Brownsville News

A 24-hour Texas Commission Officers Standard Education Training will be held Dec.

The smuggling of drugs into the United States continues at a frenzied pace during the marijuana-harvesting season, but so do arrests.

The tenor voices escalated toward the ceiling then plunged toward the floor, as crystalline notes spilled from the piano.

As Rio Grande Valley property owners gird for hearings that will determine how much the government pays for the land it takes to build the border fence, some are struggling to find a key witness - an appraiser.

The seasonally adjusted unemployment in the Brownsville-Harlingen metropolitan statistical area fell to 7.4 percent in October, down from 7.5 percent in September, but up from 5.4 percent in October 2007, the ...

John Lorenz asked about the plump squash sitting on the table surrounded by grapefruit, oranges and radishes.

Hector Gonzales would seem a perfect fit for the Brownsville Independent School District, a superintendent whose school years mirrored those of many BISD's students and who has succeeded smartly.

A Texas trooper appeared in federal court in Brownsville today on a charge of possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

Chris Goodrich decided to become a paramedic for the sheer thrill of it of trying to administer CPR in the back of a fast-moving ambulance, of opening someone's airway so they can breathe, of helping to save a ...

The Cameron County Commissioners Court has reallocated more than $300,000 in tobacco settlement funds away from local indigent health care programs, disappointing advocates who rely on such funds to serve ...

A Brownsville man charged with the capital murder of two teenagers was turned over to police by Mexican authorities on Wednesday.

They're apparently not thrifty thieves. Despite gas prices that hit record highs this summer, law enforcement officials in the Rio Grande Valley said they have seen little to no effect on the type of vehicles ...

A Brownsville man, who admitted in court to being a member of the Valluco prison gang, was found guilty of murder on Thursday.

The South Texas prosecutor who won indictments against Vice President Dick Cheney, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a state senator and others said Thursday he developed the case secretly so as not to ...

A farmworker rights organization and 14 poor South Texas residents sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday alleging that the agency refused to help thousands of poor families repair their homes ...

A Springdale man has pleaded guilty to being an accomplice to manslaughter in the death of a real estate agent who was brutally beaten at a bar.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has been indicted in Texas, accused of aiding in the neglect of federal immigration inmates by contracting for-profit prisons.

Prosecutors have filed new charges against a Texas bus driver involved in a crash last year that killed four people.

College administrators at UTB-TSC say they're still unsure how the country's economic downturn will affect student enrollment this Spring.

Rogelio Cannady, of La Feria, who was set to die Wednesday for a 1993 killing of a fellow prisoner, but his execution date was withdrawn Monday by state District Judge Ronald Yeager.