S paceX recently issued its Starbase impact report for the second quarter of 2026, meant to highlight the ways the company is “driving growth in the Rio Grande Valley.” The report leads with scholarships the company has funded, intended to “spark curiosity in science, technology ...
McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Federal prosecutors may partner with the state to investigate whether two hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley promoted birth tourism. Questions about Mission Regional Medical Center and Knapp Medical Center surfaced in July, when photos of a billbo...
S AN BENITO — After more than five hours behind closed doors, city commissioners couldn’t reach in a decision in the appointment of San Benito’s next city manager. In a heated meeting, Mayor Pete Galvan walked out during discussions as commissioners considered two finalists — int...
CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong homered twice and drove in four runs, and the Chicago Cubs swept Shohei Ohtani and the struggling Los Angeles Dodgers with a wild 7-6 victory on Wednesday. Nico Hoerner added three hits as Chicago won for the fourth time in five games. The Cubs ...
The association of European soccer leagues called for governance reform of FIFA on Wednesday, adding to the mounting pressure on president Gianni Infantino following his failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup. On the day that Infantino reportedly held a meeting with senior s...
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...
CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong added to his NL MVP campaign right in front of Shohei Ohtani on Wednesday. Crow-Armstrong slugged two more homers for the Chicago Cubs in their series finale against the Los Angeles Dodgers, including a laser off the videoboard in right field. H...
Stefon Diggs is signing with the Washington Commanders, a big addition at wide receiver to give quarterback Jayden Daniels and the offense a proven commodity who showed last season he can still be productive more than a decade into his NFL career. The Commanders agreed with Diggs...
STILLWATER, Okla, (AP) — New Oklahoma State football coach Eric Morris was busy bringing people together long before fall camp started Wednesday. Morris, hired in November to replace Cowboys legend Mike Gundy, has added 88 new players since then, including 21 players he coached a...
T wo weeks after the Texas Attorney General’s office ruled Mission “must release” information related to a public information request, the city has failed to do so. Assistant Attorney General Vi Thanh Hoang directed Mission on July 17 to release information relating to a public i...
A big change is coming to horse racing's Triple Crown, with the Preakness Stakes moving to three weeks and a day after the Kentucky Derby and being run on Sunday for the first time. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Jockey Club announced the decision Wednesday. No Triple C...
The Pittsburgh Pirates released struggling veteran designated hitter Marcell Ozuna on Wednesday as they gear up for a playoff push. The club made the move following a nightmarish stretch in which the three-time All-Star could never seem to get on track. The Pirates, who entered W...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham walked into practice Wednesday with every intention of talking basketball and only basketball. She still couldn't completely avoid the latest off-court firestorm — her belief that trans women should not be competing in wom...
By MARCIA DUNN | AP Aerospace Writer C APE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday after drifting off course for the past year, scientists reported. Although no one observed the actual 5,400-mph ...
LIV Golf CEO Scott O'Neil announced an agreement Wednesday with a lead investor that would allow the rival league to forge ahead without the backing of Saudi funding while making players major equity holders. “So many of them came because this was a good opportunity for them to m...
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — As Chicago Bears tackle Darnell Wright started giving out credit Wednesday after signing a record-setting contract extension, an obvious person he had to cite was general manager Ryan Poles. After all, Poles not only had just signed Wright to his four-yea...
Robert Wise (Courtesy: GoFundMe campaign ) E DINBURG — Evidence presented during the second day of testimony against a 38-year-old Alamo man accused of shooting and killing a member of the McAllen Masonic lodge indicates he had an obsession with Freemasons and conspiracy theories...
Carson Beck makes his NFL debut and Kenny Pickett starts for his fifth team in four years. Welcome to the NFL preseason. If you want to see starters play, wait until next month when the games count in the standings. Or watch joint practices. The exhibition schedule kicks off Thur...
City Commissioner Delia Cavazos-Gamez H ARLINGEN — City Commissioner Delia Cavazos-Gamez’s probe into questions surrounding a dirty political mailer seems to be getting closer to the source. About eight months after launching the probe, her attorneys have tracked the mailer’s pub...
Atlanta Falcons outside linebacker Jalon Walker will miss the 2026 season with a torn ACL, the organization announced Wednesday. Walker was carted off the field at training camp on Tuesday after going down following a pass-rush play. The injury was quickly feared to be an ACL tea...
D riscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley is expanding its pediatric critical care services, adding 15 more beds to its Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, or PICU. Through a more than $9.1 million investment, the freestanding children’s hospital in Edinburg will be transforming...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Brownsville City Commission on Tuesday approved modifications to regulations on smoking in public places. The modifications were made to Ordinance Number 2026-1813, Chapter 54, Health and Sanitation, Article VI, which pertains to smoking in ...
This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune . By Kayla Guo | The Texas Tribune and Zach Despart | ProPublica and The Texas Tribune T exas state Rep. James Talarico voted in five elections using his parents’ address after purchasing a home for himsel...
O n Tuesday, it was announced that the Texas Historical Commission has awarded the Hidalgo County Historical Commission the 2025 Distinguished Service Award. County leaders called the award “prestigious,” as it is the highest annual recognition presented by the Texas Historical C...
"They duped our seniors, using email, telephone, text message and fishing campaigns into subscribing to a timeshare project."
By: Dr. Sridhar Allam, DHR Health Transplant Nephrologist & Medical Director 1100 E. Dove Ave. Suite 200 McAllen, TX 78504 To schedule an appointment, call (956) 362-5433 To learn more about nationally ranked, life-saving kidney transplant services at DHR Health, visit: https://d...
Saquon Barkley saw a clip of Barry Sanders on NFL Films when he was a kid that left a lasting impression. It wasn’t Sanders juking half the defense on one of his dynamic touchdown runs. Instead, the Hall of Fame running back who inspired a generation of running backs with his sen...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Anticipate lots of sunshine throughout Wednesday with highs climbing to the upper 90s and low 100s. Southeast winds at 5 to 15mph. Wind gusts and the rest of the week will be between 25 and 30 mph. The humidity is still a big factor in the forec...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The junior partner of Spain’s government wants Spain to reconsider hosting the next World Cup with Morocco after the migration crisis in Ceuta, when tens of thousands of people surged across the Moroccan border and into the European enclave last week. Suma...
B ROWNSVILLE — The mariachi singers in their black attire and bold white stitching make my arrival a joyous one and an uplifting one. The first thing I see and hear when I enter La Gardenia Restaurant and Bar is the mariachi group engaged in festive singing and playing a song cal...
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — Police in Scotland said they had received reports that “several” athletes were unaccounted for following the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Ugandan sporting news website NBS Sport said four members of the nation's boxing squad had reportedly gone missing ...
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Mohamed Salah was greeted by cheering Trabzonspor fans in Istanbul on Wednesday as he closed in on a move to the Turkish club. The Liverpool icon wore the team’s blue and burgundy striped shirt after flying in on a private jet to complete the deal. Earl...
The New York Mets will pay more than $8.1 million to Pittsburgh as part of this week's trade that sent pitcher Luke Weaver to the Pirates for minor league infielder Sammy Stafura, covering most of the nearly $13.4 million remaining on the right-hander's contract. Pittsburgh will ...
NEW YORK (AP) — George Lombard Jr. saw a sweeper over the middle of the plate, sent the 0-2 pitch over the left-field fence and made his highly anticipated big league debut even more memorable. A few hours later, Lombard was exchanging memorabilia with the fans who caught the fir...
CHICAGO (AP) — Tarik Skubal was booed during his Los Angeles Dodgers debut on Tuesday night. No big deal, he said. The two-time Cy Young Award winner actually enjoyed the chilly reception. Skubal pitched six effective innings in his first start with Los Angeles, but the Dodgers m...
NEW YORK (AP) — George Lombard Jr. homered in a memorable big league debut and the New York Yankees beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-0 on Tuesday night. In the fifth inning, Lombard drove an 0-2 sweeper from starter Hunter Dobbins (2-2) into the left-field seats for his first caree...
Bryan Ramos | Staff Writer EDINBURG — Over the next three weeks, RGVSports.com will take you inside fall camp with the UTRGV Vaqueros as they prepare to kick off the 2026 season against UT Permian Basin in front of a sellout crowd on Saturday, Aug. 29 at Vackar Stadium in Edinbur...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The weather pattern across the Rio Grande Valley through the weekend will focus on heat and humidity, with the heat index taking center stage each afternoon. Daytime highs are expected to climb into the mid to upper 90s, but when combined with ...
EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Edinburg is slated to be the next Valley city to tackle plans to revitalize its downtown area. Renovations are underway in a building on E. Cano St. to transform it into what will be called the Las Almas Food Hall. The Edinburg Economic Developme...
PHARR, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Traffic has returned to normal along Interstate 2 in Pharr, but Monday's standoff on a bridge highlighted the work happening behind the scenes to prevent mental health crises from becoming tragedies. A man in crisis brought traffic to a standstill f...
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 Pac-12 and Mountain West conferences have finalized a settlement over “poaching” and exit fees. The two conferences announced on Tuesday that all sides have reached final agreements to settle all pending litigation. The statement included Boise State, Colorado State, Utah Sta...
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Bears right tackle Darnell Wright has agreed to a lucrative contract extension, answering a major question for the team going into the season. The Bears announced the four-year deal on Tuesday, posting “The Wright Tackle is here to stay” on social media. Wr...
B ROWNSVILLE — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright delivered brief remarks and took questions from media at the Port of Brownsville administration building on Tuesday. It was originally planned as a double billing, with Wright meant to accompany Vice President J.D. Vance to Browns...
A s Edinburg works toward developing a “downtown master plan” for the first time in a decade, a member of the city’s downtown steering committee is opening a dining destination vying to become a community gathering point in the heart of the district. On Monday, Edinburg’s Economi...
E DINBURG — The 38-year-old Alamo man accused of fatally gunning down a member of the McAllen Masonic lodge more than three years ago used a GoPro to film the shooting before posting that video to his Instagram. The testimony came from a McAllen police investigator Tuesday aftern...
Angela Dominguez E DINBURG — Donna ISD Superintendent Angela Dominguez was named the lone finalist to lead Edinburg CISD with a 4-3 vote school board vote at a special meeting Monday evening. In an interview Tuesday morning, Dominguez said she is thrilled and honored to be named ...
A new Dollar Tree is coming to Brownsville. According to a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation registration filed Tuesday , the new store will be located at 1325 Ruben M. Torres. The $700,000 project’s scope of work includes a new 9,839-square-foot building shell to be c...
Robert Wise (Courtesy: GoFundMe campaign ) E DINBURG — The trial for a man accused of shooting and killing a man outside the McAllen Masonic lodge in 2023 began with a focus on a slew of arson cases believed to be associated with the murder suspect. Julio Diaz, 38, is facing murd...
A little church just past a strip of border wall in the Rio Grande Valley once served as a resting point for slaves seeking freedom in Mexico. Recently, with the help of a life-long historical researcher, Hidalgo County leaders ensured its place in history. Last month, on July 7,...
Tropical Texas Behavioral Heath on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Edinburg. Tropical Texas Behavioral Health announced it is working on constructing a new facility in Harlingen to increase services to the Cameron County area. (Joel Martinez | jmartinez@themonitor.com) T ropical Te...
By MARCIA DUNN | AP Aerospace Writer C APE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A drifting SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon after launching a pair of lunar landers more than a year ago. The rocket’s upper stage will unintentionally slam into the moon on Wednesday, carving o...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The San Benito Police Department seized approximately seven pounds of cocaine during a traffic stop, according to a news release. Daniel Cruz Cardenas, a Mexican national, is charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance PG1, a fir...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Cameron County commissioners on Tuesday approved a $3 increase to the entry fee for county beaches. Effective Oct. 1, day passes to Isla Blanca Park, Andy Bowie Park, E.K. Atwood Park Beach Access No. 5, Cameron County Beach Access No. 3 and Cam...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Carlos Alcaraz withdrew Tuesday from the Cincinnati Open because of a lingering right wrist injury that has sidelined him since April. The No. 2-ranked Spaniard was hoping to return to defend his title in the hard-court tournament, which serves as an important w...
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — En el nuevo episodio de Behind the Flavor, el conductor gastronómico Ismael Martínez, pasa por Brownsville para visitar el restaurante mexicano Letty's Cafe. Letty Robles, dueña del restaurante mexicano Letty's Café, abrió sus puertas en 2019 y ...
On the surface, Colorado Rockies outfielder Mickey Moniak appeared to be available at the trade deadline and was drawing attention. Behind the scenes, though, the Rockies were already negotiating a deal to keep him in town. Moniak agreed Tuesday to a $16.25 million, two-year cont...
McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A judge dismissed a marriage fraud case on Tuesday after concluding the government had some evidence — but not enough to establish probable cause. U.S. Magistrate Judge Nadia S. Medrano dismissed the case against Ana Karen Quintero Cardenas on Tue...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Manager Stephen Vogt lauded the Cleveland Guardians' front office for adding three players during Monday's trade deadline. Now it's up to Vogt and the new-look Guardians to capitalize on the addition of outfielder Jo Adell, first baseman Nathaniel Lowe and pitche...
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McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Federal prosecutors may partner with the state to investigate whether two hospitals in the Rio Grande Valle…
S AN BENITO — After more than five hours behind closed doors, city commissioners couldn’t reach in a decision in the appointment of San Beni…
CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong homered twice and drove in four runs, and the Chicago Cubs swept Shohei Ohtani and the struggling Los Ang…
The association of European soccer leagues called for governance reform of FIFA on Wednesday, adding to the mounting pressure on president G…
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 durin…
CHICAGO (AP) — Pete Crow-Armstrong added to his NL MVP campaign right in front of Shohei Ohtani on Wednesday. Crow-Armstrong slugged two mor…
Stefon Diggs is signing with the Washington Commanders, a big addition at wide receiver to give quarterback Jayden Daniels and the offense a…
STILLWATER, Okla, (AP) — New Oklahoma State football coach Eric Morris was busy bringing people together long before fall camp started Wedne…
T wo weeks after the Texas Attorney General’s office ruled Mission “must release” information related to a public information request, the c…
A big change is coming to horse racing's Triple Crown, with the Preakness Stakes moving to three weeks and a day after the Kentucky Derby an…
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