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LONDON (AP) — England forward Ivan Toney has been charged with assault after an incident at a nightclub, police said Friday. Authorities said Toney was charged July 31 with assault “causing actual bodily harm.” The alleged incident took place in December at a nightclub in the Soh...
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PHOENIX (AP) — Fred Richard put himself in position to win his first U.S. national championship, surging to the lead during night one of the men's competition Thursday night. Richard, a key member of the 2024 U.S. men's Olympic team that earned bronze in Paris, posted an all-arou...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Caitlin Clark sat at the dais Thursday night, staring at the stat sheet and reliving the eight turnovers and her two missed free throws with seven seconds left in regulation. Then she took the blame for the Indiana Fever's stinging 86-84 overtime loss to defen...
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CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Maybe a team should’ve drafted Haynes King. The rookie quarterback ran in from the 5 on the final play to give the Carolina Panthers a 33-30 victory over the Arizona Cardinals in the Hall of Fame game that kicked off the NFL preseason on Thursday night. King, ...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Chelsea Gray made two buzzer-beating 3-pointers after Caitlin Clark's uncharacteristic mistakes, the first to force overtime and the second to give the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces an 86-84 victory over the Indiana Fever on Thursday night. Clark miss...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sean McVay and the Los Angeles Rams are still waiting on Aaron Donald's comeback decision as they wrap up their training camp at Loyola Marymount University. After the Rams held their final practice of camp Thursday, McVay said Donald's formal workout with the ...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Mission Police Department is investigating a bomb threat hoax that was allegedly made against the Mission Regional Hospital on Thursday. Police responded to the bomb threat call at approximately 8:10 p.m. A spokesperson with the Mission Pol...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- Three very different sky stories are coming together now through next week — one from the tropics, one from space, and one riding in on desert winds. First, the updated NOAA hurricane outlook continues to lean toward a quieter-than-average Atla...
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Several families met with a South Texas congressman and LUPE director on Thursday in Rio Grande City, Texas, expressing their fears of being picked up in ICE raids....
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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March have been granted citizenship. Fatemeh Pasandideh and Atefeh Ramezanisadeh said in a statement Thursday that Immigration Minister Tony Burke swore them in the day b...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) -- The Harlingen City Commission met on Wednesday for its initial review of a draft proposing changes and regulations to its code of conduct about the public comment period at city meetings. A draft of the proposed changes was first presented at a...
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EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A new policy change at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services could make it easier for the agency to deny certain immigration applications without first giving applicants a chance to fix missing information. The change took effect immediately ...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Nov. 3 general election is a little less than three months away and local elections administrators are beginning to staff up with poll workers for both early voting and Election Day. Poll workers are responsible for setting up polling locati...
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D espite what you may have heard, tariffs are taxes on imported goods that the domestic importer usually pays at the border or point of entry. It’s no surprise that some of this additional cost is then passed to consumers (a percentage that typically increases over time). When mo...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Brownsville woman hopes to spread safety awareness after a portable charger exploded in her car and caused second-degree burns on her right arm. Katy Abete of Brownsville says the June 18 incident prompted about a month of physical recovery. A...
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Turns out Jackson Koivun isn't the only player trying to go from college to the PGA Tour postseason. Virginia grad Ben James made eagle on both the par 5s on Thursday and only a soft finish with a pair of bogeys kept from sharing the lead with Beau Hossler...
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EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The game of golf in the city of Edinburg is about to get even better. City leaders on Thursday signed a management agreement with Troon Golf, one of the world's leading golf management companies. Notable golf courses in Texas managed by Troon Gol...
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions have agreed to a contract extension with Jahmyr Gibbs, a three-year deal worth up to $75.7 million that his agents say makes him the NFL's newest highest-paid running back. Athletes First announced the deal Thursday, hours after Gibbs to...
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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...
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McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A judge on Thursday set bond at $100,000 for a businessman who allegedly laundered money for La Nueva Familia Michoacana. Fernando Mireles, 32, of San Juan owned a business that allegedly laundered money for La Familia, a drug cartel based in Mich...
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IVAN PALACIOS | STAFF WRITER ELSA — Mission High junior Ryan Aguirre and Edinburg Economedes senior Anahi Vega opened their 2026 cross country campaigns in dominant fashion Thursday, leading from start to finish to capture their respective races and earn gold medals at the 38th a...
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H ARLINGEN — After weeks of heated opposition, city commissioners are passing an ordinance setting conduct rules governing meetings’ public comment periods. The ordinance replaces a 20-year-old resolution imposing more restrictive rules, officials said during a meeting. “The city...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is once more trying to limit the number of people who are born in the country who can become American citizens, in a sign that even after his first attempt at limiting birthright citizenship was rejected by the Suprem...
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jaylen Brown got the call that Boston — the franchise that drafted him as a teenager and where he blossomed into an NBA Finals MVP and champion — had traded him and heaved his phone across the room. No, it wasn't a prank call. Brown was indeed headed to the Ph...
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D espite progress toward enacting helpful legislation, the Texas shrimp industry remains in a very tight spot, and may eventually disappear altogether if things don’t improve quite a bit. So says Texas Shrimp Association Executive Director Maria Jaross, interviewed during last mo...
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By Lomi Kriel | The Texas Tribune S hortly before Christmas last year, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Isaias Sanchez Barbosa, a 31-year-old Mexican, after he crossed the Rio Grande with a group of other migrants into Starr County. The federal agent said he shot Sanchez Bar...
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H ARLINGEN — The city commission does not have authority to nullify a WaterWorks agreement potentially providing 4.7 million gallons a day of sewer water, while offering potable water as a backup, to a proposed 1,800-acre data center just outside of the city limits, City Attorney...
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — Geno Smith is seeing things a bit differently with the New York Jets this time around. No, it's not quite rose-colored glasses. But the veteran quarterback is wearing red contact lenses during training camp this summer in his return to the team that draf...
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SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mariners reliever Gabe Speier was given a three-game suspension Thursday after hitting Detroit’s Gleyber Torres with a pitch in the eighth inning of Wednesday night's game. Speier is appealing the ban, according to the MLB Players Association. Additionally,...
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — FIFA president Gianni Infantino held off the potential of an internal revolt during a summit meeting in Morocco this week. A scathing response from European soccer's governing body on Thursday, however, showed that he still has a fight on his hands to h...
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NASCAR plans to implement a new stage-break procedure for its Cup Series races beginning this weekend at Iowa Speedway and continuing through the remainder of the season. Under the new rules, when a natural caution occurs with 10 or fewer laps remaining in Stage 1 or Stage 2, it ...
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M cAllen city leaders kicked off a series of budget workshops on Tuesday as they work toward crafting a balanced budget for the upcoming fiscal year, work which may include a property tax increase. As this was an introductory meeting, nothing discussed is set in stone until the b...
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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...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A man was charged after he allegedly assaulted a Golden Corral employee in the rear parking lot Wednesday night, according to the Brownsville Police Department. William Lleo, 44, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a second...
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PHOENIX (AP) — Jade Carey doesn't need to be at the U.S. gymnastics championships. At least, not like this. That's part of what makes it all so sweet. The 26-year-old knows she could have walked away following her final season at Oregon State in the spring of 2025, with a resume ...
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GRIMES COUNTY, Texas (FOX 44) — Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday announced that SpaceX will construct a vertically integrated semiconductor fabrication plant in Grimes County. According to the Office of the Governor, the first phase of the Terafab project represents a capital investm...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A criminal complaint obtained by ValleyCentral reveals what led to the arrest of a Rio Grande Valley attorney accused of theft. Karina Michelle Cerda, 36, was arrested on a charge of theft of property, a Class B misdemeanor, after a warrant was ...
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Robert Wise (Courtesy: GoFundMe campaign ) E DINBURG — The jury found a 38-year-old Alamo man guilty of fatally gunning down a member of the McAllen Masonic lodge after approximately an hour of deliberations. The punishment phase of the trial is set to begin at 1:45 p.m. Delibera...
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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...
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Hidalgo County Emergency Management Coordinator Rick Saldaña speaks about disaster preparation during a hurricane preparedness fair in Weslaco on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Dina Arévalo | darevalo@themonitor.com) H idalgo County Emergency Management Coordinator Ricardo Saldana ann...
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A Peñitas man will spend just over nine years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to receiving and distributing child sexual abuse material. According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas, 29-year-old Jesus David Gutierrez ple...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Josh Simmons did everything the Kansas City Chiefs expected of him when they drafted him in the first round last year. He won the starting job protecting the blind side of Patrick Mahomes in the offseason, and the former Ohio State standout held fast to it...
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Cesar Torres speaks following his swearing-in as police chief of the city of Mission on Monday, May 2, 2022. (Courtesy photo) T he city of Mission is asking the Texas Attorney General if it can withhold complaints and grievances filed against police Chief Cesar Torres because it ...
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Roberto Baez is seen in this undated photo at Los Fresnos City Hall. (Courtesy: City of Los Fresnos /Facebook) T he city of Los Fresnos announced it has appointed Roberto Baez as city manager. According to a Facebook post published Tuesday, the city said Baez has already spent ti...
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indianapolis Colts running back Jonathan Taylor got his wish. A little more than a week after reiterating he wanted to stay with Indy for the rest of his career, Taylor took a big step toward fulfilling that pledge by signing a two-year, $44 million contract e...
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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...
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TORONTO (AP) — Coco Gauff understands the reasoning behind the WTA Tour’s newly introduced gene-testing policy. What the two-time Grand Slam champion doesn’t favor is how politicized the discussion becomes in generating what Gauff called, “animosity towards the trans community.” ...
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Shortly before Christmas last year, a Border Patrol agent shot and killed Isaias Sanchez Barbosa, a 31-year-old Mexican, after he crossed the Rio Grande with a group of other migrants into Starr County. The federal agent said he shot Sanchez Barbosa in self defense amid a fight t...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — On the latest episode of Valley Storm Team, Meteorologist Lexie Walker and Forecaster Craig Verley dove into the science behind what sea breeze showers are and how they form when cool air from the ocean moves over the warm air on land. The risin...
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European soccer's governing body has retained its threat to boycott FIFA competitions despite FIFA apologizing for its failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup. UEFA on Thursday reiterated that it had lost confidence in FIFA president Gianni Infantino and said conditions to wi...
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The Senate committee chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday voted to refer former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci to be held in contempt. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a party-line, 8-5 vote, with two additional "no" vot...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — We will continue to see hot and humid conditions for the day. The combination of heat and humidity will also continue to make it feel like 105-110 across much of the Valley this afternoon. However, a few lucky folks might get a quick shot of rai...
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BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic gold medalist and two-time world champion Lara Gut-Behrami announced her retirement from Alpine skiing on Thursday. The speed specialist from Switzerland won the Olympic super-G gold medal in the 2022 Beijing Games among three career Olympic medal...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers will make their World Cup debuts as members of the U.S. women's national team next month. The trio will try to help the U.S. win its fifth consecutive FIBA World Cup title. The young stars will be joined by Olympic med...
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MADRID (AP) — The Spanish government remained confident the final of the 2030 World Cup will be in Spain. Speaking after a report that FIFA allegedly awarded the final to co-host Morocco, sports minister Milagros Tolón said Spain “deserved” to host the title game. “We are the rei...
