Ben Bolt News

That streak will get to 25 by Sunday as temperatures could break records on Saturday and Sunday .

A Ben Bolt man is in the Jim Wells County Jail accused of raping a five-year-old girl.

The region saw scattered thunderstorms over the weekend, with some areas staying dry as a bone and others getting fast-moving, intense thunderstorms.

The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF-1 tornado briefly touched down in Ben Bolt on Sunday.

A major clean up is now underway in a Jim Wells County neighborhood a day after a storm hit the area.

Sunday's wet weather was a welcome sight for many people, but a few in the town of Ben Bolt are still recovering from it.

A possible tornado tore through a neighborhood near the town of Ben Bolt Sunday.

Location: Ben Bolt, Tx. We picked up this fire apartus from Bluntzer. We worked on it almost everyday to have a truck for our area.

The new U.S. 281 upgrades promise a quicker route out of the Rio Grande Valley - but it won't come without a cost.

Minutes matter to Clay Huston's truck drivers. Huston, the owner of Alamo-based trucking company DriveLine International Inc., offers quick calculations on what delays along U.S. 281 mean for the 50 trucks he has that travel the route on a regular basis.

The five-member Texas Transportation Commission pushed through $172.5 million for U.S. 281, including road-widening, new construction, repairs to existing roads and resurfacing sought by state Sen.

There are new details on how the president's economic stimulus package is affecting the Valley.

With the Anzalduas International Bridge slated to open within a year, Hidalgo County officials want to ensure those using the span will be able to easily get where they're going.

Comments that are obscene, vulgar, lewd or sexually-oriented will get the ax. Creative spelling of such terms also will be banned.

Brownsville native Lupita Ortiz started the New Year with four strikes against her.

New to the list this year is Lamar Elementary, which joins four schools that remain on the list from last year--Miller, Moody and Ray high schools and Cunningham Middle School.