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SAN BENITO — Freddy Fender Lane filled with song Saturday as a crowd seated in folding chairs or standing, with some swaying to the beat of music, joined Margarita Huerta Fender and her brother Isidro Huerta as they sang “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” famously recorded by their uncle Baldemar Garza Huerta, the singer better known as Freddy Fender.

The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday issued SpaceX a long-awaited Vehicle Operator License for the first orbital flight of a Starship prototype, clearing the way for a launch next week from Boca Chica/Starbase.

In a 4-3 vote Wednesday, the La Joya ISD Board of Trustees appointed Beto Gonzalez interim superintendent after accepting the resignation of Gisela Saenz.

Fans of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley will soon be able to express team spirit by enjoying a cold Los Vaqueros beer.

In the wake of a scandal in the district’s communications department, McAllen school board trustees unanimously approved Monday a list of directives for Superintendent J.A. Gonzalez, and they want action within 45 days.

McALLEN — A federal judge set bond at $100,000 for the former Starr County attorney who appeared before the court Monday morning.

AIM Media Texas newspapers The Monitor, Valley Morning Star and The Brownsville Herald will soon cut the number of print editions down to five days per week, Publisher Stephan Wingert announced in a letter to readers Sunday.

Just two months after Arturo "A.C." Cuellar and Ricardo "Rick" Quintanilla were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their roles in the Weslaco water plant bribery scheme, the city has amended its lawsuit against the project's contractors to include facts from the criminal case.

Candidates for Place 1 and 2 on the McAllen ISD school board talked about issues at a forum Wednesday hosted by the McAllen Rotary Club.

An Alton man is scheduled to be arraigned next week on an intoxicated manslaughter charge over allegations that he killed his passenger when he crashed into a tree while drunk.