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Pedro Damien Rivera MCALLEN a ' A judge arraigned two men in connection with the murder of a 47-year-old man.

July 7, 2009 Comment on this article Matty and Narciso Salinas Jr. of La Vernia, Texas, will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary on Tuesday, July 14, 2009.

What actor wouldn't want to star in a movie? Brendan Wayne. He was content to take a supporting role in "Angel and the Badman," a remake of the 1947 western scheduled to run on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday night.

Local gardeners took a break from the sweltering summer heat Saturday and instead took a seat in the cool comfort of the Northside Church of Christ Activity Center to learn the dos and don'ts of composting from Collin County Master Gardener Dr.

Adult church attendance is dwindling, but you'll find more than 200 children at First United Methodist Church , Nacogdoches Vacation Bible School.

Local U.S. Border Patrol agents are on pace to smash their record for marijuana seizures across the Rio Grande Valley - a consequence of more agents on the ground and greater drug supplies pushing across the region, agents say.

Clerks at a Rio Grande City convenience store helped nab a suspected human trafficker.

RIO GRANDE CITY / ROMA - U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than a ton of marijuana here over a two-day period.

This is how it happens: A little furry winged marauder of an insect goes buzzing from her home, rapes a flower, sucks out the nectar, gets pollen all up in her leg hairs, flies back to the communal hive, and commences throwing up into her mouth.

Three women are now behind bars, after they were found with a 2-year-old boy in Rio Grande City.

Rio Grande City officials say a former employee stole more than $13,000 from the city's code enforcement department.

The Valley from time immemorial has been a flood plain of the Rio Grande, so it's a no- brainer that the Valley has been, and despite considerable water control infrastructure having been put into place over the decades, subject to periodic flooding.

La Joya police say a suspected drug smuggler left his son behind for officers to catch.

Bill Meadows has something of a dual personality. He is outgoing, disarmingly easygoing and always quick with a zinger, often self-deprecating, delivered with an enthusiastic laugh.

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The monthlong celebration of the nine decades of ministry of First Lutheran Church begins Sunday with guest speaker the Rev.

Anna Whitworth turned 7 in early March. She got to invite friends from Tanglewood Elementary School to her Hawaiian-themed party, but only the birthday girl got to wear a grass skirt.

Fiesta. Festival. Get-together. Call it what you will, it's May and it is time to get down and boogie.

In a case of terrible timing, two clinics that cater to Starr County's large indigent community shut their doors Thursday, turning away patients concerned about emerging cases of swine flu.

Zinnia Garcia Elizondo grew up with her cousin Jose Maria Ibaez until a terrible accident ripped them apart.