Tag: Alton

Cities across the Rio Grande Valley are preparing for spooky season with festivals full of scary good activities.

Hidalgo County is extending its operating hours at WIC clinics throughout the area beginning in October.

An Alton man and a McAllen woman will have their initial charges of aggravated assault enhanced to murder after they allegedly beat a man to death, according to police.

MISSION — A defense attorney is asking the public and police for answers regarding the death of his client who died in Alton police custody.

A 39-year-old man from Belton, Texas, died Wednesday night after a police chase that ended with him crashing into the south embankment of a canal, according to a press release from the Texas Department of Public Safety.

Following the departure of former Alton Police Chief Jonathan Flores, the city of Alton swore in its new chief of police during its City Commission meeting Tuesday afternoon.

The city of Pharr reached a settlement with its former city attorney last week, another in a number of moves involving high-ranking officials within the past two months.

Pharr officials looked to Alton when needing to recruit a new administrator and hired that community’s police chief, Jonathan B. Flores, to serve as Pharr’s new assistant city manager.

Healthcare and emergency agencies in the Hidalgo County area continue warning residents that as temperatures rise to nearly unbearable conditions, so do the risks of heat-related illness and even death if the proper precautions aren’t taken.

A 27-year-old Alton man has been sentenced to a decade in prison after being caught by the Nueces County Interdiction Task Force with more than 40 pounds of cocaine last summer in Bishop, court records indicate.