Hidalgo County News Archives

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.

Rene Ramirez, state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa's chief of staff, has been appointed to fill J.D. Salinas' position in a 3-2 vote.

Hidalgo County commissioners have appointed an interim county judge. In a 3-2 vote, Rene Ramirez was selected for the post.

Two employees of the Hidalgo County sheriff's office face criminal charges in connection with an alleged scheme to obtain $82,000 in loans using false information.

Hidalgo County Judge J.D. Salinas accepted an appointment to a federal post Friday, ending weeks of speculation about his future in the position he was elected to three years ago.

A man could spend life in prison after a cocaine binge fueled a violent crime spree, authorities said.

A 30-year-old man on trial for the murder of a Korean War veteran felt pressured by teenage gang members to participate in the slaying, defense attorneys said Monday.

Beyond the statewide constitutional amendments, voters in seven Hidalgo County cities will also consider issues.

Deputies arrested two inmates after a gang-sanctioned fight last week at the Hidalgo County jail.

For more than a decade, public school districts throughout the Rio Grande Valley and the state have taught students to wait until marriage to have sex to avoid getting pregnant and contracting sexually transmitted diseases.

Preliminary autopsy information in the case of a woman found buried in the back yard of her home suggests she was struck with a brick and strangled, corroborating part of her husband's murder confession.

The basic bills are harder to balance since Maria Dominguez lost a job as a school crossing guard.

A former Hidalgo County employee accused of stealing building supplies said Tuesday that he has been unjustly caught up in a wave of finger pointing involving public officials.

Sheriff's deputies arrested a man who confessed to stabbing a friend after he got caught up in a domestic dispute.

With no job, five young mouths to feed and an income earned by his wife that barely breaks $19,000 a year, Chris Valle still considers himself lucky.

A construction worker confessed to strangling his wife nearly six months ago and burying her body in their backyard, Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies said Friday.

Sheriff's deputies arrested a man who confessed to abandoning two Salvadoran children in a field Saturday morning.

The three people sheriff's deputies say were behind one of the biggest fencing operations Hidalgo County has ever seen, have been charged.

A San Juan police officer fatally shot his wife and then turned the gun on himself early Tuesday morning, bringing a heartbreaking culmination to what relatives said were months of domestic abuse.

The recession deepened poverty and widened the gap between the richest and poorest families in Hidalgo County in 2008, according to newly released Census figures.

It's a remote area just outside of Mission; Mile 10 and Texan Avenue. There's only dirt roads, miles of brush and orchards out there.

A 50-year-old county truck driver accused of selling dirt out of a county truck will be arraigned this afternoon on a charges of theft by a public servant and abuse of official capacity.

The recession deepened poverty and widened the gap between the richest and poorest families in Hidalgo County in 2008, according to newly released Census figures.