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Rabbit teaches geography lesson to Mercedes students
MERCEDES - Students at Ruben Hinojosa Elementary School received a tour of the United States, courtesy of a bunny. David Love, photographer and author of "Buns Travels Across America," visited two elementary schools here Tuesday to speak to students...
Police searching for Elsa City Hall burglar
ELSA - Someone broke into City Hall early Tuesday morning, and the acting city manager said he believes it was politically motivated. A burglar broke through a window at the front of Elsa City Hall, Police Chief Mario Cavazos said. The break-in was discovered...
Two county employees charged with assault
Two Cameron County employees have been released from a county jail after allegedly assaulting a man with a baseball bat. Lucino Rosenbaum III, 32, and Ivan De Jesus Guerra, 26, were arrested Tuesday on separate second-degree felony charges of aggravated...
Sheriff searching for Brownsville murder suspect
EL RANCHITO - A 20-year-old man was stabbed to death Tuesday in what investigators are describing as a "crime of passion," officials said. Francisco Losoya died while emergency responders transported him to the hospital after being stabbed in front of...
One of our own comes home
MISSION - The hearse made the same trip down memory lane that Alex Gonzalez might have made himself had he returned from Iraq alive. Followed by a slow procession of vans carrying his parents, sisters, uncles, aunts and cousins, the 21-year-old's flag-draped...
DA requests ruling on Dannenbaum agreement
District Attorney Armando Villalobos has requested a ruling from the Texas attorney general regarding the disclosure of an agreement that was reached with Dannenbaum Engineering Corp. concerning the company's involvement with an international bridge project. The...
Judge dismisses water pollution charge
A water pollution charge stemming from Brazoria County against local businessman Emilio Sanchez Sr. was dismissed last week after his company, Sanship Inc., pleaded guilty to the charge. Sanchez, 74, was arrested in Brownsville on July 18, 2007, on a...
Imagine Brownsville workshop today
Roughly 30 percent of a $900,000 comprehensive plan for Brownsville has been developed in slightly more than a year and the public will get to hear an update today. The City Commission under former Mayor Eddie Treviño Jr. requested the plan from...
Looking Ahead
Inside of the Cameron County Courthouse, a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina is propped against the wall. In large block letters the caption reads, "Are we next?" Two weeks before hurricane season begins, Texans along the Gulf Coast are preparing...
Follow Me
Signs are being placed along the roughly nine-mile hike and bike trail, starting at the Southern Pacific Linear Park on Seventh Street and running to the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic site on Paredes Line Road. Historian Douglas Murphy, chief...
Judge sets August trial for Brownsville driver accused in Ark. bus crash
FORREST CITY, Ark. (AP) - A defense attorney for a Brownsville bus driver charged in a crash that killed four people said Tuesday she will challenge an assertion that the man was under the influence of amphetamines at the time. Lawyer Tonya...
Soldier's body returns home
MISSION - Well-wishers lined the streets for more than 45 minutes, waiting for the body of Spc. Alex Gonzalez to arrive at the Virgil Wilson Funeral Home on Conway Avenue. He arrived at McAllen-Miller International Airport at 10:07 a.m., but the...
Fire guts part of Hygeia ice cream plant
HARLINGEN - Investigators Monday could not rule out arson in a fire that gutted part of the old Hygeia ice cream plant, an official said. Fire broke out at about 3 a.m. Saturday in a room used for an indoor flea market in at the rear of the building...
Paying Respects
A 21-gun salute could be heard Monday morning as the Brownsville Police Department honored those who have died in the line of duty. Mayor Pat M. Ahumada Jr. addressed the crowd gathered outside the police station on East Jackson Street. "They must show...
County to test mettle in mock storm drill
Gauging preparedness for the impending hurricane season will be a two-day task for local and state officials attending a mock storm drill that begins today. The scenario simulates conditions for a hurricane threatening the South Texas coastline....
$1M walkthrough; Broad Prize site visit this week
A team of national educational experts from the Broad Foundation will tour the Brownsville Independent School District this week to help decide whether BISD wins the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Education, the nation's largest education award. BISD is...
New Rancho Viejo aldermen to take office
In Rancho Viejo, the campaigning is over and the winners have been declared. The town's three new aldermen, Roberto Medrano, John Dunkel and William Dorsett will soon begin their two-year stints in office. Each candidate will enter his term with...
Banking on Brownsville
In April, Inter National Bank opened two new branches, including locations in Brownsville and Laredo, bringing to 23 the number of banking centers on the Texas-Mexico border. In 2006, INB merged with Banorte, Mexico's fifth largest bank. With...
City looking for public information assistant
The city is advertising the job of assistant public information services director, and City Manager Charlie Cabler said that the duties do not overlap responsibilities in present positions. These include the jobs held by Bill Young, who is known...
Rescued wolf-dogs find home
EDINBURG - The saga of the homeless wolf dogs may end happily after all. A North Texas man who is an authority on wolf dogs says the unsocialized hybrids kept at Palm Valley Animal Center in Edinburg are likely only 5 percent or 10 percent wolf and can...
Man faces charges over photos of underage girls
A 40-year-old Rio Grande City man was arrested over the weekend by authorities on South Padre Island for allegedly taking improper pictures of teen girls at Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark. Cameron County Park Rangers were dispatched to the waterpark...
Mother prepares to bury son, a stabbing victim at 14
HARLINGEN - Fourteen-year-old Juan Miguel Loredo was a quiet boy who just liked to play football with his friends, his mother, Maria Luisa Castillo Loredo, said Monday. "He liked music, mostly in English, different kinds," she said in Spanish...
PUB pulls rate study report
The Brownsville Public Utilities Board was poised to hear a report on an electric rate study behind closed doors on Monday, but the item was pulled prior to the meeting. "The report was not complete," board Chairman Al Villarreal told The Brownsville...
McAllen not in talks with Hyundai
McALLEN - McAllen City Manager Mike Perez says city officials are not in talks with Hyundai Motor Co., but he wouldn't confirm which automaker is considering building a plant here. "I can't say anything except it's not Hyundai," Perez said Sunday. After...
Fewer sending money back to Mexico
McALLEN - America's money train to south of the border is slowing in the face of a faltering U.S. economy and controversy over illegal immigration.Between January and March, the amount of money sent from the United States to Mexico dropped by 2.9 percent...
UTPA purchases electric scooters to help law enforcement
EDINBURG - The University of Texas-Pan American police have a new tool in keeping the peace on campus: electric scooters. The university purchased two scooters in February to help officers patrol the campus. Each scooter costs $9,000 and runs on 110-volt...
Bee-ware: Bee season is here
MISSION - Every few weeks, the family property must be checked for killer bees. The precaution was prompted after a swarm of Africanized bees claimed a life there in September. Paul Compton, then 57, died in front of the small home on...
Sharyland student to play soccer overseas in national program
MISSION - A shy smile widened across Joshua Castille's face. Just moments before, the 14-year-old had declared himself a "decent athlete all around." When pressed, though, the shy smile emerged. He hung his head slightly in humbleness...
Festivals showcase BISD talent
A series of fine arts festivals is scheduled this week at Jacob Brown Auditorium that will showcase the talent of BISD high school and middle school students. Each of the five clusters in the Brownsville Independent School District will present...
Off Balance
Irma Estrada's world is always spinning. For the last four years, Estrada has suffered from nearly constant vertigo - a feeling that she, or the objects around her, are in motion even when they're still. Sometimes the spinning sensation becomes...
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