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Kids who exercise regularly do better in school, attend more classes, score higher in tests and feel better about themselves.

The appointees have to wait till they are confirmed by the senate before they can begin serving.

A proposal to crack down on the slaughter of sharks for their fins has stalled in the last stages of the state legislature.

Months after state lawmakers elevated a quiet feud with University of Texas System regents into a public spat, the Texas Senate is set to hold a confirmation hearing for new board members with just a week left in the session.

The Texas Workforce Commission said Friday the state unemployment rate for April remains a full point below the national rate of 7.5%. Conversely, the Metropolitan Statistical Area of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission continues to lead the state with an April high of 10.5%. It was followed by Brownsville-Harlingen at 9.9%. The commission says Texas' ... (more)

Thanks to this alliance, companies of all sizes will now be able to increase their Ethernet reach across the U.S. and Mexico border using trusted transport solutions from two well-established network providers.

Denisse Salinas , reporter for McAllen, TX, Telemundo affiliate KTLM , and photographer JJ Ramos were hospitalized after their news vehicle was struck by a hit and run driver Monday morning.

Contributed photo St. Louis, Mo.'s Abraham Mohler is busy at work on one of his sculptures.

The Texas Department of Public Safety has added Juan Carlos Pena, 48, and Willie L. Sullivan, 57, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Sex Offender list, and a cash reward up to $3,000 is now offered for information leading to each man's capture.

Nicole D. Perez Publisher-Editor The discovery of artifacts on the property that will house the City of Alice multi-use complex has led to the finding of as many as five additional sites containing artifacts along Highway 281, archeologists said Thursday.

A House panel on Friday scuttled a controversial plan being pushed by Sen. Juan Hinojosa , D-McAllen, to locate the first two years of medical education in Hidalgo County as part of a proposal to create a new mega university in the Rio Grande Valley.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) May 10--My recent participation in a couple of campaigns on Kickstarter has put me in a retro-styled gaming mood.

A South Texas U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested on a sexual assault charge after an incident with a woman he was guarding at a Corpus Christi hospital.

Time is running out: RealShare Student Housing comes to Four Seasons Resort and Spa in Dallas on May 13 and 14, 2013.

The Texas Senate Higher Education committee Wednesday tinkered with the bill that would create a new University of Texas institution in the Rio Grande Valley, despite some members expressing hesitancy over changes in how the location of the university's future medical school would be determined.

Indiana State Police troopers arrested two people after they found 65 pounds of pot during a traffic stop on Monday.

Hager Pacific Properties, a California real estate firm, has acquired five El Paso industrial properties and six in McAllen as part of a $17 million sale, the firm reported Monday.

Anthony Ruiz News The Jim Wells County Commissioners' Court opened two sealed proposals for emergency medical and ambulance service for the county during Friday morning's special meeting, but tabled action on accepting or rejecting the proposals until a committee can review them.

The Associated Press May 6, 2013 Weslaco, Texas- A South Texas town of 36,000 is considering spending $1 million for what it hopes would be the largest high school stadium scoreboard screen in Texas and possibly the country.

A South Texas town of 36,000 is considering spending $1 million for what it hopes would be the largest high school stadium scoreboard screen in Texas and possibly the country.