A 19-year-old from Alton is in jail. He is charged with shooting and killing his father, his mother, and his grandmother inside their own home. Gaurav Chopra went before a judge Thursday morning at the Hidalgo County jail. The judge gave him no bond on the murder charges.

A man from Pharr ran a red light and killed a woman in Hidalgo. He was 71 years old. He was going 60 miles per hour. He did not brake. Javier Garza pleaded guilty Monday. A judge gave him 5 years of probation and 120 hours of community service. He

Ray Martinez ran the police in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He had the top job. He wore the badge. He swore an oath to protect the public. Then he sold all of it. For cash. For free trips. For steak dinners. For his kids' private school tuition. A

A man who was street racing on a Brownsville-area road when the crash killed another driver pleaded guilty Monday. He is set to get 10 years of probation. No prison time. Jose Reyna III, 25, will be sentenced on August 3. He pleaded guilty to collision involving death. As

Seven men stole money that was set aside to help people during the pandemic. The FBI caught up with them this week. Agents made arrests in three states: Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. All seven men are from Las Vegas. One of them, Marcus Dushun McMillian-Bonner, was picked up in

Cameron County just handed a big tax break to a company. The company wants to build a $3.2 billion shipyard at the Port of Brownsville. The company makes AI technology for military and commercial use. It calls the project Port Alpha. The county commissioners voted Tuesday to approve the

Two people are dead. A suspect is in jail. Police chased him down Tuesday night after they found two bodies inside a home in Alton. Alton police got a call about a fight at about 9:13 p.m. at the Tuscany Village area. When officers got to the house,

A former Texas police officer is going to jail. A jury convicted him of abusing his power and gave him 300 days behind bars. They said no to probation. Donald Najee Mercer was a Cedar Hill police officer in the Dallas area. On August 7, 2024, he stopped a 27-

A Texas woman spent years scanning Facebook and Instagram for people at their lowest. When she found them, she told them their luck was cursed and she could fix it. She could not. She just wanted their money. Bridgette Doreen Evans, 47, of Frisco, Texas, and her partner Vinnie John

A flesh-eating bug that was wiped out in the US more than 60 years ago is back. It is in Texas right now. And investigators say it got here through cattle that criminal groups smuggled across the border. The New World screwworm is not a dirt worm. It is

A Texas man is going to prison for 45 years. He stole more than 200 Lego sets. And a jury just made history to put him there. Winston Love, 28, was the first person in Texas tried under the state's new organized retail theft law. The law went

A teen in Laredo now faces four serious charges. A young girl said he abused her more than once when she was a child. Laredo police got the call on August 1, 2025. Officers went to a home in South Laredo. The girl told them the boy had hurt her