Brownsville News

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration has sold two ships for recycling to Esco Ltd.

Anna Karen De La Rosa enjoyed watching the colorful floats as the parade passed her.

Preparation was the underlying topic at Tuesday's City Commission workshop: preparing for U.S. Census 2010 and for hurricanes and tropical storms.

Traffic was backed up momentarily around noon Tuesday on the northbound lane of Expressway 77/83 between the Boca Chica and Price Road exits when a green SUV rolled over.

Federal aviation investigators hope to learn more today about a plane crash at Mid Valley Airport that left a Brownsville minister dead.

Rain was possible across parts of Texas on Monday, along with hot conditions, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

A band of strong rains moved through the Brownsville area at this hour. The scattered showers and thunderstorms will move north at 12 to 18 miles an hour into the Lower Texas coastal waters.

Kenson Lima has been getting increasingly weak. Lima has been on a hunger strike since at least June 23 while detained at the Port Isabel Detention Center near Los Fresnos pending civil immigration deportation proceedings.

A Brownsville minister died Friday morning after his small-engine aircraft crashed outside the Mid Valley Airport, emergency management officials said.

A Brownsville man, who was either 69 or 70, drowned early Wednesday evening while crabbing off Highway 48, authorities said.

Disruptions within the Brownsville Fire Department that involve a dog named Chief have evoked reactions from embarrassing to incredible, while the City Commission could be discussing the issue next week.

Brownsville police are looking for four suspects who were involved in the stabbing of two men at Waterside Apartments on Boca Chica Boulevard, police said.

Tug of wars within the Brownsville Fire Department that have brewed for years have escalated with a dog, named Chief, now at the center of controversy and the mayor's proposal to oust the fire chief.

Originally published June 30, 2009 at 1:04 a.m., updated June 30, 2009 at 2:10 a.m. BROWNSVILLE, Texas a ' A federal magistrate set $50,000 bonds for two Mexican men accused of smuggling illegal immigrants through a drainage pipe running under the streets of Brownsville.

A Brownsville teen experienced the most terrifying moments of her life Sunday afternoon as she hid in a closet while three men kicked in the door and ransacked he parents apartment, said the girl's mother.

Halfway around the world he stood shivering. Surprised by the cold on his Spring Break vacation, Esteban Rivera stood with his family gazing upon the magnificent architecture created for czars and mingled with the people of Russia.

Sounds like a "dog-gone" problem. A group of Brownsville firefighters filed a police report against the fire chief accusing him of "taking" their puppy on Tuesday afternoon, Brownsville Firefighters Association President Marco Longoria said Wednesday.

A Brownsville man has been arrested for aiming a gun at his neighbor and firing several rounds into the air inside the city limits, police said.

A Brownsville man was arrested for making false statements while purchasing firearms, which where later seized by authorities in Mexico, court documents show.

Bond was denied on a 41-year-old Brownsville man accused of attempting to smuggle nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico.