B ROWNSVILLE — A judge Wednesday denied a motion from 46-year-old John Allen Rubio’s attorneys that argued he was not competent to stand trial during a proceeding marked by an outburst by an aunt of two of three children brutally murdered about 23 years ago. Judge Noe Gonzalez called Rubio to sta...
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Guadalupe Garcia Vela A 32-year-old Mission man was acquitted of his murder charge stemming from the double homicide of two 20-year-old women in 2015. Guadalupe Garcia Vela was found not guilty of capital murder of multiple persons Tuesday. Garcia was initially arrested nearly a ...
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Tropical Storm Isaias could make landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane this weekend, hours before No. 2 Georgia plays at No. 6 Alabama in a major college football game on Saturday night that President Donald Trump is planning to attend. Forecasters say Isaias could becom...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Ejected from Yankee Stadium during his college days, Nick Martinez will be back in the Bronx on Wednesday trying to pitch the Tampa Bays Rays into the AL Championship Series. Martinez spent 2009-11 playing for Fordham, a school just 5 miles from the big ballpark. ...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers fullback Kyle Juszczyk won his appeal over the fines issued by the NFL for what it deemed an “offensive” celebration when he imitated drinking a beverage, which the league said looked like he was chugging a beer. Juszczyk was initial...
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76 young doctors helping to expand access to healthcare Valley-wide, at Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco, Harlingen Medical Center, and Mission Regional Medical Center WESLACO / HARLINGEN / MISSION, Oct. 2026 – A major expansion of physician residency programs is helping to increa...
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EDINBURG, Texas (ValleyCentral) — UTRGV Men's Basketball Coach Brandon Chambers is gearing up for his first tipoff as head coach. But if you look at the character of this locker room, you wouldn't even recognize that this group's been together for just a few months. On Monday, th...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Tropical Storm Isaias has formed in the Gulf! The track of the storm will turn northward, headed for the northern Gulf Coast. Strengthening is likely over the next few days, and residents from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle will see the bigg...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Twenty-three years after beheading his three children in Brownsville, convicted killer John Allen Rubio was back in Cameron County court to make one last plea for his life to be spared. Emotions were running high as death row inmate Rubio, 46, a...
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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s sports minister says the government will review the military service exemption for gold-medal winning athletes after public backlash to some controversial comments from winners at the Asian Games. Three players from the men's soccer team ca...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — When right-hander Michael King dramatically emerged from the bullpen in a darkened Petco Park to pitch in the eighth inning of Game 3 just two days after he made a five-inning start in Game 2, the San Diego Padres' desperate determination to extend their season w...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Mason Miller will probably want to come up with something a little better than cigars for his San Diego Padres teammates when he returns to the club as a first-time father. Not only did the Padres cover splendidly for their top reliever in their gritty playoff vi...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Florida Panthers forward Brad Marchand sustained a left leg injury in the second period of their 2-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night. Marchand was not on the bench for the third period, and coach Paul Maurice did not have an update on his con...
