The Brownsville Herald

RGV’s best honored at 2022 All-Valley Sports Awards Banquet

SAN ANTONIO — Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task Tuesday of identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat.

Expanding Frontiers, the Brownsville-based nonprofit that provides hands-on training for aspiring entrepeneurs in the emerging space industry, has received a grant through the National Space Society and Blue Origin’s Club for the Future initiative to inspire the next generation of space professionals.

The Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation announced the selection of Cori Peña as its new president and CEO.

Abortion services in McAllen will resume after a Harris County judge granted a temporary restraining order against the enforcement of a pre-Roe v. Wade abortion ban.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Local Brownville musician Lorenzo “Lorenzini” López is in the studio with his Tejana songbird, Madison Pulido, with projects from both of them on their way, something he has been wanting to cross off his bucket list since he started songwriting.