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McALLEN — The swirling colors of the sky with its flaming spheres and waves churning roll around the concrete irrigation pipe to give a new kind of movement and vitality to the iconic image of "The Starry Night."

With the Texas Education Agency releasing its yearly Academic Performance Reports after a collaborative lawsuit to challenge last-minute changes to the grading system, large valley school districts passed with flying colors while smaller school districts struggled to meet the state average.

Texas State Technical College has named Eladio Jaimez as provost of its Harlingen campus.

The Texas Department of Transportation in Pharr is estimating that the Pharr Interchange Project will be fully completed by the end of May.

SAN BENITO — Family and friends are remembering former San Benito school board President Michael Vargas as a passionate community leader who fought to better public education.

HARLINGEN — The city’s ambulance company was fielding emergency calls when a 911 dispatcher suffered a medical emergency on duty.

A 59-year-old San Benito man was killed Wednesday afternoon after a car struck the bicycle he was riding and sent him crashing into the vehicle, authorities said.

The Rio Grande Valley’s VA clinics are holding free drive-thru food pantries offering veterans healthy food.

AUSTIN (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued Texas over a new law that would allow police to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, taking Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to court again over his escalating response to border crossers arriving from Mexico.

In a bizarre micro-scandal that some have dubbed “GrubGate,” a former GOP congresswoman who is running for her old seat in South Texas is being accused of routinely stealing photos of Mexican food from other social media accounts and passing them off as her own cooking.