A former mariachi and violin teacher has admitted to a federal charge tied to child sexual abuse material. Carlos Giovanni Castaneda Lechuga, 38, taught private music lessons at his home in Arizona. He now faces up to 30 years in federal prison. This case matters far past Arizona. Families across

Selena Quintanilla was only 23 years old when she died. A single gunshot at a Days Inn motel in Corpus Christi ended her life on March 31, 1995. More than three decades later, South Texas still feels that loss every single day. This is not breaking news. It is a

A Texarkana babysitter now faces a capital murder charge. Police say an 8 month old boy died from injuries he got while she watched him. Texarkana Arkansas Police got a call for help on June 29. It came in about 11:45 a.m. The call came from a home

A federal judge in Milwaukee fined former judge Hannah Dugan $5,000 on Wednesday. Dugan will not go to prison. She had helped a man slip away from ICE agents inside her own courthouse. A jury found Dugan guilty of felony obstruction in December. She led a Mexican man out

A Roma man ran from a traffic stop. He left several people by the Rio Grande, court records show. Now he faces two felony charges in Starr County. Erick Martin Barrera-Corro is charged with evading arrest with a vehicle. He is also charged with smuggling of persons. Both are

A Starr County truck driver now faces a felony charge. Cops say he pumped stolen diesel into a company tanker truck. It happened in the middle of the night. Heriberto Soberano is charged with theft of a petroleum product. That is a third degree felony. It can mean 2 to

A Rio Grande City man poured gas outside a drive-in. Then he told a worker he would burn it down, court records show. Deputies arrested Isaac Alexander Barrera, age 33, on a charge tied to that threat. The case shows how fast trouble can start. It began with a

Police in Ecuador stopped a big rig truck and found more than 350 kilos of cocaine hidden inside. That is about 773 pounds. Two men are now under arrest. The bust happened in the town of La Paz, in Montúfar county. That is in Carchi province, in the north of

A federal court ended cheap college tuition for thousands of Texas students. On July 9, judges ruled 2 to 1 against a South Texas group and three allies. The group had worked to keep the law. The South Texas group is called La Union del Pueblo Entero. Most people call

A husband and wife are dead in southwest Bexar County. Deputies say it looks like a killing, then a suicide. The sheriff says it did not have to end this way. Deputies got the call around 8:24 p.m. Friday. The home was in the 15000 block of Escalante

Mexico wants to arrest three army men. They once ran customs at the Matamoros border crossing. That crossing sits right across from Brownsville, Texas. The case says the men helped smuggle fuel into Mexico. The ring brought in more than 144 million liters. They lied on the paperwork. They called

Manuel Valenzuela, 35, will spend five years in a US prison. He helped sneak young kids across the border. He used candy filled with THC to make them sleepy and quiet. A federal court handed down the sentence earlier this month. The case happened near El Paso, not here in