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Hidalgo County

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    No More "Debtor's Prison" for Truants in Hidalgo County, ACLU Says

    We didn't really think this happened much anymore, but apparently Hidalgo County was in the habit of jailing school truants who couldn't pay the sometimes large fines they racked up. It sounded -- to the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas -- like the debtor's prisons of old, so th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Cirilo Castillo, Jr: Accused of Multiple Counts of Horse Sex

    themonitor.comCirilo Castillo: Hide yo' sheep, hide yo' mares, he (allegedly) rapin' everthang 'round there​If the comment sections of Rio Grande Valley newspapers are any indication, Hidalgo County is regarded as something of a rustic backwater by its more urbane neighbors. Stories like this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Rio Grande River Shoot-Out: Texas Officers, Mexican Drug Cartel Trade Fire

    Guns along the river​A dramatic firefight broke out on the Rio Grande River early this morning when federal drug agents attempting to intercept two boats traded shots with cartel members on the Mexican side, the Department of Public Safety says. "A suspicious vehicle on the U. S. side of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Mark Anzaldua: Sentenced In Horrific Case After Mentally Challenged Relative Has His Baby

    Five years in prison​Yesterday a Hidalgo County jury found Mark Anzaldua guilty of raping a mentally-challenged relative. The evidence in the case was beyond compelling: a DNA test proved that Anzaldua fathered the woman's son. In the sentencing phase, Anzaldua wept in open court and begged f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2010

    Dulce Nava-Cardenas: Sells $150 Sex To 16-Year-Old Boy

    Dulce Liliana Nava-Cardenas: The true meaning of Christmas​Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, well, plenty of creatures were stirring in the house in this story... ... Police in Edinburg say that in the wee hours of December 24, a Valley dad walked in on his 16-year- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2010

    Maria Ipina: Valley Cops Say Toddler Caught Peddling Weed Door-to-Door

    First rule, kid: Don't take nothing but cash​Even the most grizzled cops in the Rio Grande Valley town of San Juan say this is a new one for them, and that's saying something.They say they have had to remove a four-year-old girl from her home after neighbors complained that the pre-kindergartener ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Rio Grande Mud: Cops, Mayors and Judges Busted For Corruption, DWI And Whoring All Over Valley

    Froget it, Jake. It's just the Valley​On moving to Miami during that city's Cocaine Cowboy heyday, a friend once described the place thusly: "You are nobody here until you are under indictment."As the frontline for the drug war has shifted from Colombia and South Florida to Mexico and South Texas, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    ACLU Says Texas Teens Being Sent To Debtors' Prison

    Missing school, getting fined thousands. ​The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas is challenging officials in Hidalgo County because teenagers are being jailed in an adult detention center for skipping school and not paying truancy fines, which, according to a class action lawsuit filed Monday ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Valley Weekend Mayhem Proves God, Intoxicants, And Knives Don't Mix

    Photo courtesy Hidalgo Co Sheriff's Office​Catholicism, knives, and intoxicants proved to be a potent stew in two incidents in and around the Rio Grande Valley town of Edinburg over the weekend. One is kind of funny... When Hidalgo County police found 20-year-old Agustin Casanova hiding in a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2010

    The "Circus Superstar" With The Foul-Smelling Menagerie, Part 1

    ​While Caroline Wedding has only been running the Marion County Humane Society for about three years, she has already been on plenty of animal-cruelty raids, and has helped find better homes for hundreds of dogs, cats and exotic birds. Still, she thinks it's unlikely she will ever come across some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    State Rep. Kino Flores: If The Collar's Poppin', The ICE Ain't Stoppin'

    ​While Caroline Wedding has only been running the Marion County Humane Society for about three years, she has already been on plenty of animal-cruelty raids, and has helped find better homes for hundreds of dogs, cats and exotic birds. Still, she thinks it's unlikely she will ever come across some ... More >>

  • Culture

    February 22, 2007

    Art Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  • Culture

    February 15, 2007

    Capsule Reviews

    A picture of our opinions on local exhibitions

  • Culture

    January 11, 2007

    Striking Three

    A photo exhibition at the MFAH has some real standouts

  • News

    June 19, 2003

    Bench Blues

    The judiciary starts scrambling after state cuts in visiting judges

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Border Bound

    Is Elton Bomer the bully who's needed to help colonias -- or just another political grandstander?

  • News

    May 22, 1997

    Brothers of the Road

    'The I-69 "NAFTA Highway" is supposed to create thousands of jobs. Thanks to your tax dollars, it's already provided a very good one for the underemployed brother of Tom DeLay.

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