Jan 17 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com HARLINGEN – State Senator Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, visited Texas State Technical College (TSTC) here on Wednesday, Jan. 15, to discuss her education platform during her gubernatorial candidacy. Davis toured the campus and met with students to discuss the importance of education. “I am here today to visit …
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Jan 17 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com One of the questions I’ve been asked repeatedly this week is whether this will finally be the time that Jim Helms comes back to his alma mater, dons the purple and gold one last time and returns San Benito High School football to prominence. And with the departure of …
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Jan 14 2014
NEWS Staff Report The San Benito Greyhounds are officially looking for a new leader. At the regular meeting of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees on Tuesday night, board members approved a resignation agreement with athletic director/head football coach Spencer Gantt, thus agreeing to end Gantt’s tenure–effective Jan. 27–with the Greyhounds …
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Jan 14 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com A San Benito police officer was involved in a shooting incident Monday evening when he discharged his firearm at a juvenile. Operations Chief Martin Morales Jr. of the San Benito Police Department said on Tuesday that the officer, who he did not identify, was in foot pursuit of three …
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Jan 14 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com Say goodbye to the Chamber of Commerce moniker and hello to the Area Business Owners Association… for now, sort of. The new merchant organization, which is looking to serve in a similar capacity as the now-defunct San Benito Chamber of Commerce, held its first meeting on Friday, Jan. …
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Jan 14 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Local authorities apprehended a fugitive and human smuggling suspect wanted by the U.S. Marshals Service near H-E-B in San Benito on Sunday. Detective Rogelio Banda Jr. of the San Benito Police Department reported via press release on Tuesday the arrest of Juan Carlos Aguilar, 28, of San Benito. Aguilar, …
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Jan 14 2014
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito Police Department released the crime statistics for the year 2013, which shows an overall decrease in the number of crimes from the year prior. According to SBPD data provided by records personnel, there were a total of 757 crimes in ’13, a difference of 94 …
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Jan 14 2014
By HEATHER CATHLEEN COX Special to the NEWS I do a lot of things. I’m not someone who really can say, “Oh, I’m a (blank),” and have it be the whole story. Sometimes, when people ask me what I do, I really get uncomfortable because I don’t think what I do is definable, unless I …
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Jan 10 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com It appears as though the Spencer Gantt era in San Benito may be coming to an end. According to an agenda posted Friday for the regular meeting of the San Benito Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees, a “discussion and possible action on approval of athletic director resignation …
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Jan 10 2014
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com San Benito police officers are investigating what they called “conflicting stories” in the shooting of a local man on Thursday, Jan. 9. The circumstances surrounding the incident, however, remain in question, according to San Benito Police Department Operations Chief Martin Morales Jr. Morales said on Friday that investigators are …
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