Port Isabel News

Brownsville police are looking into an overnight single-car accident that killed one man and sent one woman to the hospital The accident took place at the 2000 block of Coffeeport Road approximately a quarter of a mile from Old Port Isabel Road just after two o'clock this morning, said police spokesman Sgt.

A federal judge in Brownsville has agreed to lift a temporary order that allowed the federal government to force feed an immigrant detainee who ended his hunger strike, according to court documents.

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.

One of the nation's largest bail bonding companies routinely overcharged immigrants seeking release from federal detention centers, according to a lawsuit filed in Houston last month.

A body has been found between the pilot channel and the Bahia Grande off the coast between Port Isabel and Brownsville.

He was born on December 09, 1933 in Donna, Texas to William Maurice Burch and Rosa Lee Hooks-Burch of Donna, Texas.

After Katrina stranded hundreds of animals in New Orleans - many of them pets left behind by people fleeing the storm - the leaders of Muttshack vowed, "Never again." Kaye Harris of MuttShack, an organization that helped rescue more than 3,000 animals in the aftermath of Katrina, promised to never leave animals behind again.

Cameron County Parks Director Javier Mendez had good news and bad news late Friday afternoon.

Offensive line coaches rarely get much attention or accolades. Without question, the Eagles' Juan Castillo is among the best in the NFL.

Threatening storm clouds finally opened up Tuesday afternoon dumping much needed rain in some parts of the Rio Grande Valley.

A three- or four-day cruise down the Gulf Coast could become another amenity in the Lower Rio Grande Valley's arsenal of tourist attractions.

A man from Veracruz was arrested for storing over 330 pounds of marijuana in his Brownsville apartment, police said.

Several detainees at the Port Isabel Detention Center have been seperated from the general population after one of them appeared to have flu-like symptoms.

A number of weeks back I made mention of the fact that I would be out and about on May 14th involved in a Birdathon for Frontera Audubon in Weslaco.

A Port Isabel man says Hurricane Dolly may keep him from visiting his family in Mexico again.

Golden flags, flowers and a mariachi performing traditional Mexican songs set the stage for the 150th anniversary celebration of Brownsville's Immaculate Conception Cathedral.

A U.S. prisoner was transferred from a Texas facility to one in Louisiana in retaliation for being outspoken about alleged abuses of immigrants, advocates say.

The Board of Aldermen last week agreed to pursue establishing an enforceable "no-wake" zone in response to residents' complaints about the wake left by boats traveling the Tompkins Channel on the Island's bay side.

Nearly a week after a human rights organization toured a federal immigrant detention center in South Texas and reported that some detainees were intermittently participating in a hunger strike, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has confirmed one person was refusing food.

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