South Padre Island News

Shreveport police and fire crews are on the scene of a rollover wreck on Youree Drive near East Bert Kouns.

Police in southern Mexico say assailants have burned another delivery truck of a PepsiCo-owned Mexican snack company, hours after a drug cartel claimed responsibility for last week's arson attacks against the company.

For its fiscal year 2011 budget, the city of South Padre Island has received the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.

Here are some hurricanes that have struck South Texas since 1950: Category 1 Dolly July 23, 2008, South Padre Island, no deaths Bret Aug 23, 1999, Kenedy County, no deaths Claudette July 15, 2003, Port O'Connor, 2 dead Erika* Aug.

Several car crashes over the Memorial Day weekend left one Brownsville man dead and multiple people injured in different incidents on Highway 48 and South Padre Island.

Contributed photo Purple Heart award recipient Albert Perez honors his fellow soldiers Wednesday by installing Purple Heart Trail highway signs in Live Oak County.

Between stops in Miami and New York City, an event billed as "the world's biggest paint party" will visit Hidalgo's State Farm Arena on July 4. Called "Dayglow: L!FE IN COLOR," the dance party promises acrobats, lasers and fireworks for Independence Day revelers.

As everyone heads into Memorial Day weekend - the symbolic start of summer - the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is warning families about the dangers of water.

Mexico's former ruling party on Saturday suspended the membership of a former governor accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from a drug cartel.

Marley played a short set Wednesday evening at the Brownsville Sports Park, where he went to mingle with the children and skate with them during a special appearance.

When we were wee, our parents used to take the whole family and a picnic lunch to Schlitterbahn for $20 a day.

The former Mexican state governor whom U.S. prosecutors accuse of investing drug cartel bribes worth millions of dollars in Texas real estate does not own the properties in question and is innocent of the allegations, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Protesting Colombia's president A demonstrator shouts in front of a cardboard banner that reads in Spanish: 'Uribe inept government,' during a protest against Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Wednesday.

Welcome to the Food Handler Classes service for the city of South Padre Island, Texas.

State lawmakers gave the city a welcomed property-tax break for the garages at the new Marlins Park.

The 2010 Census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men, but was mostly accurate, the government said Tuesday.

The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real estate, federal prosecutors alleged in two forfeiture cases filed Tuesday.

As we told you Monday, the Corpus Christi Police Department's Click It or Ticket campaign has kicked off, but it seems one city worker missed that notice.

A Mexican businessman is the target of a federal probe alleging widespread money laundering that involves the Gulf Cartel and a former Tamaulipas governor who owns a condiminium on South Padre Island.

The Memorial Day Weekend Beach Bash will be a two-day event starting at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, May 26, at Clayton's Resort on South Padre Island.