Norie Gonzalez Garza M ission Mayor Norie Gonzalez Garza announced this week that she will be seeking reelection. Garza first took office in 2022, becoming the first female mayor in the city’s history. She was elected to the Mission City Council in 2007, and she served as mayor p...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate negotiators worked Wednesday to resolve thorny differences with leaders of the Southeastern and Big Ten Conferences over revisions to a bill designed to regulate college sports that sponsors want a vote on before the chamber goes on summer break next week...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Cameron County Precinct 4 Commissioner Gus Ruiz is hosting a backpack giveaway for members of the community. The Annual Back-to-School Backpack Drive will take place on Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., or until supplies last. The event will t...
By JOHN HANNA | Associated Press R oughly six weeks before the first midterm ballots are mailed out , the U.S. Postal Service is emerging as a pivotal player in an election season that will determine control of Congress. President Donald Trump is seeking greater control over mail...
I t’s hard out here for a pimp in the Rio Grande Valley. Monday, July 27, 2026, will forever be known as “Terrence Howard Day” in Edinburg. Mayor Omar Ochoa made the proclamation from city hall, as the Oscar-nominated actor was in town for an unknown business venture, according t...
H ARLINGEN — After a grueling 10-month search, Valley International Airport’s board of directors is recommending city commissioners approve a candidate to fill the airport director’s job. Now, officials are negotiating a salary with Juan Antonio “Tony” Nevarez, who was serving as...
T he United States House of Representatives passed the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week in a vote that divided Congress despite garnering bipartisan support in previous years. The NDAA was passed with a tally of 216 for and 212 against. This year’s vote sa...
A reworked Senate bill designed to regulate college sports proposes to more than double the amount of money schools could share with players as part of a flurry of revisions designed to win the support of the Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti...
CHICAGO (AP) — The Big Ten Conference would do away with its championship game if college football adopts a 24-team playoff. Commissioner Tony Petitti says that’s a worthwhile sacrifice to get his preferred postseason format. “When we make this decision as a league – are we going...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Eagles are set to make two-time Pro Bowl selection Jalen Carter the highest-paid defensive tackle in NFL history, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. The Eagles and Carter announced that they agreed to ter...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The city of Edinburg welcomed Academy Award-nominated actor Terrence Howard to City Hall on Monday, honoring the Hollywood actor with a special city proclamation. Edinburg Mayor Omar Ochoa officially declared July 27 as Terrence Howard Day. "The...
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Cape Verde made more World Cup history on Monday when Sidny Lopes Cabral won the public vote for goal of the tournament. Lopes Cabral’s curling shot into the far top corner of the Argentina net was a standout moment at the World Cup where the unheralded ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Lyford Mayor Pablo Morales on Monday announced the passing of Commissioner Albert Cavazos. Morales said Cavazos was a tireless advocate for the community and cared deeply about everyone he served. "Albert loved life and gave everything he had to...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District superintendent position continues to remain open following Saturday's scheduled special-called board meeting. The Board of Trustees met for approximately six hours to discuss superintendent c...
LeBron James wound up picking Philadelphia, and no billboards were required. Back in February 2018, a businessman named Asher Raphael arranged for three billboards to be placed a few miles outside of Cleveland in a lighthearted effort to woo James to the Philadelphia 76ers. James...
CHICAGO (AP) — The WNBA will have a replay center similar to the NBA next season as the league continues to invest in officiating, Commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced at her state of the league press conference Saturday before the All-Star Game. Officiating has been a hot topi...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The City of South Padre Island announced that a Special Election has been scheduled to fill the seat for Council Member Place 1. The seat opened up following the death of City Council Member Ken Medders, Jr. As previously reported on ValleyCentr...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Georgia was the preseason pick to win the Southeastern Conference championship, according to voters attending the league’s annual media days event in Tampa. The Bulldogs received 88 of 164 votes to reach the title game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta in ear...
Federal prosecutors have charged 11 people in connection with a human smuggling operation that left seven migrants, including a minor, dead inside a sealed shipping container aboard a freight train in Laredo, Texas....
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Los Fresnos Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees named a lone finalist for superintendent during a board meeting on Thursday. According to a news release, Joseph Villarreal was selected after a nationwide search and ext...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — If you have any outstanding fines in the city of San Juan, now's your chance to resolve issues with the court without any additional penalties. The San Juan Municipal Court has extended its amnesty program through Aug. 31. During this time, resi...
The NCAA Division I Board of Directors doubled down Thursday on the new age-based eligibility rule that has prompted some athletes to go to court in hopes of extending their college careers. The Division I Cabinet, which approved the new rule last month, issued a similar statemen...
GENEVA (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s role in clearing Folarin Balogun from a mandatory one-game ban at the World Cup is set to provoke a formal complaint to FIFA ethics investigators. The Norway soccer federation said Thursday its board of directors will consider filing th...
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — A pesky native bird appeared on the podium almost on cue as organizers prepared to unveil a countdown clock marking six years to go until the 2032 Olympics. Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner noted the timely white ibis in his welcoming remarks, joking with th...
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert discussed what more can be done to protect players from online harassment during a virtual meeting with the players' union executive committee and the union's Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. The call Tuesday night came at the ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A multimillion-dollar grant will fund street improvements in the city of Mission, Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham announced Tuesday. The Texas General Land Office approved $2 million in funds from the Disaster Recovery Reallocation Progr...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Brownsville City Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to modify a proposition that would potentially increase pay for city elected officials. Proposition A is one of several proposed amendments that will be on the ballot of the special e...
NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball players proposed expanding eligibility for the amateur draft rather than decreasing it, maintaining 20 rounds of selections and moving it back to June in a signal the sport is heading to a labor confrontation this offseason. During a two-hour bargaining s...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The city of Pharr and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) partnered up to host the Texas Drought and Hurricane Preparedness Workshop on Tuesday. The workshop took place at the Jose "Pepe" Salinas Recreational Center located at 1...
NEW YORK (AP) — The WNBA has grown at an exponential rate during Cathy Engelbert's tenure as commissioner, a stewardship that at times has been tumultuous during her nearly seven years at the helm. Engelbert, the second-longest tenured WNBA president or commissioner, helped negot...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Local attorney Ricardo "Rick" Salinas announced he is running for Mayor of Mission. According to a news release from Salinas, he filed his paperwork on Monday to run for Mayor of Mission at Mission City Hall. Salinas has over 30 years of legal e...
Timothy E. Cuff T he Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees made it official on Friday, signing an employment contract with Timothy E. Cuff as the district’s new superintendent of schools. Cuff, who began his career in public education at Brownsville’s Garza El...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees officially named its new superintendent during a meeting on Friday. The school district approved an employment contract for Timothy E. Cuff following a state-mandated 21-day waiting p...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday that leaders of the powerhouse league are having “real” conversations about breaking away from the rest of college sports, though that's not the preferred solution. “They’re real,” Greg Sankey said Mo...
Democracy threatened Following up on Mr. Italo Zarate and many others who constantly use the talking points of the Democrat Party, democracy in a nutshell is the selection of leaders, policies, laws, etc., through a voting process by the people! Can someone tell me, using verifia...
MADRID (AP) — Spain's World Cupwinning team is set to return to Spain on Monday afternoon, where the 11-man squad will be greeted by the Spanish royal palace and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez before boarding an open-top bus for a parade through central Madrid in the evening. Thron...
Juan Samuel Olguin makes a first appearance in San Juan Municipal Court on a murder charge on Friday, July 17, 2026. (Xavier Alvarez | The Monitor) The two suspects involved in the fatal San Juan H-E-B parking lot shooting were arraigned Friday morning. Juan Samuel Olguin, 19, an...
The NFL has suspended Arizona Cardinals personnel executive Ryan Gold indefinitely for violating the league’s gambling policy. The league said Friday that its investigation determined that Gold provided confidential, non-public inside information regarding 2026 draft selections b...
McALLEN — U.S. Senate candidates Ken Paxton and James Talarico took their shows on the road in the Rio Grande Valley, vying for votes during their McAllen campaign stops this week. One candidate delivered a speech at his rally, standing in front of a lineup of National Border Pat...
Trey McBride was the bright spot last season for a dismal team in Arizona. He was the most productive tight end in the NFL, a near-unanimous All-Pro selection and made his second straight Pro Bowl. McBride’s success has also landed him the top spot at tight end in a preseason sur...
SOUTHPORT, England (AP) — Jackson Suber was one of three dozen players under par at the British Open when he made birdie and eagle in the blink of an eye and suddenly found himself atop the leaderboard at Royal Birkdale. He had never played links golf until three days earlier. No...
NEW YORK (AP) — Conversations about WNBA officiating and Caitlin Clark have now expanded to include NBA commissioner Adam Silver. Silver said Thursday that Clark has become a “political football” amid debates about officiating and physical play in the WNBA, spurred by a recent pl...
Norma Sepulveda HARLINGEN — Documents show Mayor Norma Sepulveda and WaterWorks interim General Manager Roy Rodriguez signed letters supporting a company proposing a multi-billion dollar 1,800-acre data center project, urging AEP-Texas to run an extra-high-voltage transmission li...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Months after the Texas Commission on Jail Standards found that the Cameron County jail was out of compliance due to overcrowding, the Cameron County Sheriff's Office announced Thursday that it's back in compliance. The sheriff's office said its ...
President Donald Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday night on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he is likely to revisit some of the unproven claims he has previously made about Republican losses, particularly his own in 2020....
Will Wynn The Texas A&M University Higher Education Center at McAllen (HECM) named Will Wynn, former Austin mayor and Texas A&M graduate, as its new executive director. Wynn, a current McAllen resident, brings decades of experience in public service, asset management, civic engag...
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Antonio Caldwell, former deputy director of the Brownsville Animal Regulation and Care Center (BARCC), has a new gig, though his focus is still on addressing the Rio Grande Valley’s big stray-animal problem. He recently launched his own consulting firm and has been contacting mun...
Myles Garrett has been the NFL's dominant defensive player for years, leading to his record-setting campaign with 23 sacks last season before being traded in June from Cleveland to the Los Angeles Rams. Garrett's performance helped him earn the honor of being named the top off-ba...
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico challenged Republican nominee Ken Paxton to participate in three televised debates, saying voters deserve to hear the candidates answer questions directly ahead of November's election....
Fred Sandoval SAN BENITO — City commissioners are considering former City Manager Fred Sandoval’s separation agreement, reviewing his contract limiting payments to three months of severance based on his $150,000 salary. Meanwhile, commissioners narrowed a list of 20 applicants fo...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- A meeting will be held at Harlingen City Hall on Wednesday to further discuss an ordinance aimed at adopting a new policy for the public comment period at city meetings. A draft of the proposed rules was presented at the previous city meeting h...
The city of Primera plans to develop its own water treatment plant and new municipal water well for its more than 5,000 residents, according to city officials. The plan comes after the city and its sole water supplier, the Harlingen WaterWorks system, worked to resolve months of ...
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Jaxon Smith-Njigba won the AP Offensive Player of the Year award and the Super Bowl last season before the Seattle Seahawks gave him the biggest contract for a wide receiver in NFL history. No surprise he was voted the NFL’s top wideout by The Associated Press in a preseason surv...
MCALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — After a three-day trial, a jury deliberated for less than 3 hours Wednesday before finding Veronica O’Cana guilty on bribery, money laundering and witness tampering charges. Veronica O’Cana, 50, of Mission accepted bribes on behalf of her sister f...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has officially referred allegations against two Rio Grande Valley healthcare providers to Attorney General Ken Paxton for allegedly promoting birth tourism in the state. The allegations against Mission Regional Medical Center ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NBA will be doing some international business alongside the FIFA World Cup final in the coming days, as it moves closer to the planned launch of a new league in Europe sometime in the fall of 2027. Commissioner Adam Silver, speaking after the league's Board o...
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Brownsville City Commissioner Gustavo De Leon is accusing the city of Brownsville of building a road across his family's private property without permission and using the land as a dumping site for asphalt millings. Although De Leon serves as ...
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