When you can say that your daughter is 94 — not you, but your daughter — you know you’ve defied the odds as they currently relate to life expectancy.
With the federal search warrant executed last Thursday at the Edinburg law office of Ricardo (Rick) Palacios, it’s probably a safe bet to say that the feds aren’t finished investigating the once-lucrative gambling trade in Hidalgo County.
Vanguard Academy Public Charter Schools has been a relatively amazing story to watch pass by the wayside over these past two decades.
The murder two years ago of 42-year-old Gabriel Quintanilla was particularly brutal — brass knuckles, repeated blows to the face and head, not a pretty sight — but so was the allegation being made against him by his 9-year-old daughter — repeated sexual molestation, abuse.
There’s a story inside this week’s Advance about the city of McAllen’s celebration of Women’s History Month (March), and reading it, I couldn’t help but think of the city’s first female city commissioner, Phyllis Griggs, elected to office in 1987.
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