San Benito News

TODAY FOURTH OF JULY PARADE , hosted by Harlingen Jaycees, at 10 a.m. along Jackson Avenue from Fourth Street to E Street.

More residents are like Dalia Garcia: asking for food stamps amid a recession that has raised the Rio Grande Valley's jobless rate by about 30 percent since last year.

A small shopping center will help bolster sales tax revenues that have held steady here despite the recession, city officials said this past week.

Cameron County sheriff's deputies seized $1.2 million worth of drugs during a raid at a San Benito home.

The Cameron County Sheriff's Department is working with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives after a major bust in San Benito.

Lowe's and Kobalt Tools in partnership with SkillsUSA are helping the next generation of skilled trade professionals at San Benito High School through their new Tough Tools for Cool Schools program.

When Martha Simental's mother died, her family wanted to bury her in the new cemetery where the city buried music legend Freddy Fender.

Passed away in her sleep, at her home, in San Benito on Friday June 26, 2009. Elizabeth Jane Bohner was born in San Benito August 10, 1919, the first child of Ethel John Bohner and Ernest Frost Bohner.

Went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at Retama Manor in Harlingen.

When most people leave their ship at this port city on the tiny ismuth that separates the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, they are normally met by a local greeter, scenic tours and a cold tropical drink.

Firefighters are responding to a residential fire in the 600 block of South Sam Houston Boulevard.

City commissioners will conduct background checks on six candidates for public safety director, including acting Police Chief Charles Lopez and former San Benito public safety director Orlando Garcia, officials said Wednesday.

She was a native of Rio Hondo, Texas and a longtime resident of San Benito. She is preceded in death by her daughter-in-law, Rosa Elia Perez and son-in-law, Pedro Armadillo.

TODAY SAN BENITO HISTORICAL SOCIETY meets at 6 p.m., 210 E. Heywood St. BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP will meet at 6 p.m. in the Boggus Education Pavilion across from the Emergency Department at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Harlingen. For more information, contact chaplain Joe Perez at 956-389-1194 or joe.perez@valleybaptist.net . HARLINGEN MASONIC ...

The Cameron County District Attorney's Office will conduct a hot check roundup during the month of June.

A man says the owner of a moving company who pleaded guilty to theft charges is still cheating people out of money.

She was born in Austin, Texas on September 23, 1930. She grew up with her sister and cousins roaming the Hill Country around Austin and Manchuca.

A San Benito man, who accepted $15,000 to kill the ex-wife of a longtime friend, has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

Age 88, of Harlingen, Texas, passed away June 7, 2009 at his daughter's home in Haskell, Oklahoma after a brief illness.

A man had to be extracted from his pick-up truck after he struck a mobile barrier that was being towed by a Texas Department of Transportation vehicle, witnesses at the scene said.