Willacy County News

FM 100 KTEX is proud to welcome back The Original Urban Cowboy, Johnny Lee. Lee will be in concert, this Saturday night at the Willacy County Show Grounds in Raymondville.

The Guardiana s media partner, KGBT-TV, is reporting that former Willacy County DA Juan Guerra has filed a federal lawsuit against state Sen.

The former Willacy County district attorney who drew national attention for indicting a cast of public officials including the U.S. vice president now has filed a federal lawsuit seeking damages from former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, state Sen.

Organizers of a vigil against the mistreatment of federal detainees called for the closure of the nation's largest immigration detention center known as 'Tent City' in Raymondville.

The chief of police of Brownsville said hea s still amazed and humbled by what happened Oct.

A man authorities say confessed to abandoning two Salvadoran children in a field after their mother paid him $700 was in custody Thursday.

In a move that could affect the revenues of private prison firms and county jails, the Obama Administration said Tuesday it will review, renegotiate and possibly terminate some of its more than 300 contracts for detaining unauthorized immigrants.

Tire Business staff report RAYMONDVILLE, Texas - A Texas jury has ordered Michelin North America Inc.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BROWNSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CAMERON COUNTY IN DEEP SOUTH TEXAS.

Their fishing vessel was on fire at the time of the rescue. Sunday, September 13, 2009 CORPUS CHRISTI Two rescued from burning boat The Coast Guard has rescued two men from a burning fishing vessel in Corpus Christi Bay.

Michelin North America will not appeal a nearly $12 million verdict by a Rio Grande Valley jury this week in a fatal accident that killed six people and left a 12-year-old boy paralyzed.

All new tonight, two Valley families were awarded nearly $12 million by a Willacy County jury in a verdict against the nation's largest tire maker.

Two new grants will give UTB-TSC students and alumni of the school the opportunity to receive scholarships to become teachers or improve their teaching expertise.

Willacy County sheriff's investigators are looking for an armed robber. A man held up a store clerk at gunpoint at the Lyford Superette Store on Highway 77.

A former IRA militant who lived in the United States for 25 years before being detained by Border Patrol in January 2008 is scheduled to be deported to Ireland in one week.

Died on August 12, 2009 at his home in San Perlita. He was born on March 23, 1922 in Rangerville, Texas to Carlos Llanes and Feliditas Rodriguez.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement housed about 33,345 people per night in July at facilities across the country.

Pumps that supply water to hundreds of farmers in rural Hidalgo and Willacy counties were two days from sucking only sand out of Delta Lake.

Police could only trace Laura Isabel Reyes' last call to a cell phone tower. Reyes, 35, was beaten to death with a stone July 12 in a field outside Hargill.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and other civil rights groups said today they're meeting with an international human rights organization visiting the state.