Special to the Advance PHARR — U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers at the Pharr International Bridge this weekend seized more than $880,000 in cocaine concealed within a tractor trailer hauling broccoli.
It looks like there's some moves being made surrounding the new Hidalgo County Courthouse as the county announced it will be taking a 'significant step' toward occupying it.
Note: The opinion column (editorial) reprinted below was first published in The Advance Dec.2, 2009. It turned out to be amazingly prescient (call it luck), given how things would change completely inside the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office only three-to-five years later when federal investigators and prosecutors brought down the whole enchilada between 2012 and 2014.
If you’re planning on going to college, planning on paying for your kids(s) to go to college, what area of study can you/they pursue that will definitely land you/them a job after graduation?
A 28-year-old Houston resident has been sentenced for carjacking during which one victim was repeatedly struck with a pistol, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
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