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Police continue to search for a man who managed to kick a window out of a police cruiser and escape near the intersection of Mile 4 line and Trosper Road.

Officials ordered an autopsy after a man was found dead inside his travel trailer Thursday morning.

An autopsy revealed what Hidalgo County Sheriff's deputies believe is the 18th murder investigated by the department this year.

There's a country music world beyond Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley and the Rascal Flatts, and one local producer is hoping a new concert series will show South Texas the very best of the lesser knowns.

An Alton teen spent about two weeks in the hospital with severe head trauma after allegedly trying to run over a police officer with his truck.

These four photographs show the changing face of Elm Street, on the west side of the downtown Denton Square.

An ongoing fight between two Mexican crime families led to a toddler's fatal shooting south of Edinburg last month, Hidalgo County sheriff's investigators said.

With his wife crumpled in a bloody heap before him and armed officers aiming at his head, Daniel Garcia pleaded with police to kill him, his brother testified Thursday.

Ever heard that expression "you've been watching too much television?" That came to mind today when I read a story out of Alton, Texas, where an inmate was trying to escape the city jail by crawling into an ...

An escape attempt from the Alton, Texas city jail ended when one inmate crashed through the ceiling and into the police chief's unoccupied office.

Police say 17-year-old Jesus Albert Suarez Chavez and 22-year-old Roman Orozco Martinez tried to escape through air conditioning ducts of the Alton city jail around 3 a.m. Saturday, but had been spotted by a ...

Down a stretch of highway far from the nearest city is the Hidalgo County Jail. Everyone who is arrested in the county is ultimately incarcerated there.

Janet Canales held her children tightly and struggled to stand as fierce winds violently rocked her trailer.

“I'm just thinking about what I can do for the people of Alton.”

Voters rejected critics of longtime Mayor Salvador Vela on Saturday, pushing out two incumbents and ushering in new candidates allied with Vela and Mayor Pro-Tem Ricardo Garza. via Themonitor.com