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2 Texas high schoolers test positive for steroids
DALLAS - Only two high school athletes were caught taking unauthorized substances in the nation's largest steroids testing program that screened more than 10,000 students, according to results released by the state Wednesday. Athletes tested played sports...
Border Patrol won't stop motorists in Sarita
RAYMONDVILLE -- Preparations for Tropical Storm Dolly include plans by the federal government for thousands of illegal immigrants in custody at the detention center.But U.S. Border Patrol agents at the Sarita checkpoint will not stop motorists evacuating...
Police investigate man found in river
Sullivan City police officers are investigating a suspicious death. Mexican authorities discovered the body of Gary Garcia, 22, of Sullivan City on July 12. His body was found floating on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande across from Sullivan City,...
McAllen man shot to death in Houston
HOUSTON — A grand jury will decide whether charges will be filed against the man who allegedly shot a McAllen man at a Houston strip club over the weekend. Jose Rogelio Alaniz, 38, of McAllen was shot once and died at Ben Taub General Hospital...
CHRIS ARDIS: Web cams can be a gate to hell for children
"Every Web cam in every child's room in America should be thrown away today." These are the words that made me change my topic for today's column, the words of Kurt Eichenwald, The New York Times reporter. Eichenwald gave this warning cry after happening...
Weslaco kids vie to become peel geniuses
WESLACO - The researchers rushed back from their lunch break, donned white laboratory coats and headed straight to the tables laid out with equipment to resume their work extracting and isolating DNA from citrus fruits. What they'll learn in the laboratory...
Tropical Storm Dolly forecast to become hurricane late Tuesday, reach Valley by Wednesday
McALLEN — This time, we may not have dodged the bullet. As the hours passed Monday, it was increasingly apparent to weather forecasters that Tropical Storm Dolly was marching toward the Rio Grande Valley, bringing potentially devastating winds...
Sheriff: Wife killer arrested
ALAMO - Sheriff's deputies arrested a man Monday night accused of killing his wife in front of his two children. A SWAT team executed a search warrant at an Alamo apartment around 8:45 p.m. and caught Cesar Trejo "without any serious incident," said...
Texas, Mexico prepare for Tropical Storm Dolly
McALLEN -- Texas mobilized National Guard troops and residents along the Gulf Coast near the Mexican border were buying plywood, flashlights and gasoline as Tropical Storm Dolly gained strength early Tuesday over the Gulf on its way to...
Sheriff: Immigrant killed teen
MERCEDES - An illegal immigrant who was tasked with guarding a convenience store shot and killed a teenager who attempted to burglarize it, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said. Silvestre Delgadillo, 28, remains on the run from law enforcement,...
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