Elsa News

More than a dozen Rio Grande Valley public schools will have to offer parents the option of transferring their children to other campuses for the 2010-2011 school year.

The city's municipal judge is being investigated for allegedly forging a signature to apply for a loan, authorities said.

Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino says Hilda Cacares used a piece of real estate she was not authorized to sign off on as collateral for a loan.

Born July 6, 1931 to Nicolas and Petra Tamez. He attended Edcouch-Elsa High school and at the onset of the Korean Conflict, Simon answered the call of his country and joined the U.S. Army.

An aide to U.S. Rep. Ruben Hinojosa said it hit him hard when he realized small acreage vegetable producers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley were traveling to farmers markets in San Antonio and Corpus Christi to sell their goods.

Dr. Herschel A. Rubin of East Liverpool has practiced Reform Judaism for more than 90 years.

Hidalgo county is providing H1N1 vaccines to folks for the next two weeks. The vaccines are available at the county clinic locations.

City administrators came close to pulling out an application for improvements to their water treatment plant.

Tonight more evidence of people smuggling drugs out of the Valley through the mail.

CHANNEL 5 NEWS The City of Elsaa TMs Police Department & The Edcouch Elsa I. S. D have joined forces to continue investigating surveillance video tapes of todaya TMs incident at the high school.

For more than a decade, public school districts throughout the Rio Grande Valley and the state have taught students to wait until marriage to have sex to avoid getting pregnant and contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

The Elsa City Council wasn't going to let a state board take away what one of the commissioners described as its lottery ticket.

The Garza family learned their hero was gone Saturday evening. U.S. Air Force officials arrived at the Elsa family's front door to tell them 21-year-old Rudy Garza went missing off Okinawa island in Japan.

While canceling a Sunday worship service may seem like a radical move, which is exactly what the leaders of First United Methodist Church of Edinburg will do on Sept.

Police have arrested a 16-year-old in connection with the shooting death of a man Saturday afternoon.

All Juan E. Diaz wanted was to get his road paved. The small section of Mile 14 North was neglected for the eight years he lived along the quiet route, said Diaz, 19.

A fast moving fire got within feet of several homes Thursday night. The fire broke out near the intersection of Farm to Market road 88 and Mile 17A1 2, crews from Weslaco, Edinburg, La Villa and Monte Alto were called in to help the Elsa Fire Department stop the flames.

Schools throughout the Rio Grande Valley have many helping hands. In fact, they tend to pay more people per student than anywhere else in the state .

Sheriff's deputies are investigating a body found Wednesday morning near the intersection of Mile 19 North and Mile 4 West roads.

Sheriff's deputies are investigating a body found Wednesday morning near the intersection of Mile 19 North and Mile 4 West roads.