Cameron County News

A multi-agency operation resulted in 98 arrests and cleared 137 warrants in Cameron and Willacy counties, officials said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested three fugitives at two international bridges on the Fourth of July, said an agency release.

Military police are headed to the Valley to pick up a soldier for military desertion.

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

Brownsville mother Carla Ramos is requesting a federal judge expedite her sentencing on an illegal entry charge.

A Brownsville man, who was either 69 or 70, drowned early Wednesday evening while crabbing off Highway 48, authorities said.

The Cameron County District Attorney's Office won the right to continue with the prosecution of accused child killer John Allen Rubio, despite a defense team's attempt to get the office disqualified.

Mexican drug violence and recent law enforcement crackdowns elsewhere on the border may be shifting the drug smuggling landscape in the Rio Grande Valley, a recent law enforcement report suggests.

Cameron County Parks Director Javier Mendez had good news and bad news late Friday afternoon.

A Brownsville man has been indicted by a Cameron County grand jury on a capital murder charge in the killing of 16-year-old Luis Antonio Talavera.

Threatening storm clouds finally opened up Tuesday afternoon dumping much needed rain in some parts of the Rio Grande Valley.

For a second time, defense attorneys for accused child-killer John Allen Rubio have filed a motion to remove the Cameron County District Attorney's office from prosecuting the case.

Local graduates are feeling the economic pinch this summer, as a lack of available jobs narrows opportunities for them, especially those who haven't worked before.

A Mexican national shot by police under an Expressway 77 overpass Jan. 5 was killed by two shotgun blasts to the back, an attorney representing his family claims.

A Brownsville man is behind bars in the 2004 murder of Tomas Hernandez Zapata, according to the Cameron County Sheriff's Department.

Cameron County officials will soon start work on the 2009-2010 budget, and with a shortfall of $4 million, their task will be a tough one.

With Cameron County Precinct 4 Commissioner Edna Tamayo's weekend announcement that she will not seek re-election in 2010, the list of potential candidates could mimic that of Precinct 2 commissioner candidates.

Joe De La Garza established his mom-and-pop store back in 1966 on South Oklahoma Road in rural Cameron County.

Call them "ranchettes" or grazing land or the site for a future dream home. But Cameron County officials are not very optimistic about 10-acre tracts of land being offered for sale along Coco and Louisiana roads north of La Feria, the same area where county workers spent months after last July's Hurricane Dolly, pumping around the clock trying to ...

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.