Nature's Helpers: Volunteers work to restore sand dunes
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — For six years, Leah Thrash has sowed plants to help build the sand dunes that protect the beach from erosion.Saturday, she and about 70 volunteers planted thousands of bitter...
View ArticleBusiness leaders discuss economy
HARLINGEN — Future improvements for the economic climate in the Rio Grande Valley and Texas will rely upon several important factors, according to two leaders of SpawGlass, a Texas-based general...
View ArticleUTB-TSC graduates earn degrees
BROWNSVILLE — For Regina Miller, financing her college education has been just as long a road as completing her studies. The 23-year-old communications major attended Texas State University in San...
View ArticleHarlingen man, 28, dead after bar fight
A 28-year-old Harlingen man involved in a bar fight died early Saturday morning after being punched in the face and hitting his head on the ground, police said. Carlos Marchan Maya was involved in a...
View ArticleTax office locations/jurisdictions
Tax Office Locations The Cameron County Tax Office has nine locations countywide for the convenience of the taxpayers: Cameron County Courthouse, 964 East Harrison, 1st Floor, Brownsville,...
View ArticleHarlingen Police Blotter for May 20
HARLINGEN — Police said they are still looking for 22-year-old Harlingen resident Adam Alvarez in connection with a May 11 or 12 robbery of Peacock Construction.Police said Alvarez may be driving a tan...
View ArticleShootouts in Matamoros and Reynosa kill at least 4
REYNOSA — After several days of relative calm, people in Reynosa and Matamoros experienced stressful moments this weekend as gunmen and the Mexican military exchanged gunfire. A Saturday firefight...
View ArticleHuckabee to speak at TSTC, MMA
MERCEDES — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee will be the featured guest in the Outstanding Leadership Series at events held at Texas State Technical College and at Marine Military Academy in...
View ArticleAnnual Ride Against Hunger set for Saturday
Hundreds of riders will strap on their helmets and mount their bicycles Saturday with the goal of beating hunger in the Rio Grande Valley. The Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley will host its sixth...
View ArticleOfficials seek solutions to high unemployment
BROWNSVILLE — Cameron County’s unemployment rate, despite fluctuations, consistently ranks among the very highest in the state, with wave after wave of unskilled young people hitting the workforce each...
View ArticleLate tax notices are out
BROWNSVILLE — A total of 32,446 delinquent property tax notices for 2011 are in the mail but property owners have options to avoid a lawsuit aimed at collecting back taxes, Cameron County Tax...
View ArticleCoast Guard urges boaters to use caution
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — Summer means more boats on the waters off South Padre Island, where fun turns to tragedy for boaters who don’t follow the rules, U.S. Coast Guard officials said. The “vast...
View ArticleRunoff called for tied Santa Rosa school race
SANTA ROSA — A run-off election will be needed after two candidates in the Place 2 school board race remain tied after a recount of the May 12 ballots. The run-off election will be held between 20 and...
View ArticleLocal artist donates time, artistry for mural
HARLINGEN — A leaping blue porpoise and a purple octopus, as well as a fish and a turtle are the featured creatures on the city’s latest mural, unveiled Monday at the Splash Park.The mural painted by...
View ArticleCharges added for man held in fatal bar fight
HARLINGEN — A man charged with throwing a fatal punch that killed a man in the parking lot of the I-69 Sports Bar this weekend is being held on a $200,000 bond on manslaughter and on two counts of...
View ArticleFEC alerts District 34 hopefuls to finance violations
HARLINGEN — The Federal Election Commission issued notices to the committees of some candidates for the District 34 U.S. congressional seat, alerting that they might not be in compliance with federal...
View ArticleWhiteWings look to make another title run in 2012
HARLINGEN — Eddie Dennis looked very much at home sitting in his office inside the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings clubhouse last week. The WhiteWings manager is entering the fourth season of his third...
View ArticleHarlingen commission to discuss lobbying firm proposal today
HARLINGEN — City Commission will meet today in special session to consider and possibly approve an agreement with the lobbying firm of Hogan Lovells US, LLP for federal government relation services....
View ArticlePolice Blotter for May 22
HARLINGEN — Police arrested four men who they said threw a small plastic bag from a car window. According to a police report, the men were traveling southbound in the 900 block of North A Street in a...
View ArticleCustoms: Truck tire filled with thousands of dollars
A man appeared before a federal magistrate judge in Brownsville today after Customs and Border Protection officers said they found more than $600,000 concealed in his truck's tires. Domingo...
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