A 45-year-old man remains held on a $1 million bond following an Oct. 3 fatal shooting in Corpus Christi, according to law enforcement authorities. Corpus Christi police arrested Alex Borrego, 45, on a murder charge after officers responding to a 5:56 p.m. call found 45-year-old Fredrick...
A 38-year-old McAllen man will spend the rest of his life in prison without parole after a Hidalgo County jury convicted him of capital murder in a fatal 2017 drug robbery. Armando Adrian Arebalo was sentenced immediately following his conviction for the June 19, 2017, shooting...
A fatal T-bone collision north of Palmview over the weekend claimed two lives, adding to a recent series of severe traffic accidents in western Hidalgo County. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, 53-year-old Leobardo Adan Garza and 36-year-old Margarito Vasquez Cano, both of Mission,...
A local family has filed a $3 million civil lawsuit against Edinburg CISD, top district administrators, coaching staff, and a former student, alleging a campaign of severe bullying and hazing culminated in a violent on-field attack that left a high school football player with a...
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley has secured a $5 million federal grant to bolster regional manufacturing, expanding hands-on technical training and high-tech workforce development across six South Texas counties. The award, announced during a campus presentation last Thursday, comes via the U.S. Small Business...
Jurors watched body-camera footage Tuesday showing San Benito police officers scrambling to pull their dying supervisor from his patrol car, capping the second day of trial for a man accused of killing a veteran officer during a multi-city pursuit. Rogelio Martinez, 20, faces the death penalty...
A threat of flash flooding and hazardous coastal conditions continues across the Lower Rio Grande Valley today as a slow-moving weather system stalls over the Texas coast. The National Weather Service in Brownsville maintains a Marginal Risk for excessive rainfall through Tuesday night, following heavy coastal...
A former Webb County sheriff’s deputy who sexually assaulted a woman in his patrol car following a 2024 traffic stop will serve 20 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo ordered 29-year-old Ignacio Rodriguez IV to serve 240 months in federal custody, followed...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized more than $628,000 worth of cocaine during a single enforcement action at the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge in Laredo. The incident occurred Sept. 30 when officers referred a 2017 Nissan Rogue for secondary inspection. The vehicle was driven by a 35-year-old...
A man accused of killing two people in a 2022 drunk-driving crash near the Webb-Zapata county line is heading to trial, with jury selection scheduled for November following years of pretrial delays. Matias Cerda faces two counts of intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle, second-degree felonies punishable...
