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Armando Torres, 27, and two other family members have been reported missing in Mexico by his family after crossing the border to visit his dad.

Lawmakers from Hidalgo and Cameron counties saw their compromise on a bill creating a new University of Texas institution in the Rio Grande Valley pay off Wednesday as the Senate unanimously concurred with the latest version of the bill.

Former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos was called to testify after federal prosecutors rested in his corruption trial.

State lawmakers have approved creating a new university in South Texas that is projected to serve more than 28,000 students and include a medical school.

Armando Torres, 27, and two other family members have been reported missing in Mexico by his family after crossing the border to visit his dad.

Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border.

Esther Angeles, 41, who developed diabetes after moving to the United States, ate lunch with her daughter, Johanna Marisol Gomez, 7, in Brownsville, Texas.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Rear Adm. Kevin Cook, the new 8th District commander, visited and addressed Coast Guard members stationed at Sector Corpus Christi May 9, located at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi.

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A former South Texas prosecutor facing corruption charges was essentially a "district attorney on retainer" who used his discretion in exchange for cash, federal prosecutors told jurors Monday while laying out their case against the one-time aspiring congressman.

A widely touted Border Patrol initiative to send migrants back to Mexico far from the points they are caught entering the U.S. illegally has one of the worst track records at discouraging people from trying again, according to a new study that offers a detailed assessment of how the agency's new enforcement strategies are working.

Prosecutors say a former South Texas district attorney and 1-time candidate for Congress used the power of his position to profit.

The regents passed a motion that said maintaining the university's downtown location would "result in a compact urban campus and is the preferred location for the campus." The motion also authorizes the executive director of real estate to execute a contract with Texas Southmost College in which the University of Texas at Brownsville would lease ... (more)

More than 40 artists from the U.S.-Mexico border have been selected for the concurrent exhibits "III Bienal Ciudad Juarez-El Paso Biennial 2013." The exhibits, subtitled "Tijuana to Brownsville: Contemporary Art Along the Border," will run together June 2 through Aug.

A House panel on Friday scuttled a controversial plan being pushed by Sen. Juan Hinojosa , D-McAllen, to locate the first two years of medical education in Hidalgo County as part of a proposal to create a new mega university in the Rio Grande Valley.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved lease negotiations between UT Brownsville and Texas Southmost College that will help ease the split into two separate campuses.

Elementary school students eat breakfast to start the day at Paint Creek school in Haskell County, Texas on September 22, 2011.

At the Sacred Heart Burial Park in Brooks County, the graves of dead migrants spread across three sections of the cemetery, topped with plastic carnations and simple aluminum markers staked into the dust.

One early morning in mid-January of 2013, JesAos JuA¡rez opened the front door of his Brownsville, Texas home and saw a package.

In his fast-paced new novel " Spare Not the Rod " , author Leonard Tolbert explores the themes of friendship, loyalty and growing up in a story filled with adventure, humor, tragedy, action and the phenomenon of Texas high school football.