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Comments 0 Recommend 0 December 01, 2009 4:42 PM Jared Taylor The Monitor GOT A TIP? >> Anyone with information about this robbery is urged to call Pharr Crime Stoppers at 787-8477. PHARR - Six dollars and a bit of frustration.

A two-ton coriander shipment was denied entry to the United States at the Pharr bridge Wednesday after customs officials discovered it carried a pest known for transmitting citrus greening disease.

The estimated 200 Winter Texans at Paradise Park in Pharr had a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving came early for some families in the upper-Valley today. The National Honor Society at PSJA North High School delivered 30 Thanksgiving dinners to families in their community earlier today.

Pharr and Alamo will have each an IDEA school open in time for next school year, officials announced Friday.

Rio Grande City-based Border Patrol agents tracking on an all-terrain vehicle seen moving without headlights found it loaded front and back with 577 pounds of marijuana, Customs and Border Protection said Friday.

An innovative project that would tie two international bridges at center point to both link Brownsville and Matamoros, Mexico, is planned by the state , county and city.

Originally published November 9, 2009 at 11:20 p.m., updated November 9, 2009 at 11:21 p.m. PHARR, Texas a ' Eleven students including six juveniles are accused of participating in a gang-related riot at a Pharr alternative high school.

A 21-year-old Weslaco, Texas woman is facing federal drug charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers say they discovered nearly one-point-eight-million-dollars worth of heroin in her vehicle.

Police are searching for a driver who fatally hit a man and fled the scene. It happened on the 8000 block of South Cage early Sunday morning.

Hidalgo County jail cell. His fate is now in the hands of a jury. Court adjourned Friday evening.

TxDOT has announced the following construction and maintenance work starting today: FM 3362 TxDOT is performing maintenance work on the northbound FM 3362 lanes near the Nolana Intersection in McAllen/Pharr from October 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Motorists should expect lane reductions and delays.

Several men are facing charges after leading authorities on a high speed chase through multiple cities.

A Mission teenager who was struck by a vehicle while changing a tire on Expressway 83 has died.

I have met some interesting crafters and artisans. When their home overflows with pottery, doilies, afghans, rag dolls or any number of handmade wares, they may try to sell a few items to make room for new treasures or to make a little money to buy supplies to keep creating and making.

Police caught a couple of would-be robbers using the duo's own getaway car Friday morning, officials said.

A 44-year-old Pharr man died after a morning accident. Police say the man lost control of his vehicle on east Expressway 83 and crashed into the guardrail near the floodway in Mercedes.

Police are asking the public to help them find the drivers of two cars that were drag racing Sunday and caused and accident that hospitalized Edinburg North High School Principal Ramiro Guerra and his wife.

Income at the top 5 percent of households a ' those making $180,000 or more a ' was 3.58 times the median income, the highest since 2006.

A pothole-ridden stretch of Sugar Road may be a beneficiary of a bit of good fortune in highway funding.