Weslaco News

Though she was born in Weslaco in 1982, Brenda Vazquez swore to a Customs and Border Protection officer that she was born in Mexico and is not a U.S. citizen.

Not a big deal, but Alemany does it on a bicycle. And he takes the long way home, pedaling some 60 miles per day, four days a week.

McALLEN - After Friday, teens eager to obtain or renew a driver's license won't be able to do so at the Department of Public Safety office in McAllen - not until next year.

Supporters wearing " Ando con Mando " T-shirts burst into cheers Tuesday night at Weslaco's Villa Cortez hotel as state Rep.

After a promising start that led the state in early voting turnout, voters were sparse on an Election Day that fell after a holiday weekend.

Precinct 1 - with miles of pothole-ridden roads, a drainage situation in dire need of attention and an aura of corruption left behind by Sylvia Handy - was broken.

Alamo resident Victor Gamez, 33, and Mexican national Gustavo Sanchez Herrera, 24, were sentenced Friday for their roles in the violent crimes.

An error may have caused unhealthy levels of a water treatment chemical to enter city drinking water one day last month, leaders confirmed in a news release Tuesday.

IRVINE, CA, May 18, 2012 Freedom Communications announced today that it has reached agreement to sell its Texas print and online newspaper publishing assets, The Brownsville Herald, El Nuevo Heraldo, The Harlingen Valley Morning Star, The Monitor in McAllen, The Odessa American and The Mid Valley Town Crier in Weslaco, to AIM Media Texas, LLC.

If the numbers don't add up, the world is back to square one: fossil fuels, according to Dr.

The two candidates running for Hidalgo County sheriff offer sharply different views on the threat to the Rio Grande Valley from Mexican drug cartels.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers are investigating the collision that killed Crystal Dee Cavazos, 23, of Weslaco, Trooper Johnny Hernandez said.

The family of two sisters killed this weekend asked for privacy as they mourned their loved ones' deaths Tuesday morning.

Raul Garza, 24, fed his three little girls and kept them in a room for more than a day after allegedly killing their mother and their 12-year-old aunt Friday evening.

Onlookers check out the military vehicles at State Farm Arena during the Welcome Back Troops Festival on Sunday, May 6, 2012, in Hidalgo.

Two young children, one of whom told a passer-by "My mother is dead," have led South Texas deputies to a house where the bodies of two women were found, including the mother.

Two young children wandered the streets trying to find their grandmother's house after discovering their mom and one other woman dead Sunday morning, said Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino.

A convicted Weslaco medical supplier faces foreclosure on a life insurance policy that the FBI said he paid for with ill-gotten proceeds from a federal health care scam, court papers state.