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The “Living with Malnutrition” seminar was part of the STHS and Prominence Health Senior Living Seminar Series, an educational initiative focused on addressing common health issues affecting older adults. Good nutrition is one of the most important, yet often overlooked, componen...
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By Gina Jiménez | Public Health Watch Editor’s note: This story was produced in partnership with MyRGV.com and Public Health Watch . R IO GRANDE CITY — Eighty-year-old Arturo Gómez is used to waking up in a hot house every morning. He and his wife turn off the air conditioning at...
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas coach Lance Leipold saw enough of Missouri playing on television the night before his Jayhawks opened their own season with a romp over lower-level Long Island University that he could confidently deliver an obvious message to his team afterward. “We ...
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By: Dr. David G. Alonzo, DHR Health Urologic Oncologist 2603 Michelangelo Drive Edinburg, TX 78539 To schedule an appointment, call (956) 362-8767 To learn more about urology and oncology services at DHR Health, visit https://www.dhrhealth.com/services/urology/ and https://dhrhea...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Pelicans have traded former first-round draft pick Jordan Hawkins and Micah Peavy to the Memphis Grizzlies for AJ Johnson and Taj Gibson, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday. The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition ...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for the inland areas of the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday from noon until 6 p.m. The combination of high temperatures and humidity will drive the heat index as high as 115 in some locations ...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — An investigation is underway after a man was found unresponsive with apparent injuries on Tuesday, according to the Donna Police Department. Officers responded to the 500 block of Oak Ridge Street, where the man was later pronounced deceased, po...
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NYON, Switzerland (AP) — A group representing many of Europe's major soccer leagues has accused FIFA of “abusive conduct” in how it runs the international calendar for women's competitions after filing an expanded complaint to the European Commission. The new intervention by Euro...
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BERLIN (AP) — Breanna Stewart knows exactly how much pressure the U.S. team is under to keep its World Cup title streak going. The Americans have won four straight women's FIBA World Cup championships and she's been a part of the last three. Now the 32-year-old is the leader of a...
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STAFF REPORT Undefeated teams put their records on the line in Week 3, with La Joya Juarez-Lincoln (2-0) hosting Brownsville Porter (2-0) in the RGVSports.com Game of the Week. Kickoff between the Cowboys and Huskies is set for 7 p.m. Friday at La Joya ISD Stadium in La Joya. Bot...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The days of young quarterbacks patiently waiting for their turn to take over after they learn the NFL game are mostly a thing of the past. That's what made the Las Vegas Raiders ' decision to keep No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza on the bench to star...
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Jennings shook off a pair of interceptions to lead No. 19 SMU’s winning scoring drive, capped by Nick Reed’s 20-yard field goal with 21 seconds to play, to wrap up a 27-24 win over Florida State on Monday night. Jennings completed 26 of 36 passes fo...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts and a walk in his return to the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup Monday night after a four-day break to deal with lingering left knee and right biceps soreness. The two-way superstar isn't expected to pitch again this s...
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NEW YORK (AP) — After missing more than three months, Aaron Judge is ready to return to the New York Yankees. The three-time MVP was reinstated from the 60-day injured list Monday night, an off day for the Yankees. They open a three-game series at home Tuesday night against the C...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Another unseasonably hot day unfolded across the Rio Grande Valley, and while no records were broken, temperatures once again climbed well above what’s typical for early September. McAllen topped out at 104°F compared to its normal of 96°, Harli...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — San Francisco 49ers star pass rusher Nick Bosa is set to play in the season opener against the Los Angeles Rams in his first game action since a tearing a knee ligament last September. Bosa tore the ACL in his right knee on Sept. 21 last season. He beg...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Naomi Osaka may not have gone out of the U.S. Open with much of a bang. But she surely went out with a burst — of color, and a bit of swag. The two-time U.S. Open champion lost a lopsided fourth-round match on Monday to Elena Rybakina. But she continued to [...]...
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The game between No. 19 SMU and Florida State kicked off after a delay of nearly two hours on Monday night due to a power outage at the stadium. Power went out at Doak Campbell Stadium just minutes before the scheduled kickoff and the delay lasted about 1...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — After two seasons out of football, Aaron Donald has been pleasantly surprised by how his body has reacted since rejoining the Los Angeles Rams last month. Whether it means the three-time Associated Press Defensive Player of the Year will be ready to play in the...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A traffic switch is scheduled in Edinburg, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. The traffic switch is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on SH 107 from Sharp Road to Cesar Chavez Road, according to a news release from TxDOT. The tra...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A man stabbed his father outside their home, according to the Brownsville Police Department. The stabbing took place at the 100 block of Candlewick Ct. A preliminary investigation revealed that a man stabbed his 71-year-old father outside their ...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Nightly closures have been scheduled in the Donna and Weslaco area, according to the Texas Department of Transportation. According to a news release from TxDOT, all eastbound lanes of I-2 will be closed from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting Sept. 8, th...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Willacy County Sheriff's Office announced that the community helped return a lost horse in Raymondville. The horse was safely secured and reunited with its owner, the sheriff said. On Tuesday morning, a first report said the horse was seen o...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Elena Rybakina overpowered Naomi Osaka at the U.S. Open and is a win away from the No. 1 ranking in women's tennis. She just has to beat Zheng Qinwen, which won't be easy. Even when Zheng goes down — way, way down — she refuses to stay there. Rybakina advanced to ...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It's Week 2 of High School Football and ValleySportsCentral has nominated three high school football teams to claim the title of Team of the Week! The nominees for Week 2 are Harlingen High, Weslaco High and McAllen High. Here are some recent hi...
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Hero Kanu has seen both sides of the Texas-Ohio State rivalry, in shades of scarlet and burnt orange. Kanu was a Buckeye defensive tackle when Ohio State beat Texas in a 2024 season College Football Playoff semifinal on the way to the national championship. T...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jesús Luzardo never pitched into the ninth inning over his first 149 career starts and had to block out the exhilaration he felt on the mound when he finally got that chance. The Phillies' All-Star left-hander walked to the mound to a roaring ovation and with ...
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina coach Bill Belichick said Monday he believes his program “totally” has an atmosphere of following rules amid a school investigation into conduct within his football program. “Obviously everybody’s responsible, including me, for doing things...
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BERLIN (AP) — Breanna Stewart had 19 points, seven rebounds and six assists to help the United States rout the Czech Republic 105-64 on Monday. The Americans rebounded from their worst preliminary-round game in 50 years after edging Italy 55-52 on Sunday. Stewart set the tone ear...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mirra Andreeva remembers looking up to Anastasia Potapova well before they became rivals on the court. So when Potapova fell and was injured late in their fourth-round match Monday at the U.S. Open, Andreeva put aside the tennis and went to assist. The French Open...
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Longtime coach Kyle Whittingham was unaware the stadium clock he watched Saturday night at Michigan might not reflect the official game time. Purdue coach Barry Odom also was caught off guard as he watched on television more than 250 miles away. The two Big Ten coaches acknowledg...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — New Titans coach Robert Saleh insists he holds no grudge against the New York Jets for firing him from his first NFL head coaching gig and that he's only focused on opening the season with T ennessee against his old team Sunday. “Our desire to win Week 1, ...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Brownsville Police Department is investigating two separate shooting incidents that took place Sunday evening. According to a news release from Brownsville police, officers responded to the area of Crestview Drive, where a vehicle driving th...
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U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino vowed to change the attitude and habits of the American national team as he starts a second term, appearing to refer to star Christian Pulisic's decision to skip the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup. “It was difficult to make the roster for the Gold Cup one y...
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Brandon Enos W hen Texas established “independent” school districts (ISD), the word “independent” was an intentional promise: the belief that local communities know best how to educate their own children. I would like to believe we are still a state that values local control and ...
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Sarah Anderson I n the split second before the immigration agent tackled him, Target employee Jonathan Aguilar Garcia darted through the entrance to his suburban Minneapolis store. He wrongly assumed he’d be safe in his own workplace. The agent pinned Aguilar Garcia to the floor ...
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Aldo Vargas A 45-year-old Bayview man has been charged with murder for beating his wife to death with an “unknown blunt object.” In a news release, the Cameron County Sheriff’s Office identified the victim as 43-year-old Dulce Vargas. Her husband, Aldo Vargas, was arrested follow...
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone was detained at a Portuguese airport on Monday — and released hours later — for possession of a firearm. Ecclestone, 95, arrived at Tires Airport near Lisbon, where officers from the Portuguese Public Security Police...
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Even though he was nearly 2,000 miles from where he'd grown up, Ryan Hopkins felt right at home as a quarterback prospect visiting Wisconsin. “I felt the energy from the city,” said Hopkins, a former three-star recruit from Mater Dei in Santa Ana, California....
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Lucas Carneiro kicked a 48-yard field goal as time expired to give ninth-ranked Mississippi a 41-38 victory over No. 24 Louisville on Sunday night in the Music City Kickoff. The week's only game between ranked teams started sloppy, only to turn into a seco...
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DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — The Chase leader and favorite, the newest Southern 500 champion and two rising young racers who had top-six finishes at Darlington Raceway to open NASCAR’s postseason on Sunday night — the hardest challenge for the four Joe Gibbs Racing drivers might be vy...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Happy Labor Day! This Monday started in the upper 70s to low 80s with dew points sitting in the 70s. While its not exactly topping out the muggy meter, it will absolutely play a role in how we feel later today. Highs will climb above normal for ...
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MONZA, Italy (AP) — FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem has defended the wait for clarity over how this year's Formula 1 season will end amid uncertainty over the Middle East security situation but tells The Associated Press that drivers and team staff will not be put “at risk.” T...
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Week 2 is in the books. Check out the latest RGVSports.com 5A/6A Top 10 poll as voted on by our staff. Others receiving votes: Brownsville Veterans, Donna High, Roma The post RGVSports.com 5A/6A Top 10 Poll (09/07/26) appeared first on MyRGV.com ....
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Kudos for Edinburg T his letter celebrates the city of Edinburg, its dedicated staff and our mayor and council for the remarkable improvements in the downtown district where I live. Yes, parking around the square currently is congested and frustrating, but this is a temporary inc...
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Check out the latest RGVSports.com Sub-5A Top 5 poll as voted on by our staff. The post RGVSports.com Sub-5A Top 5 Poll (09/07/26) appeared first on MyRGV.com ....
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When the baseball postseason starts in a few weeks, the format will probably be a major discussion topic. If the playoffs began now, these would be the seeds in the American League: 1. Tampa Bay (85-58) 2. Chicago White Sox (75-68) 3. Houston (73-71) 4. New York Yankees (81-62) 5...
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Kelly Rand's teenage twin boys playing hockey in St. Paul, Minnesota, are going through growth spurts that force the family to buy new equipment what seems like all the time. The goaltender's $400 helmet in 2022 now runs $1,000. The chest protector they got last year for $465 now...
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia have confirmed their pivotal refusal to sing the national anthem during the Women’s Asian Cup in March was a protest against Tehran. The first media interview with Atefeh Ra...
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Notre Dame tight end James Flanigan knew exactly how he wanted to celebrate scoring his first career touchdown in the stadium where his father and grandfather played. Flanigan’s father and grandfather, both named Jim Flanigan, each played for the Green Bay ...
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman knows Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell well enough to realize the Fighting Irish would face a bigger season-opening challenge than the recent results of these two teams suggested. Freeman's team eventually responded. CJ Carr thre...
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BERLIN (AP) — Host Germany avoided embarrassment at the women’s FIBA World Cup on Monday while Spain advanced to the quarterfinals and France set a record for 3-pointers. Germany faced the prospect of elimination in its final group game against Mali but the host was never in dang...
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FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. (AP) — Tua Tagovailoa has been selected as the Atlanta Falcons' starting quarterback for Week 1 against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the team announced Monday. The decision comes after Tagovailoa’s monthslong competition with Michael Penix Jr., who started nine ga...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Bail has been set for a man accused of murdering his wife, according to Cameron County Jail Records. A judge issued bail of $100,000 to 45 year old Aldo Vargas, who was charged with murder, a first-degree felony, according to Cameron County Jail...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Defending champions Aryna Sabalenka and Carlos Alcaraz are back to the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, and they made it look easy. The top-ranked Sabalenka solved some early struggles holding serve and overpowered Taylor Townsend 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday. Alcaraz also a...
