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Continuing to look at a positive enrollment outlook, the Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees approved Tuesday a partial compensation package for employees, though the board still has to approve a budget this summer and may discuss calling for a tax rate election during that process.

The owner of a Mission cantina admitted on Friday to forcing a 16-year-old girl to engage in commercial sex with her patrons, according to the United States Attorney's Office Southern District of Texas.

McALLEN — It’s been a whirlwind six months in Washington D.C. for Monica De La Cruz, the freshman congresswoman who last November shook up the Rio Grande Valley’s political landscape by becoming the first Republican and first woman to win Texas’ 15th Congressional seat.

HARLINGEN — The Harlingen school district’s new $184.1 million general fund budget is partly based on a 21-percent increase in appraised property values, leading an anti-tax group to argue property owners will be paying higher taxes.

SAN BENITO — The new city commission is launching a series of workshops, planning to draft a budget aimed at capping proposed hikes in some of the Rio Grande Valley’s highest water rates while speeding up street repairs and boosting low employee wages.

San Benito police are investigating an early morning single-vehicle crash that resulted in the death of a teenager.

Summer is definitely here and even an evening walk through the neighborhood will let you know it. The only bright spot is the stars in the sky that continue to shine in their predictable places and offer a glimpse of the grand plan of the universe-at least our part of it.

HARLINGEN — She stands in a lava field strewn with rocks wet with a perpetual rain, and her smile says it all.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers this week apprehended a 33-year-old man accused of a dog attack that killed a 40-year-old man in Rockport, Texas on Tuesday.

SAN BENITO — Riding a wave of change sweeping City Hall, the new commission here wants the city's staff to open up to residents' concerns.