U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations officers at Pharr International Bridge this week seized $253,000 in cocaine from a driver and shipment enrolled in CBP’s Trusted Trader Programs.
With the news last week that a local female attorney, Angela Mia Villarreal, won’t have to serve any prison time for killing a man in May 2022 after she plowed into his SUV from behind, you have to ask: Is the Hidalgo County Courthouse the place you want to land if you drive drunk and kill someone?
People take water for granted, until it runs low. The problem for developers, business owners, and residents in the RGV is that the availability of water here depends in large part on a water treaty the U.S. has had with Mexico since 1944. What makes this a problem is that Mexico is almost always behind on its water payments.
As a follow-up to last week’s front-page story about PSJA ISD’s forensic audit and some of the funky stuff it uncovered, The Advance dug deeper into it over the past week, looking at some of the bigger issues, which are hard to decipher, no matter how hard you scratch your head.
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