TBB Staff

NEW YORK – Right-handed pitcher Dusten Knight, who played for The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley legacy institution The University of Texas Pan American baseball team from 2012-13, made his major league debut for the Baltimore Orioles against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday.

El Paso, TX—General Motors Corporation (GM) Technical Fellow for Electric Vehicle Commercialization and Industrialization, Dr. Robert Kleinbaum, recently visited El Paso to meet with various community leaders to identify partners and explore how to best transition to electric vehicles (EV).

As people continue to get vaccinated for COVID-19, the question “do I still need a mask?” is now being asked. And while it may be tempting to trash that face covering, the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the delta variant is causing experts to say, “not so fast.”

Transmission rates of the COVID-19 Virus in Brownsville, Texas continue to be on the rise, especially for individuals who are unvaccinated.

New UCLA-led research indicates that simple text messages emphasizing the easy availability of COVID-19 vaccines successfully boosted the number of people who got the shot.

Over 40+ years and thousands of projects, I have examined pandemics, natural disasters, oil market collapses, financial meltdowns, and all manner of mayhem. One enduring lesson is that nothing – and I do mean NOTHING – gets folks worked up as much as football. I should know better, but, alas, I don’t!

Hidalgo County will hold a Webcast Auction of general merchandise by AMT Auctions at two locations: Palmer Pavilion (301 E. Hackberry, McAllen TX 78501) and Robert's Warehouse (317 N. Closner Edinburg TX 78539) on Tuesday, August 10, 2021.

Congressman Henry Cuellar said that Congress began the August recess this week. He is now back in Laredo focused on the growing situation at the border. He said that last week he partnered with Senator Lindsey Graham, calling on the Biden Administration to appoint a border czar.

EDINBURG, TX – Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector (RGV) agents discover 14 migrants inside a tractor trailer, and a Honduran migrant is rescued after suffering an injury in the brush.

Newswise - In August 2016, two 500-kilovolt transmission lines in San Bernardino County, California, tripped offline during a fire. As a result, some distance away, more than 1,000 megawatts of solar generation disconnected itself from the grid. Luckily, no one lost power. In contrast, a 2003 component failure in a generator near Lake Erie led to a slightly smaller loss of generation, but the ensuing blackout affected more than 50 million people.