The Monitor

Former Pharr Chief of Police and City Manager Andy Harvey has filed another lawsuit, this time in federal court, against two Pharr police officers who responded to his home and arrested him in September of last year.

A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to begin enforcing a law that gives police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally while a legal battle over the measure plays out.

MERCEDES — There’s just something about them.

MISSION — The police department here, alongside city officials, held a press conference Tuesday morning regarding a police shooting that occurred Saturday that sent one officer to the hospital and left the suspect in critical condition.

MISSION — By a unanimous vote, the Mission City Council on Monday appointed longtime public administrator Mike Perez as Mission’s new city manager.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility intercepted $930,000 worth of alleged cocaine last Friday.

President Kennedy in 1963 signed the Equal Pay Act, the first federal legislation to prohibit sex discrimination in the payment of wages. At that time, women only earned 60 cents for every $1 earned by a man; 61 years later it’s unbelievable that women are still coming up short and the statistics are sobering. According to the Pew Research Center, women on average earn approximately 82 cents for every dollar earned by men in the United States. This gap is even more pronounced for women of color and those from marginalized communities, exacerbating existing inequalities and perpetuating cycles of poverty.

EDINBURG — There’s power in speaking with a unified voice, and that’s precisely what municipal leaders from Brownsville to San Antonio hope to leverage through a new partnership called the South Texas Alliance of Cities, or STAC.

A former Starr County justice of the peace on Monday pleaded guilty to his role in a drug trafficking organization that worked on behalf of the Gulf Cartel.

A truck driver was arrested Thursday after Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias checkpoint discovered 19 people illegally present in the United States inside the sleeper area of his tractor-trailer truck, according to a criminal complaint.