Tag: Edcouch

A 32-year-old Edcouch man was sentenced to prison after it was discovered he purchased links to child pornography that he downloaded, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas.

High school mariachi groups from McAllen, Edcouch-Elsa and Rio Grande City this week graced the stage at one most prestigious performance halls in the nation.

Several housing authorities across the Rio Grande Valley were recently awarded funding for maintenance and modernization.

A 41-year-old Edcouch man was sentenced to prison for downloading over 100 sexually explicit and violent videos of children, according to a press release from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas.

“You took my daughter’s happiness away,” said the father of the sole survivor of a fatal drunk driving crash that took the lives of 32-year-old Felipe Huerta Jr. and his patient, 68-year-old Delia Cortines on Dec. 16, 2018.

A jury is deliberating the fate of a 39-year-old Edcouch man accused of killing two while he allegedly drove drunk and crashed into an ambulance in 2018.

EDINBURG — Tears streamed down his face as he spoke about an ATV accident that nearly killed him. Jose Eduardo Altamirano Brown’s mouth quivered as he thanked the DHR Health doctors and other healthcare staff who helped save his life with the use of the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO program.

WESLACO — A new hike-and-bike trail in the Mid-Valley will eventually connect to established trail systems in San Juan, McAllen and Edinburg.

Three months after an FBI raid at Edcouch City Hall sent officials there reeling, the city has relinquished two vehicles bought with funds from a federal law enforcement grant.

Local federal courts were quite busy during 2023.