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Texas Southmost College job fair in Brownsville to feature 70 employers

Texas Southmost College’s fourth annual Spring Job Fair takes place March 27 from 9 a.m. to noon at Jacob Brown Auditorium, 600 International Boulevard.

Peñitas man sentenced to 25 years for killing Mission man during drug deal

A Peñitas man was sentenced to prison on Thursday following a guilty plea for the death of a Mission man who he shot over drugs.

Feds arrest two in Brownsville for possession of over 19 pounds of fentanyl

Two people were arrested on Sunday at the B&M International Bridge in Brownsville after authorities found 18 packages and four bricks of fentanyl hidden inside the gas tank of the vehicle they were occupying, according to a criminal complaint.

Brownsville man charged with smuggling Gulf Cartel cocaine to Florida

FBI special agents on Friday arrested a Brownsville man who they accuse of smuggling 88 to 110 pounds of cocaine to Louisiana and Florida.

UTRGV accepts invitation to join Southland Conference

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will join the Southland Conference as a full-time member beginning in July 2024, the UTRGV athletics department announced Monday.

TSTC’s Precision Machining Technology program brings out best in student

HARLINGEN — Texas State Technical College Precision Machining Technology student Adrian Munoz developed a fascination with engineering at a young age.

The moon’s phases guide us

I hope you have been out walking in the evening this past week and observed the changing phase of our moon. The shadows of the maria may look like a rabbit or a face, depending on how imaginative you are. The illumination from the sun traveling to our eye here on Earth is truly awesome.

Harlingen district’s cosmetology campus gets makeover

HARLINGEN — Mirna Agado expertly curled the hair of fellow student Desiray Flores.

TSTI graduate leads by example in training technicians at semiconductor manufacturer

HARLINGEN — 1988 was a good year for Arturo Martinez.

Missing Tyler woman found in Alamo was strangled to death

Investigators with the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office have positively identified the remains of a 52-year-old woman found dead on a property in rural Alamo and determined she had been strangled to death.