Valley Morning Star

PORT ISABEL — The start of June signals the start of the road to the 7-on-7 state tournament in College Station for teams across...

Three Rio Grande Valley legislators will participate in the historic impeachment trial in the Senate against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

A month after the May 6 election’s call for change at San Benito City Hall, City Manager Manuel De La Rosa’s job might be on the line while City Attorney Mark Sossi is resigning.

HARLINGEN (AP) — Border Patrol medical staff declined to review the file of an 8-year-old girl with a chronic heart condition and rare blood disorder before she appeared to have a seizure and died on her ninth day in custody, an internal investigation found.

Graduation season is upon us. It’s one of the first major rites of passage in the lives of most people, a time to celebrate the achievement of finally completing the dozen years of formal education; for most students these days the time has been even longer when we factor in kindergarten, preschool and Head Start programs.

All three Rio Grande Valley representatives in the House of Representatives voted for the debt ceiling bill, but statements issued following the vote mostly fell along party lines.

HARLINGEN — Shuffling in shackles, 28 men and women climbed stairs to board a Boeing 737, taking a deportation flight to their home country of Colombia.

HARLINGEN — Shuffling in shackles, 28 men and women climbed stairs to board a Boeing 737, taking a deportation flight to their home country of Colombia.

The political tumult within the La Joya school board, sadly, is not unusual in the Rio Grande Valley. As board members spend their time grandstanding and bickering with each other, they seem to ignore the very reason they were elected in the first place — the educational welfare of the districts’ students.

Of the 89 residents of Cameron and Hidalgo counties at high risk of having fungal meningitis, only nine have been admitted to the hospital to be tested for the potentially deadly disease.