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There are now a total of six cases of monkeypox in Hidalgo County, the county health department said in a news release Monday. The county...

Rebecca Lee Cantu was trapped.

The political director for Republican congressional candidate Monica De La Cruz and the Hidalgo County GOP chair fueled a Twitter war last week with the parents of two children killed in the Uvalde elementary school massacre.

An arraignment and detention hearing was cancelled Wednesday for Ruben Gallegos Jr., the CEO of International Education Services, who is charged with embezzlement and theft.

PHARR — A man died after becoming trapped under a box trailer Tuesday morning.

Dr. Pat Burchfield, executive director at Gladys Porter Zoo, said on Thursday that wildlife trafficking is the third biggest smuggling commodity, adding that zoos often struggle when federal agencies leave seized animals in their care due to the cost of care.

McALLEN — You won’t find any “out of this world” puns in this story, because for Noe Torres, who’s literally written the book about alien sightings, encounters and UFOs, it’s all about taking a grounded approach. In fact, the McAllen High School librarian said it best Tuesday when he described himself more like Dana Scully than Fox Mulder.

A Starr County judge dismissed a lawsuit on Monday that sought to keep the Republican candidate running for Starr County judge from being on the ballot. The lawsuit was filed Aug. 19 by Starr County Judge Eloy Vera, a Democrat who is running for reelection. Vera argued in the lawsuit that his Republican opponent, Maria Yvette Hernandez, does not live in Starr County and is therefore ineligible to run for the seat. To support his argument, Vera used paperwork Hernandez filed with the Starr County Clerk’s Office on June 24, 2016, in which she attested that a La Joya residence had been her “sole homestead” since 2006.

As of Monday night it was still there on the National Hurricane Center’s tropical weather outlook page, the homely little yellow circle indicating a weak tropical disturbance loitering off the coast of Belize and tracking toward South Texas, but with virtually no hope of forming into a cyclone.

Hidalgo County reported two more cases of monkeypox on Monday. The Hidalgo County Health and Human Services department confirmed a second and third case of...