Brooks County News

An off-duty Border Patrol agent was shot at while traveling with his child. The agent, who's from Arizona and on vacation, told officers he was followed from Brooks County to Mission.

Wednesday night's storms caused quite a bit of damage down in Brooks County. No injuries were reported, but emergency officials there said strong winds blew the roof off one home east of Falfurrias.

Strong storms caused power outages and some roof damage Wednesday in the Rio Grande Valley.

The former district attorney, Joe Frank Garza, says he did nothing wrong. He acknowledges using drug funds to pay the secretaries and says the casinos were the sites of seminars.

Three people are dead Saturday night, including one three-year-old child, after a car they were riding in collided with an 18-wheeler in Brooks County.

Department of Public Safety troopers are still at State Highway 285, one mile east of Farm-to-Market Road 1418, between Falfurrias and Riviera working the accident.

Authorities were able to narrow her location using the cellular tower that transmitted her call and border agents from Falfurrias and the Rio Grande Valley sectors found the woman.

A wildfire in north Hidalgo County burned about 300 acres this afternoon before firefighters got it mostly contained.

From where Jose Guevara Rios sat in a Brooks County jail cell, it sounded like a pretty good deal.

According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Border Patrol has recently placed a pair of emergency beacons in South Texas to help stranded illegal immigrants as they try to head North of the border.

The distinct whistle of the quail, once a prominent hallmark across the open spaces of Texas, has softened to a faint echo in many parts of the state.

A pair of emergency beacons have been placed in South Texas to help stranded illegal immigrants as they try to head north from the border along a popular desert trail, the U.S. Border Patrol said.

Emiliano Canales Jr. was known for drug busts in the area. Isaac Canales also was arrested in connection with the theft.

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The Brooks County Independent School District board of trustees suspended its superintendent for two weeks and proposed firing him, the district's attorney said.

LCS Corrections expected to have a full house at its new 1,100-bed facility shortly after the prison opened in mid-November, but a contract with the federal government to house prisoners from agencies such as ...

Ok. I'll bite. What good is suicide watch? An inmate awaiting sentencing on charges of rigging bids on federal contracts was found dead Monday at the Brooks County Detention Center in Falfurrias, and Texas ...

The circumstances are unclear. The Nueces County Medical Examiner's Office performed an autopsy Tuesday but has not released a cause of death.

Fire crews worked for several hours to gain control of a fire that burned more than 200 acres of private ranchland.

There were no new drilling permit applications for Aransas, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces or San Patricio counties.