Special to the Advance EDINBURG — On Saturday morning October 29, 2022, at approximately 10 a.m., Edinburg Police Detention Specialist Roberto Guerra, a three-year employee, was arrested by the Edinburg Police Department for Official Oppression, a Class A misdemeanor. Guerra has been placed on leave without pay, pending the outcome of an administrative investigation.
SAN JUAN — The San Juan City Commission voted Oct. 11, to authorize its city manager to negotiate a contract with Texas National Bank to provide financial depository services for the city.
The number of people, 2.38 million, caught crossing the southern border illegally last fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, continues to increase, up 37 percent over the previous fiscal year, according to figures released last Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). How many escaped capture by BP agents is anyone’s guess. The people apprehended, or who willingly turned themselves in, hoping for asylum status, largely came from Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, if you include the group as a whole, according to the CBP report.
As a soon-to-be South Texas College graduate Stefani Garcia said the college’s recent “A Night with the Stars Gala” was the opportunity she needed to personally thank the donors who have made her college education a possibility.
A federal jury convicted two Texas men Thursday for conspiring to pay bribes to two city commissioners in Weslaco, Texas, in connection with millions of dollars in city contracts.
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