Mission News Archives

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.

Campgrounds and RV parks nationally have seen a mild drop in visitors because of the recession, but campgrounds in the Tri-parishes are largely doing well, say local park owners.

Two home invasions Monday afternoon appear to have been committed by the same group of men, sheriff's deputies said.

The family of a fallen soldier waits for his return. Family members tell us Bradley Espinoza's mother went to Delaware to bring his body back to the Valley.

The city has netted an $8 million loan from the Texas Water Development Board to finance water system improvements that will stave off an increase in the city water rates.

A fugitive who was indicted last year on three counts of wire fraud for operating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme has been arrested near Toronto, Canada, United States Attorney Tim Johnson announced today.

The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least 3,474 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

Mission Mayor Beto Salinas doubts all his city's residents could have afforded the mandatory and expensive flood insurance premiums that were planned for low-lying parts of Hidalgo County two years ago.

As of Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at least 4,351 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action.

A portion of Expressway 83 remained closed during Wednesday morning rush hour as crews repaired a damaged utility pole and downed power line resulting from a crash the night before.

Don't visit the Marks house at night if you're easily spooked. Skeletons robed in white sheets dangle from trees, rotting corpses crawl from their graves and cobwebs covered in foul creatures line walkways while the sound of screaming children drifts through the home's small front yard at the 1900 block of West Hackberry Avenue in McAllen.

Claire Kowalick/Times Record News Plans are being completed for remodeling of the Texas National Guard Armory in Wichita Falls.

Isabel Garza and her four daughters suffer from allergies and asthma year-round. But it's the fall and winter months in the Rio Grande Valley they dread the most.

Expressway 83 from Bryan to Inspiration Road will remain closed until noon Wednesday.

TX Dot crew have shut down Expressway 83 in Mission until noon today. The East and West bound lanes, plus the frontage roads will be closed from Inspiration Road to Bryant Road.

A Mission, TX trucker is facing drug trafficking charges in North Carolina after authorities allegedly found 1,758 pounds of marijuana hidden in a shipment of limes headed to New York.

With no job, five young mouths to feed and an income earned by his wife that barely breaks $19,000 a year, Chris Valle still considers himself lucky.

Atreyu is gearing up for their latest and greatest album yet, Congregation of the Damned.

Erasmo Garcia Zamora, Sr., 60, passed away on Sunday, October 4, 2009, at his residence.

This car belongs to CODE 7 SECURITY in Mission, TX. Mounting the light bar required drilling the roof, modifying the mounting brackets, running all the electrical lines through the car, mounting the control box on the dash, and cutting the plastic molding that surrounds the window.

Thieves making off with manhole covers are costing Valley cities big money, but tonight police have a major break in the case.