Training helps volunteers fight Medicare fraud
BROWNSVILLE — The simplest of acts — such as accepting an item under the impression it’s free — can contribute to the billions of dollars lost each year in Medicare fraud, a group of Brownsville...
View ArticleLow resaca levels raise concerns among residents
BROWNSVILLE — As work continues on one of the city’s resaca systems, residents living near the area have noticed a drop in the water level.The level has dropped not only in the Resaca De La Guerra...
View ArticlePackages collected to recycle
BROWNSVILLE — Beauty brand Garnier kicked off its summer Garnier Greener Tour in partnership with green company TerraCycle on Wednesday at the Walmart parking lot on Boca Chica.A stated goal of the...
View ArticleHistory Buff: Raul Galvan
Raul Galvan is looking forward to learning a little bit more about U.S. history.Galvan, an eighth-grade U.S. history teacher at Gutierrez Middle School, is one of three Harlingen teachers selected to...
View ArticleBus crushes driver at downtown terminal
A bus driver was crushed by his own bus Wednesday evening when he tried to stop it from rolling away at La Plaza at Brownsville, the new bus terminal downtown. The driver died at the scene, police...
View ArticleSan Benito girl, 13, accuses 3 of longtime sexual abuse
SAN BENITO — An 18-year-old high school student and two juveniles have been accused of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl since she was 6, authorities said. Jose Armando Barajas is being held at the...
View ArticleLimas testifies in lawyer's corruption trial
BROWNSVILLE (AP) — The former judge at the heart of a four-year federal investigation of judicial corruption told jurors in the federal trial of a South Texas lawyer Thursday that he was paid kickbacks...
View ArticleFBI liaison takes stand; officer says Marchan under surveillance
BROWNSVILLE — It was June 27, 2008. The time was 5:15 p.m. Abel C. Limas, at the time a state district judge, arrived at the law office of Ray R. Marchan. Unbeknownst to him, Albert Toriz, the...
View ArticleRio Grande Valley has some of lowest gas prices in Texas
HOUSTON (AP) — Retail gasoline prices across Texas have dropped an average 6 cents this week in a slide that began two months ago. AAA Texas on Thursday reported the average price per gallon has...
View ArticleMan convicted of smuggling immigrants he took home
McALLEN — Federal jurors Thursday convicted a San Juan man in an immigrant smuggling case involving a 16-year-old girl with whom he tried to have sex. Pedro Salazar, 56, was convicted Thursday of...
View ArticleInternational Studies: Karla Varela
Karla Varela of Matamoros is learning beyond textbooks how the United States’ nursing system functions. Varela is a nursing student at Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas in Matamoros and is the first...
View ArticleWeslaco men admit to smuggling Zetas cocaine
WESLACO — Two Weslaco men pleaded guilty in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy that attempted to move nearly 64 pounds of cocaine from Los Zetas through the King Ranch, authorities said. Jose Santos...
View ArticleHarlingen Police Blotter for June 8
Valley Morning Star HARLINGEN — Police arrested a 36-year-old Harlingen man Wednesday on a warrant alleging indecency with an 11-year-old girl, according to a police press release.The case began in...
View ArticleMan convicted in immigrant smuggling
The Monitor McALLEN — Federal jurors Thursday convicted a San Juan man in an immigrant smuggling case involving a 16-year-old girl with whom he tried to have sex.Pedro Salazar, 56, was convicted...
View ArticleUp for auction again, Dolly Vinsant fails to sell
HARLINGEN — Once again, the former Dolly Vinsant Memorial Hospital property hasn’t sold. Nobody offered to purchase the property Tuesday when it went up for auction, said John Guevara, an attorney with...
View ArticleFamily hoping for answers in bus driver’s death
BROWNSVILLE — Ernesto Rosales was a lifelong driver. A Brownsville native, Rosales, 62, graduated from Brownsville High School and was a truck driver for most of his adult life. Last year he took a job...
View Article47 immigrants found in stash house
Border Patrol agents are looking for a man suspected of running a stash house after agents on Wednesday raided the residence and found nearly 50 alleged undocumented immigrants. The suspect is charged...
View ArticleJury convicts woman who bought 15 AK-47s at Valley store
McALLEN — Jurors convicted a Houston woman Thursday afternoon in a gun straw purchasing case. Nayely Ruby Herrera, 21, was convicted after two hours of testimony and about 30 minutes of jury...
View ArticlePolice Blotter for June 9
- HARLINGEN — A 43-year-old Harlingen man was charged with first-degree felony injury to a disabled person after his sister-in-law accused him of punching and dragging her and stomping on her head,...
View ArticleJury hears Limas tapes
BROWNSVILLE — Former state District Judge Abel C. Limas said in court this week that only a few attorneys gave him bribes, but evidence shows he was quick to respond to other attorneys, too.There is,...
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