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HARLINGEN — A committee is planning to reach out into the community, aiming to win residents’ support for a $107 million sewer overhaul spurring the city’s first water rate hikes in years.

Although donations have been slow, every bit of help that families in need have received during The Monitor and United Way of South Texas’ Spirit of Christmas campaign has meant so much to them.

Three people are now under police investigation after a Honduran man crashed into a business in McAllen and later died at a local hospital, according to a news release.

The Brownsville Independent School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday declared Minerva M. Pena’s seat vacant and appointed Tim Ramirez to fill it until May, when a special election is scheduled to determine the true winner of the disputed November 2020 school board race between Pena and Marisa F. Leal.

One San Juan woman died Tuesday morning in a major three-vehicle accident, according to a press release from the city of Edinburg.

Norma Torres, president and chief operating officer of Brownsville & Rio Grande International Railway (BRG), has retired from the position after 34 years with the short-line railroad, which serves the Port of Brownsville.

Visitation for Ben Neece, who died on Dec. 12, will be held on Dec. 22 from 3 to 9 p.m., with a brief prayer and sermon at 7 p.m., at Market Square, 625 E. 12th St., Brownsville.

Brownsville residents were treated to an atmospheric phenomenon Monday that gives the illusion that there are two suns in the sky.

BROWNSVILLE — Street tacos.

HARLINGEN — Days after terminating the Rio Grande Valley Humane Society’s contract, city leaders said they are trying to account for the agency’s use of the city’s annual $400,000 payments.