City corrects errors found in audit
SAN BENITO — The city has corrected three problems cited in its annual financial audit, including an incident in which it violated the state’s bidding law.The certified public accounting firm of Long...
View ArticleFBI: BP agent assaulted in La Grulla
LA GRULLA — A Mexican national faces allegations that he repeatedly kicked a Border Patrol agent in the face late Wednesday night.Agents had been tracking a group of suspected illegal immigrants in La...
View ArticleCampus police make arrest in reported student rape
BROWNSVILLE — A University of Texas at Brownsville student told police another student raped her in a dorm room Sunday, according to court documents.The woman, 20, said Abel L. Gutierrez, 20, sexually...
View ArticlePolice Blotter for May 5
- SAN BENITO — A man who went to the police department on “an unrelated matter” was arrested Thursday on a felony warrant alleging injury to a child, police said.Raul Martinez, 36, was arrested in the...
View ArticleCity OKs $4.3M hotel deal
HARLINGEN — A $4.3 million Candlewood Suites hotel coming to Harlingen would create at least seven full-time and six part-time jobs, according to an agreement the City Commission approved Wednesday...
View ArticleStudents get early taste of college at TSTC
HARLINGEN — Madeline Vasquez was impressed with the welding shop she toured Friday morning.She’s 13 and college is a few years away, but the Port Isabel Middle School seventh-grader thinks she might...
View ArticleSupermoon to appear in the night sky at 7:55 p.m.
HARLINGEN — Look! Up in the sky! It’s supermoon!The “supermoon” that rises about 7:55 tonight will appear to be 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than other full moons, according to information...
View ArticleEdinburg warehouse marks shift for Mexican produce distribution
EDINBURG —Competing produce companies have found common ground along a strategic route through South Texas.Don Hugo Produce officially opened its Rio Grande Produce Park this past week, touting the...
View ArticleSummit highlights importance of U.S.-Mexico trade
BROWNSVILLE — This past week, Mayor Tony Martinez declared that Brownsville’s “day of opportunity” had arrived, thanks in part to ripening conditions for economic accord between the United States and...
View ArticlePlan to capture, reuse drainage water takes root
LA VILLA — At a time when water is at a premium, there’s no sense in letting it go to waste.That’s the mindset behind an innovative project taking root in the Delta, a community that bears the brunt of...
View Article8-liner hall eviction suit dismissed
LYFORD — A lawsuit to evict Buena Suerte Social Services Inc. from El Toro Dance Hall, which was using the building as an eight-liner hall, has been dismissed.Former Willacy County district attorney...
View ArticleCast Away: Anglers reel in fish for Special Olympics
ARROYO CITY — Johnny Muñoz remembered fishing with his father along the Arroyo Colorado as he pulled in his catch Saturday at his favorite fishing tournament.“This was all dirt roads and I was fishing...
View ArticleTenure helping rep with funding
Seeking a 15th term in office for the state House District 37 seat has translated to big money for state Rep. Rene O. Oliveira, who returns to vie for the Democratic Party’s nomination to the post on...
View Article1 killed, 2 injured after car hits tree
HARLINGEN — A 20-year-old woman was killed and two other women injured when the car they were in struck a palm tree early Saturday morning, police said.The driver of the silver Pontiac Grand Am was...
View ArticleHigh school graduations schedule
May 25* Harlingen Early College High School: 7 p.m. at Harlingen Municipal AuditoriumMay 26* Harlingen High School: 8:30 p.m. at Boggus Stadium* Harlingen High School South: 6 p.m. at Boggus...
View ArticleCongenital heart awareness walk raises more than $9,000
BROWNSVILLE — A crowd of people stood silently with their fists raised in the air on Saturday in memory of the children who have died because of congenital heart disease and in honor of those who will...
View ArticleFeds move to seize $44k from convicted medical supply
WESLACO — A convicted Weslaco medical supplier faces foreclosure on a life insurance policy that the FBI said he paid for with ill-gotten proceeds from a federal health care scam, court papers...
View ArticleSan Benito business given ethics award
SAN BENITO — Don and Thea Wiley, of Hamilton Air Conditioning, Electric, & Plumbing Inc. in San Benito, recently received the Mary G. Moad Business Ethics Award of the Better Business Bureau of...
View ArticleSchools to gain from wind farms
RAYMONDVILLE — Three Willacy County school districts and one in Cameron County will be the home to two wind farms.Although the school districts will eventually benefit from a boost in property tax...
View ArticleBirds make annual layover in Rio Grande Valley
WESLACO — Each year, thousands of birds make a life or death journey from ecosystems in Central and South America over the Gulf of Mexico to breeding grounds in the United States and Canada. The birds...
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