Mission’s hunt for a permanent city manager hit another pause Tuesday. The City Council went into executive session on the search at the end of its meeting, then returned to open session and reported no action. The agenda called for the council to discuss which applicants...
The old Nueces County Courthouse is coming down. Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to hire Camacho Demolition LLC to remove the asbestos and tear down the 1914 building for $1,308,441. Camacho gets about 130 days to finish the job after its insurance and other paperwork is in...
A Brownsville Early College High School student is in custody after being found with a gun on campus Wednesday, Brownsville ISD said. The school was locked down right away, and the district says the student was taken into custody safely. The campus is adjacent to Texas...
A 24-year-old man died and a 26-year-old woman was arrested after a Tuesday night crash on Coffee Road in Brownsville, according to the Brownsville Police Department. Dania Martinez appeared to be intoxicated, police say. She faces a second-degree felony count of intoxication manslaughter and a third-degree...
Manuel Chavez has dropped the “interim” from his title. Del Rio’s City Council voted Tuesday to make him the city’s full-time city manager, per the 830 Times. Chavez has been filling in since the previous manager left, and he’s no stranger to the seat. He’s worked...
Elizabeth Cervantes, 38, was found dead at a Howard County home, and a few hours later the man investigators had pegged as a suspect was in custody after a pursuit along U.S. 87, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. It began with a 9:27...
A Federal jury has found a Yoakum County man guilty of using his phone to entice a girl, then 13, into sexual abuse, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Vicente Castillo Jr., 37, broke down in tears in the courtroom when Judge Wesley Hendrix read the verdict....
Edinburg is putting a new gate in front of data centers. Under a rewrite of the city’s unified development code, anyone hoping to build one will need a special use permit, according to The Monitor. City commissioners approved the change unanimously Oct. 6 as part...
Harlingen’s Economic Development Corporation is moving forward with a $97 million project that would give the city its first “live-work-play” development, according to the Valley Morning Star. Planned for a 71-acre site in the medical district, it would combine housing, offices, shops, restaurants and hotels,...
Randy Christian, who represented District 5 on the Lubbock City Council for one term, died late Sunday, Oct. 11, at 74. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, he had been in a long fight with cancer. Christian, a local businessman who worked in marketing, held the seat...
