Jan 16 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com “This is not my fault,” said Juan Manuel Garcia in Spanish, in an exclusive interview with the San Benito News. Garcia is the man accused of threatening to open gunfire at one or more schools within San Benito Consolidated Independent School District on Friday, Jan. 16. Investigators with the …
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Jan 16 2015
By PASTOR MARK MOLINA Living Waters Church Special to the NEWS When we arrive at the place where God has sent us what do we say to the people there? I’m here – Hello! Didn’t God tell you I was coming? He told me to come so I came! He sent me, so why aren’t …
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Jan 16 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS San Benito Consolidated Independent School District officials remain tightlipped regarding a December incident involving two students from Frank Roberts Elementary where one child reportedly used an item to cause injury and/or a laceration to another student. According to the official SBCISD press release, “An isolated incident at …
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Jan 16 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com UPDATE: As of 11:30 a.m. the lockdown has been lifted. UPDATE 2: Story updated Friday, 6:43 p.m. Schools within the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District were on lockdown Friday until 11:27 a.m. after the San Benito Police Department received a phone call from an unidentified male, stating that …
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Jan 14 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com “This whole thing is pretty sad,” said Blanca Montemayor, 52, of San Benito, referencing the fact her only water source remains in dire need of repairs and is presently operating while out of compliance with Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) standards. Montemayor said she “drinks distilled water…because the …
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Jan 14 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com The City of San Benito and its officials are in a hurry to spend $1 million in grant money to establish the long-awaited San Benito Cultural Heritage Museum, which will be built at Plaza San Benito. Additionally, architects have been hired to draft sketches for the immediate erection of …
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Jan 14 2015
NEWS Staff Report San Benito Police have reviewed the black box video from a Dec. 19 incident in which a man was killed by an oncoming train. Marco Vasquez Jr. of San Benito died while walking along the railroad tracks on his way to work, according to authorities. Investigators say he was wearing headphones while …
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Jan 14 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com Investigators with the Harlingen Police Department have arrested Carlos Cesar Andaverde-Ledezma, 23, of San Benito in conjunction with the murder of 19-year-old Eduardo Zapata of Weslaco. Additionally, authorities have confirmed and released the true identity of another suspect who had also been apprehended and charged in the same murder. …
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Jan 09 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com Two schools within the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District, Miller Jordan Middle School and Frank Roberts Elementary School, were included on the 2015-2016 Texas Education Agency’s Public Education Grant (PEG) list of underperforming schools. New SBCISD Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marc Puig, with the help of official evaluations …
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Jan 09 2015
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Staff Writer Reporter@sbnewspaper.com On Thursday, trustees held a special meeting of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District’s Board of Trustees where they accepted former Superintendent of Schools Antonio G. Limón’s resignation as the district’s new Assistant Superintendent (Executive Director) of Human Resources. Limón officially stepped into the Human Resources position earlier …
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