Alton News

A pregnant South Texas woman is being hailed a hero after stopping some teenagers from beating a police officer.

A pregnant woman helped break up a scuffle between an Alton police officer and a group of teenagers who attacked him over the weekend, officials said.

Edinburg school district officials have confirmed three of its students from Edinburg High School were involved in a single-vehicle wreck in Alton over the weekend.

Police continue to investigate what caused a single-vehicle wreck over the weekend that killed one person.

Wednesday public viewing at Rivera Funeral Home located on 1813 N. Conway in Mission from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a memorial at 7 p.m. The funeral will be 11 a.m. Thursday at 11 a.m. at the San Martin de Porres Catholic Church on 5 Mile Line, west of Conway Avenue in Alton.

The U.S. Army recognized Staff Sgt. Bradley Espinoza's exemplary service to his country and gave him full honors as a "true American hero" at the soldier's funeral Thursday.

Viewing for Staff Sgt. Bradley Espinoza will be 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today at Rivera Funeral Home on Conway Avenue and 19th Street.

The body of Staff Sgt. Bradley Espinoza has arrived at McCreery Aviation this afternoon.

The remains of the slain Alton soldier will arrive around noon Tuesday at the McAllen-Miller International Airport, and the Mission authorities invite the public to pay their respects to 26-year-old Staff Sgt.

Officers' final suspect in an armed robbery fell into their lap Thursday evening.

A "lucky" tip helped authorities unravel the mystery of this city's missing manhole covers.

Originally published September 21, 2009 at 6:15 a.m., updated September 21, 2009 at 7:44 a.m. ALTON, Texas a ' A park in the Lower Rio Grande Valley serves as a reminder of when a school bus went into a water-filled pit in a wreck that left 21 children dead.

The unease sets in the same time each year. The jangled nerves. The tremors. The recurring dreams - each with dozens of small hands pressed against closed bus windows and the screams of 81 children trapped at the bottom of a flooded caliche pit.

Alton's suspended police chief would lose the ability to work at his private security company if the Hidalgo County District Attorney's Office prosecutes the public lewdness case against him, officials said Wednesday.

Alton's police chief had sex with a 22-year-old woman inside police vehicles on a weekly basis for more than a year, according to an auto parts store manager cited in police records.

Alton Police Chief Baldemar Flores turned himself in Monday morning after learning he was wanted for public lewdness.

To many people just speeding by, a home on Inspiration Road looks like a regular home.

The driver involved in an accident that killed two of his relatives Sunday morning turned himself in to police this afternoon.

Police continue to investigate a crash that left two brothers dead over the weekend.

A "highly intoxicated" man bit two officers and jumped out of a moving police vehicle early Thursday morning, officials said.