A drunk motorcyclist ran from deputies and killed an innocent man on one of the busiest roads in the Rio Grande Valley. Now he faces murder charges and a bail of more than three million dollars. Apolonio Perez, 39, was riding his motorcycle on Business 83 at Bentsen Road in

A Los Fresnos man killed two women when he blew through a stop sign in 2023. A jury found him guilty this year. His sentence: six months in jail and 10 years probation. The victims were 97-year-old Mauricia Cruz-Rodriguez and 62-year-old Blanca Mauricia Zamarano. They

Your grocery bill is not lying to you. Ground beef has gone up more than 20 percent since January 2025. And two things are about to make it worse. First: a flesh-eating parasite is spreading through Texas cattle. Second: a big trade deal between the US, Mexico, and Canada

A Harlingen woman is putting the Rio Grande Valley on notice. A company called "American Cashaward" kept calling and emailing her. They said she had won $32 million and a brand-new car. All she had to do was pay $5,000 up front to collect it. She

Rogelio Mendiola had a murder warrant out of Cameron County. He was on the run for years. On Sunday, June 21, he tried to cross back into the U.S. at Eagle Pass. Officers were waiting. Eagle Pass Police and U.S. Marshals grabbed Mendiola at Port of Entry II.

On May 21, 2025, people walked into a federal courtroom in McAllen. They came to tell a judge what had happened to them. Each one had sat in Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada's waiting room. They had knee pain. They had stiff fingers. A family member said go get

A Fort Hood soldier raped two young girls. A military jury found him guilty on June 12, 2026. He got 25 years in prison. His name is Sgt. Maj. Victor M. Rivera. He is 49 years old. He worked at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. The judge took away all

A man fired twice for misconduct is now running a police force in South Texas. Matthew Luckhurst became police chief of Benavides on June 1, 2026. The town has about 1,100 people. It sits 150 miles south of San Antonio. The city council voted to promote him on April

Federal officers found close to $984,000 in cocaine at two South Texas bridges last weekend. The two busts happened one day apart. Together, the stops pulled nearly 74 pounds of cocaine off the road. Officers took both cars too. Donald R. Kusser runs the CBP Laredo Field Office. He

A Pharr man will spend the next 30 years in prison for the death of his baby boy. A jury found Miguel Ortiz Jr. guilty on June 9. They told the judge to give him 30 years. The judge made it official on Wednesday, June 18. The charge was injury

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal government cannot take away a person's gun rights just for smoking marijuana. All nine justices agreed. The vote was 9-0. The case started with a Texas man named Ali Hemani. He told FBI agents he smoked pot

A man from Mexico was living in Rio Grande City without papers. Last week, a federal judge sent him to prison for nearly 20 years. His crime: He tried to dump bags of meth out his car window while cops chased him. Victor Manuel Gaytan is 27 years old. On