Hidalgo County News

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According to the arrest report, Bryan PD stopped 29-year-old Robert Ruiz after he allegedly drove through a red light.

A House panel on Friday scuttled a controversial plan being pushed by Sen. Juan Hinojosa , D-McAllen, to locate the first two years of medical education in Hidalgo County as part of a proposal to create a new mega university in the Rio Grande Valley.

A South Texas U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested on a sexual assault charge after an incident with a woman he was guarding at a Corpus Christi hospital .

Under public forum during Tuesday's Hidalgo County Commissioners Court meeting, OWLS representative Frank Travers asked the county to withdraw its support from the proposed Hidalgo County Commuter Rail District.

The Texas Senate Higher Education committee Wednesday tinkered with the bill that would create a new University of Texas institution in the Rio Grande Valley, despite some members expressing hesitancy over changes in how the location of the university's future medical school would be determined.

In spite of significant but short-lived rain in late April, an escalating water shortage in Deep South Texas has most farmers comparing this early crop year to 2006 crop when the Lower Rio Grande Valley region suffered an estimated $50 million dollars in crop losses.

A new policy to allow Hidalgo County employees who received overpayments as part of a longevity plan instituted by the county five years ago was approved Tuesday.

Gerardo Luis Cantu, 29, of Beeville, by deputies Friday on a warrant charging him with violation of probation in an assault causing bodily injury to a family member case.

A recent poll found more South Texas College students are against concealed handguns on campus than support the idea, but it remains to be seen whether packing heat on campus will become a reality.

The death of a South Texas singer well known for his ballads, including some about the exploits of Mexican drug cartels, was being treated as a murder investigation after authorities found his body Thursday on a rural road.

The limited tax bonds and COs are secured by a continuing direct annual property tax levy, limited to $0.80 per $100 taxable assessed valuation .

Authorities say a South Texas singer well known for his ballads, including some about the exploits of Mexican drug cartels, has been found dead.

Allen, the general manager of the Delta Lake Irrigation District in Edcouch, says that if current drought conditions persist, he will have bad news for farmers in the area come June 2. "I am just going to have to cut all my farmers off," said Allen, who overseas delivery of irrigation water to 70,000 acres of land in Willacy and Hidalgo counties.

Anthony Gonzalez Harris had spent a decade in state foster care following the death of his mother, and as his 18th birthday drew near, he lost hope he'd ever be adopted.