Hidalgo County News

Authorities raided eight-liner operations Friday in eight separate bars, restaurants and American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars halls throughout Hidalgo County.

Hidalgo County dispatchers are telling CHANNEL 5 that a man was shot during a drive-by. Witnesses saw four people speed off in a black Jetta.

Sheriff's deputies made two arrests after receiving a tip about marijuana at a house between Weslaco and Mercedes on Wednesday.

Jurors failed to reach a verdict Wednesday afternoon in the theft trial of a former Hidalgo County employee.

Cameron County voter turnout was light in Tuesday's Constitutional Amendment Election, but registered voters who cast ballots appeared to support the idea of bringing a veterans hospital to the Rio Grande Valley.

Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies are searching for two armed robbers who threatened a convenience store owner and her teenage daughter Thursday evening.

Hidalgo County-based South Texas Health System agreed to pay $27.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations that the hospital system paid doctors illegal kickbacks to refer patients to its facilities, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.

The fate of a man who confessed to murder is in the hands of an Hidalgo County jury.

Two home invasions Monday afternoon appear to have been committed by the same group of men, sheriff's deputies said.

Rene Ramirez, state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa's chief of staff, has been appointed to fill J.D. Salinas' position in a 3-2 vote.

Hidalgo County commissioners have appointed an interim county judge. In a 3-2 vote, Rene Ramirez was selected for the post.

Two employees of the Hidalgo County sheriff's office face criminal charges in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain $82,000 in loans using false information.

Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas accepted an appointment to a federal post Friday, ending weeks of speculation about his future in the position he was elected to three years ago.

A man could spend life in prison after a cocaine binge fueled a violent crime spree, authorities said.

A 30-year-old man on trial for the murder of a Korean War veteran felt pressured by teenage gang members to participate in the slaying, defense attorneys said Monday.

Beyond the statewide constitutional amendments, voters in seven Hidalgo County cities will also consider issues.

Deputies arrested two inmates after a gang-sanctioned fight last week at the Hidalgo County jail.

For more than a decade, public school districts throughout the Rio Grande Valley and the state have taught students to wait until marriage to have sex to avoid getting pregnant and contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

Preliminary autopsy information in the case of a woman found buried in the back yard of her home suggests she was struck with a brick and strangled, corroborating part of her husband's murder confession.

The basic bills are harder to balance since Maria Dominguez lost a job as a school crossing guard.