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Agents found eight undocumented immigrants hiding between pallets of mangos in a refrigerated trailer, a Customs and Border protection news release states.

The Blue Angels will be in Kingsville next April for the "Wings Over South Texas Airshow," a Naval Air Station Kingsville news release states.

A Corpus Christi man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to distribution of child pornography, a Department of Justice news release states.

Officials for the popular eatery chain say the Twin Peaks under construction at Staples Street and South Padre Island Drive, complete with busty wait staff in skimpy plaid crop tops, is just weeks from opening.

A 21-year-old man told police he blacked out after stabbing his boyfriend and found himself standing over his dead body, according to an arrest affidavit.

The Corpus Christi Fire Department is accepting applications for those interested in joining the department. According to a news release, applications will be accepted through Aug. 14.

Abortion providers cheered a move by the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily block part of a Texas law that would have closed more than half the state's 19 remaining abortion clinics. Now they are studying whether it could also allow them to reopen some previously shuttered facilities and whether that would even be feasible.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie opened his 2016 campaign for president Tuesday and, never one to aim small, declared he's "out to change the world."

Pope Francis will meet with homeless people, immigrants and prisoners during his upcoming trip to Cuba and the United States and become the first pope to address the U.S. Congress. He'll also preside over a meeting about religious liberty — a major issue for U.S. bishops in the wake of the Supreme Court's gay marriage decision.

Corpus Christi police and fire officials are looking into what may have caused a small fire early Tuesday outside the old Nueces County Courthouse.