Brownsville News

Kenson Lima has been getting increasingly weak. Lima has been on a hunger strike since at least June 23 while detained at the Port Isabel Detention Center near Los Fresnos pending civil immigration deportation proceedings.

A Brownsville minister died Friday morning after his small-engine aircraft crashed outside the Mid Valley Airport, emergency management officials said.

A Brownsville man, who was either 69 or 70, drowned early Wednesday evening while crabbing off Highway 48, authorities said.

Disruptions within the Brownsville Fire Department that involve a dog named Chief have evoked reactions from embarrassing to incredible, while the City Commission could be discussing the issue next week.

Brownsville police are looking for four suspects who were involved in the stabbing of two men at Waterside Apartments on Boca Chica Boulevard, police said.

Tug of wars within the Brownsville Fire Department that have brewed for years have escalated with a dog, named Chief, now at the center of controversy and the mayor's proposal to oust the fire chief.

Originally published June 30, 2009 at 1:04 a.m., updated June 30, 2009 at 2:10 a.m. BROWNSVILLE, Texas a ' A federal magistrate set $50,000 bonds for two Mexican men accused of smuggling illegal immigrants through a drainage pipe running under the streets of Brownsville.

A Brownsville teen experienced the most terrifying moments of her life Sunday afternoon as she hid in a closet while three men kicked in the door and ransacked he parents apartment, said the girl's mother.

Halfway around the world he stood shivering. Surprised by the cold on his Spring Break vacation, Esteban Rivera stood with his family gazing upon the magnificent architecture created for czars and mingled with the people of Russia.

Sounds like a "dog-gone" problem. A group of Brownsville firefighters filed a police report against the fire chief accusing him of "taking" their puppy on Tuesday afternoon, Brownsville Firefighters Association President Marco Longoria said Wednesday.

A Brownsville man has been arrested for aiming a gun at his neighbor and firing several rounds into the air inside the city limits, police said.

A Brownsville man was arrested for making false statements while purchasing firearms, which where later seized by authorities in Mexico, court documents show.

Bond was denied on a 41-year-old Brownsville man accused of attempting to smuggle nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico.

Three people were arrested after a hostage situation in Brownsville. FBI agents, Border Patrol agents, and Brownsville police responded to the scene at a house near the intersection of Woodway Drive and Boxwood.

Top Story Headlines 2 brothers shot and killed in Socorro Family of man killed by PD sergeant speaks out Mexico deploys 1,500 extra soldiers to border city CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - Mexico has deployed 1,500 more troops to Ciudad Juarez following a surge in homicides in the border city related to the drug trade.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation held a ceremony Friday morning to mark the grand opening of its new office in Brownsville.

A cutting-edge $5 million nanotechnology center could be headed for the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, U.S. Rep.

A Mexican national shot by police under an Expressway 77 overpass Jan. 5 was killed by two shotgun blasts to the back, an attorney representing his family claims.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers caught a man wanted for the sexual assault of an elderly person.

A Brownsville man is behind bars in the 2004 murder of Tomas Hernandez Zapata, according to the Cameron County Sheriff's Department.