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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Lamar Jackson used his big right arm and a little bit of quick thinking to lead the Baltimore Ravens to one of their shortest and most memorable drives in franchise history. Jackson completed a 27-yard pass to Zay Flowers and alertly called a timeout with 1 ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber belly-flopped more than he actually slid headfirst into second base and popped up with his uniform smudged in dirt. He punched his right fist in the air and shouted something in exhilaration toward a fired-up Phillies dugout. Schwarber delivered...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Santa Rosa Independent School District partnered with American Cross first responders and the district police department to host an emergency preparedness event, "Ready, Set, Respond," on Saturday to educate and provide resources to help stu...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A McAllen attorney is demanding the footage of a La Grulla crash involving U.S. Border Patrol that hospitalized a family of five be released to the public. The attorney said a young mother who was hospitalized with injuries to her abdomen and ut...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office added a new medical tool, automated external defibrillators (AEDs), to patrol vehicles that will help deputies provide immediate care to people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest. According to the department, ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Mercedes mobile home that caught fire early Friday morning was ruled accidental after a hair straightener was left next to a pile of paper products, Hidalgo County Fire Marshal Homero Garza said. At about 6:43 a.m, the Weslaco Fire Department ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Escobares Police Department is investigating a body found floating in the Rio Grande on Thursday. U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered the dead man floating in the river while conducting a boat patrol operation. Interim Police Chief Jesse Al...
A student was shot and killed near Westbury High School in southwest Houston on Friday, Houston police said.
A pregnant woman’s unborn child died following a crash in Starr County caused by a Border Patrol agent, according to a local attorney. Attorney J. Michael Moore delivered a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in McAllen on Thursday on behalf of the family involved in the crash, ...
M ISSION — Two weeks after deciding to continue negotiations, the council here on Tuesday unanimously adopted a meet-and-confer agreement with the Mission Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 3609. The agreement with the union, which continues to designate the Mission Fire Depart...
Vanessa Denise Rico A 48-year-old Edinburg woman was arrested Wednesday after an investigation conducted by McAllen police tied her to the overdose death of a 39-year-old McAllen man that happened in April. Vanessa Denise Rico is charged with manufacture or delivery of a controll...
Maria Guadalupe Nelson A Los Fresnos woman was arrested Wednesday after authorities discovered she was allegedly involved in delivering narcotics to an inmate at a Texas state jail. Maria Guadalupe Nelson, 68, was booked at the Cameron County Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center an...
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State's former director of sports medicine faces felony and misdemeanor criminal charges after being accused of sexually abusing former Wolfpack male athletes under the guise of treatment, which previously led to more than 30 athletes outlining allegatio...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Alton Police Department arrested a person of interest on Wednesday in connection with a graffiti incident at a public park. The graffiti was reported on Sept. 17 along the walking trails at Josefa Garcia Park. Alton PD posted photos of the g...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — McAllen police arrested an Edinburg woman accused of delivering drugs to a 39-year-old man who died of an overdose, the department announced Thursday. Vanessa Denise Rico, 48, with a last known address in Edinburg, was charged with manufacture o...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky State University women’s basketball player from Senegal was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month when she arrived at the airport in Louisville to fly to New York for a tournament. Aminata Seck, 26, is from Dakar, the capital...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A woman accused of coordinating the delivery of narcotics into a Texas jail was arrested on Wednesday in Los Fresnos. Maria Guadalupe Nelson, 68, was arrested in a joint investigation by the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office and the Texas Board of...
By SIBI ARASU | Associated Press B ENGALURU, India (AP) — This year’s powerful El Nino and the record global heat it’s driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, ac...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Crews are clearing the scene after a trailer hauling paint rolled over on southbound US 77 just north of the Sarita checkpoint. Workers with the Texas Department of Transportation and fire crews are clearing debris and water-based paint from the...
About four hours after Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was admitted to an Austin hospital with a gunshot wound, the Venezuelan man was discharged Sunday and taken 135 miles south to an immigration detention center where some detainees have complained about inadequate medical care. The...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Major League Soccer club Columbus Crew fired reserve-team coach Federico Higuaín late Tuesday, following allegations of physical abuse and sexist conduct toward a female match official. Higuaín, the brother of former Argentina and Real Madrid striker Gonzalo...
A jury has been selected in the death penalty trial of a 20-year-old Brownsville man accused of shooting and killing a San Benito police officer after an hourslong chase across Cameron County, District Attorney Luis V. Saenz confirmed. Rogeilo Martinez is accused of killing San B...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar visited the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday morning to address recent immigration operations and the development of data centers in Texas. Cuellar's visit to the region comes after an Edinburg mother and her teenage son were...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A jury has been selected for the capital murder trial of a man accused of fatally shooting a San Benito police lieutenant during a 2023 vehicle pursuit. Twelve jurors and three alternates have been selected for the capital murder trial for Rogel...
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson and Police Chief Lisa Davis will host a news conference about the investigation into the ICE shooting Sunday that left a man wounded....
A Mexican man believed to be a hitman for the Gulf Cartel pleaded not guilty to federal charges of providing material support for a foreign terrorist organization. Jose Flores-Flores, who was arrested by Border Patrol by the Rio Grande near Mission on July 10, was initially sched...
S tate prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for two suspects accused in a double homicide case that initially began with a brush fire in Peñitas. Should Ricardo Gonzalez Jr., 38, and Pedro Ismael Garcia, 24, be convicted of capital murder for the deaths of Mario Morales Jr. ...
Given a day to mull things over and a chance to concur with all those New York Jets fans miffed by his late-game clock management and crucial calls that backfired in a loss to the Green Bay Packers, coach Aaron Glenn doubled down instead. No regrets. No second-guesses. No mea cul...
The mother of an Edinburg teenager who was arrested by ICE earlier this month while taking a friend to enlist in the Marines and posted about it, was arrested and deported on Monday outside her work....
A U.S. Border Patrol agent, another driver and three children were hospitalized Monday after the agent failed to yield at a stop sign and crashed into a vehicle, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. DPS said the crash occurred at about 2:46 p.m. Monday on U.S. 83 w...
A request by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) for an emergency injunction to halt a land swap between SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was rejected on Monday by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The land in question is part of the L...
A 77-year-old San Benito woman died in a fatal Harlingen crash on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (Courtesy: DPS) A 30-year-old man has pleaded guilty to causing a fatal two-vehicle crash in Harlingen that killed a 77-year-old San Benito woman in 2024. Jose De La Cruz pleaded guilty on Se...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — An Alamo man was sentenced to life in prison on Monday for the deadly shooting of a McAllen Masonic Lodge member. Julio Diaz, 38, appeared in the 139th District Court on Monday, where Judge J.R. "Bobby" Flores sentenced him to life in prison for...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Two adults and three kids were hospitalized following a crash involving a U.S. Border Patrol unit in La Grulla Monday afternoon. The crash happened at about 2:46 p.m. on US 83 west of FM 2360 by Border Patrol lane, according to the Texas Departm...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A father and son were killed in a two-vehicle crash north of McAllen Sunday morning, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The crash happened around 11:38 a.m. on Ware Road north of McAllen, south of 6 Mile Line. According to DPS, ...
T wo men are dead following a Sunday morning crash north of McAllen. The men were identified as McAllen residents Fabien Diego Guerrero, 31, and Fabien Guerrero, 64. According to a news release from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the crash occurred at about 11:38 a.m. Sun...
A n inmate at the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center died Sunday following what Cameron County Sheriff Manuel Treviño referred to as a medical emergency, triggering a Texas Rangers investigation. The detention center is located at 7100 Old Alice Road in Olmito. The sheriff said i...
By Alex Nguyen | The Texas Tribune Christian Castro M innesota officials on Thursday dropped their lawsuit against Gov. Greg Abbott to force the extradition of Christian Castro, a day after arresting the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis. The dismiss...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Cameron County jail inmate was pronounced dead Sunday morning while in custody. Cameron County Sheriff Manuel Trevino said in a statement that the inmate was suffering from a medical emergency Sunday morning while in custody at the Carrizales ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Flyweight Champion Joshua Van erased the controversy surrounding his first victory over Alexandre Pantoja by defeating the former champion over five rounds Saturday, then declaring that his UFC flyweight title could no longer be dismissed as the product of an a...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Authorities arrested two men and seized drugs during a raid at a San Benito home on Friday. Members of the San Benito Police Department SWAT team, Special Investigations Unit and Cameron County Sheriff's Office SWAT team executed a narcotics sea...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has awarded a long-awaited $7.5 billion to Texas as reimbursement for the money the state spent on border security during Joe Biden’s presidency. The Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Administration approved...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A brush fire that ignited in Starr County has been fully contained, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. Approximately 590 acres burned along Las Brisas Road, located northeast of Rio Grande City. The Starr County Precinct 4 San Isidro Fir...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Rio Grande City High School student is in custody Friday morning after he allegedly told a teacher he had a gun in his backpack, according to Hugo Garcia, chief of police at Rio Grande City Grulla ISD. Officials found no weapon when they searc...
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — In opening the Buffalo Bills' new stadium, rookie coach Joe Brady was more interested in seeing his team put on a clinic rather than a show. Turns out, Brady got to see both in a 41-31 victory over the Detroit Lions on Thursday night in the Bills' first ...
T wo people were arrested Wednesday morning after attempting to smuggle nearly 92 pounds of cocaine through the Valley International Airport in Harlingen. Tamya Jones and Shmair Williams were attempting to board a flight from Harlingen to Houston when the baggage inspection revea...
Hidalgo Port of Entry is seen in this undated photo. (Courtesy: CBP) A call to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Cyber Tipline led to the arrest of a man who had more than 600 videos of child sexual abuse material at the Hidalgo port of entry on Tuesday. Jose...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A tractor-trailer flipped on the southbound expressway in Harlingen, causing traffic delays and detours, police said Thursday afternoon. The curved southbound expressway near Valle Vista Mall is closed as crews work to clear the scene. Harlingen...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- A federal immigration officer from the Rio Grande Valley who was charged with lying about shooting of an immigrant during a major immigration operation in Minneapolis was arrested on Wednesday. Christian J. Castro, 52, of McAllen reportedly lie...
M cALLEN — A man believed to be a hitman for the Gulf Cartel was arrested in Mission and will face federal charges under President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14157, which designates cartels and other organizations as foreign terrorist organizations. U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz,...
