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Business
- Did a group of city commissioners violate the Texas Open Meetings Act?
- Three Brownsville city commissioners who attended an early November meeting not opened to the public maintain that they did not violate the Texas Open Meetings Act. The Nov. 5 meeting was called to discuss the implementation of the city’s... Full story
- Mid-Valley Airport to get customs facility
- WESLACO — The Mid-Valley Airport is going international. The general and private aviation facility in Weslaco began work on a customs facility that will allow international flights to land, airport director George Garrett said. The Weslaco... Full story
- UTPA launches business to market new technology
- EDINBURG - They’re smaller than a human hair, but they could mean the world for the University of Texas Pan-American. Nanofibers, which are invisible to the naked eye, are threads of materials that are one billionth of a meter in size that... Full story
- ICE audits 161 South Texas businesses
- McALLEN — Federal officials are auditing 161 Texas companies suspected of employing illegal immigrants, including 60 in the South Texas area, the government announced Friday. Of the 60 South Texas companies, in an area stretching from Austin... Full story
- Dell profit falls 54% amid PC slump
- SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Dell Inc. said Thursday that its net income dropped 54 percent in the latest quarter and amid signs the company isn't fully benefiting from the computer industry's fledgling recovery. Dell's numbers missed Wall Street's... Full story
- AOL offers buyouts to 2,500, a third of work force
- NEW YORK (AP) — AOL LLC, an Internet company struggling to adapt to an advertising-driven economy, is looking to shed as much as 36 percent of its work force as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner Inc. next month. Major job cuts had... Full story
- Heavy metal: Shipbreaker gets biggest project to date with Navy carrier’s arrival
- Old soldiers never die, they’re just hauled away and cut into scrap. The USS Saipan, a 27,000-ton, Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship launched in 1974, arrived at its final destination Wednesday afternoon at the Port of Brownsville as it... Full story
- Going for a ride: Cruise operator hooks Winter Texans with free dolphin tour
- The couple, perhaps emboldened by the beer that had been flowing all morning since leaving port, danced to "Is Anybody Going to San Antone?" in the only space on the top deck not occupied by other Winter Texans. They all were merrily enduring... Full story
- Cost of flying to increase again
- DALLAS (AP) — It could cost you even more to travel next spring and summer. US Airways said Tuesday it will add a 5 percent surcharge to all U.S. flights on or after May 8. Spokeswoman Valerie Wunder says the surcharge will protect the... Full story
- County holds off on Ocean Tower for the time being
- The Cameron County Commissioners’ Court has held off on providing a contractor with a temporary storage site for demolished construction material from South Padre Island’s Ocean Tower, which is scheduled for demolition. Action on the... Full story
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