San Benito News

Police said they arrested a San Benito woman after a records check showed she owed almost $5,000 in unpaid municipal court warrants, and later added drug possession charges when they found two crack pipes in her bra.

Ruben Cortez Jr. of Brownsville and Celeste Zepeda-Sanchez of San Benito face a July 31 runoff for the Democratic nomination for the District 2 seat on the State Board of Education.

A former investigator for the Cameron County district attorney's office was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in federal prison for his role in a justice-for-sale scheme involving convicted former District Judge Abel Corral Limas .

Under Valerie Ortiz Sanchez's latest payment plan to settle municipal court fines, it will take her about three years to pay them off, according to a court document.

When Alonso "Tiny" Barrientes started Brownsville's Silent March on Memorial Day in 1998, there were more law enforcement vehicles in the procession than people.

A Harlingen woman who gained notoriety for racking up about $15,000 in Harlingen Municipal Court fines on 76 warrants from 1998 to 2008 is in trouble again.

Police closed sections of three streets Tuesday afternoon after a propane tank exploded near the intersection of Williams Road and Business 77, an official said.

A man charged with throwing a fatal punch that killed a man in the parking lot of the I-69 Sports Bar this weekend is being held on a $200,000 bond on manslaughter and on two counts of aggravated assault from an August 2011 incident at the American Legion.

SAN BENITO Police said they are searching for Alberto Matamoros III on a warrant for aggravated sexual assault for inappropriately touching a three-year-old girl.

In Brownsville, gasolinen is selling for as low as $3.45 a gallon. In Harlingen and San Benito, the average price is $3.50 to $3.56 a gallon.

Fears a savage big cat could be roaming across a remote mountain range have been reignited after 20 sheep were found "massacred" in their fields.

A teacher at Veterans Memorial Academy in San Benito, Texas, is making headlines after unleashing a bizarre classroom rant.

Cyclists ride along a bicycle lane down East Harrison Avenue Saturday morning. The Harlingen-San Benito Metropolitan Planning Organization has a Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan that could potentially create an interconnected network for cyclist commuters to transit between various Rio Grande Valley cities.

BROWNSVILLE - The tornadoes twisted through Cameron County early Friday with touchdowns reported in Rio Hondo, Laureles and San Benito.The National Weather Service said there was a confirmed tornado touchdown in San Benito and confirmed touchdowns...

Support for Mayor Joe Hernandez and former Mayor Jack Garcia is expected to draw residents to the polls in today's election to vote on 17 proposed amendments to the City Charter, residents said Friday.

In San Benito, voters will decide 17 proposed amendments to the City Charter and will cast ballots in three school board races.

BROWNSVILLE - The trial of a lawsuit against Harlingen City Commissioner Jerry Prepejchal filed by a San Benito woman over a 2010 Brownsville car crash begins today in 107th state District Court.

Cameron County motorists will be able to spend less time in line to renew their auto registrations with the aid of a new generation of computers recently installed by Texas Department of Motor Vehicles technicians.