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By STEWART M. POWELL Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Nineteen Texas border communities stretching from Brownsville to El Paso today asked a federal court to force the Bush administration to abandon hurry-up construction of 70 miles of border fencing in Texas by the end of the...
83, passed away Tuesday May 13, 2008 at Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville, Texas.He was born in West Orange, New Jersey, lived many years in Wilmette, Illinois and later lived in Mexico City and Monterrey, NL, Mexico prior to retiring in McAllen, Texas in 1984.He graduated from the...
By JOSE BORJON The Brownsville Herald BROWNSVILLE - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled that a Harlingen man's Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was not violated by local law enforcement, overturning a decision made by the 13th Court of Appeals.
The Brownsville Herald BROWNSVILLE - Bobby Lucio, head golf coach and manager of the Fort Brown Memorial Golf Course, said he's concerned that he may not be able to purchase insurance for his business because of the fence. "Anybody between the border wall and the Rio Grande is going to have a...
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A U.S. mining company accused its Mexican parent company Monday of stripping it of its most valuable assets and forcing it into bankruptcy as it launched its $10.5 billion federal lawsuit against the company. ... BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Asarco, which is operating under...
Recycling here is big business, on a scale that counts in thousands of tons, not pounds. It's where torch-wielding workers strip ships' decks and cut their hulls for the metal to form new steel that could end up in washing machines or even new ships.
By Laura Tillman, The Brownsville Herald, Texas May 11--By the time Jerry Stones parked his truck in Seattle and spent a short night's rest on a hotel bed, he soon discovered that his drive to Washington may have been for nothing. ... Stones made a call to see about the...
By Melissa Mcever, The Brownsville Herald, Texas May 10--After several delays and plan changes, construction officially began Friday on a new, $8 million surgery wing at Valley Baptist Medical Center-Brownsville. ... "The improvements we're making are much needed," said...
LITTLE ROCK - 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 Friday. ... Prosecutor Fletcher Long said he expected the lawyer representing...
