TBB Staff

U.S. Border Patrol agents stopped a cocaine load at the immigration checkpoint.

U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector identified and arrested an MS-13 gang member and a sex offender in separate incidents.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has released new, preliminary, accountability ratings for schools and districts. For the first time all schools and districts are being rated using a new A-F system.

Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Ruth Ruggero Hughs as the Texas Secretary of State. The Secretary serves as Chief Election Officer for Texas, assisting county election officials and ensuring the uniform application and interpretation of election laws throughout Texas.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Commissioner of Higher Education, Raymund Paredes, authored the following Op-Ed in the San Antonio Express-News highlighting the success of Texas’ higher education policies and the need to bring those ideas to the national level.

Innovaum is a product development company in downtown Corpus Christi. They work with clients both individual and commercial to create custom design work and mass prototyping using 3D printers and other resources.

The Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District hosted two groundbreaking ceremonies, today, Aug.16 for new swimming facilities at PSJA Early College High School in San Juan and PSJA Memorial ECHS in Alamo.

The Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a $371 million budget for the 2019-2020 school year, raising salaries for employees and lowering the property tax rate for taxpayers within the district.

The McAllen Chamber of Commerce and BML, proudly announce the 19th Annual Top 5 Small Business Awards. We would like to invite every business to be a part of the excitement during this year’s Top 5 Small Business Awards luncheon and ceremony on Thursday, November 14, 2019.

The 1910 Jail has been a landmark in Edinburg since the city’s founding. It is also the foundation upon which the Museum of South Texas History was built.