Apr 12 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Surveillance footage is reportedly one of the pieces of evidence from a Texas Rangers investigation into a San Benito CISD police officer, who was accused of assaulting a 15-year-old female student, reportedly turned over to the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office for review. Joe Mendez, while serving as an …
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Apr 12 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com This is familiar territory for Emma Valle. The 17-year-old junior Lady ’Hound golfer secured her second consecutive District 31-5A title at the Tierra Del Sol Golf Course in Pharr, where the district golf tourney was held April 7-8. Shooting 79 on Monday and 87 on Tuesday, Valle won the …
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Apr 12 2014
NEWS Staff Report BROWNSVILLE – A McAllen woman charged with five counts of intoxication manslaughter pled guilty to the crime after accepting a plea deal on Thursday. Margaret Gil, 32, was involved in a June 30, 2013 car wreck on State Highway 100 near Los Fresnos. Gil was driving a 2006 Toyota RAV 4 going …
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Apr 12 2014
NEWS Staff Report San Benito’s sales tax collections for the month of February experienced a near five-percent drop compared to data reported the year prior, according to Texas Comptroller figures. According to the Comptroller’s April sales tax report, which represents February sales reported by monthly tax filers, San Benito’s collections dropped by 4.78 percent compared …
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Apr 12 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com If you were to corner local officials about the controversy that currently plagues San Benito, some would point to scandals in Brownsville, Progreso or any other city equal or greater in disrepute than the community they’re entrusted to serve and implement policy. In San Benito, a great number of …
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Apr 08 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com More than 30 educators and support staff from Miller Jordan Middle School have come together to express their concerns about the stability of the campus – this as a result of fears that the school may incur its eighth principal reassignment in seven years. The educators in question called …
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Apr 08 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The unemployment rate in San Benito as well as the majority of the Rio Grande Valley has dropped from 2013 to 2014, according to the Texas Workforce Commission. The unemployment rate in San Benito dropped from 10.4 percent in February 2013 to 7.4 percent in February 2014, a …
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Apr 08 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The wife of a local man recently arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two children has come to his defense. Following news of her husband’s, 20-year-old San Benito resident Francisco Mejia’s arrest, his wife of two years, Reyna Mejia, also 20, took her case to the San Benito Police …
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Apr 08 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The Seventh Annual Autism Awareness Walk was held on Friday, April 4, near the Resaca Heavin Trail to a capacity crowd. April is National Autism Awareness Month, and in observance of NAAM many members of the community, vendors and clubs from San Benito High School donated their time …
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Apr 04 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com An officer with the San Benito CISD Police Department facing charges of official oppression and injury to a child has been fired, school district officials confirmed Thursday. According to Cameron County Sheriff Omar Lucio, now-former SBCISD police officer Joe Mendez was arrested Wednesday after he turned himself in to …
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