— A Hidalgo County Jury found an Alamo man guilty on three counts of sexual abuse of a child and he was sentenced to 25 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Institutional Division.
— The Edinburg Economic Development Corporation (EEDC) announced today the hiring of Raudel Garza as its Executive Director. Mr. Garza has worked in the field of economic development for over 29 years, both in the public and private sectors and has led economic development teams in the cities of Harlingen, Mission, and Pharr over his career as well as the Rio South Texas Economic Council, a regional membership- based economic development organization representing the four Rio Grande Valley counties and cities in Mexico. From 2019-2021, Mr. Garza was awarded Texas’ Economic Development Council’s Economic Excellence award for his work with the Harlingen Economic Development Corporation. In 2021, he was appointed by the Texas Workforce Commission to serve as one of three economic development practitioners in the state on a Regional Workforce Planning Committee charged with developing best practices for workforce development and data collection and reporting. He was also elected to the Texas Economic Development Council’s Board of Directors and serves as the only South Texas representative on the Team Texas Advisory Committee.
*Due to differences in data processing, timing, and methodology, there may be discrepancies between the information presented in this report and the Texas DSHS dashboard.
The Biden administration plans to turn most Venezuelan migrants crossing the southern border back to Mexico, which was previously not allowed, the Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday.
Brownsville native Gloria Chavez, the highest-ranking female U.S. Border Patrol agent, recently assumed command of the RGV Sector, one of nine BP sectors that runs along the U.S. southwest border.
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