The Brownsville Herald

BROWNSVILLE — On a thoroughly windy afternoon, track and field athletes from all six Brownsville Independent School District high schools participated Tuesday in the inaugural Rio Grande Valley Unified Interscholastic Area track meet at Veterans Memorial Early College High School.

A Brownsville family has been left homeless after a fire completely engulfed their home.

George “Georgie” Garcia, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visitor center manager at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, will give a talk at the South Texas Ecotourism Center on April 6 beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the STEC multipurpose room.

A “board meeting” is scheduled for this month on South Padre Island with the return of the Texas State Surfing Championship at Isla Blanca Park.

NEW YORK (AP) — A stone-faced Donald Trump made a momentous court appearance Tuesday as the only ex-president to be charged with a crime as he was confronted with a 34-count felony indictment accusing him in a scheme to bury allegations of extramarital affairs during his first White House campaign.

U.S. Rep Monica De La Cruz last week introduced legislation that would monitor the effectiveness of the Cattle Fever Tick Eradication Program.

A cold front that will pass through the Rio Grande Valley Wednesday into Thursday could bring some strong thunderstorms and nuisance street flooding if the rain comes all at once, an NWS meteorologist reports.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at a Manhattan courthouse ahead of his arraignment on criminal charges stemming from a hush money payment to a porn actor during his 2016 campaign.

BROWNSVILLE — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, whose district includes Cameron County, has announced the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will receive two grants totalling $2.2 million during a period of five years from the U.S. Department of Education.

More rain is headed to deep South Texas later this week, according to a bulletin issued late Monday by meteorologists with the National Weather Service Brownsville-Rio Grande Valley station.