The United States and Mexico are working together now. Their goal is to stop a violent drug gang. It is called the Juarez Cartel. On Thursday, Border Patrol agents dropped into El Paso from helicopters. At the same time, Mexican soldiers ran a matching patrol on the other side. The

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has spread to a sixth province. The head of Africa's top health agency said this week. A man got sick in one area. Then he traveled to another area. He died there. That death showed the virus had reached new ground. Ebola is

Maisa Lopes Eliaser was on a flight to Brazil this month. She was set to be deported. Then her phone rang mid-flight. Hours later, she was back home in Louisiana. Eliaser, 32, is married to Army Staff Sgt. Alexis Jaramillo, 43. She came to the U.S. from Brazil

A San Antonio man wanted for murder is back in Texas. He had run to Mexico. Now he sits in a jail cell near the border. Jason Gonzales is 20 years old. Police say he shot at his own brother during a fight. The bullet missed. It went through a

Corpus Christi police arrested a 34-year-old man on a murder warrant. They say he stabbed a 56-year-old man to death on the westside. Officers took Jerry Lee Alvarez into custody on July 21. He is charged with murder. His bond is set at $1 million. The

A Rio Grande City man now faces a charge. Police say he punched his own brother. Starr County deputies say Oscar Rodriguez Arredondo is 44 years old. They say he hit his 36 year old brother in the face many times. The fight happened early Wednesday morning. It was July

A rollover crash near Brownsville killed one man in April. Now a grand jury has charged two people tied to that crash. They are Fernando Alejandro Rivera Rojas, 40, and Cynthia Dominique Gonzalez, 20. The crash took place during a chase with Border Patrol. An indictment means a grand jury

U.S. Border Patrol's Laredo team arrested a man. They say he belongs to the Paisas gang. Agents said so on Monday, Aug 10, 2026. Border Patrol did not give his name. Agents also did not say where or when they made the arrest. They gave no facts

A Rio Grande City man will spend five years in federal prison. He tried to get sex photos. He thought he was talking to a 13 year old girl. Jorge Alberto Bazan is 32. He is from Rio Grande City. A judge gave him his sentence this week. He got

A 5-year-old boy from Colorado died during a family trip to Oregon. Doctors say a rare disease attacked his blood vessels. It shut down his body in just five days. Justin Vu was healthy and full of energy before the trip. His parents, Terese Peden and Viet Vu,

A magistrate set Jaime Garcia free on one murder charge recently. Garcia stayed behind bars anyway. He already faced a second murder charge in a different case. Now a Harris County grand jury has charged him again in the first case too. Garcia, 32, faces two separate murder charges at

Two men will go to prison. They took part in the 2023 shooting death of a 19-year-old Laredo man. Two other men charged in the case are still waiting for court dates. Ruben Ray Tobias Sr. pleaded guilty to murder on June 30. A judge gave him 10