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Trial date set for Brownsville driver involved in deadly bus crash

 The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A bus driver charged in an interstate bus crash that killed four people will face trial Tuesday, but his attorney likely will ask to be released from the case, a prosecutor said today. Prosecutor...

Fight over drug dealer's jewelry headed toward compromise

 The Associated Press McALLEN - A convicted middle manager of a Mexican drug cartel has reached agreement with federal prosecutors to keep the fight over two pieces of confiscated jewelry from going to a jury. Carlos Landin Martinez was sentenced...

In this Aug. 2, 2007 file photo, Michelle Duggar, left, is surrounded by her children and husband Jim Bob, tsecond from left, after the birth of her 17th child in Rogers, Ark.

Happy Mother's Day: Woman pregnant with 18th child

 The Associated Press LITTLE ROCK - It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There...

UPDATE: Deputies discover body south of Donna

The Monitor DONNA -- Hidalgo County sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a man found early this morning just south of the city. Authorities found the body near the intersection of Hutch and Rolando streets, just off Farm-to-Market Road...

Mayor focuses on business

HARLINGEN - Multimillion-dollar renovations at Valle Vista Mall should be finished before the Christmas season, according to officials at the mayor's latest Five O'clock Forum.In addition to Circuit City, stores expected to open soon at the mall are Perfume...

Members from Estudiantina Guadalupana Potosino de San Luis Potosi perform for students from San Benito High School Thursday morning in San Benito.

Cultures Harmonize

Mexican musicians bring sounds to San Benito students

SAN BENITO - Erupting from an instrument closet, 12 teenage boys and young men wearing navy blue traditional Spaniard garments clapped their hands and shouted as they approached microphones for a morning of music and a cultural exchange with high school...

Suspect says he watched Larissa Cavazos die

EDINBURG - Alfredo Valdez led police through the apartment where he says he watched 23-year-old college student Larissa Cavazos of Harlingen die.Months after the fatal shooting, he described what prosecutors call a botched 2005 drug raid that ended in...

State and local officials cite Port Mansfield as a potential tourist hot spot.

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State officials touring county to identify tourism hot spots

PORT MANSFIELD - State officials Thursday cited an ancient salt lake, vast ranchlands and this tiny fishing village as potential tourist destinations in Willacy County.Officials from Gov. Rick Perry's office will continue to tour the county today as part...

Janie Garza, left, and Sister Carola Rochtus discuss problems with obtaining the proper medication at the Clinica Maria Luisa at Proyecto Desarrollo Humano in Peñitas on Tuesday afternoon.

Prescription SOS

There is help available in obtaining drugs

PEÑITAS - A combination of at least eight prescription medications every day make Janie Garza the happy, generous and active person she is, despite her diabetes and heart problems.The monthly cost of her good health: more than $1,300.At 55, Garza...

Farmers seek help fixing labor shortage

BROWNSVILLE - Over the years Curtis DeBerry has slowly shifted operations of his Rio Grande Valley-based Progresso Produce LTD to Mexico.Twenty years ago the company - which grows onions, watermelon, limes and honeydews, to name a few - had 70 percent...

Obama picks up 5 superdelegates, union endorsement

 The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates today and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around...

Man loses 28 relatives in Myanmar village hit by cyclone

 The Associated Press BOGALAY, Myanmar - The 68-year-old fisherman tries to explain how a cyclone swept away the rest of his family, but he can utter only a few simple words before he is overcome by tears and trauma. ``All my 28 family members...

Government asks court to block wider testing for mad cow

The Associated Press  WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is urging a federal appeals court to keep meatpackers from testing all their cattle for mad cow disease. Government lawyers told a three-judge panel today they should reverse a lower...

16 taken to hospital after chemical spill at Houston-area school

 The Associated Press TOMBALL - As many as 16 people have been taken to a local hospital after a chemical spill at a local high school. The Precinct 4 Constable Office told KHOU-TV this morning those taken to the hospital were overcome by...

Najee Ali, left, and Dwight Taylor, right, protest outside the Cook County Criminal Courthouse before singer R. Kelly arrives for the first day of jury selection in his child pornography trial in Chicago on Friday.

R. Kelly arrives at Chicago courthouse for pornography trial

 The Associated Press CHICAGO - R. Kelly arrived at a Cook County courthouse today to face child pornography charges filed after a videotape allegedly showed him having sex with a girl as young as 13. Jury selection was scheduled to start...

Judge bans 4 shoplifters from Pa. malls, calls them locusts

 The Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Likening them to a ``plague of locusts,'' a judge has banned four women from Pennsylvania malls after they pleaded guilty to stealing. Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill sentenced the four Thursday...

Obama picks ups 3 superdelegates, union endorsement

The Associated Press  WASHINGTON - The movement of Democratic superdelegates to presidential hopeful Barack Obama gained steam today with endorsements from a union president and two congressmen, including one who switched his backing from...

UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies

 The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments today meant for a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, forcing the world body to suspend further help. The aid included...

March trade deficit drops by bigger-than-expected amount

 The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in March as demand for imports fell by the largest amount since the last recession was ending. The Commerce Department reported today that the deficit totaled $58.2...

Judge extends custody of Austrian accused in dungeon case

 The Associated Press VIENNA, Austria - An Austrian judge ruled today that a man suspected of keeping his daughter captive in a dungeon for more than two decades should remain in custody, an official said. The decision extends Josef Fritzl's...

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