May 07 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A San Benito man is dead after being shot in the head in San Antonio on Thursday. Twenty-two year-old Ricardo Ismael Villalobos was killed on the morning of April 5 at approximately 2:48 a.m. outside a convention center, two blocks south of the Alamo. According to a San …
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May 07 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A San Benito teen is in intensive care after being stabbed late Thursday night. According to the San Benito Police Department (SBPD), five individuals rented a room at the Americas Best Value Inn which is located on the 2500 block of W. Business 77. “These five kids, all …
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May 07 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com OLMITO – Three detention guards are now on the other side of the bars after allegedly assaulting an inmate at the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center in Olmito. Twenty–year-old Pedro Gomez, 22-year-old Benjamin William Taliancich, and 28-year-old Mario Alberto Garcia, Jr., all of Brownsville, were arraigned Thursday morning due to …
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May 07 2011
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May 07 2011
A rare occurrence was noted in the area Wednesday afternoon as a defined ring around the sun sparked several phone calls to the offices of the San Benito News. This is an atmospheric condition that happens when high altitude cirrus clouds retract light from the sunshine as a result of ice crystals that make up the clouds. This can sometimes mean that rain is on the way, but it is not a guarantee. According to several references, this phenomenon has been recorded for centuries. (Photos by Jose Ramos, TJ Tijerina, and Jacob Lopez)
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May 04 2011
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Numbers don’t lie. Early votes tallied in just two days time in the City of San Benito and San Benito CISD general elections have already surpassed prior campaign efforts by previous candidates, perhaps more especially in the former’s case. Races pitting Mayor Jack Garcia versus former Mayor Joe Hernandez, …
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May 04 2011
MOVING ON UP! By CHRISTY CORTEZ Special to the NEWS After dismissing the Harlingen Lady Cardinals in the Bi-District round of the state softball playoffs this weekend, the San Benito Lady ’Hounds will be facing Eagle Pass Winn as they move on to area. Both teams are set to travel up to San Antonio …
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May 04 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com “Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.” Those words, …
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May 04 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com She was an educator, a historian, a model, and one of 100 important women in the Rio Grande Valley. Clara Bow Williams Zepeda, an educator of over 40 years in San Benito, died on Sunday, May 1 in Austin, Texas. She was a woman who in her 80 …
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May 04 2011
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A 59-year-old man reported missing Tuesday by the San Benito Police Department (SBPD) has been found. William “Bart” B. Tumlinson of San Benito had been missing since Sunday, May 1, when he was last seen at his apartment on the 1800 block of Combes Street at approximately 10 a.m. by …
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