The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last Tuesday ruled that the floating barrier Texas deployed in the Rio Grande last year to deter illegal migration could remain. The fight over the barrier is one of many broader, hard-fought legal and political battles over the state’s authority to control the flow of migrants at the border.
This year’s Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday is scheduled to begin this Friday, Aug. 9 and goes through midnight Sunday, Aug. 11, offering Texans with an opportunity to save millions in sales tax on clothing and various back-to-school items.
At least eight gunmen walked up to a white SUV being parked by a Matamoros business leader, Julio Cesar Almanza Armas, last Tuesday afternoon and fired approximately eight rounds through the driver’s side window, killing him instantly, according to multiple news reports published last week. (AP, CBS, Breitbart.com.)
The smell was the giveaway. For more than a year, Hilda Luna suspected something was off inside the house that sat behind hers in a neighborhood in North McAllen.
Palm View Branch Library, located at 3401 Jordan Rd. W. in McAllen, will host its second annual Back to School Bash on Saturday, Aug. 3, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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