Harlingen News

A grand jury has indicted a Harlingen man accused of "savagely" beating and robbing local shop owner Juanita Davis in April, authorities said.

The Department of Public Safety trooper charged with assault/family violence was on duty when he was arrested Monday night, a DPS spokesman said.

It has that new-building smell and modern decor that screams functionality. But the bells-and-whistles behind the new $10 million Harlingen police station are what will improve policing the city, HPD Chief Daniel Castillo said.

Texas singer, Jason Boland is coming to Harlingen, Friday night, July 10th. Here is your chance to win a pair of tickets, so be quick... Name at least 2 Jason Boland songs! Email your answers along with your complete name, address, city, zip, phone number and date of birth to: chrismichaels@ktex.net . Winners will be notified via email.

Labor Day - Hurricane No. 11, 1933 came ashore north of Brownsville. It subsequently dropped or damaged 90 percent of the citrus crop in the Rio Grande Valley.

She was born on October 9, 1929 to Pedro and Carolina Sosa in Harlingen. She was a lifetime member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church.

Parade, chomp, bike, groove, boom. Harlingen and San Benito have several events slated for Saturday's Fourth of July celebration.

She was born on May 13, 1927, to Angel Cerrillo and Pauline Martinez in Houston, TX.

The city's Economic Development Corporation voted to begin discussions with the Harlingen Industrial Foundation, Inc.

The manager of the la Familia Adult Day Care Center in Harlingen, Texas, has been convicted of receiving kickbacks and illegally referring Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to Fabian Aurignac, M.D., United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.

He was born on Sept. 27, 1919 in San Luis Potosi, Mexico and had been living in Harlingen for over 55 years.

This year's sorghum harvest is in full swing and there is no shortage of the grain, which is used primarily as animal feed.

An accident at the intersection of West Lincoln Avenue and South J Street in Harlingen sent a pregnant woman and a man to the hospital.

Two licensed insurance brokers with offices in the Brownsville, Texas, area have been charged with conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud in a multi-million dollar scheme, according to U.S. Attorney Tim Johnson.

Harlingen, Texas, June 22, 2009: You can hear the murmurs at the Koffee Klatch each morning when farmers gather to talk about their crops and concerns about our government.

Yellow plastic tape hung from the white picket fence that lines the Bocanegra home's front yard Monday morning.

Harlingen, like other Rio Grande Valley cities, has seen its share of floods. For this city, the origin of these is from heavy precipitation generated from a number of sources.

A spool of soldering wire, various pamphlets and papers, three small boxes of bullets, a dusty ashtray filled with cigarette butts, and an array of surveillance equipment clutter a desk in the living room at Larry Hanks' Washington Avenue home.

A Mexican national shot by police under an Expressway 77 overpass Jan. 5 was killed by two shotgun blasts to the back, an attorney representing his family claims.

Funeral arrangements for Jose Salas, 47, who passed away Saturday, are under the direction of Rudy Garza Funeral Home of Harlingen.