BROWNSVILLE — U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Brownsville Port of Entry intercepted alleged narcotics in three separate enforcement actions that have a combined estimated street value of $681,596.
Edinburg Police Officers were called out to the 3800 block of Sarah Evans before 2:30 a.m. Sunday in response to gunshots being fired.
With COVID-19 still running amok, sidelining nine Dallas Cowboys last week, infecting 197,449 new patients across the nation Dec. 6, and killing a total — so far — of 788,000 people in the country, I’m looking at U.S. Rep. Ronny Lynn Jackson, Texas 13th Congressional District, which stretches from the Dallas area well into panhandle, and I’m thinking, “No one can be this dumb.”
As mentioned in last week’s Advance News Journal, McAllen Chamber’s longtime CEO Steve Ahlenius tendered his verbal resignation Oct. 19, reading from a prepared statement, and the board accepted it. The Advance has placed a Public Information Request with the chamber for the recording of that board meeting because according to several sources willing to speak on the condition of anonymity, it became more than a little heated after Ahlenius resigned out of the blue. How many board members, if any, perhaps knew the news was coming isn’t known.
The old saying — “The only ones who win in a lawsuit are the attorneys” — is a common refrain meant to malign the legal profession in particular and the judicial process in general. In some lawsuits, however, that saying seems apt when the final facts of the lawsuit are made public.
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