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Agents in the Rio Grande Valley found more than $1.3 million worth of methamphetamine at the Sarita checkpoint, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release.

The Nueces County District Attorney's Office can't compete with other offices which pay its prosecutors thousands more, District Attorney Mark Skurka said.

Neighbors don't recall hearing anything out of the ordinary late Sunday night when Corpus Christi police officers responded to a call of a disturbance at the Sawgrass Apartments on Meadowvista Drive.

The Nueces County Sheriff's Office has identified a man's body found stuffed in a container last week.

Corpus Christi police arrested a 22-year-old man after he was found asleep in his vehicle with a gun by his side, according to a police news release.

The Padre Island National Seashore has scheduled the second public Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatching release for 6:45 a.m. Tuesday in front of the Malaquite Beach Visitor Center.

The leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof made $65,000 in donations to Republicans, including several to Republican presidential candidates, The Guardian newspaper reported Sunday night.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it has denied a petition to reopen a case involving the deaths of 23 endangered whooping cranes, according to Houston environmental attorney Jim Blackburn, who filed the petition as lead council in a lawsuit against the state over the deaths.
No explanation was given, Blackburn said.
This stems from a 2010 lawsuit filed by The Aransas Project, a Rockport-based nonprofit group of environmentalists, business owners, anglers and conservationists who advocate

Corpus Christi police are investigating the death of two people Sunday night at an apartment located at 6301 Meadowvista Drive as a murder-suicide.

A Rockport group is making sure children don’t go without their favorite literary friends this summer.