The Mission school board voted Oct. 21 on a resolution directing Superintendent Cris King to review the district’s programs, services, staffing and spending as enrollment falls. King is also to develop options for bringing those areas in line with current and projected enrollment and educational...
A 16-year-old girl from Laredo has died after being stabbed Sunday in Zapata County, and the man in custody now faces a murder charge, the Zapata County Sheriff’s Office announced. Her mother and aunt identified her as Abigail Lizette Flores, according to the Laredo Morning Times....
Webb County has closed on the Casa Blanca Event Center property along U.S. 59, paying $4.25 million for nearly 15 acres, according to the Laredo Morning Times. The sale, which closed last week, covers two tracts that include a roughly 30,000-square-foot event facility, Pct. 1 Commissioner...
Ramón Ayala Jr., whose father is norteño star Ramón Ayala, was arrested Friday, Oct. 23, on a sexual assault charge and left jail the same day on a $2,000 bond, Hidalgo County jail records show. Tony Buzbee, the Houston attorney who represents former band members and...
Two men face federal drug charges after agents seized about 121 pounds of cocaine from a Mission residence and a vehicle, according to a criminal complaint. Carlos Guadalupe Bautista, born in 1989, and Sergio Enrique Navarro, born in 2007, are each charged with possession with intent...
Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico and President Donald Trump are each holding campaign events in Lubbock on Tuesday evening, in a county that Republicans typically win by wide margins. Trump is scheduled to speak at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center at 6 p.m. in support...
A Del Rio homeowner shot a man he discovered inside his house Saturday night, and the man was found afterward and taken to San Antonio for medical care, according to the Del Rio Police Department. Officers responded at about 10:39 p.m. Oct. 24 to the 200...
The Webb County Sheriff’s Office on Monday named the two men killed in a Friday night shooting in Pueblo Nuevo and said the suspect, Manuel De Jesus Cruz-Estudillo, 39, remains at large. The victims are Raul Ramos Moreno, 43, and Gustavo Ramos Moreno, 40. Deputies responding...
A Cameron County jury sentenced Rogelio Martinez, 21, to death Monday morning in the 2023 shooting death of San Benito police Lt. Milton Resendez, according to The Brownsville Herald. Jurors took close to nine hours, spread across three days, to decide punishment. The sentencing phase began...
A 30-year prison term was handed down to a George West man, 24, after the local district attorney’s office prosecuted a child sexual abuse material case that federal prosecutors never filed, according to The Progress. Peyton Shane Choate pleaded guilty Oct. 19, right as jury selection...
