Valley Morning Star

SAN BENITO — A steady flow of voters cast ballots as an eight-day early voting period drew to a close in some of San Benito’s hottest city commission and school board races, pumping up the city’s two rival factions to rally last-minute support as candidates zoom in on Saturday’s elections.

Feuding Mexican cartels briefly blocked roads Tuesday in the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.

The Biden administration will send 1,500 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border starting next week, ahead of an expected migrant surge following the end of coronavirus pandemic-era restrictions.

Investigators with the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention have linked Gold Medal flour as the source of a salmonella outbreak, officials say. 

A group of national and local environmental organizations on Monday filed suit against the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly “failing to fully analyze and mitigate the environmental harms resulting from the SpaceX Starship/Super Heavy launch program at Boca Chica.”

A jury on Monday sentenced a 22-year-old Rio Hondo man to 55 years in prison for fatally stabbing a Harlingen teen 67 times.

U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez on Monday announced more than $11 million in grants for water projects in Brownsville, La Feria, Donna and Hidalgo County.

HARLINGEN — Texas State Technical College student Jazlyn Roque recalls the day when she asked a man what his career as an electrical lineworker entailed.

HARLINGEN — “Parch.”

Three boaters who were initially reported missing by their families were found Saturday 30 miles northeast of South Padre Island by the Coast Guard.