Sep 16 2015
By PETE BANDA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com A San Benito mother, who was facing charges in connection with the death of her two young sons, has accepted a plea bargain from the Cameron County District Attorney’s office. Diana Torres, 20, accepted a deal from the DA that will send her to prison for 10 years …
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Mar 25 2015
By PETE BANDA Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The San Benito School District has lost a longtime beloved kindergarten teacher. Dr. C.M. Cash Elementary Teacher Patsy Moore dies this past weekend after serving with the district for over 15 years. According to San Benito School District Director of Communications Celia Longoria, Moore was a veteran teacher at …
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Mar 18 2015
By STEVEN RAY HERNANDEZ Editor Editor@sbnewspaper.com Evelon Dale, a 63-year old Harlingen woman who was well known throughout Cameron County and beyond for her volunteerism as well as being a champion of a number of political and social causes, was the subject of a chaotic scene Monday afternoon at the intersection of Business 77 and Sam …
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Sep 07 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com San Benito CISD officials are mourning the death of Teresa Obregón, the wife of Interim Superintendent of Schools Alfonso Obregón. Teresa Obregón died on Thursday morning at a San Antonio hospital as she recovered from a heart attack she suffered earlier in the week. Teresa Obregón had been …
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Mar 22 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com Though military authorities have shed more light on the case of Staff Sgt. Roberto Reyna’s death, the circumstances surrounding his passing remain largely unknown. Christopher Grey, Chief of Public Affairs and Media for the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command in Quantico, VA, said on Friday that Reyna may have …
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Mar 19 2013
By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ Staff Writer reporter@sbnewspaper.com The body of a man recovered from the Chattahoochee River, which borders Alabama and Georgia, has been identified as a soldier from San Benito. According to a press release from the Fort Benning Media Relations Branch, the body recovered from the river has been identified as 35-year-old Staff …
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Feb 23 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com The 21-year-old driver of a Ford Mustang involved in a two-vehicle collision that claimed the life of a San Benito CISD school bus driver has been charged with intoxication manslaughter in connection with the incident, San Benito police reported Saturday. According to Detective Rogelio Banda Jr. of the San …
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Feb 19 2013
Special to the NEWS BROWNSVILLE – A jury in the 404th State District Court sentenced Abraham Jacob Proenza Tuesday to 40 years in prison for injury to a child that resulted in death. Proenza, 32, was found guilty Friday of injury to a child for intentionally or knowingly failing to feed and seek medical care …
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Feb 15 2013
Special to the NEWS BROWNSVILLE – Fourth-month-old Aiden Javier Valdez was pronounced dead weighing only 8 lbs. He had weighed 11 lbs. just two months prior. The only history of food in his system at autopsy was a slightly digested green pepper. A jury in the 404th State District Court found Valdez’s uncle, Abraham Jacob …
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Feb 01 2013
By MICHAEL RODRIGUEZ Managing Editor editor@sbnewspaper.com It appeared as though nothing, not even the law, could discourage the efforts of Noe Zavala, his family, friends and colleagues in raising money Thursday for the family of a young girl who died two days prior. Since the death of 7-year-old Ruby Ramirez on Tuesday, the community has …
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