Valley and State
- Former La Joya high school principal charged with theft
- By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
- LA JOYA — Former Juarez-Lincoln High School principal Jimmy Gonzalez has been arrested on felony theft charges in connection with a school district police investigation.
La Joya school district police arrested Gonzalez last week after... Full story
- UTPA president-designate visits campus
- By JENNIFER L. BERGHOM, The Monitor
- EDINBURG — The University of Texas-Pan American greeted its new president-designate Wednesday with a red carpet and the university’s award-winning mariachis.
The UT Board of Regents unanimously selected Robert S. Nelsen last month as... Full story
- Alton Assit. Chief: Cocaine bust biggest in dept. history
- By NICK PIPITONE, The Monitor
- ALTON – Alton police made the biggest cocaine bust in the department’s modern history Thursday night, Assistant Chief Enrique Sotelo said.
Police arrested two suspects after seizing approximately 30 kilograms of cocaine from a Ford... Full story
- Dallas man gets 30-year term in fed drug case
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- DALLAS (AP) — A 23-year-old Dallas man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on drug trafficking and money laundering charges tied to Mexico's Gulf Cartel.
Uriel Palacios still faces murder charges in Dallas County in a Sept. 1,... Full story
- 3 dead, 3 hurt in 2-vehicle crash in north Texas
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- LAVON, Texas (AP) — Three people are dead and three others are hurt after a head-on collision between a sport-utility vehicle and a minivan on a rain-slick north Texas highway.
The crash happened about 10 a.m. Friday on Texas 205, just... Full story
- Where can you get a swine flu shot? Texans can check new Web site
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas health department is making a flu vaccine locator available on its Web site — TexasFlu.org — to help people find the vaccines for both seasonal flu and swine flu.
The locator was posted Thursday. Texas... Full story
- CBP: Tenn. man wanted for child porn arrested at Brownsville bridge
- By DIANA EVA MALDONADO/The Brownsville Herald
- Two weeks after the FBI issued an arrest warrant for a Tennessee man wanted on child pornography charges, the man was captured at a Brownsville international bridge.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested John Christopher... Full story
- 'The Twilight Saga: New Moon' opens in Brownsville
- By JAZMINE ULLOA, The Brownsville Herald
- Whether Twilight mania is driven by lust, passion or just hunky wolves— excuse me, shapeshifters— shedding their shirts on screen, die-hard fans hit theaters midnight Thursday for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," the latest Hollywood... Full story
- Did a group of city commissioners violate the Texas Open Meetings Act?
- By EMMA PEREZ-TREVINO, The Brownsville Herald
- 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
- By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
- 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
- By Sean Gaffney and Jennifer L. Berghom, The Monitor
- 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
- Rodriguez wins round against BISD Trustee Catalina Presas-Garcia
- By GARY LONG, The Brownsville Herald
- Attorneys for BISD Athletic Director Joe Rodriguez on Thursday won the authority to depose trustee Catalina Presas-Garcia concerning two reports containing allegations of wrongdoing against Rodriguez that were made public and which the school... Full story
- Baytown murder suspect could be in Brownsville
- By ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, The Brownsville Herald
- Authorities are asking for the public’s help in locating a murder suspect they believe may be hiding in Brownsville, Weslaco, or Mexico.
Juan Bocardo, 60, is wanted by Baytown police on the charge of murder, said a Baytown police press... Full story
- Handy charged with additional criminal counts
- By JEREMY ROEBUCK, The Monitor
- McALLEN — Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy is expected to return to court Monday to face new charges in connection with an ongoing tax fraud and illegal hiring case.
A superseding indictment handed down against her last week alleges... Full story
- Burned body found inside San Juan mobile home park
- By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
- SAN JUAN — A property manager found the partially burned body of a 58-year-old woman at a mobile home park Thursday morning.
The discovery at Palm City Mobile Home Park, 700 W. Business 83, came after the woman’s mother called the... Full story
- ICE audits 161 South Texas businesses
- By SEAN GAFFNEY, The Monitor
- 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
- Police looking for adult video suspects
- By ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, The Brownsville Herald
- Brownsville police are asking for the public’s help in the search for two men accused of trying to rob an adult video store at gunpoint.
The attempted robbery took place Tuesday midnight at the Ace Video Store at 7300 U.S. Highway 77, said... Full story
- Former La Joya high school principal accused of felony theft
- By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
- LA JOYA — Former Juarez-Lincoln High School principal Jimmy Gonzalez has been arrested on felony theft charges in connection with a school district police investigation.
La Joya school district police arrested Gonzalez last week after... Full story
- $1 million in bonds for man accused of shooting wife at day-care center
- By ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, The Brownsville Herald
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A municipal judge has set a million dollars in bonds on a man accused of shooting his ex-wife three times at the day-care center where she worked.
Alfredo Aguirre Aranda, 49, on Thursday went before Municipal Judge Ignacio Torteya, who set... Full story
- Sylvia Handy charged with additional criminal counts
- By JEREMY ROEBUCK, The Monitor
- McALLEN – Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy is expected to return to court Monday to face new charges in connection with an ongoing tax fraud and illegal hiring case.
A superseding indictment handed down against her last week alleges... Full story
- State police officers killed in Ciudad Juarez
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Police in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez say four state police officers have been killed and two others injured in two separate attacks.
Chihuahua state Public Safety Department spokesman Samuel... Full story
- Freshman says fellow student sexually abused her in school gym
- By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
- ALAMO — Police arrested a high school senior after an alleged sexual assault behind the bleachers in a high school gymnasium.
A 14-year-old freshman girl told a school counselor about 1 p.m. Monday that Moises Martinez, 17, had sexually... Full story
- Partially burned body of 58-year-old woman found in San Juan
- By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
- SAN JUAN — Police found the partially burned body of a 58-year-old woman at 700 W. Business 83 near "I" Road.
The body, which was burned from the waist down, was found inside a house at the Palm City Mobile Home Park at 700 West Business 83.... Full story
- Gates names West, Clark to lead Fort Hood review
- ANNE GEARAN and PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to avert another tragedy like the Fort Hood shootings, Defense Secretary Robert Gates named a former Army secretary and former Navy chief to review a broad range of Pentagon programs, ranging from medical and... Full story
- Highway bridge to reopen near new Cowboys Stadium
- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
- ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — A major highway bridge reopens Monday near traffic-heavy Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
The opening comes in time for the Dallas Cowboys to host their Thanksgiving matchup with Oakland.
The rebuilt Collins Street... Full story
- $1 million bond for man accused of shooting ex-wife at day care center
- By ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, The Brownsville Herald
- A million dollar bond has been placed against a man accused of shooting his ex-wife three times at the daycare where she worked.
Alfredo Aguirre Aranda, 49, went before Municipal Judge Ignacio Torteya, where he was arraigned on three counts of... Full story
- Heavy metal: Shipbreaker gets biggest project to date with Navy carrier’s arrival
- By STEVE CLARK, The Brownsville Herald
- 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
- CBP finds cocaine under man’s clothes
- By ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, The Brownsville Herald
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection has arrested a man after finding more than one pound of cocaine hidden under his clothes, officials said.
Gilbert Garza, 21, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at Veteran’s International Bridge. Later, state... Full story
- CBP seizes $600K in cocaine
- By ILDEFONSO ORTIZ, The Brownsville Herald
- U.S. Custom and Border Protection has arrested a Brownsville man accused of trying to smuggle $596,000 in cocaine through an international bridge, said an agency press release.
Andy Ochoa, 18, was arrested Tuesday afternoon at B&M International... Full story
- Two teens killed in rollover near Donna
- By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
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NEAR DONNA — Two teenagers died after their car rolled over twice north of Donna early Wednesday morning.
The crash occurred about 1 a.m. near the intersection of Golie and Earling roads, said Trooper Johnny Hernandez, a local... Full story