The City of Edinburg has granted a Certificate of Occupancy to the County of Hidalgo, which initiates the process of opening the new courthouse for public use.
The Hidalgo County Commissioners Court has appointed Dairen Sarmiento Rangel as the new Director of the Hidalgo County Health and Human Services Department (HCHD).
In back to back enforcement actions over a 48-hour period, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers at the Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry intercepted more than $3 million in cocaine and heroin in two separate enforcement actions in the passenger vehicle and cargo environments.
Approximately two months ago, a story was published in The Advance that indicated that Grand Prairie ISD (Dallas metroplex) had fired former PSJA ISD Superintendent Jorge Arredondo after only two months on the job, July through September, as the district’s new supe. The vote was 4-2 to dismiss him, with one abstention.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday stopped the federal government from destroying a fence of razor wire that Texas installed along the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass to deter migrants from entering the country illegally.
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