Alerts BRH

Brownsville police have arrested a 33-year-old man for his involvement in the robbery of a local bank Thursday.

The Brownsville Convention and Visitors Bureau is out of the pyramid and into a snazzy, renovated former auto supply store next door to the eBridge Center for Business and Commercialization downtown.

Amid a nationwide shortage of blood donations, Vitalant says that of 70% of eligible blood donors in the Rio Grande Valley only 3% actually give.

The trio of suspects, including a father and son, accused of misapplying hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal grant funds meant to be used for temporarily housing migrant children appeared in Brownsville federal court this week, where a May trial date was scheduled.

Multiple former and current law enforcement officers testified Friday morning regarding the events that occurred before and after the apprehension of the suspect who allegedly shot 49-year-old trooper Moises Sanchez, who died months later in Houston following a surgery, in 2019.

With the departure of Eduardo Campirano as port director and CEO of the Port of Brownsville, Brownsville Navigation District commissioners have named William G. Dietrich, the port’s chief of police, interim head as the search for Campirano’s successor continues.

A Border Patrol agent testified Thursday morning about the damage done to his property during a shootout with the suspect in the case of the shooting and death of 49-year-old Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Moises Sanchez.

About 20 people including parents, a former librarian and other Brownsville Independent School District teachers and staff attended the first of three community round tables on Tuesday to guide the selection of a new superintendent of schools.

Meteorologists with the National Weather Service Brownsville-Rio Grande Valley station say they are monitoring two “significant weather systems” over the coming week that will present multiple hazards to Rio Grande Valley residents in the form of high winds and very cold temperatures.

Jurors in the trial for the Edinburg man accused of killing Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Moises Sanchez in 2019 heard testimony Wednesday morning from a Texas Ranger who helped in the manhunt for the defendant.