Falfurrias News

Alberto Lopez, also known as Alberto Lopez-Reyna, 40, of Roma, pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana.

Photographer Eric Thayer traveled to Brooks County, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico to investigate the rising rates of immigrant deaths along the border there, spending time at a migrant's hostel in Mexico and with U.S. Border Patrol in Brooks County.

Mounds of dirt decorated with fake flowers sit at the northern edge of the cemetery in this town about 80 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream ... But, was it local cream? And did the cows eat organic grass? And who owns the dairy? Tell us, mice.

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.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn talks with Brooks County rancher and veterinarian Mike Vickers during a tour of South Texas on Sunday.

In Falfurrias tonight, Senator John Cornyn is meeting with Brooks County officials and land owners to find out what border security issues they are currently facing in South Texas.

As Local 2 first reported in March, officers in Falfurrias, in Brooks County, said they spotted an all black SUV that was made to look like some type of undercover police task force vehicle.