The Brownsville Herald

Expanding high-speed internet services countywide is the purpose of an agreement signed by Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino Jr. and VTX1 Internet CEO Patrick McDonnell during an official ceremony Monday morning at the Cameron County Courthouse/Oscar C. Dancy Building in Brownsville.

MISSION — For engineering students in South Texas, the FIRST in Texas championship is not just about robotics, and it shows. During Saturday’s competition, students exhibited camaraderie, passion and ambition in this tight-knit community.

Letters to the editor published in The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald during the week of Feb. 5, 2024. Contributors addressed voting, the proposed land exchange between the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and SpaceX and liquefied natural gas terminals. In addition we received a remembrance of Harlingen’s late Mayor Connie de la Garza and thanks for Christmas donations for children.

The Cameron County Sheriff's Office are looking for two Brownsville brothers accused of fatally gunning down two Hidalgo County men on Jan. 27.

"Back to the 956," an original play about a broken family, Valley culture, a time traveling machine and alternate universes is set to open Saturday night at the Edinburg Municipal Auditorium. 

Thanks to the standoff at the Legislature between vouchers and school funding, and multiple related factors, the Brownsville Independent School District faces a best-case scenario $16 million deficit even before it begins drafting next year’s budget.

The Texas 13th District Court of Appeals has unanimously overturned a ruling of Cameron County’s 445th state District Court in a lawsuit brought by SaveRGV, the Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter and the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas Inc. against Cameron County, the Texas General Land Office and intervenor Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over SpaceX-related restrictions to public beach access.

Earlier this week, a new name was entered into the short list of Death Row inmates from the Rio Grande Valley. Victor Alejandro Godinez, the 29-year-old Edinburg man who was convicted of killing 49-year-old Trooper Moises Sanchez after shooting him in the head on April 6, 2019, was sentenced to death.

In recent years, several Rio Grande Valley animal shelters have joined the growing trend of declaring themselves no-kill facilities. At the same time, growing numbers of animal rights activists are starting to question whether such policies are plausible, and if they ultimately are really in animals’ best interests as a general matter.

Feb. 20 is the last day Mexicans living abroad can register to vote in their country’s next general elections.