The Monitor

United States Customs and Border Protection officers on Saturday seized methamphetamine worth more than $10 million from a shipment of fresh jalapeño peppers, according to a press release.

Movie theaters are flashing back to the 1980s this weekend at the speed of 1.21 gigawatts to bring Marty McFly to your screens once again.

McALLEN — The school district’s board of trustees here during a special board meeting Monday night named René Gutiérrez as the finalist for superintendent four months into the search to replace J.A. Gonzalez, who was recently hired for the top spot at the Harlingen school district.

Federal prosecutors allege that the Progreso school district’s board president was involved in smuggling approximately 88 pounds of cocaine in 2020.

A 34-year-old man pleaded not guilty on Friday to eight counts of manslaughter for crashing into a bus stop by a migrant shelter in Brownsville where he killed eight immigrants, court records show.

The girlfriend of the 39-year-old Mercedes man who was sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his ex-wife’s 19-year-old daughter had her charges dismissed last week.

A four-year veteran of the Edinburg Police Department is currently on leave without pay after he was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated.

McAllen police are on the lookout for two men whom they say broke into an unoccupied home on Sunday.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez on Monday announced $5 million in funding for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation.

The Texas Department of Public Safety said Sunday morning a La Feria man who died in a motorcycle crash in Harlingen, veered off the road “for unknown reasons.”