The Monitor (Texas)
- Agua SUD board members sworn in, begin talks for district engineer
Thursday - 06/07/2018 - 08:43 AMPALMVIEW — The new board of directors for the Agua Special Utility District is now in place following the elections last month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Valley Interfaith pushes lawmakers to support DACA
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 10:27 PMHARLINGEN — Valley church leaders yesterday called on U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar to join the push for a Congressional showdown to decide the fate of the so-called Dreamers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local man pleads guilty to human smuggling charge
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 01:39 PMMcALLEN — A broken tail light that led to the discovery of three immigrants will cost a local man federal prison time.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Old McAllen pump house to be converted to restaurant venue
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 07:15 AMMcALLEN — The vacant, trashed, abandoned pump house — which doubles as a bomb shelter — on the corner of 2nd Street and Business 83 will receive a multi-million dollar overhaul.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Winter reservations at Isla Blanca to open Sunday
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 08:41 AMThe highly anticipated opening day of Isla Blanca Park winter reservations is almost here. Visitors will be able to reserve RV spots in-person or by telephone in two phases beginning Sunday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Noon Fix: US Senator denied access to immigration facility in Brownsville; Fashion designer found dead; Miss America drops swims
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 12:42 PMOregon Senator visits RGV: ‘This is not zero-tolerance, this is zero humanity’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oregon Senator visits RGV: ‘This is not zero-tolerance, this is zero humanity’
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 08:35 AMA day after having the police called on him when trying to visit an immigration detention center in Brownsville, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-OR, called President Trump’s recently implemented “zero tolerance” policy “morally bankrupt.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Penitas city manager received two-year contract extension
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 12:30 AMThe Penitas city manager will on stay on board a while longer after the city council approved a contract extension last week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pharr pays half a million to UTRGV School of Medicine
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 01:30 AMPHARR — Honoring its annual commitment, the city made a $500,000 donation on Monday to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine. Pharr joins McAllen, which paid $1 million in February to the medical school, and Hidalgo…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Noon Fix: Former Monitor editor dies; Summer meal programs; Local Food Allergy Awareness Walk; Justices side with Colorado Baker
Monday - 06/04/2018 - 12:29 PMFormer Monitor editor, Steve Fagan, dies
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- Peñitas opens 10th prescription drug drop-off box in county
Thursday - 06/07/2018 - 09:15 AMPEÑITAS — The city unveiled the county’s newest prescription drug drop-off box here on Wednesday in an effort to curb prescription drug abuse.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - UN urges US to stop separating immigrant families
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 10:35 PMWhile the Trump Administration’s new zero tolerance policy continues to separate immigrant families in the Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, the United Nations human rights office is urging the administration to “immediately halt” the policy, believing…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Noon Fix: Old McAllen pump house to be converted to restaurant venue; Tejano legend dies; La Villa has new police chief; Sanctua
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 12:52 PMOld McAllen pump house to be converted to restaurant venue
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - La Villa names new police chief
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 07:30 AMLA VILLA — The board of aldermen here last month decided the interim police chief should stay permanently.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former bus driver back in jail on new charges
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 01:17 AMA former school bus driver already facing sexual abuse allegations was booked back into jail Monday afternoon on two new charges of indecency with a child through sexual contact, according to Hidalgo County jail records.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Valley lawmakers sign petition to force vote on DACA bills
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 01:19 PMRio Grande Valley lawmakers Tuesday announced they will sign a petition in an effort to force the House to take up immigration bills, according to a news release.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two-year sentence for RGC man in human smuggling case
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 09:32 AMMcALLEN — A Rio Grande City man was given a 27-month sentence for his role in the smuggling of undocumented immigrants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Donna ISD board selects sole finalist for superintendent role
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 12:45 AMDONNA — The Donna school district board of trustees announced their sole finalist to fill the superintendent position left vacant by Fernando Castillo since February.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US Senator refused entry to facility holding migrants' kids
Monday - 06/04/2018 - 02:54 PMA United States senator trying to gain access to a federal facility housing immigrant children in Texas near the Mexico border and talk to a supervisor has been turned away after police were summoned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Death penalty or life? Jury to decide in killing of Border Patrol agent
Monday - 06/04/2018 - 09:32 AMBROWNSVILLE — The fate of a man who gunned down a Border Patrol agent could be in the hands of a jury as early as today.
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- New Heights: $19M apartment complex opens in Edinburg
Thursday - 06/07/2018 - 08:51 AMEDINBURG — A new $19 million affordable housing complex officially opened its doors Wednesday, though the 128 units it comprises are mostly occupied.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - La Joya couple accused of harboring more than 20 immigrants
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 11:21 PMMcALLEN — An engaged couple from La Joya faces human smuggling charges after being found with more than 20 undocumented immigrants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tejano legend Jimmy Gonzalez dies
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 12:07 PMTejano superstar Jimmy Gonzalez of Jimmy Gonzalez y Grupo Mazz has died.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man found guilty of killing off-duty Border Patrol agent sentenced to death
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 08:25 AMBROWNSVILLE — A jury yesterday sentenced a man to death for the killing of Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Valley lawmakers sign petition to force DACA bills vote
Wednesday - 06/06/2018 - 06:45 AMRio Grande Valley lawmakers Tuesday announced they will sign a petition in an effort to force the House to take up immigration bills, according to a news release.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sources: Edinburg city manager resigns
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 02:08 PMEDINBURG — City Manager Richard Hinojosa resigned from his post Tuesday, according to multiple sources not authorized to speak on the matter.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - PSJA ISD superintendent drops charter partnership proposal
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 09:12 AMPHARR — A controversial proposal to partner the Pharr-San Juan-Alamo school district campuses with charter-like entities was officially taken off the table Monday as Superintendent Daniel King announced he won’t take the proposal before the board.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Judge denies bondsman’s request for new forfeiture trial
Tuesday - 06/05/2018 - 01:01 AMEDINBURG — A county court-at-law judge denied a local bondsman’s request for a new trial Monday, leaving the bondsman with two options, both of which require putting down the $50,000 he forfeited when the man he bailed out of jail…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Details emerge in fifth voter fraud arrest
Monday - 06/04/2018 - 11:55 PMEDINBURG — The fifth person arrested in connection to an alleged voter fraud scheme faced a justice of the peace Saturday, and two days later, his bond was reduced from $100,000 cash surety to one that allows him to walk…
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Summer meals available for children across the Valley
Monday - 06/04/2018 - 10:15 AMMcALLEN — As children from across the Rio Grande Valley begin to enjoy their summer vacation, school districts and other organizations across the region are announcing the locations where children 18 and younger can receive free meals.
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