Corpus Christi would skip more than $17.8 million in new debt for Northside water line work if the city finalizes a federal grant, city officials said. Council members passed the first of two readings Tuesday on an ordinance to accept a $17,830,308 grant from the U.S....
Federal fire investigators from the ATF are expected in Laredo on Thursday to help determine what caused the Oct. 7 fire at the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel, Mayor Victor D. Treviño said. The city also has asked the state for help at the site. It filed...
ICE says it stands by the medical care it provided to Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a 56-year-old detainee who died Saturday at the Rio Grande Processing Center in Laredo, while his daughter says staff ignored his health complaints and wouldn’t give him his medication. Andrade-Covarrubias lived in Dallas...
A 30-year-old man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for a 2024 crash on FM 509 in Harlingen that took the life of Oralia Garza, 77, of San Benito, according to jail records. Jose De La Cruz was sentenced Oct. 19. He pleaded guilty...
The Texas Mile, where high-performance cars and motorcycles race flat out down a full mile of runway, returns to Beeville’s Chase Field Industrial Airport Complex Oct. 23-25. Admission is $25 per person for a three-day pass with in-and-out privileges, and kids 12 and under get in...
Val Verde County Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez says he has not endorsed Gov. Greg Abbott, even though Abbott’s re-election campaign lists him among 11 sheriffs it describes as Democrats backing the governor. “I have not issued a political endorsement of Governor Greg Abbott, and I did...
Cameron County is asking Harlingen to enter a drainage agreement that appears aimed at letting data center developer Fluidstack send stormwater into a city-owned canal, with Fluidstack paying to widen it. Harlingen’s city commission, which meets at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, is set to take up...
Patrick Bradley, 54, will serve three years in prison for shooting at a man at a Central Lubbock after-hours club in 2023, while a murder charge tied to the death of that man’s uncle was dropped under a plea deal, according to court records. In 137th...
A parking study presented to the South Padre Island City Council on Oct. 5 ultimately suggested paid parking at the beach, along Gulf Boulevard and in the Arts and Entertainment District, with one or two garages as a possible next step. The council took no action...
Cameron County has been awarded more than $9.18 million in federal money for a new truck parking facility by the Los Indios port of entry, according to a county release. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the grant Oct. 14 through its Nationally Significant Multimodal Freight...
