Two men were indicted Oct. 8 on capital murder charges in the July 16 shooting death of 40-year-old Hervey Marin De Leon at a San Juan H-E-B, according to court records. Juan Samuel Olguin of Alamo and Michael Anthony Lopez of Pharr, both 19, remain jailed...
Mercedes is taking applications through Nov. 13 for a new city manager, with the hire slated to begin in late February, per a city news release. The city brought in Altiva Management Group, an Edinburg firm, to run the search. Altiva is led by managing partner...
Testimony from a defense expert Tuesday painted a picture of a childhood defined by instability, abuse, neglect, poverty and mental illness for Rogelio Martinez Jr., 21, as the sentencing phase over the death of San Benito police Lt. Milton Resendez continued, according to The Brownsville...
The governing board for North Padre Island’s tax increment reinvestment zone, or TIRZ, approved about $1.4 million Tuesday to cover what’s left of the cost of repairing and updating the Michael J. Ellis Seawall, per the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. The project had a funding gap, and...
A $941,000 contract to rehabilitate the Buena Vista Pool, awarded to a company owned by Mayor Pro Tem Randy Quinones, failed to pass the Del Rio City Council on Oct. 13, according to the 830 Times. It got three yes votes, but the city charter...
All Laredo ISD campuses spent roughly an hour on secure status Tuesday after police learned of a threat aimed at a school they did not name, according to the Laredo Police Department. Police said law enforcement found the threat and officers followed up on it. The...
Twenty-four students from four Lubbock-area FFA chapters are headed to the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, and AgTexas Farm Credit is chipping in $8,000 toward their travel, per AgTexas Farm Credit. The convention runs Oct. 21 through Oct. 24. AgTexas’s Lubbock branch gave $2,000 to each...
A Sunday evening crash in Lubbock County killed a 47-year-old Tahoka woman, and a Lubbock man has been charged with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Elizabeth Metcalf died at the scene at FM 1585 and County Road 3100,...
Rogelio Martinez Jr., 21, now faces a jury that will decide his punishment after he was convicted of capital murder in the 2023 killing of San Benito police Lt. Milton Resendez, according to The Brownsville Herald. Opening arguments in the sentencing phase began Monday, Oct....
Voters in Corpus Christi will weigh in Nov. 3 on whether to end a program that lets the biggest industrial water users pay a fee in place of drought surcharges, per local news reports. Proposition B, called the Fair Water Amendment, would write a ban...
