Starr County News

Jugs used to collect donations for sick children can be found from Roma to South Padre Island.

Authorities on both sides of the border are trying to save the San Pedro-Roma Suspension Bridge.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested a man wanted on an arrest warrant for escaping a halfway house over the weekend.

Federal authorities have identified more than 1,000 immigrants with criminal records in the Hidalgo and Starr county jails during the first five months of a program that aims to deport those who have committed serious crimes.

US Customs and Border Protection officers working at Roma International Bridge apprehended a fugitive.

A 17-year-old man died in a rollover accident after leading police on a short chase in Alto Bonito Sunday afternoon, authorities said.

Representatives from Texas' cattle industry recently discussed future research and educational partnerships related to fever ticks at a summit hosted by the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

An anonymous tip led Starr County sheriff's deputies to a decomposed body Thursday morning, officials said.

The murder confession is laced with biblical references, penned by a prison inmate who says he just wants to make things right.

A measure touted by Rio Grande Valley veterans as another step toward landing the veterans hospital they say is sorely needed here was headed toward passage by a wide margin late Tuesday.

Starr County's former sheriff will get more time locked down at home, rather than in a prison cell.

Luci Nell Simpson is going back to school to be a better teacher to her students.

Christopher R. Kuechmann has been named the new county librarian. Kuechmann, who currently lives in Ponchatoula, La., and who most recently served as the library director for the Tangipahoa Parish Library System in Amite, La., was voted into the position during the October regular term meeting of Val Verde County Commissioners Court Monday.

Fire officials are monitoring hot spots near the Starr County line. This is after two grass fires broke out on the same piece of property.

U.S. Border Patrol agents said they encountered two pickup trucks Tuesday night traveling north together from the Rio Grande near Escobares.

Birders flock to Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley each fall in hopes of seeing avian species seemingly dressed for the season: red-billed pigeons with striking russet plumage, brown jays sporting rich earth tones, and clay-colored robins with white-striped throats in olive-brown topcoats.

Ada Teller can't always afford treatment for breast cancer, so she suspects the disease has gotten worse.

A gift from a soldier fighting in Iraq is stolen. Police say, once again, its people targeting the elderly.

Esteban CHAPA married Eduarda MARTINEZ 12 Sept 1899 in Starr County Texas. After 1899, Esteban and Eduarda are found in the 1900 Duval, 1910 Goliad, and the 1920 San Patricio Counties censuses.

Someday, if Armando Pea Jr. fulfills his dream of passing on the family grocery store, the legend might go something like this: One day Pea Jr.