Rio Grande City News

The Mexican army seized a weapons cache hidden in a brushy area of this city Sunday morning.

Rio Grande City-based Border Patrol agents tracking on an all-terrain vehicle seen moving without headlights found it loaded front and back with 577 pounds of marijuana, Customs and Border Protection said Friday.

A cow bites into a prickly pear pad after the stickers have been burned off on a ranch north of Rio Grande City.

Mr. Federico A. Cadena and Mrs. Leticia De La Garza Cadena of Roma, Texas have the pleasure of announcing the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Anna Mariela Cadena, to Emmanuel Silva, also of Roma, son of Mr.

A federal magistrate judge ordered a Santeria fortune teller held without bond Monday on charges he illegally kept firearms in his home.

Rio Grande City-based Border Patrol agents found more than $3 million worth of marijuana in a shed just north of the Rio Grande, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday.

An anonymous tip led Starr County sheriff's deputies to a decomposed body Thursday morning, officials said.

The murder confession is laced with biblical references, penned by a prison inmate who says he just wants to make things right.

Police say human bones discovered at a San Juan house Wednesday were legally purchased from a Web site.

The woman stood proudly at the podium and never shed a tear. Some among the audience were not so strong.

Luci Nell Simpson is going back to school to be a better teacher to her students.

McALLEN Attorneys for a Starr County gun shop owner acquitted of illegal weapons sales charges questioned Monday why federal authorities targeted their client for prosecution at all.

Christopher R. Kuechmann has been named the new county librarian. Kuechmann, who currently lives in Ponchatoula, La., and who most recently served as the library director for the Tangipahoa Parish Library System in Amite, La., was voted into the position during the October regular term meeting of Val Verde County Commissioners Court Monday.

They were called "remittance men." They were second or third sons from good English families who would not inherit the estate and were advised to seek their fame and fortune somewhere else.

U.S. Border Patrol agents said they encountered two pickup trucks Tuesday night traveling north together from the Rio Grande near Escobares.

Customs officers seized 133 pounds of marijuana during two separate incidents since Sunday.

The University of Texas-Pan American is getting bigger. The university plans to break ground at 10 a.m. Thursday for its Starr County Upper Level Center in Rio Grande City.

The lead investigator into the Abu Ghraib detainee abuse case will speak at the University of Texas-Pan American on Monday for the first Global Security Leadership Speaker series event for the fall semester.

Mary Anastasia Rodriguez and Orlando Joel Perez were united in holy matrimony on Saturday, September 26, 2009, on the lawn of the 4E Ranch Estate in Edinburg, Texas, with Reverend Maximino Perez, an uncle of the groom, officiating.

Someday, if Armando Pea Jr. fulfills his dream of passing on the family grocery store, the legend might go something like this: One day Pea Jr.