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Mission native Hanss Mujica remembers the look on his parents’ faces when they learned he was suspended from the University of Texas-Pan American in 2013 due to a 1.7 GPA.

EDINBURG — Administrators say a juvenile in custody has died after being found unresponsive at a youth offender facility in South Texas.

EDINBURG — The Palm Valley Animal Center announced Friday its intent to become a no-kill shelter, pledging to help save as many companion animals as possible as it moves forward.

Lights flash and cycle through changing colors revealing a young band jamming before computers lined against the library wall of Dr. William Long Elementary in Pharr.

EDINBURG — Ten thousand vehicles pass through the Falfurrias checkpoint every day, most of them personal vehicles, commuter buses and commercial tractor trailers. While not as common, ambulances also pass through to transport patients to higher-level care facilities in San…

Dr. Jorge Zamora-Quezada, a rheumatologist in Edinburg with an office in San Antonio, is currently being held pending trial over allegations he misdiagnosed and over-treated patients to fund a “lavish” lifestyle. But this is not the first time the physician…

The pastor of a Baptist church in Pharr called Cynthia Tisdale, his sister-in-law and one of the 10 victims killed in Friday’s Santa Fe High School shooting, a kind and caring woman who worked two jobs to help pay for…

Update: Possible explosives found at Texas school where shooting left as many as 10 dead

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge discovered more than a ton of marijuana hidden in a commercial shipment of charcoal coming from Mexico.

SAN BENITO — A bus driver for an alternative education program has been charged with showing “inappropriate” photos of himself to a 16-year-old girl.