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Crime briefs: Harlingen police identify victim of fatal crash

Harlingen police has identified the victim of a fatal auto-pedestrian crash as Osvaldo Rodriguez, 42, who was wanted by Mont Belvieu police for murder, according to a press release.

San Benito ResacaFest festivities set for Saturday

SAN BENITO - The City of San Benito will celebrate Independence Day Saturday at ResacaFest.

South Padre Island woman charged in connection with prescription drug kickback scheme

McALLEN — A South Padre Island woman stands charged with participating in a large scale kickback conspiracy meant to defraud federal and private health insurers via the unnecessary prescription of compound drugs.

Dozens found dead: Up to 46 perished inside tractor-trailer near San Antonio

Over 40 people who were suspected to be migrants died while trapped inside a tractor-trailer that passed through a Laredo Border Patrol checkpoint Monday afternoon, according to information shared with The Monitor.

CDC reports COVID-19 cases are ‘high’ in three Valley counties

COVID-19 cases in the Rio Grande Valley are on the rise and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the level of coronavirus is high in three Rio Grande Valley counties.

Gulf system unlikely to develop into named storm

An area of low pressure off the Louisiana coast is unlikely to spin up into a tropical storm or hurricane, and most of the heavy rain associated with this weather system should go well to the north of the Valley, meteorologists say.

TSTC Dental Hygiene students elevate their training in program’s on-site clinic

HARLINGEN — The Dental Hygiene program at Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen campus has produced many dental hygienists through the utilization of its on-site...

Baby talk: UTRGV parrot study getting noticed

Karl Berg, a behavioral ecologist and parrot expert at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, has published a major study in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and it’s getting attention from a number of other scientific journals and media outlets internationally.

Potential tropical trouble brewing in gulf

Hurricane experts are putting Texas residents on alert for a potentially fast-forming tropical system now churning off the coast of Louisiana.

TSTC Plumbing and Pipefitting Technology program to add associate degree

HARLINGEN — Texas State Technical College will debut an Associate of Applied Science degree in Plumbing and Pipefitting Technology - Journeyman this fall at...