Rio Grande City News

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.

He was kicked out of the academy just weeks shy of graduation. Police officials tell CHANNEL 5 NEWS 24-year-old Manuel Rodriguez beat up his girlfriend so badly the school she attends had no other choice but to call police.

Five teens were arrested Wednesday night, after police found them in a hotel room with two guns reported stolen from a former county deputy.

The company that owns a pipeline that exploded this weekend is making sure there aren't any more leaks or problems.

The company that owns the gas line that ruptured near Rio Grande City is investigating what caused the break, said Starr County Sheriff Rene Fuentes.