advance news

According to a story filed by the AP May 31, written by Mark Stevenson, one of Mexico’s deadliest drug cartels is hunting down police officers, killing them at home, on their days off, in front of their families.

A new true-crime book, based on a capital murder that went down in Hidalgo County six years ago, hits the book shelves this week, and with any luck, enough people will find it of interest to make the time and effort it took to write it worthwhile. Granted, I wrote it, and really, this front-page story is nothing short of shameless self-promotion, but this is the first true-crime book I’ve written, so I’m anxious to get some feedback.

The usual 5-2 PSJA ISD board split changed to 4-3 last week over the oddest thing: whether or not to accept a $350,000 TEA Award, AKA, free money, from Texas Tech U. In other words, free money to mentor five high-performing teachers, which will end, provided they do the work, with a master’s degree in educational leadership.