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First round awaits East Valley baseball teams

The playoff journey is scheduled to begin today for baseball teams around the East Valley. In Class 6A, the Harlingen High Cardinals and Edinburg High...

Port Isabel’s Ramos, Camacho heading to state track meet

The Port Isabel Tarpons will have two representatives at the Class 4A state track & field meet today in Austin, both looking to cap...

LETTERS: Doctors have ethical rights

I felt compelled to respond to the letter Hank Shiver in the April 8 Herald. He is inappropriately equating ethics and religion. Anyone can have...

LETTERS: Political actions sought from Musk

Elon Musk, why so silent in the face of Texas’ plans for restrictive voting laws? And why so silent with Texas’ plans to restrict...

EDITORIAL: Age issue: Is universal preschool plan starting children too young?

Just a few decades ago, most Americans started their educations in the first grade. Kindergarten started to grow in popularity in the 1960s and...

SpaceX makes first Starship flight sans explosion

SpaceX pulled it off Wednesday afternoon, finally launching and landing a full-size Starship prototype without an explosion of any sort. The SN15 prototype blasted off...

Fetal “heartbeat” bill nears passage in Texas Legislature

Texas lawmakers are poised to enact sweeping restrictions on access to abortions, prohibiting the procedure as early as six weeks, and opening the door...

US awards huge shelter contracts amid child migrant increase

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press Confronted with a stream of unaccompanied children crossing the border from Mexico, the U.S. government has awarded shelter-construction and...

Brownsville to host first and second dose vaccination clinic

The City of Brownsville will host a COVID-19 vaccination drive-thru clinic on Friday, May 7, at the Texas Southmost College ITECC Building (301 Mexico...

Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills

By ACACIA CORONADO and BILL BARROW Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republican lawmakers around the country are pressing ahead with efforts to tighten voting...