La Paloma Murder A Matamoros man has been charged with murder for gunning down the owner of a small tire shop in La Paloma. Pedro Rodriguez was brought before a ...[more]
Man Questioned About Shooting In Edinburg Edinburg police are questioning one man after gunshots rang out near an eastside car wash where a man was the target of a barrage of gunfire 2 weeks ago. The latest shots were fired at around 5 yesterday afternoon, catty-corner from the Aztek Car ...[more]
Valley Insurance Agent Under Arrest An Upper Valley insurance agent is under arrest, accused of engaging in an identity theft-insurance fraud scheme. A federal indictment was unsealed Thursday charging 59-year-old San Juana Lopez of Edinburg with mail fraud and identity theft. ...[more]
Hit Man For Zetas Convicted A federal jury in Laredo has convicted a purported hit man for the Zetas drug cartel. Jurors Wednesday found Gerardo Castillo-Chavez guilty of weapons charges, along with racketeering and conspiracy. The verdict came in Castillo-Chavez's second ...[more]
Maps Issue Back In Federal Coutroom Today The state and minority groups suing over newly-drawn political maps in Texas are due back in a federal
courtroom in San Antonio today. At issue is whether an April 3rd primary date can be salvaged. A three-judge panel in San Antonio has cautioned ...[more]
Obama Shrugs Off Brewer Encounter, In Michigan Today President Obama downplays his encounter with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer earlier this week. Brewer claims he was "somewhat thin-skinned and a little tense." In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Obama disputes the characterization. He said he ...[more]
Romney, Gingrich Lock Horns Again In Florida Debate Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich verbally sparred in Jacksonville, Florida in the final Republican debate before next week's Florida primary. The pair clashed over immigration. Romney questioned how Gingrich could call him anti-immigrant when ...[more]
Cocaine Winds Up At UN Headquarters Police in New York City say more than 35 pounds of cocaine were found in at least one bag that turned up at UN headquarters on January 16th. The cocaine was put inside hollowed-out books that had been shipped from Mexico City in a bag made to look ...[more]
Engine Shuts Down On Horizon Airlines Flight The pilot of Horizon Airlines Flight 2130 makes an emergency landing after one of the plane's two engines shuts down. Last night's incident occurred as the plane was headed to Seattle from Portland, Oregon. The pilot was able to turn around and ...[more]
Pharr Man Headed To Jail For Selling Guns A Pharr man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for lying about buying guns
destined for Mexico. A federal judge yesterday handed down the sentence for 26-year-old Jesus Rodriguez of Pharr. Authorities say Rodriguez also forced ...[more]
Tacos Delivered To Mayor Of East Haven, Connecticut An immigration reform group delivers more than 400 tacos to the office of East Haven, Connecticut Mayor Joe Maturo to protest his recent insensitive comments. Latrina Kelly with the group Junta for Progressive Action says the tacos are meant to ...[more]
Twitter Can Censor Tweets, If Law Requires Twitter is now able to block tweets on a country-by-country basis. The company will censor tweets only if required by national governments, but the rest of the world will be able to see them. An example would be the censorship of pro-Nazi tweets. ...[more]
Congressman Frank To Marry Longtime Partner Veteran Congressman Barney Frank will marry his longtime partner Jim Ready. No date has been set. Frank, a Massachusetts Democrat, has announced he will not seek re-election this year. Frank is the former chairman of the powerful House Financial ...[more]
Hillary Clinton May Be Hinting At Retirement It appears Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may take a break. Clinton says, "I think after 20 years, and it will be 20 years, of being on the high wire of American politics and all of the challenges that come with that, it would be probably a ...[more]
Walmart To Introduce Esio Beverage System Walmart plans to go head-to-head with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters by introducing its own single-serve beverage maker. The world's biggest retailer will reportedly begin selling the Esio Beverage System which makes a variety of less expensive ...[more]
James To Release Tax Returns Republican U.S. Senate candidate Craig James says he will release his income tax returns. The former ESPN college football analyst is expected to make public his taxes for the last five years at a news conference this afternoon. James is calling on ...[more]
Pentagon Budget Cuts Coming Federal officials are expected to outline a new Pentagon budget today. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Martin Dempsey are expected to call for 487-billion dollars in spending cuts over the next decade. More than ...[more]
Panetta Defends Defense Cuts Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is talking about major defense cuts. Panetta calls it the "right approach" in an era of soaring deficits. The government is cutting about 500-billion dollars from the defense budget. It represents the first serious ...[more]
Federal Reserve Keeping Interest Rates At Historic Lows It appears there will no change in historically low interest rates. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says the federal funds rate will stay at zero to a quarter-of-one-percent. Meanwhile, Bernanke says the Fed is projecting inflation for 2012 ...[more]
Former Mercedes School Superintendent Accussed of Bribery A former Mercedes schools superintendent is being accused in an apparent bribery and kickback scheme that's wracked a Southern California school district. In a case very similar to the corruption scandal that surrounded the PJSA school district a ...[more]
Netflix Earnings And Subscriber Growth Beat Expectations Netflix is having a good week after a pretty bad year. Following months of business bumps, the company's fourth-quarter earnings and subscriber growth beat expectations. Netflix reported a 40-million-dollar profit for the period. The company ...[more]
Foreclosure Homes Account For Fifth Of Residential Sales Sales of homes in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned are slightly down. RealtyTrac reports such sales made up 20-percent of all residential sales in the U.S. in the third quarter of 2011. That's down from 22-percent of all sales in the second ...[more]
La Paloma Murder
Hit Man For Zetas Convicted
Maps Issue Back In Federal Coutroom Today
Obama Shrugs Off Brewer Encounter, In Michigan Today
Romney, Gingrich Lock Horns Again In Florida Debate
Cocaine Winds Up At UN Headquarters
Tacos Delivered To Mayor Of East Haven, Connecticut
Congressman Frank To Marry Longtime Partner
Hillary Clinton May Be Hinting At Retirement
Pentagon Budget Cuts Coming
Federal Reserve Keeping Interest Rates At Historic Lows
Foreclosure Homes Account For Fifth Of Residential Sales
