HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Week five of high school football is underway in the Rio Grande Valley. MORE ON VALLEYCENTRAL+: Watch Rio Grande City at McAllen Memorial, McAllen High vs. Nikki Rowe on ValleyCentral+ Here are your scores for tonight's games: And don't forget, ValleyCentral+ is...
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The State of Texas has lifted several quarantine zones in South and Central Texas that had been imposed to prevent the spread of New World screwworm. This comes as the number of cases of the parasitic flies north of the border aren't as bad as officials originally had feared....
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SAN JUAN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A new study from UCLA is examining the growing number of Latino voters identifying as Republican in South Texas — and researchers say the shift does not necessarily mean those voters are becoming less connected to their Latino identity. The resea...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — The Boys and Girls Club of San Benito now has a new space where current and future students can create new memories. The Center of Hope is a new space at the Boys and Girls Club of San Benito created in partnership with Panda Cares, a Panda Expr...
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MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler and Sam Burns finally won a match together on their fifth try, and it came at just the right time for an American team that hung on to win the opening session of fourballs Thursday in the Presidents Cup. The Americans led 3-2, the ninth time...
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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — LeBron James has left the building, and that's not the only big change facing the Los Angeles Lakers in the upcoming season. James' departure was still on general manager Rob Pelinka's mind when he held his start-of-the-season news conference with coach ...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The NFL fined San Francisco 49ers All-Pro fullback Kyle Juszczyk for what it deemed an “offensive” celebration similar to one he had been doing for several years with no issues. Juszczyk was fined $14,926 after he imitated drinking a beverage following ...
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — N.C. State's former director of sports medicine faces felony and misdemeanor criminal charges after being accused of sexually abusing former Wolfpack male athletes under the guise of treatment, which previously led to more than 30 athletes outlining allegatio...
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LINZ, Austria (AP) — Israel player Sayed Abu Farchi was sent off for his goal-scoring celebration after equalizing against Austria in the Nations League on Thursday. The forward's goal made the score 1-1 early in the second half. He then jogged to the corner, pulled out the corne...
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After becoming the first team in major league history to follow consecutive 100-loss seasons with a playoff berth, nobody would have begrudged the White Sox for spilling over the dugout railing Thursday and celebrating wildly on the field in Kauffman Stadi...
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A pregnant woman’s unborn child died following a crash in Starr County caused by a Border Patrol agent, according to a local attorney. Attorney J. Michael Moore delivered a letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in McAllen on Thursday on behalf of the family involved in the crash, ...
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H ARLINGEN — A developer building a 1,100-acre data center campus on the city’s outskirts has “reserved” 1.5GW of power for the project’s $4 billion first phase. While Fluidstack’s reserved the amount from AEP-Texas, the company “could use less” power to operate the data center. ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bob Pettit, an imposing scorer and rebounder for the St. Louis Hawks and winner of the NBA’s first Most Valuable Player award in 1956, has died. He was 93. Pettit's alma mater, LSU, announced Thursday that he died a day earlier. The university did not provide a...
