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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office invites the community to its Back-to-School Bash happening on Tuesday. An evening filled with fun, food and school-supply giveaways starts at 6 p.m. The event will take place at the Precinct 2 CRC located at 5...
Los Fresnos Izzy Guerra, right, slams a ball past Edinburg Vela’s Lily Carter, left, during the championship match pound fest at McAllen High school gymnasium Saturday August 15,2026 in McAllen. (Delcia Lopez | dlopez@themonitor.com) Edinburg Vela’s Madeleine Luedeker, left, hit ...
IVAN PALACIOS | STAFF WRITER EDITOR’S NOTE: This story continues our position-by-position look at the top returning high school football players in the Rio Grande Valley. Follow the series in the coming weeks as we count down to the release of our annual Top 30 players list. The ...
M cALLEN — A roundtable discussion focused on the challenges families and students are facing when going back to school was held on Wednesday and touched topics such as school funding, teacher pay, cuts in support systems, food insecurity, how ICE is impacting enrollment and stud...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — With back-to-school season underway, kids might feel nervous about heading back to class. Bob Cooper, a licensed clinical social worker and the director of Utilization Review at STHS Behavioral, has tips for parents to support their children's m...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — As Rio Grande Valley school districts begin a brand new year, students are not just going back to the classroom — they're also resuming their sports activities. While student athletes across the Valley practice hard to have a successful season, ...
EDWARD SEVERN | STAFF WRITER EDITOR’S NOTE: This story continues our position-by-position look at the top returning high school football players in the Rio Grande Valley. Follow the series in the coming weeks as we count down to the release of our annual Top 30 players list. The ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Students heading back to school Friday morning will be greeted by warm temperatures and clear skies, with readings expected to range from 80 to 83 degrees across the Valley. Conditions will remain quiet early, but southeast winds will gradually ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — With the start of the school year already in motion, the La Joya Independent School District is prepared to help families get their loved ones to campus and back home safely. The La Joya ISD transportation help desk is the district's newest serv...
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer Every single team across the Rio Grande Valley is officially back on the practice field this week as the countdown to kick off of the 2026 Texas high school football season continues. With Week 1 of the regular season less than two weeks away, the RGVSp...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling visited Texas Southmost College on Thursday to see how some education programs are getting local workers into the workforce. Sonderling said it was important to view how the workforce policies ...
M ost Rio Grande Valley students are back in class by now, and parents can enjoy the break from having to keep their children occupied and out of trouble during the summer break. Many students and families now reflect on the past few months — a “what I did on my summer vacation” ...
Earlier this year, a 16-year-old student at a Los Angeles high school was looking forward to starting his junior year, where he planned to try out for the school's varsity tennis team. His parents were both college psychology professors. But in April, U.S. Immigration and Customs...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Many students across the Valley are heading back to school this week, including those in the Harlingen Consolidated Independent School District, who kicked off their first day Tuesday morning. ValleyCentral paid a visit to one school to see how ...
Kip Owen, M.D. Orthopedic Surgeon and Orthopedic Sports Medicine Specialist DHR Health Orthopedic Institute Returning to school after a summer break can add additional risk of injury as the new seasons unfold. Athletic injuries can be divided into two types: acute injuries and ov...
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer Every single team across the Rio Grande Valley is officially back on the practice field this week as the countdown to kick off of the 2026 Texas high school football season continues. With Week 1 of the regular season less than two weeks away, the RGVSp...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It might be back to school season but Mother Nature is still giving us hot, humid and sunny weather across the Valley. A high-pressure system that is centered over the state of Louisiana enforces a little to no rain weather pattern, high tempera...
MCALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Food insecurity is rising across Texas, and college students in the Rio Grande Valley are among those feeling the impact of higher grocery and gas prices. New data from Feeding America shows Texas’ food insecurity rate increased from 17.6% last ye...
OOTELAH, Tenn. (AP) — California teenager Asterisk Talley picked up her biggest win yet Sunday when she surged past Anna Iwanaga of Japan for an 8-and-6 victory to win the U.S. Women's Amateur. The 17-year-old Talley earned her second USGA title before even leaving high school. S...
A s the superintendent of Gunter Independent School District, I witness the extraordinary dedication of our teachers, administrators and staff. Every day, public schools across Texas open with a promise to educate, inspire and prepare the next generation of citizens. However, we ...
McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — With the rapid rise in artificial intelligence technology, a lot of aspects of society are changing, including education. At McAllen ISD, they're embracing the change. About 2,500 McAllen ISD educators gathered on Friday for the district's 12th an...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The beginning of the school year is right around the corner! ValleyCentral has compiled a list of the first day of classes for school districts across the Rio Grande Valley for the 2026-2027 school year. Cameron County BROWNSVILLE ISD - Aug. 10 ...
IVAN PALACIOS | STAFF WRITER McALLEN — Alexander Nava’s sophomore season was one that most underclassmen dream of. The Weslaco East distance runner capped his second high school campaign with a top-10 finish at the state cross country meet before adding a sixth-place finish at th...
Region One Education Service Center (ESC) announced the teachers of the year last weekend, with Lyford Elementary fifth-grade teacher Enrique Ayala and McAllen ISD Homer J. Morris Middle School sixth-grade math teacher Alissa Shirah receiving the honors. The two teachers were par...
FOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) — Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders loves everything about taking his Colorado Buffaloes 113 miles south of Folsom Field to Fountain Fort Carson High School for a week of workouts, tune-ups and team bonding that featured a stay at the University of Colorado-Colorad...
T he Brownsville Independent School District and its roughly 33,000 students are heading back to classes on Monday with a new sense of optimism now that Timothy Cuff is the district’s new superintendent. Cuff was named the lone finalist for the job earlier this summer and started...
STAFF REPORT EDITOR’S NOTE: Coaches, please send corrections or results to ivan@themonitor.com. 38th Annual Yellow Jacket Invitational Carlos F. Traun Middle School Elsa, TX BOYS 5K INDIVIDUAL 1. Ryan Aguirre, Mission High, 16:18.74; 2. Rosbel Galvan, Edinburg Economedes, 16:32.8...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The first day of school is coming up and ValleyCentral is asking for back-to-school pictures! Whether it is your kids or yourself heading out for class, we want you to share it with us. Teachers and college students are also more than welcome to...
McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — For several districts across the Valley, the first day of school is just days away. Many districts and organizations have been hosting back-to-school fairs in preparation, with student health being a major focus. There are also things parents can ...
The ruling tems from a years-long class-action lawsuit over the federal borrower’s defense program.
Indiana Hoosiers defensive end Stephen Daley thought his college career ended in December when he suffered a season-ending knee injury during the Big Ten championship postgame celebration. Now, he's back. Four days after a U.S. District Court judge in Colorado ruled high school p...
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer EDITOR’S NOTE: This story continues our position-by-position look at the top returning high school football players in the Rio Grande Valley. Follow the series in the coming weeks as we count down to the release of our annual Top 30 players list. The 20...
The Notre Dame-Southern California college football rivalry will start again in 2030. The schools announced Monday they have agreed to a four-game home-and-home series. Notre Dame will play in Los Angeles on Aug. 31, 2030, and the Trojans will visit South Bend, Indiana, on Aug. 3...
DENVER (AP) — The judge who granted the right to play another year of college sports to some athletes whose eligibility ran out last school year issued a new order Sunday that makes clear that does not include football players who signed pro contracts this summer then had a chang...
H ARLINGEN — The young musicians stood in ready formation and played haunting and mysterious riffs about gargoyles creeping through the night. The gargoyles dark and gothic may only come out after dark, but last week the Harlingen High School South marching band told the story of...
DENVER (AP) — A federal court dealt a perhaps chaos-inducing blow to the NCAA's new eligibility rule Friday when it ruled that all high school class of 2022 athletes who exhausted their fourth season of college eligibility this spring are eligible for a fifth season this school y...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — South Texas Health Systems is holding a back-to-school block party on Saturday in Edinburg. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the main parking lot at South Texas Health Systems Children's, located at 1102 W. Trenton Road. Free ...
More than 100 women's college basketball players have teamed up to form a union for college athletes as part of their growing push to collectively bargain with their schools, an organizing group announced Friday. The United College Athletes Association said as part of the push, m...
New Horizon Health Center in Brownsville has opened its Care Closet to help patients with clothing needs. (Courtesy Photo) A pair of shoes, maybe a nice shirt for an interview or even some new clothes for school — all these items are necessities that have become increasingly more...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Hundreds of students and parents stopped by San Benito High School on Thursday to attend a back-to-school bash hosted by the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District. The event served as an opportunity to prepare families with resourc...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina coach Bill Belichick opened his second preseason camp Thursday saying the program is adjusting internal duties with general manager Michael Lombardi on paid administrative leave and the subject of a school investigation. “We’re working thro...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Starting on Aug. 1, the University Scholastic League (UIL) will require all school athletic teams and marching bands to follow heat safety guidelines. The guidelines are designed to protect students from overheating when practicing outdoors. The...
T he University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine (SOM) just held its class of 2030 white coat ceremony, a symbolic event for students starting medical school that featured 56 members with just over 60% of them being from the Valley — the largest in the school’s histo...
Notre Dame and Ohio State reached lucrative jersey patch sponsorship deals totaling around $30 million at a time schools search for ways to cash in on the revenue-sharing era. Ohio State announced a multiyear sponsorship deal with JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday. Terms were not release...
The College Football Players Association, an organization advocating for unionization and collective bargaining, announced Monday that Stanford has become the first team to organize a player-led chapter. CFBPA executive director Jason Stahl said the goal is for other Atlantic Coa...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel will be paid a lump sum of $7.14 million as part of his separation agreement with the university, according to a document obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The school announced July 20 that it would buy out th...
North Carolina football general manager Michael Lombardi has been placed on paid administrative leave. The school announced the move with a statement Monday morning, coming days before the Tar Heels open preseason camp. The school didn't provide details as to the reason, noting t...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — LeBron James and Bryce Harper spent their careers on a parallel path toward stardom. They were teenage phenoms who graced the cover of Sports Illustrated (back when magazines were cool) and both prodigies were No. 1 overall draft picks straight out of high sch...
CHICAGO (AP) — Elena Delle Donne, Shakira Austin and high schooler Jezelle Banks led team Washington to the Shooting Stars championship at WNBA All-Star on Friday night. The trio scored 31 points to edge Seattle's three in the finals, with Banks hitting two of the 4-point shots f...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday appointed a senior director for the Region One Education Service Center to the Early Childhood Intervention Advisory Committee. Celina Perez of San Benito will serve on the state committee that advises the Texas Hea...
IVAN PALACIOS | STAFF WRITER EDITOR’S NOTE: This story continues our position-by-position look at the top returning high school football players in the Rio Grande Valley. Follow the series in the coming weeks as we count down to the release of our annual Top 30 players list. The ...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — With back-to-school season just around the corner, Driscoll Health is partnering with dozens of sponsors, including the RGV Vipers, to get thousands of Valley families ready for the coming school year. On Tuesday from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m., all Val...
The U.S. News & World Report has issued its annual ranking of universities in the country, and Rio Grande Valley campuses have earned respectable ratings. The data should give residents and prospective students confidence that the education they receive here compares well with in...
Robert and Laurie Lozano on stage at the 2026 Texas Restaurant Awards, where the couple were inducted into the Hall of Honor in San Antonio on Monday, July 13, 2026. (Courtesy photo) “Si se puede!” was the mindset for Premont high school sweethearts Robert and Laurie Lozano, who ...
