggravated sexual abuse of a 7-year-old boy. A...
View ArticleSuspect charged in slaying of Brisna Mireles
COMBES — Combes police on Wednesday arrested and charged a Brownsville man in the slaying of 20-year-old Brisna Mireles, a former student at Harlingen High School South, police said in a statement....
View ArticleTimeline of Mireles murder, Cadriel arrest
March 31: Police find the unidentified body of a young woman on the outskirts of Combes near Expressway 77 and FM 508. April 1: Police identify the woman as Brisna Mireles, 20, a former Harlingen High...
View ArticleHarlingen shows rise in sales tax receipts
HARLINGEN — Sales tax receipts increased in many Rio Grande Valley cities in February, with Harlingen marking a nearly 18 percent jump. Texas Comptroller Susan Combs on Wednesday released sales tax...
View ArticleLate taxpayers get more time to delay
Taxpayers have two extra days to finish their dreaded federal income taxes this year. Just don’t expect the April 17 deadline to affect anyone who was expecting a refund. Like anything else, the...
View ArticleNew Brownsville main terminal opens
BROWNSVILLE — With the push of the button on her point-and-shoot camera, 8-year-old Denise Navarro of Robstown on Thursday photographed history in the making.Navarro was among at least 100 people that...
View ArticleWillacy judge, DA feud
RAYMONDVILLE — Willacy County Judge John F. Gonzales said Thursday that he will turn over financial documents after District Attorney Bernard Ammerman subpoenaed the information. “This was the last...
View ArticleCaldriel's family surprised by charges
BROWNSVILLE — By all accounts, Aroldo Humberto Cadriel, 65, has been a quiet man, keeping to himself. He never waved back or smiled to an older woman who lives in his neighborhood and said she...
View ArticleAroldo Cadriel Charged
HARLINGEN — A key to Room 52 at the Hudson House Hotel in Harlingen eventually unlocked the mystery behind the person police say murdered 20-year-old Brisna Mireles, according to a court document....
View ArticleFeds charge 6 with deadly accidently that killed 9
McALLEN — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested six people involved in a human smuggling ring that resulted in nine deaths after a van rolled over in Palmview on Tuesday. The van filled...
View ArticleLaser beams flashed at planes
BROWNSVILLE — Police and the FBI are investigating several incidents in which someone has flashed a laser beam into the cockpit of planes arriving at the Brownsville South Padre Island International...
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