McAllen News

If the federal government can't fund critical improvements at the Rio Grande Valley's border crossings, local cities should have the ability to pay for the improvements themselves, U.S. Sen.

When you walk into All or Nothing, there's a barbershop feel to it. At first glance, the feint of heart might be intimidated.

At 9 p.m. Thursday, June 14, DJ Tonic will bring his funky house music to the Old Ice House in McAllen.

Luna, 61, went door to door in colonias surrounding her Mercedes home to encourage residents to vote for issues such as immigration, drainage and education that matter to them.

McALLEN - After Friday, teens eager to obtain or renew a driver's license won't be able to do so at the Department of Public Safety office in McAllen - not until next year.

The MOST History is featuring a new exhibit, La Epoca de Oro: The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema in the Rio Grande Valley.

McAllen plans to install wireless security cameras at the Anzalduas International Bridge after rodents and vandals damaged the bridge's fiber-optic cables.

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Trustees in the Southside Independent School District, where cow pastures outnumber strip malls and where the term "hot spot" might more commonly refer to a popular restaurant, are backing a plan to put an iPad in every student's hands by 2016.

TigerText, the #1 leader in secure, real-time messaging, announced several new Rehabilitation Center customers in a sign of the growing importance for HIPAA compliant secure messaging across healthcare.

Authorities say a drive-by shooting outside a polling place in South Texas sent a campaign worker to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

A drive-by shooting outside a polling place Tuesday in San Juan sent a campaign worker to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

Almost two months ago, three armed gunmen broke into a McAllen, Texas, home and kidnapped an American citizen in broad daylight.

EARLY TURNOUT In the two-week early-voting period, about 44,000 Hidalgo County voters cast ballots in the Republican and Democratic primaries.

The McAllen school board may approve pay raises for the district's more than 3,000 employees when it finalizes the 2012-13 budget next month.

Veterans and members of the Vermund G. Hansen American Legion Post 101 stand at ease during a memorial procession Monday, May 28, 2012, at Valley Memorial Gardens in McAllen.

A South Texas woman is appealing for mercy from Mexico's brutal Zetas drug cartel, which she believes is behind the March 30 abduction of her husband by three gunmen who stormed into their home.

Melissa Rodriguez is spending her first Memorial Day without her husband, Sgt. Rodolfo "Rudy" Rodriguez , the Weslaco native who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in September.

After 30-year State Board of Education incumbent Mary Helen Berlanga announced she would not seek re-election to her District 2 post, five contenders stepped up to vie for a party nomination, hoping to succeed the Corpus Christi attorney.

"Specially holidays like this, it will be from like the potato salad, the chicken salad the things that should be refrigerated, and they're not and get too hot.