TBB Staff

AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott sent a letter to Texas Association of School Boards Executive Director Dan Troxell to ensure no child is exposed to pornography or other inappropriate content in a Texas public school.

EDINBURG, Texas –Two migrants with sex offenses against children are arrested by law enforcement in the Rio Grande Valley.

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol (RGV) agents discovered two residences being used for human smuggling and continue to collaborate with other law enforcement departments to combat human smuggling on the highways.

A recent article by the online news website Axios compared violent crime rates of 11 U.S. border cities with the violent crime rates of comparably sized cities located within the United States and found that cities along the U.S.-Mexico border continue to have crime rates well below the national average.

TEXAS - According to U.S. News and World Report, 43 IDEA elementary and middle schools are the Best in the Nation - the most schools ranked out of any district in the state of Texas.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas – Texas Southmost College will distribute $1,000 to students as part of the ongoing TSC CARES package.

SteelCoast, LLC. announced a contract to dismantle and recycle the SS Petersburg, one of Military Sealift Command's two US Government-owned tankers and part of the 35 ships in the Prepositioning Program.

During the month of September, the Brownsville & Rio Grande International Railway (BRG) handled a record-breaking 6,369 loaded railcars at the Port of Brownsville.

Laredo, Texas – The City of Laredo congratulates Mayor Pete Saenz, Health Director, Richard Chamberlain, Emergency Management Coordinator, Chief Guillermo Heard, and other industry leaders on being recognized by the INDEX Nuevo Laredo (Asociación de Maquiladoras de Exportación de Nuevo Laredo).

AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott announced his appointment of Evan Young, a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court of Texas. Young will replace Justice Eva Guzman on the bench, who resigned in June.