The Monitor

The truth will be out there once again this weekend.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Pepe Aguilar feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit. But unlike Superman, Aguilar's power isn't supernatural or otherworldly; it's his love for his culture and his determination to celebrate Mexico through his art.

AUSTIN (AP) — City of Uvalde Mayor Cody Smith has resigned effective immediately, vacating his post the same week the police chief of the small Texas city is expected to depart, two years after one of deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

Americans have been slow to wake up to the fact that religious extremism is a form of political extremism. Religious authoritarianism substitutes the decision-making of a private religious clique for the decision-making of the people’s public representatives in a democracy.

The National Weather Service Brownsville-Rio Grande Valley station released its April-June outlook for the Rio Grande Valley on Good Friday, though there wasn’t much else good about it.

The McAllen Police Department on Monday afternoon announced investigators have arrested two women and charged them each with 94 counts of animal cruelty.

A discrimination lawsuit filed by former superintendent Carolyn Mendiola against her former employer, Mercedes ISD, has been settled.

With the intake of about 90 animals over the weekend in an apparent McAllen hoarding case, Palm Valley Animal Society is requesting donations to help with the sudden influx.

A federal judge in Brownsville last Thursday denied Death Row inmate John Allen Rubio’s motion for discovery.

The Edinburg Police Department is seeking information regarding a crash that occurred on Easter Sunday after they found a couple with major injuries, according to a press release from the city of Edinburg.