Petition to remove Villalobos under review
BROWNSVILLE — Senior Judge J. Manuel Bañales has been appointed to review the petition to remove Cameron County District Attorney Armando R. Villalobos from office. Rolando Olvera, presiding judge of...
View ArticleTeen dies from dragging injuries; suspects charged
MISSION — “We didn’t mean to do it; I would give my life to take it all back,” said 32-year-old Ricardo Zamora after his arraignment on Friday afternoon. Zamora and 18-year-old Aaron Justin Hinojosa...
View ArticleMan who accused mayor faces charge
SAN BENITO — A man who filed an ethics criminal complaint against Mayor Joe Hernandez has been charged with harboring a 14-year-old runaway boy, police said.Alfonso Benavides, 57, was held this week on...
View ArticlePolice Blotter for May 12
- HARLINGEN — Police arrested a Los Indios man who had less than an ounce of cocaine hidden in a box of fried chicken, police said.According to a Harlingen Police Department press release, at 2:30 p.m....
View ArticleCity gains from sales tax
HARLINGEN — The upward trend in the city‘s sales tax collections continued with about 6 percent more sales tax revenue received in March than a year ago.The city collected $1.951 million in sales tax...
View ArticlePolls for various local races open today
SAN BENITO — Residents will go to the polls today to vote in city elections in San Benito, Rio Hondo and Santa Rosa.In San Benito, voters will also decide 17 proposed amendments to the City Charter and...
View ArticleCity Charter amendments on ballot for San Benito
SAN BENITO — Support for Mayor Joe Hernandez and former Mayor Jack Garcia is expected to draw residents to the polls in today’s election to vote on 17 proposed amendments to the City Charter, residents...
View ArticleParents of adopted children celebrate first Mother’s Day
BROWNSVILLE — Melissa Flores Lozano is celebrating Mother’s Day for the first time — as an adoptive mother.For her, today’s celebration of motherhood began in January 2011 at someone else’s baby...
View ArticleSeveral fed prosecutors recused from Villalobos case
The U.S. Attorneys Of-fice for the Southern Dis-trict of Texas cannot take part in the federal case against Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos — with one exception, public records...
View Article3 elected to Rancho Viejo board of aldermen
RANCHO VIEJO — Maribel Bermudez Guerrero, Cyndie Rathbun and Lupita Cervantes-Carr received the most votes in Saturday’s election, earning places on the town’s Board of Aldermen, according to officials...
View ArticlePenny, Gonzalez win San Benito city races
SAN BENITO — Former schools Superintendent Joe D. Gonzalez and AEP lineman J.D. Penny won election to the City Commission behind the support of Mayor Joe Hernandez, unofficial results showed.In the...
View ArticleTSC trustees elected
Reynaldo Garcia and Ramon Champion Hinojosa were elected to the Texas Southmost College Board of Trustees on Saturday, according to final results.With the ballots counted from all 20 polling locations,...
View ArticleVoters defeat all Charter amendments
SAN BENITO — Residents defeated all 17 proposed amendments to the City Charter in Saturday’s election, including a proposal to scrap a clause that led to Mayor Joe Hernandez’s removal from office in...
View ArticleSanta Rosa council incumbents win, school board seat ends in tie
SANTA ROSA — Two incumbents were returned to office in Saturday’s city council election and a tie occurred in the Place 2 race in the school board election.Election activity reached a frenzy downtown...
View ArticleUnofficial results show Rio Hondo commissioner beat by 1 vote
RIO HONDO — City Commissioners Gerald Hartzog and Gustavo Olivares won re-election Saturday while unofficial results showed former Commissioner Joe Lopez beat incumbent Kitter Huerta by one...
View ArticleSB elects new school board members, keeps president
SAN BENITO — School Board President Yliana Rodriguez won re-election while incumbent Bob Tumberlinson was defeated by Fatima Huerta in Saturday’s elections.In the race for Place 2, which was vacated by...
View ArticleDA faced prior legal woes
BROWNSVILLE — District Attorney Armando R. Villalobos has been the focus of a court proceeding before last week, when in 2000 a jury found that he had committed professional misconduct.A civil case...
View ArticleEarly voting locations
Early voting locations for the May 29 Primary elections n Cameron County Elections Dept., 954 E. Harrison, Brownsville n Christ the King Catholic Church, 2255 Southmost Blvd. Brownsville n Cameron...
View ArticlePrimary elections candidates
Candidate List Candidates for some of the contested races in the Democratic and Republican primaries, for which early voting begins Monday: Democratic Party ballot: n U.S. House of Representatives...
View ArticleEarly voting begins in local, state primary elections
BROWNSVILLE — Cameron County voters will begin going to the polls today as early voting gets under way for the May 29 Democratic Party and Republican Party primary elections in this presidential...
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