Lyford News

While some teens are staying at home this summer, others are enhancing their college careers early by attending the Summer Bridge program at the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.

The City of Lyford will conduct a project, assisted by the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission, North American Development Bank, Texas water Development Board, and other funding agencies for water and wastewater system improvements in the City service area.

Starting August first the Texas Department of State Health Services is changing school immunization requirements for five vaccines.

A Rosary will be recited Sunday, 7:00 PM, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. Funeral services will be held Monday, 10:00 AM, June 22, 2009 at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church.

Funeral arrangements for Thomas Pace, 77, who passed away Saturday, at Valley Baptist Medical Center, are under the direction of Trinity at Harrison Funeral Home.

Willacy County voters went to the polls Saturday to elect several new city officials.

Ada Loucile Clarida was born May 7, 1910 at Dennis, Texas, the youngest of ten children born to James Henry Dennis and Ida Maryline Howell Dennis.

Born September 28, 1947, in Marietta, Georgia, passed away peacefully April 11, 2009, at his home in Lyford, Texas, after a brief illness.

LYFORD/CORPUS CHRISTI - Graveside services will be held for Betty Lou Wolf, 10am, Raymondville Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Duddlesten Funeral Home.

Skeletal remains found in Willacy County this month have been matched to a woman missing from Mission since August, prosecutors said Friday.

Skeletal remains found in Willacy County earlier this month are those of a Mission woman missing since last year, prosecutors said Friday.

A man has driven his truck into a drainage ditch along Expressway 77 just south of FM 498, Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence said.

A rancher found the remains east of Lyford over the weekend. NEWSCHANNEL 5 learned the area is often under water, so the bones have been there for some time.

LYFORD, Texas-South Texas authorities have sent human remains to be tested to determine whether they could be those of a 68-year-old Mission woman whose husband and stepson have been charged in her death, ...

A Sheriff's investigator say a hurricane is just one of the possibilities in regards to the bones found in a ditch.

Human skeletal remains were discovered by a landowner on the southeast edge of Lyford between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence said.

As Jalissa Trevio prepared for her final appearance at the Willacy County Fair & Auction this past week, the emotional toll of her senior year in high school had finally set.

Friday at the 2009 Willacy County Fair & Auction was the end of a family tradition for Becky Torres.

Willacy County commissioners have decided to keep with tradition and voted to make Commissioner Aurelio Guerra the county judge.

Firefighting units from Raymondville, San Perlita, Lyford, Lasara, Edinburg, McAllen and Pharr were summoned Sunday afternoon to help put out what was called a large grass fire in ranch country north of ...