Look, I swear I’m not making this up just to sell more books, but according to a trusted source, there is a private investigator based out of San Antonio who is down here trying to talk to people related to the 2017 capital murder/theft trial of Monica Melissa Palacios Patterson.
You wouldn’t know it by the looks of the Rio Grande Valley, but according to a Dec. 9 Wall Street Journal story, Hispanics in the U.S. are now evenly split — half say they’ll vote Republican; the other half remain Democrat.
The old San Juan Cemetery on Moore Rd., just east of Veterans Blvd. (I Rd.), turns 100 next year and despite its age, it’s as beautiful as ever, with colorful flowers, plastic and fresh, in abundance no matter the direction you look. It’s almost as if every gravestone has some color added to it by loving family members.
In last week’s Advance story about the McAllen Chamber of Commerce and the recent resignation of CEO/President Steve Ahlenius, who drew a six-figure annual income for most of the 24 years he was there, the question was asked:
HIDALGO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge intercepted $3,061,000 in alleged methamphetamine in two incidents.
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