Hidalgo County News

A property manager found the partially burned body of a 58-year-old woman at a mobile home park Thursday morning.

Police arrested a high school senior after an alleged sexual assault behind the bleachers in a high school gymnasium.

Sheriff's deputies said they won't take Cristina Rivera at her word. The 39-year-old woman told investigators Samuel Fernandez Jr., her common-law husband, jumped out of their moving car as they headed along Farm-to-Market Road 491 early Saturday evening.

Juan Luis Huerta said he "just snapped." The 37-year-old security guard came home early Saturday morning and found his wife and the man with whom she was having an affair, sheriff's deputies said.

Police arrested two men suspected of beating a victim and taking his cell phone last week.

Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies discovered the body of Marcos H. Lopez, 47, just before 5 p.m. in a pickup truck at La Guerita Bar, near the intersection of State Highway 107 and 86th Street in San Carlos.

Hidalgo County sheriffa s deputies identified a man shot to death in a pickup truck.

A Mercedes man is in jail for a setting a deadly house fire that killed a Weslaco woman and her 12-year-old son.

A domestic dispute that ended in gunshots left a man's brother-in-law on the brink of death Monday evening.

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.

At least "from a technical perspective," as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said in September, some economists believe the recession is very likely over.

Authorities raided eight-liner operations Friday in eight separate bars, restaurants and American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars halls throughout Hidalgo County.

Hidalgo County dispatchers are telling CHANNEL 5 that a man was shot during a drive-by. Witnesses saw four people speed off in a black Jetta.

Sheriff's deputies made two arrests after receiving a tip about marijuana at a house between Weslaco and Mercedes on Wednesday.

Jurors failed to reach a verdict Wednesday afternoon in the theft trial of a former Hidalgo County employee.

Cameron County voter turnout was light in Tuesday's Constitutional Amendment Election, but registered voters who cast ballots appeared to support the idea of bringing a veterans hospital to the Rio Grande Valley.

Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies are searching for two armed robbers who threatened a convenience store owner and her teenage daughter Thursday evening.

Hidalgo County-based South Texas Health System agreed to pay $27.5 million to the federal government to settle allegations that the hospital system paid doctors illegal kickbacks to refer patients to its facilities, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday.

The fate of a man who confessed to murder is in the hands of an Hidalgo County jury.

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