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Spring Break week will end with much cooler weather, as a cold front is expected to push through the Rio Grande Valley on Friday morning.

The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested a 46-year-old woman on Sunday for a fatal crash that killed her 51-year-old passenger.

Two Rio Grande Valley women traveled across the Rio Grande into Mexico in late February but when they suddenly stopped sending updates to their family back home, they filed a missing persons report. Unlike the quick response seen in the case of the four people who went missing last week in Matamoros, their case remains unsolved and their family lives on fragile hope.

The city of Edinburg is now ordered to accept a petition that calls for a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage for city staff and contractors to $15 per hour.

As part of the city of Mission’s efforts to increase training on mental health within the police department, the city council agreed to contract a consulting firm to provide training to their police officers on de-escalation tactics, biases and courtroom demeanor.

PHARR — Ground was broken Tuesday in an effort to strengthen the bond and expand commerce between the international communities of Pharr and Reynosa.

One of the defendants accused of smuggling people in the country illegally with the use of a Starr County District Attorney vehicle entered into a plea agreement last Tuesday.

The Brownsville Independent School District will increase its reliance on scratch-cooked options, thanks to a $186,000 grant from the Chef Ann Foundation to transition from a heat-and-serve model to one rooted in scratch cooking using whole, fresh ingredients.

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Graduate College will host its graduate fairs for the first time since 2018, with events scheduled this month in Brownsville and Edinburg.

HIDALGO — The entertainment lineup is set for this year’s BorderFest here, which includes its inaugural cookoff competition.