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Cameron County offices to close Friday
All Cameron County offices will be closed on Friday as officials continue to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Dolly. County Adminstrator Pete Sepulveda Jr. said the county will resume regular business hours on Monday. The county offices had been...
Rancho Viejo receives heavy wind damage
RANCHO VIEJO - Hurricane Dolly didn't spare the Town of Rancho Viejo uprooting dozens of trees - at least one of them a 100 years-old. Oak, mesquite and even orchid trees were pulled from their roots by strong winds, which resident Bobby...
Johnson ready for camp, LT Brown remains unsigned
HOUSTON - Star receiver Andre Johnson will be back on the field, but first-round pick Duane Brown might not be when the Houston Texans open camp Friday. Johnson has recovered from arthroscopic knee surgery that kept him out of Houston's offseason workouts....
WNBA suspends 10 players, Mahorn for skirmish
The WNBA punished so many players for their roles in this week's skirmish that the league is staggering the suspensions by alphabetical order. "None of us can recall an incident like this," WNBA president Donna Orender said Thursday during a conference...
UTB-TSC classes resume Monday
Students at The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College get an extra day off from school, but not so for teachers and administrators. Classes at UTB-TSC will resume Monday morning on their regular schedule. But the school will...
Update: Many roads closed, damaged by Hurricane Dolly
Texas Department of Transportation crews are patrolling area highways to evaluate which roads need to be repaired and working to quickly close those that are flooded and covered by debris. TxDOT reports of flood conditions at the following locations: FM...
Olmito fire consumes DVD warehouse
Firefighters battled a warehouse fire for more than nine hours in Olmito on Thursday as Hurricane Dolly's gusts receded from the Valley. A fire consuming a warehouse storing DVD's was called in to the fire department at 4:00 a.m. on Thursday and the...
Valley declared a disaster area
The Rio Grande Valley has been declared a federal disaster area but only to assist local governments. Patricia Brach, a public affairs officer for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that at this point, only cities and counties are eligible...
Dolly leaves thousands of homes dark
More than 180,000 Rio Grande Valley customers were without power Thursday afternoon after Hurricane Dolly's 100 mph gusts pushed over trees and downed power lines. American Electric Power, the Valley's biggest energy provider, reported that more than...
Arroyo Colorado, Rio Grande levees will hold
HARLINGEN - Even as the Arroyo Colorado overflowed its banks and the Rio Grande began to swell Thursday in the wake of Hurricane Dolly's deluge, officials said that the region's levees would hold and fears that they would fail were unfounded. "We've...
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