Unemployment in the Rio Grande Valley last month reversed the increase that we saw in June. The latest stats from the Texas Workforce Commission show the July jobless rate fell .8% of a percent in the Brownsville-Harlingen area to an even 7%. It dropped .6% in the McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metro area to 7.7%. There was also […]

(AP) – The Latest on developments related to a violent white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia (all times local): 6:40 p.m. Descendants of a Confederate veteran who sculpted a 32-foot monument to the Confederacy at Arlington National Cemetery want it removed. More than 20 descendants of sculptor Moses Jacob Ezekiel wrote a letter to The Washington […]

(AP) – Finland’s interior minister says security is being stepped up across the Nordic country after stabbings that killed at least two people in a western city.  Paula Risikko made the announcement during a news conference in Turku, where the stabbings happened.  Police say that a suspect is in custody and being treated in a […]