Brownsville, Mexico News

The midwife home in Brownsville where Trinidad Muraira de Castro says she gave birth to her second daughter more than 25 years ago still stands on East Jackson Street.

It was chilly and damp at the foot of the Gateway International Bridge Wednesday morning, and Brownsville Chamber of Commerce chief Angela Burton was fighting a cold.

Cameron County has reached two key agreements with Union Pacific Railroad that will pave the way for moving more tracks out of downtown Brownsville and relocating switching operations in Harlingen to Olmito.

Dormant for three decades, the Roma-San Pedro International Bridge stands alongside its modern concrete counterpart like a stubborn juxtaposition of the old border and new, a link that brought "Viva Zapata!" star Marlon Brando to lunch stands in old Mexico.

Othal Brand, a Georgia fruit peddler's son whose 20 years as mayor of McAllen was marked by his visionary push for commerce and expansion, died Saturday.

Bill Summers saw himself as "Plain Old Bill." But in the halls of power from Austin to Washington to Monterrey, Mexico, he was the Rio Grande Valley's ambassador, a visionary who saw the future for what was once a string of sleepy agricultural towns connected by a three-lane highway.

Los Caminos del Rio elected Mexican historian Carlos Rugerio Cazares as its new president to replace Eddie Trevio Jr.

A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.

The United States consulate in Mexico is reaching out to the family of a Brownsville woman killed in Matamoros.

An American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, a U.S. consular official said.

Mexican authorities continue to investigate the first shooting death in Matamoros of an American woman from an alleged misfire by Mexican army troops over the weekend.

The Mid-Valley Airport is going international. The general and private aviation facility in Weslaco began work on a customs facility that will allow international flights to land, airport director George Garrett said.

Swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April and killed nearly 4,000, including 540 children, according to startling federal estimates released Thursday.

The Brownsville Public Utilities Board is not ruling out involving outside organizations in the process of securing a permit from Mexico for the Brownsville-Matamoros dam project - commonly referred to as the weir - on the Rio Grande.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly $4.3 million in heroin, cocaine and marijuana and apprehended a wanted fugitive over the weekend at Brownsville's ports of entry.

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There appears to be little interest in Texas' Constitutional Amendment Election with only 371 of Cameron County's 168,970 registered voters casting ballots during early voting.

Authorities are investigating a shooting in which a U.S. Border Patrol agent fired his service weapon at an oncoming vehicle, officials said On Tuesday afternoon, a USBP agent fired approximately three gunshots at the driver of an older model red and gray Dodge Ram Charger who tried to run him over, said Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio.

Court filed documents provide grisly details into last week's murder of Barry T. Horn, the executive director of the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art.

The First National Bank of Edinburg is attempting to recover a nearly $2 million loan it made to a Mexican air taxi firm - a loan that is guaranteed by a developer of extensive tourist attractions in northern Mexico along the Gulf of Mexico.