Hidalgo County News

Luna, 61, went door to door in colonias surrounding her Mercedes home to encourage residents to vote for issues such as immigration, drainage and education that matter to them.

Former Mayor John David Franz's allies filed a lawsuit Friday, arguing improper voter assistance tainted the Hidalgo City Council election and asking a judge to order a runoff.

A campaign volunteer was hospitalized this Primary Election Day in Texas, after a person in a vehicle opened fire on a man who was standing near a polling place in the town of San Juan, in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas.

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.

Hidalgo County Democrats will have to reconsider who they want for their party chair after a four-way race left no candidate with enough votes to avoid a runoff election in July.

A man campaigning near a polling place in Texas on the state's primary election day on Tuesday was shot and wounded by gunfire from a passing vehicle, officials said.

A man campaigning outside a South Texas police and fire station serving as a polling place was shot in the leg Tuesday in an apparent drive-by shooting, but authorities hadn't identified any suspects or determined whether the motive was political.

EARLY TURNOUT In the two-week early-voting period, about 44,000 Hidalgo County voters cast ballots in the Republican and Democratic primaries.

A Harlingen-based company that two years ago had lofty plans for a veterans hospital in La Feria is back, considering a general-use medical facility possibly to be located in Donna or Harlingen.

Veterans and members of the Vermund G. Hansen American Legion Post 101 stand at ease during a memorial procession Monday, May 28, 2012, at Valley Memorial Gardens in McAllen.

Election Day for this city's runoff will be June 16, city leaders decided after weighing options this past week.

"Specially holidays like this, it will be from like the potato salad, the chicken salad the things that should be refrigerated, and they're not and get too hot.

For more information about the Hidalgo County drainage advisory committee and its recommended projects, visit https://sites.google.com/site/hcdrainage/ . A proposed $168 million bond referendum for drainage improvements would offer taxpayers the best bang for their buck by greatly improving the county's existing network of canals, the Hidalgo ... (more)

While some Hidalgo County high schools performed worse on Newsweek and The Washington Post 's annual ranking of the best high schools in the nation, South Texas ISD increased its prominence on both lists.

Hidalgo and Cameron counties led the state's 15 largest counties in early voting through Wednesday.

Hidalgo County sheriff's crime scene tape secures the area where an apparent domestic dispute ended fatally Wednesday, May 23, 2012, near Highway 107 and Leal Street north of Alton.

Miguel Angel Garcia, 37, attempted to cross into the United States at the Progreso point of entry about 8 a.m. Thursday, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevio said.

MAY 23, 2012- Jorge Sanchez,22 months old Pharr, is checked by Christopher Schofield/ PA-C at the newly opened Nuestra Clinica del Valle in San JUan Wednesday May 23,2012.Photo by Delcia Lopez/dlopez@themonitor.com SAN JUAN - As they recognized the opening of the Rio Grande Valley's newest healthcare center for the low income and uninsured, several ... (more)

Two Roma men face 11 years each in prison after they admitted to a large-scale drug trafficking operation that spread across the Rio Grande Valley.

A McAllen, TX, witness reports a hovering object whose edges would blur and sharpened as it was observed about 6:30 p.m. on May 22, 2012, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network witness reporting database.