Tag: Edcouch

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.

A manslaughter indictment against a 27-year-old Edcouch man who accidentally shot and killed his cousin over the 2021 Easter weekend has been dismissed over insufficient evidence.

The Elsa Police Department on Monday arrested a juvenile linked to a threat made against Edcouch-Elsa ISD.

In the wake of an FBI raid on Edcouch City Hall last month, city officials have repealed an ordinance that allowed for the regulation of electronic game rooms, more commonly known as eight-liners or maquinitas.