EDINBURG – Local health and emergency management officials with Hidalgo County and the City of McAllen on Wednesday met a bus with out-of-state travelers who had been exposed to a passenger confirmed with COVID-19, Hidalgo County Judge Richard F. Cortez said Thursday. The intervention came after health officials from Illinois alerted Hidalgo County officials of the situation Wednesday afternoon. A bus that began traveling from an unknown city in Wisconsin loaded with passengers who were headed for South Texas and Northern Mexico stopped in Effingham, Illinois in the southwestern part of that state. One of the passengers had collapsed on the bus and ...