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HARLINGEN — The seasonally-adjusted Texas jobless rate dropped in June from 4.2 percent to 4.1 percent as the state set new employment highs for the eighth consecutive month.

A Brownsville family is mourning the death of their beloved American bulldog after it was brutally attacked by a man armed with a knife.

The ouster of Lorenzo “Lencho” Cabrera, Place 5 alderman on the Edcouch City Council, is back on the table, according to a copy of the agenda for Thursday’s meeting.

RAYMONDVILLE — Willacy County commissioners are entering into negotiations with Hidalgo County more than three months after shutting down a 582-bed prison that had become an economic driver in this farming county for 20 years.

South Texas Health System appointed a new CEO to lead their behavioral center, the hospital system announced Wednesday.

An Edinburg man was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison for downloading child sexual abuse material just months after he finished serving a previous sentence for the same crime, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A judge sentenced a Mission man to 21 years in federal prison after abandoning a woman he was smuggling to Houston because she was menstruating, leaving her to die in the brush on the side of a rural highway.

Alton police said Monday that a man who investigators initially believed had been killed in a ranch last week actually died of an overdose.

Perhaps having assessed the price of beachfront property, a Kemp’s ridley sea turtle found an alternative, and instead of nesting on a white sand gulf beach, she found a spot inside Matagorda Bay.

HARLINGEN — Texas added 74,200 total non-agricultural jobs in May, marking the seventh straight month of setting new employment highs.