Combes News

DENTON , Texas - Identifying a career path can be challenging for any young adult, but the process of transitioning into the workforce can be especially daunting for young people with disabilities.

Four local men and a woman were arrested Monday on felony drug possession charges after officers spotted them exchanging cocaine and money in an O'Reilly Auto Parts parking lot, police said.

In May of 1916, Elephant Butte Dam on the upper reaches of the Rio Grande in New Mexico was completed.

Four Cameron County cities will be getting extra funding for Hurricane Dolly repairs.

Mayors of four small cities cried foul Monday as they described the process of dividing $50 million in federal and state disaster funding for damage caused by last year's Hurricane Dolly.

The leaders of Santa Rosa, Primera, Combes and Rio Hondo are calling their cities forgotten towns.

Men from Combes and Harlingen were arrested Wednesday, charged with aggravated robbery in connection with a carjacking at a local car wash, police said.

Cameron County Sheriffs are investigating the Saturday night shooting of a Cameron Park man.

Bobby De La Fuente, a window clerk at the U.S. Post Office on New Combes Highway in Harlingen, holds the new 44-cent postage stamps now needed for first-class mail.

A tornado of barbed wire spun from the hull of a stone canoe and clung to the ceiling inside an exhibit hall at the Harlingen Arts & Heritage Museum.

Leon A. "Dick" Deason _______ Roberta E. Dahl _______ Board of Alderperson, PL 1 Brian Schalk _______ George R. Rosas _______ CITY OF BROWNSVILLE Commissioner District 3 Carlos A. Cisneros Melissa Zamora Moses Sorola Commissioner District 4 Roberto Uresti Edward C. Camarillo Argelia Miller Commissioner At Large "B" Roman Perez Rose M.Z. Gowen ...

WaterWorks board members voted Thursday to refund $51,185 to the Harlingen school district for impact fees paid to connect Lee Means Elementary School to water and sewer service.

The town of Combes has received $2.7 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for projects to repair Hurricane Dolly damages, plus $409,000 for debris clean-up, Mayor Silver Garcia said.

Velma DeLeon began training for her first Jalapeo 100 in July, but three weeks before the tour she found out she had a "big surprise." She learned she's pregnant.

The city's population gained nearly 6,000 people in the past year, bringing it close to 75,000. In one year, the population jumped from 69,359 to 74,950, according to a city staff estimate presented by Paul ...

There will be a Christmas in Sebastian this year, regardless of the hard economic times.

Third of seven children to Winnie Vaughn and S. A. Decker was born January 9, 1924 in Harlingen.